Showing papers in "Journal of Radio & Audio Media in 2023"
TL;DR: In this article , a case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B'alam, the first Mam-language radio program in the U.S., emerged during a global pandemic to fill a community's need for critical information.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first Mam-language radio program in the U.S., emerged during a global pandemic to fill a community’s need for critical information. The study is grounded in the theoretical framework of geo-ethnic media and explores the roles of citizen journalists in decreasing information gaps and overcoming language barriers, while reaffirming the importance of radio in times of crisis.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana's formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio, and found that Radio Peace's communication intervention is participatory due to the involvement of listeners in its programming.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for this article. The study found that Radio Peace’s COVID-19 communication intervention is participatory due to the involvement of listeners in its programming. Also, local narratives and values were considered in designing locally relevant COVID-19 interventions through the audience’s access to the station’s activities. We suggest that dominant narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic be adapted to local realities by recognizing marginalized voices through listener involvement and access to local community radio stations.
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TL;DR: The Journal of Radio and Audio Media has had quite a few great symposia in recent years, and we look forward to more in the future as mentioned in this paper , and we have a backlog of research that was accepted and published online first, and with this and future print editions, we are working to catch up and not have articles have to wait so long before being added to a printed version of the journal.
Abstract: To start, special thanks to our guest editors Anne MacLennan and Masadul Biswas for bringing us several great research reports for the symposium part of this edition. The Journal of Radio and Audio Media has had quite a few great symposia in recent years, and we look forward to more in the future. We’re currently reviewing articles for our fall 2023 issue about the 100th Anniversary of the BBC, and please check the BEA Web site for our current symposium call, “Exploring the History and Contemporary Trends in Black Radio,’ with guest editors Tia C.M. Tyree and Melvin L. Williams. Having worked in commercial radio and in university environments advising student radio, there’s a special personal appreciation as editor of the journal for the kind of research JRAM publishes. I hope you will likewise enjoy the variety of research we have included in this issue, within the symposium articles as well as in a variety of other recently accepted studies. A reminder also that we have a backlog of research that was accepted and published online first, and with this and future print editions, we’re working to catch up and not have articles have to wait so long before being added to a printed version of the journal. With so much good research to read, we work within this introduction to help you navigate the journal by highlighting much of the work that follows. We start the non-symposium section of this issue with the work of Teresa Piñeiro-Otero and Daniel Martín-Pena. Their study says that today, in its new digital essence, the medium of radio has acquired materiality and multimedia capabilities through the incorporation of texts, images, videos, and more. Its adaptation to social networks and haptic devices has contributed interactivity and tactility to the listening experience. In this context, what is the essence of the medium? Piñeiro-Otero and Martín-Pena (2023) analyze the presence and use that European mainstream radios give to Instagram, asking, on the quintessential visual platform, European stations become visible, but are they still auditory? Next, Andrea Hanáčková brings a disturbing report from Central Europe, from the background of postsocialist public service media (Hanáčková, 2023). Reports from the European Federation of Journalists and the European Center for Press and JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2023, VOL. 30, NO. 1, 1–5 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2023.2206260
TL;DR: This article explored the motivations of independent sports podcasters specifically and found that the ease of podcasting from both a technological perspective and a creative perspective is one of the reasons that podcasters treat their creative efforts as a form of employment rather than leisure.
Abstract: This study augments seminal podcasting literature by exploring the motivations of independent sports podcasters specifically. The study’s in-depth interviews produced findings that are consistent with prior research about the value of listener feedback, relationships, and a sense of community; however, new considerations are introduced including the ease of podcasting from both a technological perspective and a creative perspective. The findings contradict recent research suggesting that podcasters are becoming more focused on money and are therefore treating their creative efforts as a form of employment rather than leisure. Suggestions for future research include a focus on the use of livestream technology.
TL;DR: In this article , an in-car hybrid radio service, consisting of different features like interactive menus, voice control and time shifting, is discussed, with 14 test-users in the UK and provides a reflection on the user evaluation of the developed hybrid radio tool.
Abstract: Hybrid radio has the potential to transform people’s in-car radio experience, as it offers a multitude of new features. This article discusses an in the field trial of an in-car hybrid radio service, consisting of different features like interactive menus, voice control and time shifting. The article addresses the methodological test setup and results of the field trial with 14 test-users in the UK and provides a reflection on the user evaluation of the developed hybrid radio tool. Results indicate that participants particularly value now playing and voice control as necessary hybrid in-car radio functionalities. Other functionalities such as time shifting were considered nice to have. The participants did have a concern for safety when navigating the in-car application. The willingness to pay for in-car radio systems was also low.
TL;DR: For broadcasters in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the National Socialist period represented two kinds of “usable past.” Firstly, the inherited radio infrastructure - including extensive sound archives - provided them with physical remnants of the past usable for broadcasting as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: For broadcasters in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the National Socialist period represented two kinds of “usable past.” Firstly, the inherited radio infrastructure - including extensive sound archives - provided them with physical remnants of the past usable for broadcasting. Secondly, the Nazi period and its recordings provided ideological material for GDR propagandists condemning West Germany by association with the Nazi regime. However, as this article shows, administrative and logistical problems within GDR Radio archives forced program-makers like Georg Dannenberg to act as archivists themselves, creating their own collections of clips to use in their propaganda war against the West.
TL;DR: The need to find places in the media for non-hegemonic representation surfaces in different ways depending on the needs and regulations that expand or restrict broadcasting and other media globally as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: Multilingual and multicultural broadcasting and podcasting have expanded with the expansion of diverse populations and diasporas globally. Limited access to many representations of newer and older non-hegemonic communities in mainstream media often means that the access to programming in other languages is produced by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), community radio stations, podcasts, and smaller outlets such as online radio. Occasionally, there are specific designations for alternative sources that are recognized and regulated such as Canadian ethic radio stations (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission [CRTC], 1999). Increasingly, the internet provides new sources of nonregulated alternatives to broadcasting, such as internet broadcasting and podcasts. Karim H. Karim explains that “The decentralized nature of online networks stands in contrast to the highly regulated and controlled model of broadcasting. . .. [are]relatively inexpensive, and easy to operate. They facilitate nonhierarchical organization as well as one-person operations, and later communication as opposed to the generally rigid top-down structures of the mass media” (Karim, 2012, p. 167). Sherry Yu goes further to argue to “For a functioning democracy in an increasingly multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multilingual society, the public sphere and the discourse produced and disseminated within that sphere is expected to be multicultural and multi-ethnic, if not multilingual” (Yu, 2016, p. 349). Concerns about communities, cultural representations, and information frequently provide the impetus for the creation of alternatives as argued by Tokunbo Ojo to combat “misrepresentation, under-representation and invisibility of [racialized]. . . minorities in the mainstream media. They are meant to reflect the racial and cultural diversity of Canada through the reportage of their own issues. They provide room for cultural expressions in the sense that cultural folklore and languages are regularly used in reporting and programming” (Ojo, 2006, p. 351). The need to find places in the media for non-hegemonic representation surfaces in different ways depending on the needs and regulations that expand or restrict broadcasting and other media globally. JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2023, VOL. 30, NO. 1, 6–11 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2023.2206259
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate claims made in the emerging discourse of immersive audio documentary that spatial sound is more real, allowing the listener to step into another space, and understand the world better.
Abstract: This article interrogates claims made in the emerging discourse of immersive audio documentary that spatial sound is more real, allowing the listener to step into another space, and understand the world better. However, the analysis shows makers are failing to make good on these claims. Use of the technical affordances of spatial audio is limited and producers enroll concepts of the real and of transportation in a colonial discourse of exploration and adventure, reproducing a disengaged mode of listening, while avoiding discomfort at all costs.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors employ a national survey to examine how content engagement, host-audience relationship, and advertising format associate with listeners' brand attitudes, as moderated by advertising receptivity.
Abstract: The engaging and relational nature of podcast listening creates a special media environment for brands. Guided by media context effect perspectives, this study employs a national survey to examine how content engagement, host–audience relationship, and advertising format associate with listeners’ brand attitudes, as moderated by advertising receptivity. The findings reveal that content engagement could play both positive and negative roles. The host–audience relationship, including both relational perceptions and actual online interactions, and the host-read advertising format are positive predictors. In addition, advertising receptivity could either enhance or reverse some of the associations. Finally, the identified patterns differ by podcast genre.
TL;DR: In this paper , a preliminary study aimed to examine why audiences choose to listen to daily news podcasts and what gratifications they receive from listening to this emerging form of journalism, and provided a foundation for future researchers to use when exploring this topic.
Abstract: Previous podcast studies have examined motivations and gratifications for why consumers listen to podcasts, but there has been very little examination into why listeners choose to listen to daily news podcasts specifically and what gratifications they receive from consuming these podcasts. This preliminary study aimed to examine why audiences choose to listen to daily news podcasts and what gratifications they receive from listening to this emerging form of journalism. In addition, this current study provides a foundation for future researchers to use when exploring this topic.
TL;DR: The storied academic career of Sherman Paxton Lawton ascended in one of the most transformative eras in mass communication history, the introduction of radio and television as discussed by the authors , and his contributions to the study of human history and controversial political activism that tested the limits of a tenured professor's free speech.
Abstract: Pioneer educators who labored to elevate broadcasting to the status of a respected discipline in higher education have received limited historical study. The storied academic career of Sherman Paxton Lawton ascended in one of the most transformative eras in mass communication history, the introduction of radio and television. This article chronicles not only Lawton’s achievements in broadcast education—publication of the first broadcast textbook and founder of a national honorary—but also his contributions to the study of human history and controversial political activism that tested the limits of a tenured professor’s free speech.