Dialogue between Christina Dunbar-Hester and Sanjay Jolly about the state of radio activism and low power FM radio.
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Low Power FM Radio: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester and Sanjay Jolly
What I Learned at Podcast Movement 2015
Jason Loviglio reports from the Podcast Movement 2015 industry conference, providing a state-of-the-industry rundown that includes the divide between professional radio broadcaster "Pro-casters" and amateur "Podcasters" and the shared discourse of podcasting-as-rebirth.
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Podagogy, a Word I Didn’t Make Up
Neil Verma explores the different uses of collective listening in public events and in the classroom, reflecting on a recent experience teaching podcast studies to undergraduates.
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#SaladGate: When Social Media Disrupts an Insular Media Culture
The country radio controversy known as "#SaladGate" is a classic case of disruption caused by digital and social media and greater media literacy.
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On Radio: The Influence of Comedy Podcasts on TV Narrative, Production, and Cross-Promotion
The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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On Radio: Authenticity and Sincerity in Podcast Advertising
As podcasters experiment with advertising, they face issues of authenticity and sincerity that strikingly resemble those of the “golden age” of radio.
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On Radio: Surprise! Radio Needs More Female Singers
Country radio programmers find themselves fighting back against the domination of “bro-country.” This battle, along with the forcing of Paramore's Grammy-winning Rock Song of the Year into the Pop format, further shows why music radio needs more female singers.
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On Radio: Live Music Festivals as Satellite Radio’s Premium Content?
Sirius XM's recent live broadcast of the Governors Ball highlights the persistence of place, of musical “hotspots,” within the satellite radio universe.
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The Best Show on WFMU: 2000-2013
Some reflections on The Best Show on WFMU as it ends its thirteen-year run.
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Radio at SCMS 2013
Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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On Radio: The Truth, and Other Jeopardies
As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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On Radio: Holding on to Localism in Internet Radio
Can an Internet college radio station cultivate a local audience in today's diffuse media environment? Some experience from Louisville's Bellarmine University suggests that a local focus in an online context allows college stations to reach a variety of listeners who have community ties but who are presently located in far-flung locales.
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On Radio: FM Campus Radio and Community Representation
By broadcasting exclusively online and abandoning space-based FM or AM broadcasting, college radio stations run the risk of losing the local focus that has been integral to the programming and operations of the campus and community radio sector.
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On Radio: Driveway Moment
The Abigael Affair crystallizes the challenges of NPR’s campaign to re-create itself as a fully modern and digital multi-platform news, information, and culture channel, while maintaining its distinctive affective character.
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On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 3]
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In the final installment of this series on podcaster Bob Frantz and his venture Boneyard Industries, the frustration that comes with advertising and getting local listeners on board is explored.
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