1st Edition

Radio Audiences and Participation in the Age of Network Society

Edited By Tiziano Bonini, Belén Monclús Copyright 2015
312 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book maps, describes and further explores all contemporary forms of interaction between radio and its public, with a specific focus on those forms of content co-creation that link producers and listeners. Each essay will analyze one or more case studies, piecing together a map of emerging co-creation practices in contemporary radio. Contributors describe the rise of a new class of radio... Read more

Preface David Hendy  Introduction. The Listener as Producer: The Rise of the Networked Listener  Tiziano Bonini  Part 1: Interactive Publics (Telephone, Short Message Service, Social Networks)  1.When Speech Was ‘Meaningful’ and Presenters 
Were Just a Phone Call Away: The Development of Popular Radio Talk Formats in Early UKCommercial Radio Guy Starkey  2. Domesticated Voices: Listener ‘Participation’ 
in Everyday Radio Shows Jan Pinseler  3. Radio Audience Interaction: SMS Mobile Texting vs. Facebook Asta Zelenkauskaite  4. Listeners, Social Networks and the Construction of Talk Radio Information’s Discourse in the 2.0 Age Belén Monclús, Maria Gutiérrez, Xavier Ribes, Iliana Ferrer, and Josep Maria Martí  5. Sports Broadcasting in the Age of Network Society: Engagement with Listeners and Interaction throughout a Collective Experience Toni Sellas  Part 2: Productive Publics  6. The Automatic DJ? Control, Automation and Creativity in Commercial Music Radio Fredrik Stiernstedt  7. Redefining Co-production in German Radio: Incorporating the Listener in German Radio Plays Golo Föllmer  8.Radio Ambulante: Narrative Radio Journalism
in the Age of Crowdfunding Manuel Fernández-Sande  9. User-Generated Playlists: Radio Music Programming in the Age of Peer-to-Peer Production, Distribution, and Consumption J. Ignacio Gallego  10. Community Radio and Participation: Listeners as Productive Publics Salvatore Scifo  11. Radio Wnet: From Mainstream to Grassroots:
A Case Study of Productive Listeners Grażyna Stachyra  12. Getting Listeners Involved: Rádio Ás, a Community Web Project Stanislaw Jedrzejewski and Madalena Oliveira  13. The Value of Productive Publics in Radio: A Theoretical Frame on Value Creation in Participatory Culture Adam Arvidsson

Biography

Tiziano Bonini is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the IULM University of Milan, Italy. Since 2005, he also works as a freelance radio producer for community, national commercial and public radio.

Belén Monclús is a Lecturer in the Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Since 2007, she is the coordinator of the Catalonia Radio Observatory (l’OBS, GRISS-UAB).