The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies

A comprehensive companion for radio, audio, and podcast study, exploring key questions, debates, and relationships, with a global perspective and recognition of radio's enduring affinity with the local, historical, and transnational.

Format: Hardback
Length: 482 pages
Publication date: 16 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive companion is a vital resource for the rapidly evolving field of radio, audio, and podcast studies, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of the core issues and key debates surrounding radio practices, technologies, industries, policies, resources, histories, and audience relationships. By bringing together original essays from esteemed and emerging scholars, this book offers a global perspective that recognizes radio's enduring connection to the local, historical ties to the national, and its unpredictably transnational reach. In its expansive understanding of what constitutes radio, this collection also acknowledges the latent possibilities for time and space shifting through radio broadcasting and the diverse ways in which audio can reach us, whether through terrestrial radio, podcasts, or streaming audio.

Chapters on terrestrial radio intertwine with studies of podcasts and streaming audio, highlighting both continuities and innovations in form and content, delivery and reception, production cultures and aesthetics. This approach emphasizes that neither radio nor podcasting should be viewed as static objects of analysis but rather as mutually constituting cultural forms that evolve and adapt over time.

This cutting-edge and dynamic companion is an invaluable resource for scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including history, art theory, industry studies, journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis, and postcolonial studies. In particular, Chapter 42 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license, making it accessible to a broader audience and promoting the dissemination of knowledge in this field.

Weight: 1090g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367432638