Adorno outlined a dialectical and social theory of broadcasting to critique commercial radio.

Evidence

In the fifteen points discussed in these Questions and Theses', he sketched out the starting-points for a dialectical theory of broadcasting’ and a `social theory of broadcasting’, and criticized the existing form of radio as inhibiting the progressive tendencies it contained. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s critique of the culture industry as a system that suppresses emancipatory potential within media forms.
• DEFINE: Names two distinct frameworks — ‘dialectical theory of broadcasting’ and ‘social theory of broadcasting’ — worth pinning as Adorno’s own coinages.