"Los pódcast se han convertido en una modalidad de reposición, distribución y difusión de contenidos derivada de la práctica productiva de la radio. El trabajo de laboratorio realizado en Infinito Radio adoptó como propuesta formativa la elaboración de series de narrativas sonoras que perfecc
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ionan los aprendizajes de las y los comunicadores de la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. Estas producciones evidencian el uso de espacios virtuales con agendas temáticas contemporáneas, variedad de estructuras narrativas e interactividad, características propias de la transmedia actual. Las experiencias expuestas contribuyen a los procesos educativos, resaltan las mediaciones de situaciones reales que no son abordadas con frecuencia en los medios convencionales y potencian la inclusión de realidades y visiones juveniles vinculadas con la era de la tecnología digital. Cada práctica documentada por los estudiantes de la carrera de Comunicación de la UPS recopilada en este libro fomenta el ejercicio comunicacional y el uso de una estética multisensorial, promoviendo el desarrollo de competencias y habilidades que superan las dificultades en la divulgación del talento universitario." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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ents result in novel roles for both media producers and audiences. This analysis examines communication processes in radio call-in shows on social issues in the Republic of Benin that utilize participatory media formats. The primary figures of interest in these shows are frequent callers who participate in grievance-oriented programmes. Known as ‘grogneurs’, these individuals have now established themselves as respected information brokers within the country. What factors contribute to their prominence, and what are the implications of their success for information practices in the region? This study is using ethnographic methods and examines the motives, skills, and strategies that underpin grogneurs’ information acquisition, networking, and legal protection. It also examines grogneurs’ relationships with journalists, authorities, and broader radio audiences. The article argues that, despite potential role overlap between journalists and grogneurs, both groups endeavour to maintain clear distinctions in their roles to safeguard their reputation and foster interactive media formats." (Abstract)
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"Media organisations in radio broadcasting are gradually fine-tuning to accommodate multilingual socio-cultural identities. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which some of the media, particularly public radio have struggled to accommodate. This article advocates for multilingual
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accommodation on radio to foster more liberating and inclusive ways for multilingual speakers. It is a conceptual paper informed by the Afrikology perspective which we findmore useful in tackling African issues from a more realistic perspective. Using radio as a medium of ethnic lingualism, we argue that Africans should tackle their own multilingualism issues. We chose radio because it is the most used medium of communication in Africa, reflective of grassroots social identities. We cite cases of multilingualism in Southern Africa to propose what we refer to as multilingual accommodation in radio broadcasting. The article argues that majority languages in Africa are not monolingualism but family languages of numerous dialects reflecting the co-existence of diverse ethnolinguistics in the pre-colonial era. We define multilingualism as abilities of co-existence in African contexts and the reflection of this co-existence in radio broadcasting. By multilingual accommodation, we suggest sustenance of multilingual programmes by radio hosts, guests and participants in both minoritised and majorised indigenous languages." (Abstract)
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"This article studies the mechanisms for building a better participatory culture around podcasts and narrows the information gap among the podcast studies from the perspective of a sense of community. The research question is “What kind of participatory culture enhances a sense of community among
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the audiences of podcasts? A model of six enhancers of sense of community was developed. The research draws practical implications from this model and concludes that a participatory culture that embraces liveness, works in small communities, includes parasociality, provides opportunities for meaningful participation on transmedial platforms, and builds on shared intimacy will enhance a sense of community." (Abstract)
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"A century after its appearance on the African continent, the radio set has become so ubiquitous and seemingly old-fashioned a technology that it is easily overlooked. But like the automobile - perhaps the only other late-nineteenth century invention to have had a greater impact - radio continues to
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have a profound global influence. If it tends to be outshone in the Global North by the more recent innovations of television and digital media, in the South radio continues to have a dominant presence, particularly in Africa where it retains its status as the most popular mass medium. A recent continental survey of news audiences by Afrobarometer suggested that 68% of Africans source their news from the radio on a daily or weekly basis, while only 53% get their news from the television and 37% from internet sources (Malophane 2022). Nor is the dominance of radio limited to countries that have low rates of internet access. Another recent survey found that 80% of South Africans listen to the radio at least once a week in a country where digital media attract their largest African audiences (Bosch 2022)." (Abstract)
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"This article examined the effects of digital media on radio’s role in public discourse and civic engagement in South Africa. The study combined a review of existing literature with empirical research using in-depth interviews with 10 participants that included radio producers and listeners from r
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adio stations that have Zulu as their broadcast language (five radio producers from Ukhozi FM and Gagasi FM and five listeners from Durban, South Africa). Two key questions were asked: (1) How has the growth of digital media affected radio’s traditional role as the most popular platform for public discussion and civic engagement in South Africa? and (2) How do audiences engage with radio programming that utilises digital media during its discussion programmes, and what factors influence their preferences for one platform over another regarding accessing public discourse and civic engagement? The article argues that while radio remains a dominant platform for public discourse and civic engagement in South Africa, its role has been transformed by the rise of digital media. These platforms have allowed for more civic engagement opportunities and expanded the scope and accessibility of public discourse in a country where such opportunities were once restricted. The study’s findings have important implications for radio broadcasters, policymakers, and scholars seeking to understand the changing dynamics of the public sphere in the digital age. Overall, this study highlights the importance of considering the impact of digital media on traditional media platforms such as radio, especially in countries undergoing significant political and social change." (Abstract)
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"This article takes a visual approach to the study of an auralmedium. It argues that the radio set had a powerful visual presence in popular culture in Southern Africa between the 1950s and the 1970s when most people bought their first radio sets. Advertisements for radios carried by the press offer
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the most prominent examples of this iconography. In South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia, radio advertisements developed a distinctive aesthetic that blended global and local influences and framed the relationship between the new technology and society. Although the radio set was presented as part of a forward-looking, ostensibly inclusive vision of modernity, sales strategies also served to associate radio with whiteness and masculinity by looking backwards to the racial and gendered hierarchies of the colonial past. The homogeneity of advertising on both sides of the liberation divide demonstrates the pervasive cultural influence of settler colonialism both before and after formal decolonisation." (Abstract)
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"This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a
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compelling mode of participatory creative practice. This book maps existing projects occurring globally through a series of case study chapters that exemplify community engaged creative audio practice. The studies focus on audio and sound-based arts practices that are undertaken by artists and arts-led researchers in collaboration with (and from within) communities and groups. These practices include - Applied audio drama, community-engaged podcasting, sound and verbatim theatre, participatory sound art, community-led acoustic ecology, sound and media walks, digital storytelling, oral history and reminiscence, and radio drama in health and community development. The contributors interrogate the practical, political, and aesthetic potentialities of using sound and audio in community engaged arts practice, as well as its tensions and possibilities as an arts-led participatory research methodology." (Publisher description)
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"El artículo plantea un estudio longitudinal de la convergencia periodística en el marco de la radio especializada deportiva española y presenta las sinergias periodísticas establecidas entre Radio Marca, el diario Marca y la web marca.com. Se trata de un análisis del único caso existente en E
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spaña en el que una radio, un periódico impreso y un medio digital se aglutinan bajo la misma marca comercial. Para el estudio se propone una combinación de técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas que permiten obtener datos objetivos de los procesos de producción del contenido y explicaciones desarrolladas. Para ello, se recurre al análisis de contenido y a un trabajo etnográfico de observación del trabajo periodístico en la redacción de los medios, completado con una serie de entrevistas en profundidad y encuestas realizadas en dos períodos que han conformado dos muestras. Los resultados muestran que las redacciones de los tres medios establecen sinergias periodísticas facilitadas por su ubicación en un mismo espacio físico de trabajo, pero no son resultado de una estrategia empresarial." (Resumo)
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"Este artículo aborda los estudios radiofónicos desde dos puntos de vista: a) la configuración del campo y del objeto sonoro; b) el desarrollo e institucionalización del principal foro de debate y producción científica sobre el tema en Brasil, el Grupo de Investigación en Radio y Medios Sonor
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os de Intercom. Presentamos y analizamos la trayectoria del Grupo de Investigación y su influencia en los estudios radiofónicos brasileños." (Resumo)
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"Compreendendo o rádio como um veículo expandido (KISHINHEVSKY, 2016) e hipermidiático (LOPEZ, 2012), este artigo pretende analisar as principais estratégias utilizadas por cinco rádios do Brasil, por meio do site, das redes sociais e pelo canal YouTube em dois períodos - 1º e 14 de abril de
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2020 e 28 de agosto a 9 de setembro de 2023: Rádio Gaúcha (RS), CBN do Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Rádio Clube de Pernambuco (PE), Rádio Difusora AM (AM) e Rádio Nacional AM (DF). Todas, de alguma forma, estão adaptadas à convergência digital e à plataformização para ampliar a audiência e fidelizar ouvintes." (Resumo)
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"This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast cr
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iticism, monetization, and production advice. Through analysis of these sources' self-descriptions, the text builds a podcasting-specific framework for intimacy and uses that framework to interpret how podcasting imagines the connections it forms within communities. Instead of intimacy being inherent, the book argues that podcasting constructs intimacy and uses it to define the quality of its own mediation." (Publisher description)
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"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to po
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dcasting and as community initiatives have pioneered more diverse and innovative approaches so scholars have embarked on new areas of inquiry. Divided into seven sections, the Handbook covers: communities; entertainment; democracy; emotions; listening; studying radio; futures." (Publisher description)
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"Am 29. Oktober 1923 nahm der erste deutsche Radio sender einen regelmäßigen Programmbetrieb auf. Dies gilt vielen als Geburtsstunde des öffentlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland. Das 100-jährige Jubiläum im Jahr 2023 bietet dem Technoseum den Anlass, der Geschichte von Radio und Fernsehen eine eig
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ene Ausstellung zu widmen, die in fünf chronologisch aufeinander folgen den Themenbereichen die Geschichte von Radio und Fernsehen von den Funkanfängen um 1900 bis zu den digitalen Medien der Gegenwart erzählt. Vorangestellt ist ein Prolog zum Jubiläum. Drei „Perspektiven“ ziehen sich durch die gesamte Schau: Die Perspektive der Pro grammproduktion zeichnet Entwicklungslinien der Pro grammgeschichte nach und gibt Einblicke in Methoden und Berufsbilder der Radio- und Fernsehprogramm produktion. Bei der Perspektive der Geräteproduktion stehen die Herstellung von und der Handel mit Radio und Fernsehgeräten im Mittelpunkt. Schließlich fragt die Perspektive der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer danach, wie die Technik das Leben der Menschen prägt und wie sich Nutzungsgewohnheiten verändert haben. Erst mals können in diesem Rahmen zwei Objektbestände in größerem Umfang gezeigt werden, die das Museum im Jahr 2014 übernommen hat: Die Sammlung des ehemaligen Deutschen Rundfunk-Museums in Berlin sowie die historisch-technische Sammlung des Südwestrundfunks (SWR). Die eigenen Objekte werden durch zahlreiche Leihgaben von Museen, Radio- und Fernsehsendern sowie Produktionsfirmen und Privatpersonen ergänzt. Zusammen zeichnen sie ein buntes Bild der Radio- und Fernsehgeschichte von den Anfängen bis heute." (Vorwort)
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"La radio est le moyen de communication qui se centre le plus sur la langue et celui qui le mieux la fait vivre. C’est pour cette raison que la multiplication des stations de radio, notamment dans les territoires les plus reculés du monde, constitue une chance pour la survie des langues locales.
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Les radios africaines vivent au quotidien cette expérience. Elles utilisent abondamment les langues locales, leur donnant ainsi une vie au-delà de leur usage dans les cercles restreints dans lesquels elles peuvent être confinées à cause de l’imposition des langues occidentales comme langues d’enseignement, de travail et parfois même des médias. Cependant, ce constat n’est pas le même sur Internet où l’on peut se réjouir certes d’écouter des programmes en langues africaines, mais avec beaucoup moins de possibilités que dans la bande hertzienne. La question est de savoir ce qui explique ce décalage entre l’offre." (Abstract)
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"Im Oktober 1923 ging das erste offizielle deutsche Rundfunkprogramm auf Sendung. Auch 100 Jahre später ist das Radio nicht aus der Medienwelt wegzudenken, ob als Informationsquelle, Kulturproduzent oder musikalischer Tagesbegleiter. Stets im Zeichen politischer, gesellschaftlicher und technischer
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Entwicklungen stehend, hat es immer wieder seine Wandlungsfähigkeit und Relevanz unter Beweis stellen können. Dieses Buch wirft Schlaglichter auf die verschiedenen Facetten der deutschen Radiogeschichte und wagt zugleich einen Ausblick in die Zukunft des ebenso langlebigen wie vielseitigen Mediums." (Buchrückseite)
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"Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology - the cassette tape - to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary indiv
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iduals, from singers to smugglers, to challenge state-controlled Egyptian media. Enabling an unprecedented number of people to participate in the creation of culture and circulation of content, cassette players and tapes soon informed broader cultural, political, and economic developments and defined "modern" Egyptian households. Drawing on a wide array of audio, visual, and textual sources that exist outside the Egyptian National Archives, Andrew Simon provides a new entry point into understanding everyday life and culture. Cassettes and cassette players, he demonstrates, did not simply join other twentieth century mass media, like records and radio; they were the media of the masses. Comprised of little more than magnetic reels in plastic cases, cassettes empowered cultural consumers to become cultural producers long before the advent of the Internet." (Publisher description)
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