民國時期,廣播作為一種"新媒介",組織起城市新式的家庭生活,塑造了家庭聽眾聆聽習慣、感官體驗乃至對于自身與世界的認知。在上海,收音機最初被家庭中男性成員所接受,制作收音機是他們一種時髦的娛樂活動,家庭中開始出現圍繞這一新媒介的"廣播群體"。新式收音機的出現,方便了家庭成員一起收聽廣播,同時建構起以女性為中心的摩登家庭生活。廣播逐漸成為家庭伴侶,建立起"準社會交往"的新型家庭關系。收聽廣播成為一種慣例納入日常生活安排中,重組了日常生活的時序與節奏,塑造了上海市民全新的日常生活結構。

The broadcasting was a "new media"in the period of the Republic of China. The thesis depicted how the radio organized the new family life of the city, and how to shape the audience’s listening habits, sensory experience and their own awareness for the world. The thesis found that in the process of broadcasting coming into the family, male members making a radio set by hand was considered a fashionable thing.Around this new media there appeared a group named "radio group"in the family, and they paid close attention how to improve radio technology so as to capture the various sounds. The emergence of "new radio"facilitated the family members to listen to the radio together, as well this new media had built a women-centered family life. Gradually, radio had become a good family friend, and established the new family relationship named "para-social interaction". Listening to the radio had become the routine of the citizen’s daily life and reorganized the timing and rhythm of their life. Finally, the sound of the radio had penetrated into the city and constructed the new structure of the daily life of Shanghai citizens.