intro to radio
1) Read the first two pages of the factsheet. How does the Factsheet argue that radio still has cultural significance in the digital age? Radio accompanies us in our cars, on commutes through mobile devices and can be found in our homes through television, radio, and voice activated speakers. You can now ‘go beyond radio’ with hardware such as the Amazon Echo Auto which uses Bluetooth to enable you to access radio stations from all over the world in your car via your phone. Radio is a global medium. 2) Look at the page 4 section on media theories. Briefly summarise the ideas of Curran and Seaton, Hesmondhalgh and Livingstone and Lunt. Curran and Seaton - newspapers are vanishing at an alarming rate, the loss of a radio station leaves a community with another cultural and informational deficit. Communities are diminished when they lose their local radio stations’. The horizontal integration of companies and buying u...