October 14, 2005

At Boston College, Course Tunes In to Radio's Cultural Influence

A former broadcaster, Michael C. Keith was perplexed by the absence of analytic courses on radio in college. "If you have a program examining media in society, why not examine the very first electronic mass media?" says the adjunct associate professor of communications at Boston College. "Radio has been so eclipsed by TV that people overlooked the obvious: that radio was shaping our culture decades before television."

Students in Mr. Keith's seminar, "Radio in Culture and Society,"