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Not least, the conclusion again raises explicit comparison between the hobby culture of radio and the modern fascination with computers, the internet, and the maker movement. Hobbies and hobbyists matter, but so does the social and political context within which they exist. Clearly, we overlook or underestimate the importance of hobbyists and tinkerers to our peril. There is much more to understand about how hobbies provide a focus for personal identity, to the point where some hobbyists are willing to risk life itself.
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Siegmund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’ ”, in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 17, Transl. and ed. James Strachey (London, Hogarth Press, 1964: 217–256).
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See the popular television series “The Big Bang Theory” on the US network CBS, which first premiered in 2007.
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A heretical thought, but would the internet be as popular today without the pornography?
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Note that there remain small organized groups of hobbyists who engage in both of these activities, but their numbers are quite small compared to the large and vibrant radio hobby organizations of the 1920s and early 1930s.
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See Knut Hickethier and Peter Hoff Geschichte des deutschen Fernsehens (Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B. Metzlar, 1998).
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Campbell, B.B. (2019). Conclusions and Questions. In: The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26534-2_8
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