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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 16, Issue 1, 2018
Volume 16, Issue 1, 2018
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Lean back: Songza, ubiquitous listening and Internet music radio for the masses
More LessAbstractLaunched in late 2010, Songza was a small player in the Internet radio universe, available only in the United States and Canada. However, the trade press celebrated Songza for its novel solution to bringing Internet radio to mainstream and profits back to the music industry: ‘lean back’ listening. In June 2014, Google acquired Songza, incorporating its staff, ethos of expert curation, context-sensitive playlists and staunch ‘anti-snobbery’ into Google Play Music, now available in 62 countries and a major competitor in online music. In this article, I investigate how ‘lean back’ listening helped Songza court a wider audience for Internet radio. To do so, I examine how these efforts were framed in the trade press, arguing that Songza’s mass appeal must be understood in relation to histories of domestic ambient music listening, including how it has been devalued and feminized. I also consider the Canadian context, countering how the US context has been generalized in the far from borderless world of streaming music. Ultimately, I argue, Songza’s ‘solutions’ obscured problems involving what happens when music becomes a service; the relation between domesticity, the public and the media; and the place of gender, labour, pleasure and democratic practices in the discussion.
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Public service radio in Poland vs technology challenges: A turning point
Authors: Stanislaw Jędrzejewski and Jan BeliczyńskiAbstractThis article deals with the technology challenges that public service radio is currently facing in Poland and with its response to those. The challenges have occurred in the context of the remit of radio public broadcaster. The context is quite complex and is made up of a number of elements connected with both a new concept of a public broadcaster and changes within the broadcasting organization itself, and the way in which the technology change is managed.
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The role of orality in radio news frame-building processes: Testing a model of analysis applied to Spanish news radio
More LessAbstractFrame analysis of radio news requires a specific methodology that goes beyond mere textual analysis. The formal features of the medium – especially its orality – substantially modify the construction of frames on air. We propose a methodological model for frame analysis for radio that analyses oral discourse and text. Emphatic resources used in intonation building in a text – such as stress or pauses – make the communicative act more effective by acting as a framing device, by reinforcing an existing frame through attitude, emotion and paralinguistic information or by contradicting textual content and suggesting a subtext, resulting in a dual frame. These functions in framing correlate, generally, with the pragmatic functions of intonation. The proposed analytical model endeavours to locate stress and strategic pauses as two key elements in the construction of media frames through oral discourse. These elements add nuances to the text, provide strategic information on the frame (or communicative context) and provide key information on the role of radio journalists in building frames.
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The work of women’s NGOs on commercial radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and shortcomings
By Emma HeywoodAbstractThis article examines the work of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on West Bank radio as they represent women, a marginalized community, within a patriarchal, traditional and religious society. It also examines the commercial and societal difficulties faced by radio stations in their interactions with NGOs. Using a quantitative and qualitative approach, this article analyses data from six commercial, rather than state-owned or community, radio stations in four West Bank cities and discusses the frustrations of both parties as they work together. Contributing to the limited literature on the role of radio in the West Bank, the article also draws on interviews with representatives from the chosen stations and the NGOs that broadcast material on radio stations. The findings suggest that, for the NGOs and in contrast to other media, radio plays an important, albeit currently limited, role as amplifiers for their campaigns. Yet the radio stations do not contribute substantively, if at all, to encouraging NGO community-building activities and, in fact, restrict themselves to a commercial-based association.
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‘I’ve got my eyes open and I can’t be crooked’: Race, female virtue and national identity in Terry and the Pirates
More LessAbstractThe Second World War-era US network radio programmes augmented nationalist propaganda by connecting American national identity to white patriarchal gender norms. Juvenile adventure radio serials like Terry and the Pirates (TATP) joined this effort and countered criticism of their negative influence on children by promoting their ability to teach young audiences socially sanctioned values like respect for established authority and cultural norms. Within this cultural and industrial context, characters like April Kane became ‘discursive “relay station[s]”’ through which wartime debates over women’s changing cultural and economic status were circulated, contested and produced. TATP tested April’s dedication to an idealized American way of life by pairing and contrasting her with queered and exoticized racial others, including sexually deviant female criminals and subservient foreign men. April passed this inquisition by identifying with Burma, the series’ other white heroine, and adhering to traditional feminine values like honesty, passivity and deference to white patriarchal authority. These comparisons reaffirmed a gendered hierarchy that prioritized white men and simultaneously diminished and divided white women and foreign men.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Erin L. Berry-McCrea, Jason Loviglio and Nicolas RuthAbstractWord Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom, Sonja D. Williams (2015) Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 272 pp., ISBN: 9780252081392, p/bk, $26.00; e-book, $23.40
Performing Personality. On-Air Identities in a Changing Media Landscape, David Crider (2016) Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 204 pp., ISBN: 978 1 4985 3085 9, h/bk, $80.00, e-book $76.00
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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)