A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Eleanor Patterson challenges the idea that the post-network era is defined by a break from prior distribution models, highlighting a long history of offering broadcast programming as singular, “on-demand” commodities.
Read moreDr. Josephine Coleman elaborates on how EDI efforts help community radio stations grow and become more equitable.
Read moreDr. Morgan Bimm examines radio as a tool of nationalism and alienation.
Read moreCatherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
Read moreLaura Brown unpacks a 1946 WCBS radio advertisement, and considers the multiple uses of archival materials.
Read moreBrian Fauteux questions the theoretical “celestial jukebox” of algorithm-driven music streaming services and the actual variety and access their catalogues offer, and compares it to campus radio stations and their rich libraries of more local and diverse music.
Read moreSiobhán McHugh examines the transcultural strategies employed by Chinese podcasters in their translation of Western podcasts for the Chinese market.
Read moreJeremy Wade Morris writes about preserving podcasts and making them more researchable. He enumerates several reasons we should be invested in their longevity and accessibility.
Read moreAndrew J. Bottomley considers Radio + Love, a non-narrated podcast that gives voice to individuals that are typically marginalized or subcultural but does little to challenges the shortcomings of neoliberalism.
Read moreBonni Stachowiak, host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, discusses the captivating nature of podcasts, the difference between podcast and AM/FM listenership, and how her podcast has impacted her pedagogy.
Read moreIn this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Joshua Clark Davis and Seth Kotch discuss their Playbacks Station project in Digital Innovation Lab project at UNC Chapel Hill , which makes hearing and accessing oral histories — such as those of social protest community radio in the South — more feasible.
Read moreIn this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Sonja Williams explores the career of Richard Durham, pioneering African American radio scriptwriter and versatile creative force.
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