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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003
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Editorial
By Ken GarnerThe title, we thought, said it all. But perhaps it says more than that, more than the simple sum of its parts. In deciding to launch a new scholarly journal, we knew that encouraging debate went with the territory. What we had not envisaged when publishing our call for submissions late in 2001 was receiving an unsolicited article that implicitly - if only in passing - revealed the thinking that led the Editorial Board to our chosen title. Thankfully, our peer reviewers, drawn from the Editorial Board and International Advisory Board, took the same, strong line with this submission as the Editor. They insisted it be published in this, our first number.
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British quality, American chaos
More LessThis article argues that what has often been presented as a simple, crucial opposition - the British public service broadcasting system versus the US private profit system - in fact demonstrates not only a self-conscious mutual involvement but a set of common objectives that overrides many of their differences. From each broadcasting system’s earliest history, a mutual construction of a dualism loudly proclaimed can be observed, built largely around matters of ownership, funding, and cultural values. What is suggested here is that each system, in practice, was based on only versions of central social and economic control that were operationally different: meanwhile, the proclamation of national differences simply served to justify the stifling of an alternative model of ‘popular’ broadcasting, which threatened each system’s dominance in their respective states.
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Youth and ‘free-radio’ programmes
Authors: Hervé Glevarec and Arnaud ChoquetWhat are young people’s links with radio? What role does radio play in the lives of adolescents? By focusing on the situation in France – where radio programmes mix ‘free radio’ in the evening with music, and are highly listened-to by young people – this article examines the structure of youth listening reception. The links listeners make with presenters and with people who phone in, as revealed by the study, suggest the ‘in-between’ status of radio for youth. On radio, adolescents find a space to express ‘youth problems’ (sic) and to learn about others’ experiences.
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Day by day, as time goes by
More LessAs part of a wider research project into the ‘place’ broadcast media have in the lives of the retired in France, a series of interviews with retired people was conducted, providing evidence of the particular place radio-listening practices have in the organization of the day-today lives of the retired. Five main findings specific to radio listening emerged from the analysis: the ‘bundling’ of activities; radio moving from being an accompaniment to providing company; radio providing precise kinds of ‘get-together’; the feelings at play in these practices; and loyalty to radio and one station in particular. The study also suggests that whatever changes to listening practices may be brought on by retirement or bereavement, they are rather in the nature of intensifications of loyalty and involvement to programmes and listening habits that existed before these life-changes.
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The voice that cannot be heard
More LessConcerns are raised about the position of critical legacy and the formulation of orthodoxies in the rapid expansion of radio studies. From this location, the formulation of radio as a fundamentally ephemeral medium and a medium of voice is brought under scrutiny. So too the related formulation of radio archives as insufficient and lacking, especially in comparison to other media. In doing so, some methodological issues related to research and written archives vis-à-vis sound archives are brought into focus. Firstly, the problems of other media archives unsettle the orthodox position of the radio archives as fundamentally inferior. Secondly, the place of written texts in the production of voice is examined. Thirdly, postmodernist theory is employed to suggest that voice is not an object to be recovered from an archive, but that it is produced in the relationship between researcher, methodology and archive.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Guy Starkey, Lawrie Hallett and Andrew CrisellThe Radio Handbook, Carole Fleming (2002) London: Routledge, 200 pp., ISBN 0-415-15828-1
The Australian Broadcast Journalism Manual, Gail Phillips and Mia Lindgren (2002) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 294pp., ISBN 0-195-51351-7
Web Radio: Radio Production for Internet Streaming, Chris Priestman (2002) Oxford: Focal Press, 296pp., 296pp., ISBN: 0-240-51635-4
Theatre of Sound: Radio and the Dramatic Imagination, Dermot Rattigan (2002) Dublin: Carysfort Press, 384 pp., ISBN 0-9534-2575-4
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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Volume 10 (2012)
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Volume 9 (2011)
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Volume 8 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 7 (2009)
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Volume 6 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 5 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 4 (2007)
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Volume 3 (2005)
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Volume 2 (2004)
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Volume 1 (2003 - 2004)