The Radio Journal

And that's a wrap! Please dive in to read these articles in full, each offering important contributions to the expanding and diversifying fields of radio and podcast studies. intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

@brianfauteux reviews two books on student radio: Other Stations Are Shit: Student Radio in Aotearoa New Zealand, by @MattMollgaard & Karen Neill (@FreerangePress, 2023), and Katherine Rye Jewell’s Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (@UNC_Press , 2023)

Radio Journal 22:1 is out now! Feat. six original research articles, including two from the conference Radio Studies@25 – Celebrating Radio, Audio, Podcasting in the Real/Reel World, held in October 2023 at @sunderlanduni, plus reviews of three books. Here's a sample...🧵

Enjoy! Wishing everyone a happy and safe break in the week/s ahead. 📻🎧💕

Lastly, Kevin J.N. Curran reviews Josh Sheppard’s 'Shadow of the new deal: The victory of public broadcasting', which traces the evolution of American public radio.

PLUS, @Prifysgol_Aber reviews 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio' (eds. Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell) – a large volume described as "wide-ranging, and thoroughly engaging."

@noahax traces the transformation of US commercial radio networks in the mid-twentieth century, as they sought to attract local advertising and developed programming based on recorded music.

Thrilled to announced the new issue 21:2 of Radio Journal is now live! There’s an eclectic mix, featuring research articles broad in scope and geographical reach. 🥰🧵 #radiostudies #podcaststudies

Masduki’s research highlights the challenges confronting the community radio sector in Indonesia, and the strategies stations use to survive.

Yang Ding uses the Chinese documentary podcast Page Seven as a case study to show how it engages the listener’s visual and audio perception to cultivate immersive and emotional listening experiences.

@JingWang0815 explores how podcasters in China make use of small app infrastructures to build community, and how they navigate the tension between aspirations for autonomy and tight regulations, censorship, and platform dominance.

Grażyna Stachyra and Paweł Perła investigate the use of the car radio in popular video game Grand Theft Audio, arguing that it provides more than just entertainment, to involve players as co-creators in the world of the game.

In ‘Forging a format: Advertising, attention and intimacy on the Mary Margaret McBride Program, 1941-54’ @sadieccouture draws on the historical archive to explore the influence and legacy of the early American radio personality.