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Michael C. Keith

Michael C. Keith is an American media historian and author. He has served as a faculty member of the Boston College Communication Department since 1993 and is the author of some two dozen books on media. He is one of the country's foremost authorities on the social impact and role of radio in American culture. He has lectured in Russia, Spain, Tanzania, and at several institutions in the U.S. and Canada. He was appointed emeritus professor in 2017 upon retiring from Boston College.

Work
• (See above). • PINGS: New and Selected Nanoscopic Prose Poetry | | Pierian Springs Press, 2025 • Bits Specks Crumbs Flecks short story collection, Vraeyda Media, 2015 • "Scar", short story at Blue Lake Review, May 2011 • Norman Corwin’s ‘One World Flight:’ The Lost Journal of Radio’s Greatest Writer (with Mary Ann Watson), Continuum, 2009 • The Radio Station, 8th ed. Boston: Focal Press, 2009 • Sounds of Change: FM Broadcasting in America (with Christopher H. Sterling), University of North Carolina Press, 2008 • Radio Cultures: The Sound Medium in American Life (editor), Peter Lang, 2008 • The Quieted Voice: The Rise and Demise of Localism in American Radio (with Robert Hilliard), Southern Illinois University Press, 2005 • The Broadcast Century and Beyond: A Biography of American Broadcasting, 4th ed. (with Robert Hilliard) Focal Press, 2005 • Dirty Discourse: Sex and Indecency in American Radio (with Robert Hilliard), Blackwell Publishing, 2003. • Sounds In the Dark: All Night Radio in American Life, Iowa State University Press, 2001 • Queer Airwaves: Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting in America (with Phylis Johnson), M.E. Sharpe, 2001. • Talking Radio: An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age, M.E. Sharpe, 2000 • Waves of Rancor: Tuning in the Radical Right (with Robert Hilliard), M.E. Sharpe, 1999 • The Hidden Screen (with Robert Hilliard), Focal, 1999 • Voices In the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties, Praeger, 1997 • Global Broadcasting Systems (with Robert Hilliard), Focal, 1996 • Signals In the Air: Native Broadcasting In America, Praeger, 1995 • Selling Radio Direct (with Robert Hilliard), Broadcasting, 1992 • Radio Production: Art and Science, Focal, 1990 • Broadcast Voice Performance, Focal, 1989 • Radio Programming: Consultancy and Formatics, Focal, 1987 • Production in Format Radio Handbook, University Press of America, 1984 ==References==
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