Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301722
Jay Newell
In 1959 Wilbur Schramm collected data on the media use behavior of children in what he believed was the last remaining town in North America to have radio as its only electronic mass media, and he concluded the primary impact of new media was the displacement of incumbent media. This research returns to Schramm's “Radiotown” for two follow-up studies to assess the validity of displacement as a mechanism for understanding long-term changes in media use. The first study is a qualitative data collection among a convenience sample (n = 28) of the now-adult participants of the 1959 study. The second study quantitatively tests the conclusions of the first study among the youth of Radiotown (n = 263). Among both adults and youth, radio remains a primary mass media device, with adults using more radio now than in 1959. Three principles of media use are proposed: the ubiquity of mass media devices in the household, the proximity of media devices, and the constancy of media use. Implications for the displacement hypothesis are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313503
James A. Freeman
Some cultural historians claim that eras of creativity lead to periods of commentary. Innovators like Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes in Athens were followed by critics in Alexandria. Geniuses in the Italian Renaissance gave was to 17th-century annotators, theorists, and academicians. The century from Shakespeare to Milton inspired an 18th-century symbolized by Dr. Johnson’s biographies and dictionary. Whatever the truth of this generate–contemplate pattern, it seems to describe the evolution of radio programs and radio studies. The heady early days of novel shows like Amos ’n’ Andy devolved into today’s all music or talk shows; the desultory thoughts of Golden Age reviewers have expanded into voluminous modern essays on communication laws, networks, sound effects, technologies, performers, and individual series. Thus, Alfred Balk’s The Rise of Radio comfortably belongs in our age of recapitulation. His rationale for yet another study makes sense to those dedicated fans who have dutifully perused specialized volumes on radio tubes, premiums, and soap operas. Feeling the lack of “a readable one-volume narrative that portrayed in journalistic form the sweeping drama of radio history,” (p. 13), the author provides one. His admirably clear prose sums up a dizzying array of previous histories. Balk proceeds chronologically as he retells how pioneers combined with visionaries to create “a belle epoque in American culture” (p. 12). Marconi, Fessenden, de Forest, and Armstrong supplied Hugo Gernsback, “Doc” Herrold, and David Sarnoff with the mechanisms to simultaneously reach listeners almost everywhere with the world’s most comprehensive mix of entertainment and information. When the book continues with the westward migration of talent to Chicago, Cincinnati, and Detroit, a reader both follows and appreciates how the phenomenon grew. The last two sections recount the entrance of advertising agencies and the antagonism of newspapers. Next, the author reviews the individual histories of radio’s myriad genres: comedy, sitcoms, adventure, kids’, women’s, drama, music, news, quiz, and historic shows. The final section becomes elegiac. Switching his method from annalistic to analytical, the author finds much to disturb him in post-World War II developments: network splits, the emergence of television, and, finally, the disappearance of local scheduling. He backs up his claim of “a legacy lost” (p. 282) by spotlighting the negative results of deregulation and current pandering to segmented audiences: infantile or sensational news, lack of hometown or minority ownership, a flood of advertising, loss of any public responsibility, threats to free elections. His emotion inspires rather than weakens his prose. While lamenting the prevalence of current mean-spirited talk/call-in offerings, Balk writes, “Drumfires of demagoguery and demonizing debase the public discourse and, by ignoring or politically deni-
一些文化历史学家声称,创造的时代会导致评论的时代。雅典的埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、欧里庇得斯和阿里斯托芬等革新者紧随其后的是亚历山大的评论家。意大利文艺复兴时期的天才给了17世纪的注释家、理论家和学者。从莎士比亚到弥尔顿的这个世纪激发了以约翰逊博士的传记和词典为象征的18世纪。不管这种生成-思考模式的真实性如何,它似乎描述了无线电节目和无线电研究的演变。像《阿莫斯和安迪》(Amos ' n ' Andy)这样令人兴奋的早期小说类节目演变成了今天的音乐或谈话类节目;黄金时代评论家散漫的思想已经扩展成大量关于传播规律、网络、声音效果、技术、表演者和个人系列的现代论文。因此,阿尔弗雷德·巴尔克的《广播的兴起》恰如其分地属于我们这个重述的时代。他的另一项研究的基本原理对那些忠实的粉丝来说是有意义的,他们忠实地阅读了有关无线电波、溢价和肥皂剧的专门书籍。由于缺乏“一种可读的单卷叙事,以新闻的形式描绘广播史上的大戏剧”(第13页),作者提供了一种。他那令人钦佩的清晰的散文总结了一系列令人眼花缭乱的历史。巴尔克继续按时间顺序叙述先驱者如何与梦想家结合,创造了“美国文化的美好时代”(第12页)。马可尼、费森登、德·福里斯特和阿姆斯特朗为雨果·根斯巴克、“医生”赫罗德和大卫·萨尔诺夫提供了一种机制,可以同时向几乎所有地方的听众提供世界上最全面的娱乐和信息组合。当这本书继续讲述人才向西迁移到芝加哥、辛辛那提和底特律时,读者既关注又欣赏这种现象是如何发展的。最后两节叙述了广告公司的进入和报纸的对抗。接下来,作者回顾了广播的无数类型的个人历史:喜剧、情景喜剧、冒险、儿童、妇女、戏剧、音乐、新闻、测验和历史节目。最后一部分变成了哀歌。作者将他的方法从年鉴转向分析,在二战后的发展中发现了许多困扰他的事情:网络分裂,电视的出现,最后,地方调度的消失。他通过强调放松管制和目前迎合细分受众的负面结果来支持他的“遗产丢失”(第282页)的主张:幼稚或耸人听闻的新闻,缺乏家乡或少数股权,大量广告,失去任何公共责任,对自由选举的威胁。他的情感不但没有削弱他的散文,反而鼓舞了他。巴尔克哀叹当前普遍存在的意气风发的谈话/电话服务,他写道:“煽动和妖魔化的鼓声贬低了公共话语,通过忽视或政治否认
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313388
Steve Craig
During a 1937 appearance on NBC's top-rated Chase & Sanborn Hour, Hollywood icon Mae West starred in a comedy skit based on the Garden of Eden that drew complaints of indecency from offended listeners. Much of the reaction came from Catholic reformers seeking to expand the Legion of Decency's influence to radio. The sponsor and network apologized, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a letter of reprimand to NBC and its affiliates. This action spurred a backlash among critics, who charged the FCC with censorship. The incident was an important landmark in the prewar debate over government's role in regulating radio.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313552
Keith Brand
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313222
Hesham Mesbah
This study examines the effect of mode of listening to radio news on cognitive processes. An experimental design using 82 undergraduates from Kuwait University was employed to test the research hypotheses. The stimulus is a real newscast that was recorded and manipulated into four versions in line with the research problem: Traditional radio newscast, online newscast played with one click, linear interactive netcast with a click for each news item, and a support activity condition in which additional links for details were added to each link. The study showed that nonlinear news listening yields better levels of news recall and comprehension. Moderate levels of interactivity on sites of radio news caused better memory performance compared to lower and higher levels of interactivity.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313446
Johannes Botes, Jennifer E. Langdon
By interviewing and thus gathering data from 10 prominent public radio talk show hosts as to how they perceive their tasks and actions during conflict-related debates and discussions, the authors were able to categorize these self-reflections in terms of the hosts' overall communicative, directive, and procedural strategies. This article reflects on the degree to which these activities define the overall roles of public radio talk show hosts and especially on whether these social actors perceive their moderating roles as a form of third party intervention similar to the work of facilitators or mediators of social conflict.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313420
T. Bosch
This article provides a historical account of Bush Radio, the oldest community radio station in Africa, based in Cape Town, South Africa. The creation of Bush Radio's precursor, the Cassette Education Trust (CASET) was a pivotal moment for the emergence of community radio on the continent. This people's history of Bush Radio tells the full story through the voices of the founders and staff, together with other sources of historical data. The article argues that although the apartheid state constructed essentialist racial and ethnic categories, CASET and later Bush Radio constantly positioned themselves in a space of liminality to interrogate and redefine these categories. Privileging an instrumentalist approach, this article shows the connections between ideology, politics, and economics as they converge to form the industrial structure, the political environment, and the cultural product of broadcasting.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313263
P. Bolls
This experiment tested the effects of imagery on recognition of product- versus non-product-related information in radio ads. Participants listened to four high-imagery and four low-imagery, 60-second spots. After a distracter task, participants were given a four alternative, forced choice, recognition test. The recognition test consisted of three product-related and three non-product-related questions for each ad. Recognition of product-related information was significantly lower than recognition of non-product information in high-imagery ads. There was no significant difference between recognition of productversus non-product information in low-imagery spots. Theoretical and practical implications of the results for understanding information processing of radio and producing effective high-imagery radio spots are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313495
D. Cullen
The catalyst for the success of talk radio since 1992 has been the decision by programmers to debate societal values over the airwaves: the cultural wars. Seventy years earlier, during the first decades of broadcast radio, a similar debate occurred within the industry. The rapid modernization of society created, for many, a sense of losing control of one’s life, especially one’s moral life. In the 1920s, various groups fought a rearguard action against this loss of control. The Victorian upper class in England, the rural farming communities in the United States, and the new nationalists in Canada all sought to protect their identities from being subsumed by the industrial, urban, corporate society developing within their countries. For each group, the church became their standard bearer. In his book Radio Morality and Culture, Robert Fortner (Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College) examines the relationship between the church and radio in the debate over the cultural role of broadcasting in modern society. Fortner’s study, therefore, provides readers with a cultural analysis of the first quarter century of radio’s existence. Ignoring an economic, biographical, or legislative history of broadcasting’s first decades, Fortner’s narrow focus achieves a more comprehensive profile of the development of radio as a byproduct of its birthplace, modern market capitalism. In eight chapters, he examines the emergence of radio in three distinct societies who only share one common characteristic: All three must adapt to a “quickening” of the pace of life. Each country reacted differently to this challenge. Britain fought to preserve Victorian morality. The United States attempted to create a new morality to reflect the modernization of its society. Canada struggled to create and maintain its new nationalism by fusing morality with identity. In all three cases, the radio broadcasters offered the established church of each country an opportunity to participate in shaping the societal role of radio. Fortner explains why the church failed to make the most of this opportunity. Formed in 1922, the British Broadcasting Company aired the first of its regular weekly religious programming two years later. The BBC consulted with the newly created Religious Advisory Committee about such programming throughout the 1920s. However, by that decade’s end, religious programming as a method to reenforce Victorian values all but disappeared. The Committee focused its attention more on Sunday programming as a threat to church attendance than as a means to communicate church teachings. And because the board of the BBC early on decided on public service as the purpose for British radio, programming rarely challenged the values of the established church. Shaken by the loss of life during World War I, both the Committee and the board of the BBC were not eager to embrace the values expressed by
自1992年以来,脱口秀节目成功的催化剂是节目主持人决定通过广播讨论社会价值观:文化战争。70年前,在广播电台的头几十年里,业内也发生过类似的争论。对许多人来说,社会的快速现代化造成了一种对自己生活,尤其是道德生活失去控制的感觉。在20世纪20年代,不同的组织对这种失控进行了反击。英国维多利亚时代的上层阶级、美国的农村农业社区和加拿大的新民族主义者都试图保护自己的身份,不被本国发展起来的工业、城市和企业社会所同化。对每个群体来说,教会都是他们的旗手。卡尔文学院传播艺术与科学教授罗伯特·福特纳(Robert Fortner)在其著作《广播道德与文化》(Radio Morality and Culture)中,就广播在现代社会中的文化角色展开辩论,探讨了教会与广播之间的关系。因此,福特纳的研究为读者提供了无线电存在的前25年的文化分析。福特纳忽略了广播业最初几十年的经济、传记或立法历史,他的狭隘视角更全面地描绘了广播业作为其发源地——现代市场资本主义——副产品的发展历程。在八章中,他考察了无线电在三个截然不同的社会中的出现,它们只有一个共同的特征:这三个社会都必须适应“加快”的生活节奏。每个国家对这一挑战的反应不同。英国为维护维多利亚时代的道德而战。美国试图创造一种新的道德来反映其社会的现代化。加拿大努力通过将道德与身份融合来创造和维持其新的民族主义。在这三种情况下,广播电台为每个国家的国教提供了参与塑造广播的社会作用的机会。福特纳解释了为什么教会没有充分利用这个机会。英国广播公司成立于1922年,两年后播出了第一期定期的每周宗教节目。20世纪20年代,英国广播公司与新成立的宗教咨询委员会就此类节目进行了磋商。然而,到那个年代末,宗教节目作为一种强化维多利亚价值观的方法几乎消失了。委员会的注意力更多地集中在星期天节目编排对教会出席率的威胁,而不是作为传播教会教义的手段。由于BBC董事会很早就决定将公共服务作为英国广播的宗旨,因此节目很少挑战教会的价值观。第一次世界大战期间的生命损失动摇了委员会和英国广播公司董事会,他们都不急于接受他所表达的价值观
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Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701313297
M. Reed, Ralph E. Hanson
Community radio is a form of noncommercial broadcasting designed to serve audiences in a specific geographic area. In recent years, community radio has become a viable alternative to both commercial and public radio, which produce nationally oriented programming designed to attract mass audiences. The value and impact of community radio can be seen through the work of Allegheny Mountain Radio, a three-station network serving a rural and geographically isolated region of southern West Virginia and Virginia.
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