[Sci-tech-public] ***TODAY @ noon*** STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk by Tim Stoneman

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Reminder for Wednesday, April 19th:

>>Pretuning the Gospel: International Radio and Evangelical Modernity
>>
>>Tim Stoneman,  NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, STS
>>
>>12:00 noon, E51-275
>>
>>In the decade following WWII, conservative evangelical groups based 
>>in the United States established a network of radio outlets around 
>>the world for the purpose of global evangelization. Due to the 
>>shortage of radio receivers in developing countries, missionary 
>>broadcasters organized sociologically and technologically 
>>innovative programs in the area of reception in order to produce 
>>captive audiences for their stations. Preeminent among missionary 
>>methods was the use of pretuned, or fixed-circuit, radios. Drawing 
>>on case studies in Ecuador and West Africa, the current paper 
>>examines how missionary insistence on pretuning both facilitated 
>>and constrained broadcasting activity, defining the evangelical 
>>radio mission prior to 1970. The paper also uses the practice of 
>>pretuning as a lens to explore tensions in the larger, ambivalent 
>>relationship between American evangelical groups, missionary 
>>praxis, and processes of modernity both within the United States 
>>and on a global scale.
>>
>>Tim Stoneman received his M.Phil. in International Relations in 
>>1986 from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in History and 
>>Sociology of Technology and Science from the Georgia Institute of 
>>Technology in November 2005. He is currently an NSF Postdoctoral 
>>Fellow with MIT's Science, Technology, and Society Program.
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>>Feel free to bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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