ABSTRACT In December 1922 the US magazine Radio Broadcast published a beautifully written article by Alice R. Bourke. Bourke’s short account of the installation of radio in her family home heralded a set of complex and transformative potentials that were about to be realised within her own work and home life. The story of her career as a journalist, newspaper proprietor and army signals expert and ham radio operator demonstrates how everyday knowledge of radio as a medium of communication provided women with new sets of skills that contested dominant gender and national ideologies. This arrival of radio within the modern home, and the ripples it created in dominant formations of gender, class and nation bring attention to the ways that individual experiences intersect with broader social changes. This article is organised in three sections: the first briefly explains how I have reconstructed Bourke’s work in radio from available sources; the second explains how configurations of biography and history can be read through the concept of intimate geographies; and the third reflects on what Bourke’s encounter with radio tells us about intimate geographies that are still with us today.

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媒体作为亲密地理的驯化

摘要 1922 年 12 月，美国杂志 Radio Broadcast 发表了 Alice R. Bourke 写的优美的文章。Bourke 对在她家中安装收音机的简短描述预示着一系列复杂和变革的潜力即将在她自己的工作和家庭生活中实现。她作为记者、报纸所有者和军队信号专家和业余无线电操作员的职业生涯的故事展示了广播作为一种交流媒介的日常知识如何为女性提供了与主流性别和国家意识形态竞争的新技能。无线电在现代家庭中的到来，以及它在性别、阶级和国家的主导结构中产生的涟漪，使人们关注个人经历与更广泛的社会变化相交的方式。本文分为三个部分：第一个简要解释了我如何从可用资源重建伯克在无线电中的工作；第二部分解释了如何通过亲密地理的概念来解读传记和历史的配置；第三部分反映了伯克与无线电的相遇告诉我们关于今天仍然存在的亲密地理。