CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Georgiev, Georgi |
|---|---|
| Title | Cold War Engineering: Technical Infrastructure, Noise, and Geography in Radio Free Europe's Operation in the 1950s and the 1960s |
| Summary | The thesis focuses on the archives of the Engineering department at Radio Free Europe in the 1950s and the 1960s. The text explores the political nature of technical issues outlining specific technological policies and political terms embedded in the radio operation. Using as a departure point some main aspects from the paradigm of Science and Technology Studies, the text highlights key non-living objects, communication links, and external institutions, which shaped the radio’s technical infrastructure described, throughout the Cold War, with the self-evident term “network.” The text concentrates on noise as an object of scientific research and technical work which led to the development of a peculiar political mode of hearing and mobilization of computer analysis of data for the purposes of the Cold War. Registering concrete places, which acquired specific significance in engineers’ everyday practice, the thesis traces the emergence of a technical geography in which geographical places became politically important because of their role in the radio operation. |
| Supervisor | Rev, Istvan |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/georgiev_georgi.pdf |
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