Spring Term 2023
Monday 13th Feb, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Yvette Rowe & Anthony Frampton (2022) Erased and Misremembered: Exhuming the Colonial Broadcasting of Una Marson, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 29:1, 61-79, DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2021.1960351
Monday 27th Feb, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Kyle J. Miller, Kim Fox, David O. Dowling (2022) From Black Lives Matter to COVID-19: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 20:2, pp: 131-152. DOI: 10.1386/rjao_00063_1
Monday 13th March, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Victoria Hoover (2022) The Missing Narrator: Fictional Podcasting and Kaleidosonic Remediation in Gimlet’s Homecoming, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 29:2, 256-273, DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2020.1762195
Monday 27th March, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Mohammed Faisal Amadu and Amin Alhassa (2018) Community radio in rural development in North-eastern Ghana: the experiences of radio Gaakii in the Saboba district. International Research Journal of Social Sciences, 7:5, pp. 1-12, https://core.ac.uk/reader/390059941
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Autumn Term 2021
The MeCCSA Radio Studies Network Online Reading Group takes place in short terms of fortnightly hour-long meetings. Our new term for Autumn 2021 is being led by Jerry Padfield with support from Jude McInerney.
4th October 2021 11am
Erin Cory and Hugo Boothby (2020). ‘Sounds like “home”: The synchrony and dissonance of podcasting as boundary object’ in Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media Volume 19 Number 1, pp. 117-136. DOI: 10.1386/rjao_00037_1
18th of October 8:30pm [NB: time change]
Bronwyn Beatty and Brian Pauling (2021) ‘“A Unique and Forward-Looking Sector”: Reflecting on 30 Years of Community Access Radio in Aotearoa New Zealand’, in JRAM, Vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 67–85. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2020.1849221
1st November 11am
Katie Moylan (2021) ‘Coming to voice: Community radio production as critical pedagogy’. European Journal of Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1177/13675494211003203
15th of November
Peter C. Ikegbunam and Fabian I. Agudosy (2021). ‘Cultivating Biafran agenda in Nigeria: Evaluation of the influence of radio Biafra’s rhetoric of ethnic marginalization on rural dwellers in the South-east’. Journal of Media and Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.5897/JMCS2020.0698
Spring 2021
Monday 24th May
Linje Manyozo (2016) ‘The pedagogy of listening’ in Development in Practice, Vol. 26, No. 7, 954–959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2016.1210091
Monday 7th June
Deborah Gabriel (2016) ‘Blogging while Black, British and female: a critical study on discursive activism’ in Information Communication and Society
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1146784
Monday 21st June
Yohannes Shiferaw Jira (2020). ‘Rural women’s radio listening behavior and program preferences in SNNPRS, the case of Sidama and Gedeo Zones’ in Journal of Media and Communication Studies, 12(4), 39-45.
https://doi.org/10.5897/JMCS2020.0694
Monday 5th July (in collaboration with the Podcast Studies PhD Network)
Tzlil Sharon & Nicholas A. John (2019) “Imagining An Ideal Podcast Listener” in Popular Communication, 17:4, 333-347, DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2019.1610175
Autumn 2020
Monday 2nd Nov
Catherine R. Squires (2000) ‘Black Talk Radio. Defining Community Needs and Identity’ in The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol 5, issue 2, 73-95
https://doi.org/10.1177/1081180X00005002006
16th Nov
Peter Mhagama (2015) ‘Donor Funding to Community Radio Stations in Malawi and its Impact on their Performance’ in Journal of Southern African Studies, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, 1301–1314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2015.1116233
30th Nov
Fox, K., Dowling, D. O., & Miller, K. (2020). A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides, 2010-2020. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 0(0), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2020.1801687
14th Dec
Hayes Mabweazara (2015) ‘A clash of cultures:’ pirate radio convergence and reception in Africa’. In: Atton, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: London, pp. 494-504. ISBN 9780415644044
Monday, 11th May
Paula Serafini (2019) Community Radio as a Space of Care: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Media Production in Environmental Conflicts. International Journal of Communication 13(2019), 5444–5462 [1932 –8036/20190005]
Monday, 25th May
Emma Heywood (2020) Radio Journalism and Women’s Empowerment in Niger, Journalism Studies, [DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1745668]
Carolyn Birdsall. (2018). Worlding the Archive: Radio Collections, Heritage Frameworks, and Selection Principles. In: Golo Föllmer/Alexander Badenoch (Eds.), Transnationalizing Radio Research (197-208). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439135-01
Kristine Ringsager. (2018). Voicing world music on Danish radio. Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(3), 344–361.
Danny Kaplan. (2009). The Songs of the Siren: Engineering National Time on Israeli Radio. Cultural Anthropology, 24(2), 313–345.
Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw. (2018). ‘Traveling-in-dwelling, dwelling-in-traveling’: producing multicultural Canada through narrations of mobility on CBC Radio’s Fuse. Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(3), 323–343.
Anne Blaakilde (2018). ‘The becoming of radio bodies’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21(3), 290–304.
of qualitative gender balance in Irish broadcasting’. Media, Culture & Society, 39(2), 259–269.
(Previous terms)
Kate Lacey. “Ten years of radio studies: The very idea.” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media. 6(1): 21-32, 2009.
Spring 2018
Friday 26th January
Scifo, Salvatore (2014). ‘Communication rights as a networking reality: Community Radio in Europe,’ in Padovani, C. and Calabrese, A., eds. Communication Rights and Social Justice. Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 164-179.
Friday 2nd February 2018
Maclennan, Anne (2005). ‘What do the radio program schedules reveal? Content analysis versus accidental sampling in early Canadian radio history,’ in Jeff Keshen and Sylvie Perrier, eds. Bâtir de nouveaus ponts: sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité/ Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods, and Interdisciplinarity. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press: 225-238.
Friday 9th February 2018
Lax, Stephen (2017). ‘Different standards: engineers’ expectations and listener adoption of digital and FM radio broadcasting,’ in Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 24 (1). pp. 28-44.
Friday 16th February 2018
Gordon, Janey (2007). ‘Community Radio, Funding and Ethics,’ in The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies, 3:2, 23-40, DOI: 10.1179/jrl.2007.3.2.23
Friday 23rd February 2018
****Please note that the time for this week’s session has been changed to 9:30am GMT (i.e. it will begin a half hour later than usual)****
Medrado, Andrea & Souza, Renata (2017). ‘Sonic Oppression, Echoes of Resistance and the Changing Soundscapes of Rio’s Favelas in the Build-Up to the Olympics,’ in Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 24:2, 289-301, DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2017.1336766
Winter Term 2017
Friday 24th November:
Lacey, Kate (2011). “Listening Overlooked,” in Javnost – The Public, 18:4, 5-20, DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2011.11009064
Friday 1st December:
Lewis, Tyson E. (2017). “Walter Benjamin’s radio pedagogy,” in Thesis Eleven, 142(1), 18-33, DOI:10.1177/0725513617727891.
Friday 8th December:
Crisell, Andrew (2005). “Future histories: some speculations,” in An introductory history of British broadcasting (2nd ed.). London: Routledge, (277-293).
Friday 15th December:
Mitchell, Caroline (2000). “Sisters are doing it…. from Fem FM to Viva! A History of Contemporary Women’s Radio Stations in the UK” in Women and Radio: Airing Differences, ed. Caroline Mitchell, (94-110).
Autumn Term 2017
Friday 13th October:
Lindgren, Mia (2014). “Radio journalism as research – a Ph.D. model,” in The Radio Journal – International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 12 (1, 2). (Also available here)
Friday 20th October:
Pickard, Victor (2017). “A Social Democratic Vision of Media: Toward a Radical Pre-History of Public Broadcasting,” in Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 24(2), 200-212.
Friday 27th October:
Berry, Richard (2016). “Podcasting: Considering the evolution of the medium and its association with the word ‘radio’,” in The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 14 (1), 7-22. (Also available here)
Friday 3rd November:
Western, Tom (2015). “Securing the aural border: fieldwork and interference in post-war BBC audio nationalism,” in Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1 (1).
Friday 10th November:
Berland, Jody (1990). “Radio space and industrial time: music formats, local narratives and technological mediation,” in Popular Music, 9(2), 179–192.
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