Research

=__**Initial Research**__=

-I began this project by searching internet websites such as wikipedia for quick ideas on what the radio entails. -I then researched many book, encyclopedias, photographs, and previous concept maps to get a better idea of what I was going to be doing. From here, I wrote out my ideas and key words I wanted to include in my concept map.

=**Inspiration**= -Here I have gathered various concept maps on a wide range of topics designed by other people. I like to gather other people's work as it inspires me to create something interesting and innovative, but it also helps me to get some ideas of how I could go about my design (colors, shapes, space, lines etc). -I found these pieces helpful when designing my concept map because there are so many different approaches to take and explore. The layouts of each of the designs helped me to further expand my ideas of organizing information.

=**Gathering Images**= -By very quickly collecting photographs relating to the radio through books, websites, and encyclopedias I found this was a great help as I could quickly generate fast ideas to add to my concept map.

=__**Books Researched**__=

Busby, Linda. //The Art And Science Of Radio.// Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1984.
-This book does a great job at delving into the history behind the radio, and speaks in detail about the "Father" of radio: Marconi. He was a man who at a young age experimented with radio waves and sending them across short distances. He envisioned the radio as a medium for sending Morse Code, not as a mass-medium of communication. -This book showed some interesting photographs of old radio stations and how radio first began. It is unbelievable how this medium exploded into a form of mass communication. Today, radio is bombarded with advertisements, propaganda, music, news etc. Our society thrives on communication and ways to create profit. -This book was helpful as I was able to understand how much we rely on the radio in society. It helped to generate more information to my concept map in areas of technological developments, marketing, and societies perception of the radio. In my opinion, the radio is a blind medium in which we take for granted. //__Where would we be without the radio?__//


 * Interesting Quotation:** //"Radio is the miracles of the ages. Aladdin's Lamp, the Magic Carpet, and the Seven League Boots of fable and every vision that mankind has ever entertained...of laying hold upon the Almighty pale into insignificance beside the accomplished fact of radio". (Gleason L. Archer, History of Radio, 1938)//


 * Example:** The **//Titanic Disaster//** was not only responsible for changing the state of radio from a toy to a life-saving means of communication, but it was responsible for radio legislation passed by Congress requiring the presence to have ship radios and active ship operators on passenger vessels. This meant an even greater market for the radio companies that were developing into communication giants.

**McLeish, Robert.** **//Radio Production: A Manual For Broadcasters.// Oxford University: Focal Press, 1994.**
-I cited a few paragraphs from this book within my concept map. I felt this book was a great help as it further explained in detail characteristics of this medium, the radio. For example, I learned that radio speaks to millions (a form of mass media), radio speaks to the individual (much more a personal thing), its very fast and uncumbersome, it has no boundaries, radio makes pictures, and it is simple and cheap to use. -Furthermore, radio allows a "more tenuous link with its user than that insisted upon by television or print," radio is selective, lacks space, has music, teaches people, has its own personality, radio can surprise, and is used for society. This book helped me very much to establish a deep understanding of what the characteristics and functions of a radio.

**McLeish, Robert. //The Technique Of Radio Production: A Manual For Broadcasters.// London; Boston: Focal Press, 1988.**
-This publication is interesting as it further explains the radio station, broadcasting networks, FM/AM ownerships, frequencies and wavelengths, and sound. This book was more about the science behind the radio which was interesting to explore. I felt this book helped me to generate more ideas for my concept map regarding technology and how the radio actually works.

__Fundamentals of Sound:__ Frequency x Wavelength = Speed (1,100 ft./sec. in air)

Pease, Edward C. Radio: //The Forgotten Medium.// New York: Transaction Publishers, 1995.
-This book did a good job at allowing me to see that the radio is significantly involved with advertising, and it has adapted to our evolving society quite easily. It helped me to establish a clearer understanding of the marketing side of the radio and its technological developments.

__**Interesting Facts:** (Statistics taken 1992 in the U.S.)__ //-Radios in use: $576.5 million -Radios sold: $71 million -Amount spent on radios: $2.6 million -Households with radios: 78% -Cars with radios: 96%//