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{"title":"Podcasting and its Apps: Software, Sound, and the Interfaces of Digital Audio","authors":"J. Morris, Eleanor Patterson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1083374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083374","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile applications for downloading podcasts to smartphones and tablets, or podcatcher apps, are some of the most plentiful in various digital software application stores (app stores). The software features, interfaces, and options podcatchers make available give digital soundworks new functionality, materiality, visuality, and aurality. By collecting and analyzing some of the most popular podcasting applications, this article surveys the affordances and restrictions promoted by podcatching app interfaces. Our research explores how podcast apps promote new instances of listening, arguing that podcatchers reconfigure relationships between listeners and producers, and are also ultimately people-catchers that attempt to aggregate listeners in a fragmented media environment by increasing sonic interactivity, encouraging ubiquitous listening, curating and packaging podcasts as visual media, and emphasizing social features that allow users to share podcasts with each other.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59966300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fink and Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale","authors":"Jenny K. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1083379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59966374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"One Year Anniversary Memorial Tribute to JRS Co-Founder, Dr. Martin LoMonaco","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1099915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1099915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1099915","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59966517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Remarks: The Golden Years, Then and Now","authors":"P. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1082878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1082878","url":null,"abstract":"I begin this issue with the first lines from Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News by A. Brad Schwartz (2015, p. 3) who began this book project as part of his senior thesis, and eventually it landed a spot on a PBS series. Schwartz’s investigation into what happened Halloween Eve October 30, 1938 is based in part on 1,400 listener letters donated in 2005 to the University of Michigan. These letters and accompanying research provided a more accurate portrait of that night. It became obvious that media reports had been overblown, creating the urban legend that still exists today. It was media’s increasing power, not Martians, that stirred public fear of radio in retrospect. The Golden Age of Radio was in its heyday. Listeners wrote of their imagined bonds between them and favorite actors and characters in their letters. Schwartz (p. 10) states, ‘‘Listeners treated the voices they welcomed into their homes each week as if they were friends, familiars, confessors.’’ That ability to connect to listeners remains a significant thread of discussion in much of the research presented here, as we move from Grover’s Mill to Night Vale across 77 years. Both real to the listener.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1082878","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59965594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Considerations—Reflections and Future Research. Everything Old is New Again: Podcasting as Radio's Revival","authors":"Kris M. Markman","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1083376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083376","url":null,"abstract":"I was excited to learn about this symposium on podcasting and be asked to serve as the discussant, because it marks what I hope will be the start of a sustained program of research on this subject. Numerous voices in the public discourse have announced that we are in a ‘‘golden age’’ of podcasting, as the author of the first article in this symposium eloquently notes (although I cannot help but to pause and reflect that ‘‘golden age’’ is a label usually attributed in retrospect). There are parallels in the trajectories of podcasting and its scholarship over the last decade. After an initial flurry of interest and excitement, podcasting and research into this phenomenon grew slowly but steadily. Perhaps the recent breakthrough success of the podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Serial will prompt more scholars of new media and radio to turn their attention to podcasting scholarship. For while there are numerous points of intersection among these seven articles, they also point to many other lines of inquiry that are ripe for exploration. Taken together, the contributors of this symposium help highlight a convergence of factors that may explain why podcasting has (finally) arrived in mainstream consciousness. One of these factors is distinctly technological: the rise of smartphones and podcasting apps. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (2015b), 64% of American adults owned a smartphone in 2015, up from 35% in 2011 when they first started tracking smartphone ownership (Pew Research Center, 2015a). By contrast, Pew (2015a) found that only 20% of adults owned an MP3 player in 2006. For early adopters of podcasting, listening was frequently a manual process of finding, subscribing to, downloading, and uploading podcasts onto a","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083376","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59966365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Perfect Technology: Radio and Mobility","authors":"Jonathan P. Pluskota","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1083378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083378","url":null,"abstract":"Radio is at a critical juncture in terms of its listeners and future as a viable medium. As the Baby Boomer generation fades away and is replaced by the Millennial Generation and soon, Generation Z, the broadcast radio industry must rethink its place in the market and make a concentrated effort to remain competitive. To remain competitive, it must consider itself to be part of a broader Media Listening Experience (MLE) comprised of streaming, podcast, and satellite listening options. In doing so, the radio industry needs to consider changing its model to one that can compete with other listening options, particularly in regard to listening choices, customization, and access. If radio can strategically redefine itself as both an industry and technology, and flex its strength as a democratic medium available to all, listenership will increase and radio, as one of the original forms of mass media, will thrive.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59966369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Podcasting: A Decade in the Life of a “New” Audio Medium: Introduction","authors":"Andrew J. Bottomley","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1082880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1082880","url":null,"abstract":"Podcasting came of age in 2005, a full decade ago. The roots of podcasting date back to 2000, though, when software developer Dave Winer published RSS 0.92, a new version of the RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) Web syndication format—one of the back bones of newsfeed aggregators and Web 2.0 tools like blogs—that enabled digital audio files to be delivered in RSS feeds. Winer created these ‘‘audioblogging’’ capabilities in response to requests from former MTV VJ Adam Curry (Winer, 2000). Over the next few years, Winer, Curry, and other Internet technology insiders experimented with carrying audio files in RSS feeds. It was not until 2004, however, that what was beginning to become known as ‘‘podcasting’’ emerged as a viable technology with many citing Curry’s release of an RSS-to-iPod ‘‘podcatcher’’ client, iPodder, along with his launch of podcasting’s first breakout program, Daily Source Code, as watershed moments in the medium’s path to widespread use (Chen, 2009). The year 2005 went on to become ‘‘the year of the podcast’’ (Bowers, 2005), the emergence of the new medium being solidified in June 2015 when Apple upgraded to iTunes 4.9, the first version of the software to provide fully integrated podcast support; Apple’s new podcast directory made it simple for ordinary users to search for and subscribe to podcasts (Friess, 2015). iTunes 4.9 effectively brought podcasting into the cultural mainstream. Fast forward to July 2013, when Apple surpassed the one billion subscriptions mark for podcasts via its iTunes platform—a remarkable milestone for a medium that was barely a decade old and, in the intervening years, had descended from ‘‘next big thing’’ to has-been status, routinely regarded as little more than a niche or fringe format. Indeed, nearly as soon as it began, Web and tech industry commentators","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1082880","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59965795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Savage, STAR: A Psycho-topography of Place","authors":"Catherine Wilkinson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1015882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015882","url":null,"abstract":"We are all familiar with the adage ‘‘don’t judge a book by its cover,’’ yet immediately upon glancing at this book, with hand-drawn imagery printed on brown card, and held together by a pink star-shaped elastic band, the reader can tell it is the lovechild of someone artistic. STAR: A Psycho-topography of Place, by Jennie Savage, intriguingly unites fragments of a project concerning a broadcasting event, which explored the specificity of a one-mile geographic area in Cardiff. The audio book forms the conclusion to this project, describing the making process and presenting the main ideas emerging from the archived sound. Though wishing not to focus exclusively on cosmetics, the book is beautifully presented, comprising of lined, plain and brown graph paper. The text varies from calligraphic to standard, and uses black, pink, blue and green ink. There are appreciable doses of artistic sketches and high-quality photographs peppered throughout. This book is not intended to gratify academics in search of theoretical substance, instead it offers a fascinating range of subjective insights into place through local everyday, and oft taken-for-granted, knowledge. The book contains 12 short chapters including the Introduction, in which Savage explains how she explored and mapped STAR (an acronym for the suburban wards of Splott, Tremorfa, Adamsdown, and Roath) through STAR Radio. Savage paints a tale of her curiosities of STAR; she questions ‘‘what is this place?’’ (p. 20), candidly telling that the idea for STAR Radio developed from her own desire to belong to this place, in which she lived. However, though personal, the book is not self-indulgent and features colourful contributions from other authors (Clare Doherty, Andre Stitt, Tom Hall and Brett Lashua, Matthew Yeomans, Zoe King, and Wiard Sterk), in the form of essays that respond to the original project. For the most part, this is an easily read book, but, for me, Chapter 5—an essay by Dr. Tom Hall and Dr. Brett Lashua, who attempt to locate STAR Radio ‘‘in a wider, contemporary fluorescence of interest in cities’’ (p. 80)—was the least accessible, containing flowery language. I have a few quibbles regarding the structure and mechanics of this book. For instance, included within is a DVD of archived sound that represents the voices from STAR (as well as a CD named Walks in STAR). Savage advises that readers listen to the DVD before they read the book, but this instruction, and indeed the guide which navigates the reader through 116 hours of sounds, is not presented until Chapter 4. Notwithstanding this, the archival format of the DVD is user-friendly and organized with headings. Usefully, once audio is downloaded, it can be listened to on a computer, iPod, or MP3 player. Another oversight is that the reader is not","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015882","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59965275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editor's Remarks: Sound Matters Across the World: Rehearing Radio as an Extension of Practice and Potential","authors":"P. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1015857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015857","url":null,"abstract":"In this themed issue, ‘‘Sound Matters,’’ we ask the reader to rehear the sounds that comprise radio, from a historical lens to the practical exercise of everyday listening and staying connected as a community of listeners. Sound is critical to every aspect of radio programming, be it the subtle intonation of a voice to the inclusion of ambient noise at a particular site or event to the aural representation of diversity as espoused through the needs and interests of listeners living out their lives. This issue begins with two invited essays, engaging an interesting discussion on sound and listening culture, drawn from Danish as well as Dutch, German, Belgian and United States radio broadcasts, respectively, and extending it into the larger context of radio history internationally. Often forgotten are the deep roots of what appear unique trends in contemporary radio practice. Consider that Jacob Kreutzfeldt’s ‘‘Unidentified Sounds: Radio Reporting from Copenhagen 1931– 1949’’ presents a unique listening opportunity from inside the Danish Broadcasting Corporation archive for some early examples of crafting and implications of sound in news stories during the 1930s. Dating back to a similar time period, Karin Bijsterveld and Marith Dieker, in ‘‘A Captive Audience: Traffic Radio as Guard and Escape,’’ investigate how traffic radio has had a significant role in broadcasting, and still does so today contributing to intellectual and sensory sonic navigation research and practice internationally. The original research section takes us around the world for a variety of perspectives on radio. From Italy, Hong Kong, Thailand, Latin America to the United States, one begins to appreciate the diversity of radio, from its early models of conception to its online presence. Gabriele Balbi and Simone Natale, in ‘‘The Double Birth of Wireless: Italian Radio Amateurs and the Interpretative Flexibility of New Media,’’ offer a historical framework for understanding radio as re-invention (as well as media technologies, more generally), ultimately provoking speculation toward potential directions and applications in the future. Dennis K. K. Leung’s ‘‘The Rise of Alternative Net Radio in Hong Kong: The Historic Case of One Pioneering Station’’ depicts the short-lived legacy of the pioneering People’s Radio","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015857","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59964745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sound and Listening: Beyond the Wall of Broadcast Sound","authors":"Eric Leonardson","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2015.1015874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015874","url":null,"abstract":"I have thought of listening as a discipline, a mindful state of awareness, something to learn, study, and practice—a skill that can be either acquired or lost. I have also questioned these assumptions. More than just paying attention, the literature (e.g., Blesser & Salter, 2007; Schafer, 1977, 1993) tells us listening practices are diverse and culturally determined. For the individual, listening happens on a continuum from the conscious to the unconscious (Truax, 2001). With radio and audio media playing a larger role than ever in the making and future of audio and listening cultures, we are at a crossroads. Even within a shared cultural background it is essential to avoid a totalizing definition, taking care to understand that every individual hears and listens differently. Given the global reach of wireless communications it is increasingly urgent to grasp how media aesthetics, acoustic ecology, and everyday listening are interrelated. Over the past four years, I have engaged in an annual event called World Listening Day. What follows is a narrative account of how a small group of artists and scientists are using this day to publicly and openly engage and educate individuals and organizations about a fundamental yet often ignored aspect of our lives: the soundscape. This small group’s reach has gone surprisingly far, indicating how sound, radio, and listening may open the imaginative space for positive change.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376529.2015.1015874","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59965479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}