David Crider

Bio: David Crider is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Advertising & Popular music. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 17 citations.

A Public Sphere in Decline: The State of Localism in Talk Radio

Abstract: Consolidation of the radio industry has led to massive layoffs and a decrease in localism. This prevents the public from having the access to interact with an important medium for disseminating information about issues of interest. For this study, the trend was viewed through the public sphere model (Habermas, 1998; 1962/1996). A content analysis of radio station Web sites was conducted, focusing on the amount of local or syndicated content in the station's on-air lineup. Local programming was found to be less prevalent on smaller-market stations. However, the link between large corporate ownership and diminished local programming was not supported.

“Great Sounds and Wonderfulness”: KMPX and the Birth of Freeform Radio

Abstract: Historians have long celebrated the impact of Tom Donahue and KMPX-FM on both radio and the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s. Surviving recordings from that period shed light on how revolu...

Listening, but Not Being Heard: Young Women, Popular Music, Streaming, and Radio

Abstract: ABSTRACT The recording and radio industries have faced a reckoning over their lack of gender equity. While Generation Z is poised to become the dominant music audience, research on the wants and needs of young women listeners is lacking. This study used focus groups to investigate how Generation-Z women feel about today’s music and audio media options. Specifically, their musical tastes are more eclectic, but they find little appeal in current popular music, and they see widespread disrespect for women in music. Participants also recognize that current trends of male-dominated radio presentation are likely to turn potential women listeners away.

A dose of public health and community pride: American local radio at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract: The March 2020 onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States created an immediate need for news, information and interaction. Public health communication scholars recommended media strategies that emphasized accurate information about the virus and mitigation measures, providing access to experts, and using opinion leaders to relay recommendations to the public. Local radio is a critical medium during a crisis because it can inform the public while comforting listeners with reminders of community pride. This study analysed programming on four local talk radio stations in New Jersey, Minnesota and Rhode Island, documenting how the stations and their announcers served the public during those chaotic early days. Despite notable exceptions, these stations properly kept listeners informed about what their leaders were doing about the pandemic, while also calling upon local symbols and aspects of culture, comforting and reassuring listeners, and giving them a space to share their stories.

The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest

Abstract: The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest. David Croteau and William Hoynes. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2001.302 pp. $25.95 pbk. In The Business of Media, sociology professors David Croteau and William Hoynes pose a simple but well-supported formula to explain how media companies have expanded their business interests and social influence the past two decades: technology + politics = deregulation. Media deregulation, further fueled by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, permitted-even encouraged-the wave of mergers and buyouts in the late 1990s. The authors trace how new technology has not only made the media more pervasive, simply in terms of the amount of media content, but also has allowed media companies to capitalize on new ways of presenting and packaging media products. However, in pursuing its business interests, the authors assert, the media industry is falling woefully short of meeting the social and political needs of citizens in a democracy. The media sell content to the public, but the more cherished media market is advertisers, who buy access to media audiences. This more lucrative market requires media to cater to advertisers in ways that impact content and direct attention to corporate interests. The authors assert this structure challenges the belief that the unregulated market model responds adequately to public needs. Readers are asked to consider media more broadly and use a public sphere model as a basis for comparison. Juxtaposed, the market model conceives media as private companies that define public interest by what is popular, treating audiences as consumers, and measuring success by profit margins; regulation interferes with market forces, and accountability is to owners and shareholders. The public sphere model envisions media as democratic resources, promoting active citizenship with diverse content, even if not popular; regulation is useful for protecting public interest, and accountability is to the public and government, who measure success by the extent to which media serve public interest. The authors chronicle the growth of media companies, showing how growth has been encouraged by national media policies rooted in market logic. They write the Telecommunications Act of 1996, promoted as emphasizing more business competition, actually helped consolidate the power of media conglomerates and greatly diminished the prospects of the Internet remaining a free, diverse, democratic medium. Operating largely unregulated, media companies have become integrated horizontally (owning many types of media products: broadcast, film, newspapers, books, and Internet) and vertically (owning means to produce, distribute, promote, and sell their products). The authors contend that the handful of fully integrated global media conglomerates are hard to regulate through antitrust laws because the late-twentiethcentury wave of mergers teamed companies that had not been direct competitors. The result has been the growth of integrated companies that own all the production and distribution pieces in the media pie. …

Radio and audio in 2020

Abstract: Adeyeye, B., Amodu, L., Oscar, O., Omojola, O., Adesina, E., & Ben-Enukora, C. A. (2020). A SWOT analysis of indigenous language use in agricultural radio programming in Nigeria. In K. O. Oyesomi & A. Salawu (Eds.), Emerging trends in Indigenous language media, communication, gender, and health (pp. 188–209). IGI Global. Aitkin, H., Hambly, H., & McKnight-Howe, T. (2020). Three Helens: Canadian women in international farm radio. In G. A. Bonin-Labelle (Ed.), Women in radio: Unfiltered voices from Canada (pp. 183–208). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Alfandika, L., & Gwindingwe, G. (2020). The airwaves belong to the people: A critical analysis of radio broadcasting and licensing in Zimbabwe. Communicatio, 1–17. Almeida, E. M., & Viana, L. H. V. (2020). Technology and community communication: the use of the radio broadcasting as a strategy for urban sustainability. Culture & Territory, 4, 215–226. Akrofi-Quarcoo, S., & Gadzekpo, A. (2020). Indigenizing radio in Ghana. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18(1), 95–112. Anderson, H., Backhaus, B., Fox, J., & Bedford, C. (2020). Fifty years of resistance and representation: A historical account of Australian community radio. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 27(2), 234–254. Aujla-Sidhu, G. (2020). Producing diversity in BBC radio. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18(1), 113–129. Awofadeju, P. O., & Ogwuche, P. O. (2020). Journalists’ perception of the role of research in investigative journalism in Nigeria: Case of unique 103.1 FM radio station, Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria. Media & Communication Currents, 4(1), 91–114. Barber, J. F. (2020). The war of the worlds broadcast: Fake news or engaging storytelling? In J. A. Hendricks (Ed.), Radio’s second century: Past, present, and future perspectives (pp. 96–118). New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Barnett, K. (2020). Record cultures: The transformation of the U.S. recording industry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Bathgate, G. (2020). Radio broadcasting: A history of the airwaves. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword History. Berry, R. (2020). Radio, music, podcasts BBC sounds: Public service radio and podcasts in a platform world. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18(1), 63–78. Blaney, J. R. (2020). Social media analytics, radio advertising, and strategic partnerships. Radio’s second century: Past, present, and future perspectives (pp. 53–64). New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2021, VOL. 28, NO. 2, 344–354 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.1944718

Tweeting but not Talking: The Missing Element in Talk Radio's Institutional Use of Twitter

Abstract: The interplay between Twitter and media organizations has been an increasing area of research. This article examines how talk radio stations have adopted Twitter at an institutional level, based on a comparative study of the official accounts of three prominent talk radio stations in Canada in 2010 and 2011. While talk radio is considered an interpersonal medium, our analysis shows the stations mainly use Twitter as a one-way medium to broadcast news updates, rather than to engage with audiences. Our findings suggest a divergence between institutional and individual social media practices, with official accounts as formal channels of communication.

Improving citizen engagement : community conversations and collaboration on ABC local radio

Abstract: Public broadcasting radio now operates at a time of political disengagement, media consolidation and digital fragmentation. The basis of this thesis is that new empirical research is essential to assess the significance of these latest developments that shape public broadcasting and to explore the possibilities for radio broadcasters to expand engagement with their audiences. Through an industry-informed and focused inquiry into local radio, this thesis advances an understanding of journalism ‘as conversation’, specifically those professional practices that attend to improving the diversity and depth of discourse and civic engagement. The research data collection methods for the investigation include: observation and discourse analysis of a series of radio forums covering contentious local issues in Tasmania and long qualitative interviews with journalists, participants- and leaders of public broadcasting. It finds that an active commitment to collaboration, voice and diversity in conversational radio journalism practice can facilitate citizen engagement and public trust, as long as sufficient time and resources support such activity. Creating a space for intense focus on local issues, with debate framed transparently, not only produces opportunities for citizens to participate more fully in their communities, but creates empathy and builds consensus. This suggests that a wider function for local journalism is to not only inform the public, but also to pursue collaborative practices which empower citizens and foster social inclusion. As such, the thesis contributes to scholarship about the changing values of news and journalism, public broadcasting, journalism-as-conversation, and radio, and contributes insight to inform contemporary practice.

Is Social Media Killing Local News?: An Examination of Engagement and Ownership Patterns in U.S. Community News on Facebook

Abstract: This article focuses on two forces linked to declines in coverage of genuinely local civic affairs: (a) the impact of increasing corporate consolidation in ownership among news providers, and (b) t...