Showing papers in "Journal of Radio & Audio Media in 2018"
TL;DR: The authors explored the true crime podcast audience within the uses and gratifications theoretical frame using an online survey (n ǫ = n.308) and found that true crime podcasts audience is...
Abstract: This study explores the true crime podcast audience within the uses and gratifications theoretical frame. Using an online survey (n = 308), this study found that the true crime podcast audience is ...
55 citations
TL;DR: For decades, radio was primarily a hidden or unseen medium to listeners as discussed by the authors, but in recent years, digital technologies have transformed radio to a medium that can both be seen and heard.
Abstract: For decades, radio was primarily a hidden or unseen medium to listeners. In recent years, digital technologies have transformed radio to a medium that can both be seen and heard. In particular, vis...
29 citations
TL;DR: The relationship between public radio and its audience has undergone significant change since the adoption of Web 2.0 technology as mentioned in this paper, which allows an audience to interact easily and speedily with a public service broadcaster, forming an inclusive, two-way listening environment.
Abstract: The relationship between public radio and its audience has undergone significant change since the adoption of Web 2.0 technology. Web 2.0 allows an audience to interact easily and speedily with a public service broadcaster, forming an inclusive, two-way listening environment. This contrasts with the traditional one-way model of public broadcasting. This research project used New Zealand public radio broadcaster RNZ National as a case study. The phenomenon was studied from the perspective of those who listen to content, and those who create it. Findings include the ready adoption of Web 2.0 technology by the audience and the validation of that participation by RNZ National hosts and producers.
15 citations
TL;DR: The tactile aspects of radio listening are rediscovered, which until now have been underestimated by radio scholars, and how haptic radio listening has evolved is described, from the beginning of broadcasting to the arrival of digital media.
Abstract: This article aims to rediscover the tactile aspects of radio listening, which until now have been underestimated by radio scholars, and to describe how haptic radio listening has evolved, from the ...
14 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored critical challenges of gender and sexuality radio research and its importance in relation to relation to gender, race, and gender identity in relation with the radio field, and the media.
Abstract: Notable radio scholars including Christine Ehrick, Phylis A. Johnson, and Caroline Mitchell have explored critical challenges of gender and sexuality radio research and its importance in relation t...
12 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined the cultural politics of Arch Oboler's radio dramas from the mystery-thriller program Lights Out and argued that these plays critiqued fascism and the war indirectly through fantastic political allegories.
Abstract: This article examines the cultural politics of Arch Oboler’s radio dramas from the mystery-thriller program Lights Out. Analyzing the dramas through the critical concept of the cultural front, the author argues that Oboler crafted plays that were antifascist and critical of the developing world war that supported cultural front politics. These plays critiqued fascism and the war indirectly through fantastic political allegories. Many of the plays featured fascistic figures that received poetic political justice in gruesome endings. This article advances our understanding of popular radio drama’s cultural politics during the interwar years and the continuity of Arch Oboler’s radio writing. It corrects the historical record by demonstrating that antifascist cultural front radio aired earlier in the interwar period than previously established. Additionally, the article bolsters our comprehension of Oboler’s radio work by establishing stronger ties between his early, popular genre work for Lights Out and his ...
11 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how Ireland's first LGBT radio station, Open FM, attempted to offer LGBT radio in a heteronormative media landscape, using semi-structured interviews with two of the station's co-founders.
Abstract: This article explores how Ireland’s first LGBT radio station, Open FM, attempted to offer LGBT radio in a heteronormative media landscape. It uses semi-structured interviews with two of the station...
11 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted in an environment of widespread use of social media and mobile applications in the mass media, where the general goal of the study was to analyze the use of WhatsApp in cybermedi...
Abstract: This study was conducted in an environment of widespread use of social media and mobile applications in the mass media. The general goal of the study was to analyze the use of WhatsApp in cybermedi...
10 citations
TL;DR: The Journal of Radio & Audio Media marks the beginning of its twenty-fifth year with this issue as mentioned in this paper, and the journal continues to be one of the most widely cited journals in radio and audio media.
Abstract: The Journal of Radio & Audio Media marks the beginning of its twenty-fifth year with this issue. As Frank Chorba envisioned in the early years of the Journal of Radio Studies, the journal continues...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that radio continues to occupy a significant position in furthering public engagement with the arts due to, rather than despite, advances in digital technology, and that more than half of all radio listening in the UK is occurring through digital platforms.
Abstract: Today more than half of all radio listening in the UK is occurring through digital platforms. Within this context the BBC’s current arts proposition provides a valuable insight into how public service broadcasters are adapting and responding to this burgeoning digital audience. In particular, attention is drawn to the ways in which digital platforms are used to supplement and enhance the auditory listening experience. In doing so, the present article argues that radio continues to occupy a significant position in furthering public engagement with the arts due to, rather than despite of, advances in digital technology.
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TL;DR: The authors examines how, in 1976, BBC Radio Leicester revolutionized broadcasting to Asian communities in England by launching a 5-nights a week Asian program Aimed at helping to diffuse the tox
Abstract: This article examines how, in 1976, BBC Radio Leicester revolutionized broadcasting to Asian communities in England by launching a 5-nights a week Asian program Aimed at helping to diffuse the tox
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an expanded theory of planned behavior model (TPB) by incorporating social identification into the original TPB model framework in an effort to gain a better understanding of people's intentions to use digital music streaming services as well as the amount of time spent listening to them.
Abstract: According to the Nielsen Music 360 Research Report, 67% of all music consumers in the United States used digital music streaming services to listen, discover, and share music online in 2014 (The Nielsen Company, 2014). As such, communications scholars and music industry professionals are beginning to recognize the importance of understanding the factors that influence digital music listener behavior. Therefore, this study proposes an expanded theory of planned behavior model (TPB) by incorporating social identification into the original TPB model framework in an effort to gain a better understanding of people’s intentions to use digital music streaming services as well as the amount of time spent listening to them.Results suggest that both the original TPB and expanded TPB models can be successfully applied within the context of digital music streaming service use. Specifically, attitudes emerged as positive contributors to intention to use digital music streaming services, while social identification and...
TL;DR: After deadly attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Danish satire freedom forum in 2015, the societal role of European satirists received international attention and American free speech advocates were quick to boast of the high regard with which satire is held in the West because satire and the right to blaspheme are directly responsible for modernity as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: After deadly attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Danish satire freedom forum in 2015, the societal role of European satirists received international attention. In joining the supportive chorus of “Je suis Charlie,” American free speech advocates were quick to boast of the high regard with which satire is held in the West because “satire and the right to blaspheme are directly responsible for modernity” (Goldberg, 2015, p. 7). According to Ted Rall, the editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, however, more “full-time staff political cartoonists were killed in Paris on Wednesday than may be employed at newspapers in the states of California, Texas and New York combined” (Rall, 2015, p. 8). Time.com despaired: “Why Doesn’t America Have Its Own Charlie Hebdo?” (Cohen, 2015, p. 10). But if print satire is an endangered species in American newspapers and magazines, broadcast radio and television satires of Charlie Hebdo’s stature have been virtually extinct since Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978) (hereafter referred to as FCC v. Pacifica or “Pacifica”) sent an ice age-like chill through the airwaves (Coates, 2005, p. 778). Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2018, Pacifica was the 5–4 U.S. Supreme Court decision that—though largely seen as establishing the concept of “indecent speech”—solidified the FCC’s authority to regulate the use of protected broadcast speech by claiming authority over the use of certain words of the commission’s subjective choice (FCC v. Pacifica, 1978). While government-angering satire on the radio flourishes in other democracies internationally (Punnett, 2015, pp. 150–151), legal restrictions on “indecent words” in the United States during prime listening hours has pasteurized the same kind of vigorous, hard-hitting, envelope-pushing satire on American broadcast media for fear of draconian fines and threats of license suspension (Coates, 2005, p. 781). Satire’s
TL;DR: This paper examined national and local news coverage of recent college radio shutdowns, transfers, and agreements to understand how these events are being presented in the news media and found that themes in news coverage includes a great deal of attention to the student, alumni, and community responses to station closures and transfers, but limited attention to reasons for the closures and transfer.
Abstract: Between 2010 and 2015, more than 30 college radio stations either went off air, transferred their licenses, or entered into programming or shared-time agreements. Among these are Vanderbilt University’s KRVU 91.1 FM, University of San Francisco’s KUSF 90.3 FM, Rice University’s KTRU 96.1 FM, and Georgia State University’s WRAS 88.5 FM. In what seems to be a shrinking presence of college radio on the FM dial, this study examines national and local news coverage of recent college radio shutdowns, transfers, and agreements to understand how these events are being presented in the news media. Findings suggest themes in news coverage includes a great deal of attention to the student, alumni, and community responses to station closures and transfers, but limited attention to reasons for the closures and transfers. University administrators were the most commonly quoted or referenced sources in the sample; students, alumni, community, faculty, and staff held significantly smaller shares of voice. Questions about...
TL;DR: This paper analyzed two long-running gay and lesbian radio programs from the BBC from the 1990s to highlight different approaches to notions of identity and definition, based on items that focuse on sexual orientation.
Abstract: This article analyses two long-running gay and lesbian radio programs from the BBC from the 1990s to highlight different approaches to notions of identity and definition, based on items that focuse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the new platforms don't necessarily eliminate the biases that have been addressed by the previous two-way communication, and they outline the lingering limitations of user-generated content implementation based on conceptualizations of affordances of interactivity and organizational practices associated with it.
Abstract: Despite continuous attempts in the mass media landscape to integrate new forms of two-way interaction, limits of interactive media have become a focal theme of criticism since two-way interaction has been introduced. Interviews with national and regional radio stations’ professionals have revealed divergent perceptions not only based on the various actors, but also based on national and regional practices.This study outlines lingering limitations of user-generated content implementation, based on conceptualizations of affordances of interactivity and organizational practices associated with it. I argue that the new platforms don’t necessarily eliminate the biases that have been addressed by the previous two-way communication.
TL;DR: There was extensive mutual influence between BBC Local Radio and Independent Local Radio, particularly during the set-up periods for both systems, and both could have benefited and the long-term prospects for local radio in the UK might have been enhanced.
Abstract: There was extensive mutual influence between BBC Local Radio and Independent Local Radio (ILR), particularly during the set-up periods for both systems Although they competed for locations and fre
TL;DR: The archived content of Gay Perspective, a 1970s radio program in Milwaukee as it frames LGBTQIA+ (queer) rights in a historical context is explored in this paper, where the authors explore the archived content.
Abstract: This study explores the archived content of Gay Perspective, a 1970s radio program in Milwaukee as it frames LGBTQIA+ (queer) rights in a historical context. Gay Perspective was produced by the Gay...
TL;DR: In this article, Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics is not just another book on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, it is a book about the history of the event.
Abstract: No, Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics is not just another book on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The merits of this study lie far beyond merely reme...
TL;DR: Pacifica Radio was the first listener-sponsored non-commercial radio network in the United States to air queer voices beginning with Allen Ginsberg reading his iconic poem, Howl on KPFA-FM in Berke...
Abstract: Pacifica Radio was the first listener-sponsored non-commercial radio network in the United States to air queer voices beginning with Allen Ginsberg reading his iconic poem, Howl on KPFA-FM in Berke...
TL;DR: In this article, the culture, ethos and practices of the two services and if and how each was used were discussed. But the authors were mainly concerned with how and why these two types of radio news developed.
Abstract: This article is principally concerned with how and why these 2 types of radio news developed. It discusses the culture, ethos and practices of the 2 services and, in particular, if and how each was...
TL;DR: By the mid 1970s, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Independent Local Radio (ILR) sector started catering to the local Asian migrant listener community in England, by producing Asian radio programming output in English and in Asian languages such as Hindi and Urdu.
Abstract: By the mid-1970s, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Independent Local Radio (ILR) sector started catering to the local Asian migrant listener community in England, by producing Asian radio programming output in English and in Asian languages such as Hindi and Urdu In the 1980s, the Greater London Council (GLC) came up with its own initiatives to cater to London’s Asian migrant community This article describes GLC’s initiatives through its Community Radio Unit, which encouraged independent British Asian radio broadcasting in England
TL;DR: In this paper, it was pointed out that one of the most difficult tasks in publishing a collection of essays, rather than a monograph, must be to come up with a suitable title that ties them all together If at first g
Abstract: It strikes me that one of the most difficult tasks in publishing a collection of essays, rather than a monograph, must be to come up with a suitable title that ties them all together If at first g
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring to the discussion a multitude of perspectives on the role of "queer" radio and audio in an effort to achieve equity across the airwaves.
Abstract: On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising erupted from a routine police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York. A number of incidents continued to plague Sunset Boulevard and the neighboring area for more than a year. Stonewall (2019) (actually a series of incidents surrounding it, before and after) has symbolically marked the start of the LGBTQ+ movement in the United States. By 1970, the Gay Liberation Front in London UK organized in part due to change in the national conversation on civil rights pertaining to sexuality. Each nation has had its own breaking point(s), and the authors selected in this symposium provide perspective to the ongoing debate through the world, particularly how it is framed by and within the media. The idea for this symposium sprang from the celebratory preparations in New York City commemorating Stonewall 50 in 2019 with an ear toward radio and audio programming in this instance. While this is the springboard for the LGBTQ+ discussion, it certainly is not the only factor propelling it. More than 50 years after the Stonewall Uprising, the authors bring to the discussion a multitude of perspectives on the role of “queer” radio and audio in an effort to achieve equity across the airwaves. The acronym in current usage, LGBTTQQIAP, demonstrates the breadth of sexual and gender identities and experiences in the contemporary world, though for reasons of brevity and simplicity, the symposium is using LGBTQ+ as the tile descriptor. LGBTQ+ radio and audio exist across broadcast radio in traditional formats, as well podcast and multi-platform audio. Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, and extensions of those communities have interacted with radio and audio for generations, creating a
TL;DR: In November 1967, the first BBC Local Radio station was launched, following a successful campaign to establish the service by “founding father” Frank Gillard as discussed by the authors, who had been strongly influenced by what...
Abstract: In November 1967 the first BBC Local Radio station was launched, following a successful campaign to establish the service by “founding father” Frank Gillard. He had been strongly influenced by what...
TL;DR: Two times during the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians succeeded in banning almost all recordings in the United States as mentioned in this paper, attempting to compensate for the changing role of live music.
Abstract: Twice during the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians succeeding in banning almost all recordings in the United States. The bans attempted to compensate for the changing role of live music i...
TL;DR: Classical music has arguably been a bedrock of British radio broadcasting, even preceding the founding of the BBC in 1922 as discussed by the authors, and the period under consideration in this book (1945-1995) is well chosen; st...
Abstract: Classical music has arguably been a bedrock of British radio broadcasting, even preceding the founding of the BBC in 1922. The period under consideration in this book (1945–1995) is well chosen; st...