What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We analyze this question in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC radio counter-propaganda (Radio Londra) on the intensity of...

We analyze the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against an authoritarian regime in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC radio on the intensity of internal resistance. By exploiting variations in monthly sunspot...

What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We analyze this question in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC radio counter-propaganda (Radio Londra) on the intensity of...

What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We analyze this question in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC radio counter-propaganda (Radio Londra) on the intensity of...

Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...

Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...

When a terrestrial radio station plays a song during its over-the-air broadcast, the artists and their record labels receive no compensation for the sound recording right. Yet radio's digital competitors — including streaming services and satellite radio — do pay performance royalties to...

Analysing sociolinguistic change through a radio ad corpus -- Language variety as a variable: The case of Irish English -- Language ideology and sociolinguistic change -- Examining language ideology in analysing sociolinguistic change: frameworks and theories -- Designing, building and using a...

It is well documented that, in the presence of substantial fixed costs, markets offer preference majorities more variety than preference minorities. This fact alone, however, does not demonstrate the market outcome is in any way biased against preference minorities. In this paper, we clarify the...

It is well documented that, in the presence of substantial fixed costs, markets offer preference majorities more variety than preference minorities. This fact alone, however, does not demonstrate the market outcome is in any way biased against preference minorities. In this paper, we clarify the...

Private Radiosender bieten ihre Leistungen sowohl auf dem Rezipienten- als auch auf dem Werbemarkt an. Da sie ihr Radioprogramm den Zuhörern kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen, müssen sie sich nahezu vollständig über den Verkauf von Werbeplätzen an die werbungtreibende Wirtschaft finanzieren....

Private Radiosender bieten ihre Leistungen sowohl auf dem Rezipienten- als auch auf dem Werbemarkt an. Da sie ihr Radioprogramm den Zuhörern kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen, müssen sie sich nahezu vollständig über den Verkauf von Werbeplätzen an die werbungtreibende Wirtschaft finanzieren....

Private Radiosender bieten ihre Leistungen sowohl auf dem Rezipienten- als auch auf dem Werbemarkt an. Da sie ihr Radioprogramm den Zuhörern kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen, müssen sie sich nahezu vollständig über den Verkauf von Werbeplätzen an die werbungtreibende Wirtschaft finanzieren....

The development of commercial radio available to British listeners depended on stations located outside the country in northern Europe. How the advertising industry made possible popular broadcasting outside of what the BBC offered is explained from the point of view of a senior member of...