Radio and society : new thinking for an old medium / edited by Matt Mollgaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mollgaard, Matt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Radio is the original mass electronic medium and it continues to be critical for audiences wanting news, information, music and entertainment. For over a century enthusiasts, scholars, practitioners, governments, businesses and listeners have developed and influenced radio, making it a fascinating medium to explore today. There is still no mass medium as ubiquitous as radio and the Internet has extended its geographical and temporal reach even further. Radio remains a key media form and techn...

Contents:

Introduction

1. Morse, Magic and Modernity: Receiving Radio in New Zealand 1900

1914 / Peter Hoar

2. Reading Radio: The Intersection Between Radio and Newspapers for the Canadian Radio Listener in the 1930s / Anne F. MacLennan

3. Not Over Here! How British Elites Used National Newspapers to Engage in Debates Over the Introduction of Licensed Commercial Radio Stations / Richard Rudin

4. Pirate Stories: Rethinking the Radio Rebels / Matt Mollgaard

5. Wide Open Road: Radio as Cultural History / Tom Morton

6. 'Bowie's Waiata' : Radio Documentary and Fandom / Sam Coley

7. The Centralisation of Regional Radio: City Versus Country in the Super Radio Network / Harry Criticos

8. United Kingdom Music Radio Programming: Good Radio Records and the Imagined Audience / J. Mark Percival

9. Just Be Yourself? Talk Radio Performance and Authentic On-air Selves / Helen Wolfenden

10. Foresight, Fudge or Facilitation? The Making of United Kingdom Digital Radio Policy 1987

/ Tony Stoller

11. Low Power FM in New Zealand: A Survey of an Open Spectrum Commons / Brent Simpson

12. Radio as a Tool for Rehabilitation and Social Inclusion / Matt Grimes and Siobhan Stevenson

13. Community Radio Audience Research / Janey Gordon

14. The Net-Amorphosis / Pierre C. Belanger.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Radio and society : new thinking for an old medium

ISBN:

1-283-43673-6

9786613436733

1-4438-3615-X

OCLC:

827209186