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A procedural view of participatory communication: lessons from Bolivian tin miners' radio

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The processes and procedures followed at Radio Nacional de Huanuni indicate how participatory or alternative radio can harmoniously blend a dialogic process and strategic networking. To avoid privileging some groups and to avoid provoking a government response and losing its license, the station carefully balanced its empowering or speech-giving capacities with its silencing or disempowering ones. The model it provides does not show how such a station must operate, but does delineate some possibilities.

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Programming philosophies and the rationalization of music radio

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Issues concerning the philosophical foundations of radio programming are examined, focusing on philosophies that revolve around aesthetics, audience, industry trends, and marketing research. Topics include the cultural landscape that is created by a combination of philosophies by radio stations, the importance of interpretive practices in radio programming, and the argument that such philosophies do not necessarily create a deterministic, homogenous radio environment.

Statistical Data Included, Analysis, Behavior, Music and society, Radio producers and directors, Radio producers, Radio programs

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From media audience to media public: a study of letters written in reaction to FDR's fireside chats

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In a study of public reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats radio broadcasts examines the public nature of broadcast listeners. Media audiences are not passive, but often respond via letter and other means to express their opinions about what they have heard or seen.

Presidents, Public relations, Roosevelt, Franklin D., Presidential messages, Radio audiences

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