Radio relations : policies and aesthetics of the medium / edited by Grażyna Stachyra, Tiziano Bonini, and Madalena Oliveira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ECREA Radio Research Section. Conference (5th : 2017 : Lublin, Poland), issuing body, issuing body.

Contributor:

Stachyra, Grażyna, editor.

Bonini, Tiziano, editor.

Oliveira, Madalena, editor.

Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio--Research--Congresses.

Radio.

Radio--Research.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

VIII, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"This volume gathers together revised versions of the papers presented at the ECREA Radio Research Section Conference held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017. The book highlights what radio actually is - a medium created to connect different places at a distance. Subtle but pervasive, simple but graceful, radio builds affective relations, either between listeners and the world or between listeners themselves. The word 'relations' is plural. It suggests the idea that radio is both an economic activity - related to technology, production, working routines and business - and a cultural industry - related to aesthetics, art, social interaction, education and politics. Since relations are relevantly human, we can explore how radio appeals to personal commitment and can reinforce a sense of community too. The unique value of this book lies both in erudite essays of Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, world-famous figures of radio research, and in perspectives sketched by brilliant young radio practitioners and researchers. The diverse views on radio communications from authors across the different regions of the world including Brazil, Canada, Italy, Poland, France, Hungary, Spain and the UK collected here will certainly inspire radio researchers, media historians, sociologists and journalism students."-- Back cover.

"This volume gathers together revised versions of the papers presented at the ECREA Radio Research Section Conference held in Lublin, Poland, in September 2017. The book highlights what radio actually is - a medium created to connect different places at a distance. Subtle but pervasive, simple but graceful, radio builds affective relations, either between listeners and the world or between listeners themselves. The word 'relations' is plural. It suggests the idea that radio is both an economic activity - related to technology, production, working routines and business - and a cultural industry - related to aesthetics, art, social interaction, education and politics. Since relations are relevantly human, we can explore how radio appeals to personal commitment and can reinforce a sense of community too. The unique value of this book lies both in erudite essays of Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, world-famous figures of radio research, and in perspectives sketched by brilliant young radio practitioners and researchers. The diverse views on radio communications from authors across the different regions of the world including Brazil, Canada, Italy, Poland, France, Hungary, Spain and the UK collected here will certainly inspire radio researchers, media historians, sociologists and journalism students."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Grażyna Stachyra

Part 1: Radio broadcasting aesthetics and sound decoding practices. 1. Sound, silence and identity / Seán Street

2. Music/radio: the radio feature as musical composition / Ben Horner

3. Narrative and voice / Katharina Smets

Part 2: Audience behaviours and the programmes design in the context of cultural and technological change. 4. New challenges for radio broadcasting in the digital era / Enrico Menduni

5. Radio and audiovisual design: the incorporation of new technologies by radio programmes through a new process workflow / Daniel Gambaro

6. Women's role models in radio broadcasts: a comparative analysis using Polish and British examples / Ewa Nowak-Teter

7. The theory of parasocial interaction (intimacy at a distance) in communication practices of contemporary radio / Grażyna Stachyra

8. CBC Radio current affairs: two ethnographies and questions for the future / Graham Cook

Part 3: Radio broadcasting policies and social transformations. 9. In the interests of pluralism: the regulation of privately owned local radio stations in France / Maria Holubowicz

10. The commitment to solidarity on Spanish public radio: the case of the programme "Solidaridad" on Radio 5 / Carmen Marta-Lazo and Patricia González-Aldea

11. Pirates on air: the programme of the first private radio stations in Poland from the early 90s / Urszula Doliwa

12. History on air: relationships between history and radio in France (1945-2014) / Céline Loriou

13. The origin of the introduction of popular music to Polish radio broadcasting in the Polish People's Republic (1950s and 1960s) / Artur Trudzik

14. "Drifting to the red end of the spectrum"?: the BBC External Services Central European Department and the Helsinki Final Act, 1973-1980 / Stephen Westlake.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.

ISBN:

9781527513488

1527513483

OCLC:

1047538039

Publisher Number:

99978860728