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Scholarship: Selected Publications
(with links to pre-press PDF versions)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Media Policy." The Craft of Criticism. Eds. Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Routledge, 2018. 134-145.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “‘A Blessed Boon’: Radio, Disability, Governmentality, and the Discourse of the ‘Shut-in,’ 1920-1930.” Disability Media Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 330-353.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "The Historical Moment of Net Neutrality: An Interview With Former U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps." International Journal of Communication 10 (2016). http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/12.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Vernacular Policymaking and the Cultural Turn in Media Policy Studies." Communication, Culture, and Critique 6:4 (December 2013), 634-647.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "'A Voice Made For Print': Crip Voices on Radio." Radio's New Wave. Eds. Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio. New York: Routledge, 2013. 106-125.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Bringing Blue Skies Down to Earth: Citizen Policymaking in Negotiations for Cable Television, 1965-1975." Television & New Media 13:4 (July 2012), 307-328.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Regulation Before Regulation: The Local-National Struggle for Control of Radio Regulation." Journal of Radio and Audio Media 18:2 (2011), 248-262.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio." Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction. Eds. Susan Strasser and David Suisman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 199-220.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "'It Beats Rocks and Tear Gas': Streaking and Cultural Politics in the Post-Vietnam Era." Journal of Popular Culture 43:5 (October 2010), 1023-1047.
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Localism in American Media Policy, 1920-1934: Reconsidering a 'Bedrock Concept.'" Radio Journal 4:1-3 (2006), 87-110.
Dissertation: "Localism in American Media, 1920-1934"