Studying radio /
Stephen Barnard.
- London : New York : Arnold ; Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2000.
- 282 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Studying the media series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-263) and index.
Part 1 Institutions and systems: chronology and themes; public service radio; commercial radio;alternativism and community radio. Part 2 Audiences: listening - measurement and meaning. Part 3 Forms: fictive forms; music radio; news radio; talk radio. Part 4 Practices: language and voice; sequence anf low; branding and marketing; ideology and representations. Part 5 Perspectives: global radio; futures.
This text offers a concise and thorough introduction to radio broadcasting as an area of study, placing radio in a historical and contemporary media context and tracing the development and day-to-day operation of the medium from the perspective of its institutions, it practitioners and audience.
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Radio broadcasting--Great Britain. Radiodifusión --Gran Bretaña