"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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"Making Radio and Podcasts is a practical guide for anyone who wants to learn how to make successful programmes in the digital era. It examines the key roles in audio and podcasting: announcing, presenting, research, copywriting, producing, marketing and promotions. It also outlines what is involved
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in creating different types of programmes: news and current affairs, music, talkback, comedy and features, podcasts, as well as legal and regulatory constraints. With contributions from industry experts, the fully updated fourth edition is global in focus and reflects the impact of podcasts and digital radio, including multi-platform delivery, listener databases, social media and online marketing. It also examines how radio stations have reinvented their business models to accommodate the rapid changes in communications and listener expectations." (Publisher description)
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"El presente trabajo es un significativo esfuerzo que invita a la reflexión intelectual y práctica sobre la situación actual y los retos de la radiodifusión. Su propósito es el de identificar los criterios así como analizar los problemas y desafíos que matizan el quehacer radiofónico. Con es
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a finalidad, propone un marco conceptual de la labor radiofónica desde una postura multi-paradigmática que reformula objetos, concepciones y metodologías para el estudio de la comunicación en radio [...] esta obra revisa el impacto de la tecnología como posibilidad para las variaciones en los patrones y formas de locución y producción, el fenómeno del involucramiento de intérpretes menos especializados y más cercanos a la convivencia diaria, lo que trasluce un alejamiento de la tendencia esteticista de promoción de “voces bonitas” para alternativamente buscar “voces reflexivas o analíticas”; igualmente se abordan las experiencias que trastocan la construcción tradicional de un guion radiofónico y fundamentan sus opiniones a partir del tratamiento de la información disponible en la web. Adicionalmente este trabajo reflexiona sobre la diversidad de entornos y espacios en los que se desarrolla la actividad radiofónica, marcados por la diversidad de herramientas que han facilitado la difusión, sistematización y disponibilidad de contenidos con un coste marginal. Esta nueva realidad, que hace unos pocos años era impensable, se ha tornado hoy cotidiana y ha permitido que la legislación vigente en la mayoría de países no sea un límite para la participación de actores sociales que no cuentan con los permisos ni los recursos para acceder al uso del espectro radioeléctrico (aunque no sea esta la óptima experiencia para la participación). En el caso de América Latina y el Caribe, estos modelos han favorecido enormemente a los medios comerciales en detrimento de los medios comunitarios o populares que han encontrado en el uso de Internet como el espacio de convivencia propicio para disminuir esas barreras, pero sin que en muchos casos cuenten con la especialización necesaria." (Introducción, página 13-14)
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"Beyond Powerful Radio is a complete guide to becoming a powerful broadcast communicator on radio or internet! This how-to cookbook is for broadcasters who want to learn the craft and improve. This practical and easy-to-read book, filled with bullet lists, offers techniques to learn everything from
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how to produce and host a show, to news gathering, coverage of investigative and breaking stories, writing and delivering the commercial copy and selling the air time. With contributions from over 100 top experts across all broadcast fields, Beyond Powerful Radio offers techniques, advice and lessons to build original programming, for news, programming, talk shows, producers, citizen journalism, copy writing, sales, commercials, promotions, production, research, fundraising, and more. Plus: Tips to assemble a winning team; to develop, build, and market your brand; get your next job in broadcasting, effectively promote your product; increase sales; write and produce commercials; raise money with your station; deal with creative burnout and manage high ego talent; and to research and grow your audience. Never be boring!Get, keep, and grow audiences through powerful personality, storytelling, and focus across any format. Tried-and-true broadcast techniques apply to the myriad forms of audio broadcast available today, including Web radio and podcasting. While the technology and delivery systems change, the one constant is content! Listeners, viewers, and surfers want to be entertained, informed, inspired, persuaded, and connected with powerful personalities, and storytellers. A full Instructor Manual is available with complete lesson plans for broadcast instructors - course includes Audio Production/Radio Programming/Management/Broadcast Journalism. The Instructor Manual is available for download here: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/978024052224." (Publisher description)
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"Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This bo
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ok describes how and why these methods are applied through the use of a behind-the-scenes glimpse at working practices and procedures used in the industry. It considers the constraints and incentives that limit or stimulate creativity and innovation within programme production. Programme Making for Radio examines the individual roles and responsibilities of the whole production team and the importance of team-working skills. Chapters focus on the specific requirements of specialist programmes and offer advice from a range of programme makers working in local and national broadcasting. There is a case study example that follows the progress of a feature programme from pitching the original idea, through assembling material to final transmission." (Publisher description)
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