Here's a something I came across on Academia by Salomé Voegelin (not that I know who that is). It's short, only a few pages long, and unlike most I've read it's not a research paper at all.. but it is an interesting read nonetheless. Here's how it begins...
https://www.academia.edu/6014066/a_short_history_of_radio_listening
A short history of radio listening
I do not listen to the radio, I listen to the computer playing the radio, I listen to the I-pod replaying the radio, I watch on YouTube videos of people in radio studios making radio, I listen on DAB. The air is thin here, no more waves, no more voices of the dead hiding in the murmur of the lost signal. The uncertain fuzz of analogue radio is gone and with it its poetry, flattened into a perfect signal: Clear, faultless but thin. I am sure there is poetry in that thin flatness of the digital, something new, a different metaphor that people will bemoan when it is gone, I am just not sure what it is yet.
My granddad listened to the radio, a big great wooden thing, big as a cupboard, made from shiny wood with ivory tuning dials.
He sat in front of it most afternoons and evenings, perched on a heavy wooden armchair upholstered with a flower patterned fabric, leaning slightly forward so as to glean every word that came through the ether. ...."
https://www.academia.edu/6014066/a_short_history_of_radio_listening