*Radio Space* "wireless in your psyche"
Although a single media radio (unlike television) is infinitely various in how it may be situated. The demographic spectrum of radio is very wide, on the one hand as Arun Mehta points out, radio is THE ONLY electronic communication medium that the poor man in India can afford. In the world where there's no Internet, no television, and not even much printed material radio is the critical medium, with Language revitalisation as a big issue for a lot of groups. But at the other end of the spectrum, Ted Byfield points out that one of the reasons for radio's importance in the US is that it is the only media that penetrates into cars. And often does so employing the more participatory forms such as "the simulacrally 'democratic' call-in talk shows, etc), this is a very powerful way to define and project political issues."
There is no doubt that one reason for the re-discovery of Radio has been the internet. In principal "Radio stations have become global. You don't need to have very high powered transmitters, or be a BBC or a Deutsche Welle, to go global via radio now. You can do it via the Internet." But many have also discovered the limitations as Arun Mehta says Internet radio is not a very good broadcast medium. If a thousand people start listening to the same station, the server packs up. Radio also somehow has to be *wireless in your psyche*. You can't be tethered to a computer." As the Internet radio station amannet has shown us with tactical combinations of internet and terrestrial transmissions even make use of cell phones, it is the hybrid media solutions that most successfully short circuits the regulatory and in the process open up new spaces in the process of "mobilisation" including the spaces where radio can do more than simply carry data but also operate as an expressive tool in its own right.