Key Concepts in Radio Studies / Edition 1

by Hugh Chignell

Overview

The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Key Features

• Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use introduction to the field
• Grounds theory with global examples
• Takes it further with recommended reading
• Covers the central ideas and practices from production and media studies
• Situates radio studies within its historical context and contemporary auditory culture

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412935173
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/18/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Hugh Chignell is Reader in Radio at the Media School, Bournemouth University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART 1 Genres and Production
Acoustics
Broadcast Talk
Comedy
DJs and Presenters
Documentaries and Features
Drama
Magazines
Music
Phone-ins
Podcasting
Recording
Serials and Soaps
Sport
Talk Radio
PART 2 Audiences and Reception
Audience
Blindness
Codes
Co-presence
Hot and Cool Media
Imagined Community
Intimacy
Liveness
Noise
Radiogenic
Radio World
Reception
Secondariness
Sound Culture
Soundscape
PART 3 The Radio Industry
Advertising
Commercialism
Community Radio
Convergence
Formats
Internet Radio
Localism
Mirco Radio
Pirate Radio
Regulation
Transmisson
PART 4 Politics and the Public Sphere
Current Affairs
Development
Gender
Hate Radio
Journalism
News
Politics and the Public Sphere
Propaganda
Public Service Broadcasting
Radiocracy
References

Editorial Reviews

'This innovative and clearly written handbook does exactly what it claims on the cover, providing students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in Radio Studies... Chignell writes about radio with an engaging mixture of scholarly detachment and private passion' - The Radio Journal

'There is a need for a straightforward, wide-ranging, and up-to-date introduction to ways to study radio and other new audio-based media. Hugh Chignell’s new book certainly fits the bill, and admirably takes the reader from initial ideas through to additional readings which explore the core issues in greater depth. It is crisply and engagingly written, draws upon a very good range of scholarship, and provides many useful contemporary examples... Students will find it an essential aid to their studies, and it may even go someway to ensuring that the study of radio is as important in the academy as its visual cousins' - Viewfinder

'This book is a useful starting point for radio students and staff, packed with citations and pithy comment from the author. It is a rich resource book for academic radio study at all levels' - Janey Gordon, University of Bedfordshire

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