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Rogue Radio Research
Dedicated to the scholarly research of micro-communication.

Tetsuo Kogawa - Micro Radio
Japan's microradio pioneer tinkers with both radio's technological and social powers.

Association for Progressive Communications - DTV and Radio Report
PDF copy of a report that critiques the democratic potentiality of digitizing broadcast media, especially in developing countries. (10/2007)

What's Going On In Community Media?
The Benton Foundation surveys the landscape of the different types and forms of community media available, and makes recommendations for strengthening strong models. (August 2007)

Liberation Frequency
Article in The Sociological Quarterly about the modern U.S. microradio movement. (10/2006)

LPFM Survey
Maps the "general characteristics" of LPFM stations via survey. (2006)

The Free Radio Movement, its Impact on Radio, and Implications for Democracy in Media
Senior thesis from Peter Brinson (New College of Florida) containing extensive case studies of microradio station operations and the microradio movement's larger ties to overall ideals of media democracy. Microsoft Word format link above, an AppleWorks version of the thesis is also available (2002)

Mediageek File: Pirate/Free Radio
Paul Riismandel of Mediageek fame consolidates his ruminations on unlicensed broadcasting.

REC Networks: LPFM Census
U.S. Census data merged with the service areas of LPFM stations unveils the reach of each's potential listener base. Data sample taken the week of July 21, 2003.

Alliance for Community Media White Papers
A collection of papers presented at the ACM's annual conference.

Piracy - A Definition
A socio-historical definition of the term in the context of intellectual property and access to information.

Radio Is Our Bomb
A three-part treatise on radio and the public good.

'Listen or Die': A History of the punk hardcore pirate station 'Radio Death,' Amsterdam, 1985-1987
The relationship between punk rock and revolutionary politics is a delicate one, as this is article/paper on Radio Dood describes. Includes many first-person anecdotes from participants in the raucous experiment.

Radio Conversation with Tetsuo Kogawa
Interesting exchange about mini-FM between media theoretician Josephine Bosma and Kogawa, the Japanese pioneer of mini-FM stations as cultural tool.

Simon Reynolds: Rave/Jungle on UK Pirate Radio
An uncut chapter from his book.

Pirate Radio Broadcasts, 1998-2001: State-Backed Discrimination
The Keshev Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel details the favoritism granted right-wing political pirates by the Israeli government. (May 2001)

Seizing the Media
From the Immediast Underground pamphlet series. (1992)