UA's Radio Lab Takes Students to the Landscape of the Mind

Radio, according to Dr. Jerry Rosenberg, professor of psychology and director of UA's New College Radio Lab in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the first media to capture a mass audience from across America. These audio-only stories and adventures engaged and enchanted listeners from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. The shows created a glue that bound all ages of listeners into a common culture.

Old and young alike sat, often in the dark, in front of big wooden radios, with their eyes closed, imagining in this video-less "landscape of the mind," as Rosenberg describes radio's territory, through sound effects, voices, and background music.

The Radio Lab has taken them back there, to radio's landscape of the mind, where they use technology in new ways, write scripts, record, edit, and build a studio out of an old vault in a musty, airless basement.

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