Ellcessor, Elizabeth and Bill Kirkpatrick, eds. Disability Media Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2017. (LINK TO NYU PRESS; LINK TO BOOKSHOP.ORG)
Dissertation:
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Localism in American Media, 1920-1934.” Ph. D. diss. University of Wisconsin (Communication Arts), 2006. (LINK TO PDF)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Digital Media Economy through a Disability Lens." Sage Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. Eds. Terry Flew, Julian Thomas, and Jennifer Holt. London: Sage, 2022. 170-193. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO SAGE)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Radio Fever? The Health Roots of Early Radio." Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies. Eds. Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio. New York: Routledge, 2022. 167-178. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO ROUTLEDGE)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Media Policy." The Craft of Criticism. Eds. Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Routledge, 2018. 134-145. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO ROUTLEDGE)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "'A Blessed Boon': Radio, Disability, Governmentality, and the Discourse of the 'Shut-In,' 1920-1930” (Revised and Expanded Version). Disability Media Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 330-353. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO NYU PRESS)
Ellcessor, Elizabeth, Mack Hagood, and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Introduction: Toward a Disability Media Studies." Disability Media Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 1-28. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO NYU PRESS)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "The Historical Moment of Net Neutrality” (Interview with Michael Copps). International Journal of Communication 10 (2016). (LINK TO PDF AT IJOC ONLINE)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Vernacular Policymaking and the Cultural Turn in Media Policy Studies." Communication, Culture, and Critique 6:4 (December 2013), 634-647. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO CCC ONLINE)
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. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO ROUTLEDGE)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "'A Blessed Boon': Radio, Disability, Governmentality, and the Discourse of the 'Shut-In,' 1920-1930." Critical Studies in Media Communication 29:3 (2012), 165-184. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO CSMC ONLINE) NOTE: I substantially revised and improved this essay for Disability Media Studies: see link above.
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. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO TV&NM ONLINE)
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. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO JRAM ONLINE)
Russo, Alexander and Bill Kirkpatrick. "'Beyond' the Terrestrial?: Networked Distribution, Multi-Modal Media, and the Place of the Local in Satellite Radio." Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures. Eds. Lisa Parks and James Schwoch. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 156-176. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO THE BOOK AT JSTOR)
Nekola, Anna and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Cultural Policy in American Music History: Sammy Davis, Jr. vs. Juvenile Delinquency." Journal of the Society for American Music 4:1 (2010), 33-58. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO JSAM ONLINE)
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. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO U OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS)
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. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO JPC)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Localism in American Media Policy, 1920-1934: Reconsidering a 'Bedrock Concept.'" Radio Journal 4:1-3 (2006), 87-110. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO RADIO JOURNAL)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Dance on the Radio: An Exploration of Dance Programs in the BAVD Archives.” Broadcasting A/V Data. Spring, 2024. https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/exhibits/kirkpatrick/
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Medicine and Health Care in the NAEB Collection.” Unlocking the Airwaves. July, 2021. https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/.
Ellcessor, Elizabeth and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Studying Disability for a Better Cinema and Media Studies." Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 58:4 (Summer 2019): 139-144. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO JCMS)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Review of Making Computers Accessible: Disability Rights and Digital Technology by Elizabeth R. Petrick.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 41:1 (January-March 2019), 51-54. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO AHC)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. "Disability, Cultural Accessibility, and the Radio Archive." New Review of Film and Television Studies 16:4 (2018). DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2018.1524963. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO NRFTS)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Review of John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life by Danielle Shapiro.” Radio Journal 15:1 (2017): 145-6. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO RADIO JOURNAL)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Review of Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over U.S. Television by Allison Perlman.” Mass Communication and Society 20:2 (2017): 310-313. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO MCS)
Lentz, Rebecca and Bill Kirkpatrick. "Wanted: Public Interest Mavericks at the FCC" (Interview with Former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson). International Journal of Communication 8 (2014), 2503–2518. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO IJOC)
Kirkpatrick, Bill. “Review of The Quieted Voice: The Rise and Demise of Localism in American Radio by Michael C. Keith and Robert L. Hilliard.” Radio Journal 6:2-3 (2008), 185-6. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO RADIO JOURNAL)
Kirkpatrick, Bill, "Re-thinking 'Access': Cultural Barriers to Public Access Television." Community Media Review 25:2 (Summer 2002), 20-23. (LINK TO PDF; LINK TO CMR)