{"title":"Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “Anything for Selena”","authors":"M. O. Vilceanu, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2142231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2142231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding, aspirational identity, and parasocial grieving across traditional and new digital media. A focus on multilingual and multicultural Latina/o/x identity revealed narrative nuances specific to the target audience. Selena’s crossover appeal, augmented by engaged niche groups in podcast communities, remains relevant for the 2020s and beyond.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"30 1","pages":"28 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44270490","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":"“We are Full and Complex People”: Heterogeneous Commonality, Creativity, and Collaboration in Podcasting","authors":"Jeff Donison","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2113882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2113882","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Group membership under a shared identity marker has intragroup diversity, or ”heterogeneous commonality.” Thus, self-representations within identity groups can elicit different perspectives about, or approaches to, the same topics. This article textually analyzes episodes from Black Canadian Content Creators, My Blackness, My Truth, and Seat at the Table about Black creative collaboration and social justice to assess how podcasts function as heterogeneously common publics foregrounding podcaster identities to approach the same topics. This article also analyzes each podcast’s online presence for inviting audiences to participate as part of these publics.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"30 1","pages":"12 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46204892","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":"Radio and Audio in 2021","authors":"Devin Stroink","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2123532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2123532","url":null,"abstract":"Achmad, Z. A., Arviani, H., & Santoso, N. R. (2021). The Sanak-Kadang Jodhipati: A new form of virtual radio listeners community. Jurnal Aspikom, 6(1), 94–109. Achmad, Z. A., Ida, R., Mustain, M., & Lukens-Bull, R. (2021). The synergy of Islamic da’wah and Madura culture programmes on Nada FM Sumenep Radio, Indonesia. Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 37(2), 111–129. Acuña, P. (2021). Transnational sports soundscapes: Soccer announcers and radio in Argentina and Chile, 1920s-60s. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 19(1), 79–99. Adler Berg, F. S. (2021). The value of authenticity and intimacy: A case study of the Danish independent podcast Fries before Guys’ utilization of Instagram. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 19(1), 155–173. Ahmad, N. (2021). My days at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro: The radio broadcasting centre during Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. Strategic Analysis, 45(6), 491–502. Albarran, A. B., & Rhoades, G. R. (2021). CBS-Entercom and the Reverse Morris Trust: Implications for the radio industry and future media mergers. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 28(2), 295–306. Alfandika, L., & Gwindingwe, G. (2021). The airwaves belong to the people: A critical analysis of radio broadcasting and licensing in Zimbabwe. Communicatio, 47(2), 44–60. Almeida, E. M. (2021). La radiodiffusion au Brésil: la place sociopolitique et culturelle de la radio communautaire à l’ère d’Internet. RadioMorphoses: Revue D’études Radiophoniques et Sonores, 5-6. 114–126. Arjomand, M. (2021). ‘Ladies and gentlemen we interrupt our program . . . ’ News, propaganda and resistance in radio broadcasting. Performance Research, 26(5), 113–118. Atmadja, V., Menayang, A. P., Marta, R. F., & Widiyanto, Y. N. (2021). Mediamorphosis of radio broadcasting on a drive-in concert event during pandemic era. Nyimak: Journal of Communication, 5(2), 273–293. Baird, H., & Krüger, F. (2021). R@dio in South Africa–an exploratory study. In S. Chiumbu & G. Motsaathebe (Eds.), Radio, public life and citizen deliberation in South Africa (pp. 156–175). Routledge. Bajpai, A. (2021). “Matters of the heart”: The sentimental Indian prime minister on all India radio. In C. Kohl, B. Christophe, H. Liebau & A. Saupe (Eds.), The politics of authenticity and populist discourses (pp. 105–126). Palgrave Macmillan.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"475 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44291983","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: Radio, Audio and Podcasting in Dynamic Times","authors":"Tony R. DeMars","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2125176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2125176","url":null,"abstract":"Research in the areas of audio and radio is as dynamic as ever, and we’re excited to continue to receive and publish new and relevant studies from scholars uncovering new information about radio, podcasting and other forms of audio communication, allowing the Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM) to be a premiere international publisher of radio and audio research. We’re also excited to announce that we are beginning a process in this issue of the journal of ‘catching up’ on articles recently published online with which we were a bit behind in getting into a print edition. As you may know, we focus on publishing articles connected to symposium issues in print at the same time they are available online, but for regular articles, we usually publish online first. With so much good research being submitted to JRAM, that procedure has given authors a bit longer than we wanted before the article went into a print edition. With this and upcoming issues, we will work to remedy this situation. The silver lining benefit for the reader is a bigger article count in this outstanding issue, including some podcastrelated studies, some insights into college radio and a continued number of international studies. We start this issue with Joshua M. Bentley’s Analysis of Public Radio Fundraising (Bentley, 2022). It is likely that many professors who read JRAM also work in an academic environment where a public radio station is operated, making this study relevant and useful in multiple ways. Bentley’s study focuses on reasons for listener financial support and finds that the dominant appeal for supporting the station was self-interest. Hirschmeier, Beule, and Tilly (2022) follow with an intriguing analysis of streamed radio content designed to identify sequences using pattern mining techniques. How people listen to ‘radio’ has changed from a completely linear process to now a mostly nonlinear process. As this research points out, however, this new model has not solved broadcasters’ problem of effectively matching content delivery style with audience reception preferences in a manner that keeps them engaged and makes the experience interactive. This study recognizes how current process changes are placing innovation pressure on radio broadcasters. Mary E. Myers provides a historical accounting of Dr. Clarence M. Morgan and his contributions to the broadcasting program at what is JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2022, VOL. 29, NO. 2, 181–185 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2125176","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"181 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280031","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":"Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain","authors":"Mohamed Chamekh","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2125156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2125156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"493 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45836749","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 Cultural Work of Community Radio","authors":"K. Hopkins","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2117768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2117768","url":null,"abstract":"eration within the community-owned, volunteer-run stations. Yet, this inevitably results in conflict arising during egalitarian decision-making. Although within this cycle, both community and personal transformation occurs through the stations’ affordance of communicative agency. Partly through communicative agency, marginalized people and their concerns are given a powerful media outlet—one that is not commercial or public—for self-representation and reality (re)construction, subsequently supporting counter-hegemonic perspectives on social and political economic issues. Fox concludes by confirming how a community radio setting—with its principles of community ownership, content control, and self-determination; financial independence; and voice as agency —can facilitate a non-commodified, participatory, and political “regenerative voice” (p. 191) to further communicative democracy. As a result, Fox makes apparent how community radio can contribute to a more equitable, vibrant tapestry of voices. Community radio’s amplification of communication for social change therefore brings us closer to understanding how community radio may hold the potential to resist global and digital capitalist systems that have emerged with the proliferation of neoliberal ideology, in an effort to solidify the status of communication as a societal good.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"491 - 493"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44559940","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":"Community radio’s amplification of communication for social change","authors":"C. Cooling","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2111640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2111640","url":null,"abstract":"Community radio’s capacity for mobilizing communication by providing voices that otherwise go unheard with an alternative outlet to commercial mass media has been explored in several texts, including William Barlow’s “Community radio in the US: The struggle for a democratic medium” (1988), Charles Fairchild’s Community radio and public culture: Being an examination of media access and equity in the nations of North America (Hampton Press, 2001), Colin Fraser and Sonia Restrepo-Estrada’s “Community radio for change and development” (2002), Susan Forde, Kerrie Foxwell, and Michael Meadows’ “Creating a community public sphere: Community radio as a cultural resource” (2002), Nick Couldry and Tanja Dreher’s “Globalization and the public sphere: Exploring the space of community media in Sydney” (2007), Janey Gordon’s Community radio in the twenty first century (Peter Lang, 2012), and Anne F. MacLennan’s “Cultural imperialism of the North? The expansion of the CBC Northern Service and community radio” (2011). Juliet Fox’s Community radio’s amplification of communication for social change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) raises similar themes, although diverges in its deep-dive into community radio using a critical Communication for Social Change (CfSC) framework, which promotes media democratization through community ownership, community knowledge promotion and dissemination, and community empowerment. Fox draws attention to the need to democratize media and communications in an era of neoliberalism, wherein ICTs are growing increasingly commodified in the pursuit of profit at the heart of global capitalism. Without claiming community radio is a technological panacea to the fractured relationship between democracy and neoliberal capitalism, Fox incisively argues that community radio, in the context of CfSC, is an influential, ubiquitous tool that affords unheard voices a chance to critically participate in the democratic process, at the local and national scale, enriching public debate and discussion. Furthermore, community radio can challenge neoliberal capitalist ideologies, irrespective of social and political variations from community to community. Hence, Fox asserts that community radio holds the potential to transform social and political knowledge and information through the utilization of voice as a manifestation of citizen-centered self-determination and agency. To evaluate how community radio amplifies economically, politically, and/or socially marginalized voices, consequently facilitating voice as a vessel for democratic power, Fox examines two community radio stations: 3CR Community JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2022, VOL. 29, NO. 2, 489–495","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"489 - 491"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46752845","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":"Miners, Wales and the BBC Radio Drama Richard Hughes’s Danger","authors":"Takeshi Kawashima","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2046584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2046584","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>This paper examines the radio drama Danger (1924) by Richard Hughes. Danger, which is known as the world’s first radio drama, was broadcast by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in January 1924. The play’s importance is not limited to its pioneering role in creating the genre of radio drama. Danger is set in a Welsh coal mine, a backdrop that invokes the social issues engaging Britain in the 1920s. By pursuing these issues, I would like to examine this work’s mission as a public medium that appeals to the masses, as well as its innovation in drama broadcasting.</p>","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515063","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":"A Review of Community Radio Literature in Developing Countries from 2010 to 2020","authors":"Doreen Busolo, J. Manalo IV","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2023536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2023536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46668275","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":"Do Sex Workers Listen to Radio? Deconstructing the Radio Listening Habits of the Sex Workers of Sonagachi","authors":"B. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2023535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2023535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47142584","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}