The Need for Radio Theory in the Digital Age  

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Tacchi, Jo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 3 no. 2 (Agu. 2000), page 289–298.
Topik: digital age; innovation; net.radio; radiobility; radiocracy; radiogenic; radio studies; technology; theory; webcasting
Fulltext: 289IJCS32.pdf (109.99KB)

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This article makes an argument for connecting old and new technologies in our efforts to create a coherent field that we might call 'radio studies'. The lack of academic work to date on radio –the 'secondary medium' (Lewis, this issue) – has left us with a void in media and cultural studies. Radio's pervasive nature in everyday lives is less apparent in precisely those settings (the developed world in particular) where it has become a part of the everyday fabric of life. Currently there is a revival of interest in radio studies, which coincides (perhaps not accidentally) with the growth of new digital media technologies. The 'Radiocracy' conference at Cardiff demonstrated not only the resurgence of interest in academic studies of radio, but also the many and innovative ways in which radio is used (and sometimes abused) globally. In each location the medium is used differently, demonstrating not only that a global definition of the meanings and uses of 'radio' cannot be assigned, but also that new evolutions of 'radiogenic' technologies should not be dismissed as being different from 'radio' and therefore not a part of the remit of 'radio studies'. Many net.radio initiatives seek to circumvent governmental restrictions on analogue radio broadcasting by incorporating and developing new 'radiogenic' technologies. Examples are given to illustrate the arguments in this article; a small-scale net.radio operation in London is contrasted with a large commercial net.radio company located in the USA, and a development initiative in India is also considered.

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