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Sims, Judy Rene – Online Submission, 2010
This paper was presented on the panel, "Perspectives on Teaching about Radio, Culture, and Society," sponsored by the Radio/Audio Media and International Divisions of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) at the BEA National Convention. The purpose of the panel was to examine various perspectives - domestic and international - on…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Teaching Methods
Martini, Michael A. – 1999
This paper offers advice to educators on how to tell their literacy stories through the medium of radio. It suggests educators examine their story idea closely and decide if radio is the best medium. It also suggests that educators should become familiar with the radio stations in the local market and get to know the personnel at the particular…
Descriptors: Broadcast Journalism, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, News Media
Potter, Robert F. – 1996
A study examined whether ethical sensitivity can be measured in response to radio programming. The study was interested in the extent to which a person feels a program is unethical in either its substance or its presentation. Subjects, 17 undergraduates in telecommunications at a large midwestern university, received course credit for their…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Ethics, Higher Education, Media Research
Rosengrant, Kim – 1996
Because college radio offers a less structured environment, a natural habitat is created which provides for broadcasting experimental shows such as Starship Earth, an environmental radio show on East Stroudsburg University's (Pennsylvania) college radio station, WESS 90.3 FM. Environmental problems, issues, and solutions are discussed on the show.…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Environmental Education, Faculty Advisers, Group Discussion
Stavitsky, Alan G. – 1993
The originators of municipal radio station WNYC foresaw radio as a means of extending city government and an instrument to educate, inform, and entertain the citizens. Because the municipal radio concept emerged in the early 1920s, before the medium's industrial structure was entrenched, an opportunity existed to develop an innovative model of…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, City Government, Community Relations, Mass Media Role
Sauls, Samuel J. – 1997
While management styles and theories differ among administrators of college radio stations, the views concerning the operation of college radio tend to be consistent. Common elements present in varying degrees in every college radio stations include public broadcasting philosophy, community needs, management and staff, financing, school relations,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Faculty Advisers, Financial Support, Higher Education
Shields, Steven O.; And Others – 1995
To investigate what is meant by the term "radio studies," a study analyzed 156 randomly selected scholarly communication journal articles pertinent to the radio broadcasting industry. Articles were chosen through the use of Matlon and Ortiz's (1992) "Index to Journals in Communication Studies through 1990." A master…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Broadcast Journalism, Higher Education, Media Research
Sauls, Samuel J. – 1995
As with commercial stations, the underlying premise of the college radio station is to serve the community, whether it be the campus community or the community at large, but in unique ways often geared to underserved niches of the population. Much of college radio's charm lies in its unpredictable nature and constant mutations. The stations give…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, College Students, Colleges, Experiential Learning
Sauls, Samuel J. – 1998
To help ascertain leadership, guidance, and capabilities of the station advisor (those who foster the efforts of their student staffs), this paper provides an overview of programming elements discussing such topics as programming philosophy, general formats, and legal and ethical issues. It states that those advising the campus radio station can…
Descriptors: College Students, Communications, Faculty Advisers, Higher Education
Peterson, Leighton C. – 1997
Since 1986, KTNN Radio (tribally owned) has broadcast Navajo-language programming to the entire Navajo Nation. Its large broadcast range and position as the "Voice of the Navajo Nation" gives KTNN the "symbolic" power to affect linguistic change, as well as the unenviable position of being held to a high language standard although no such…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Dialects, Language Maintenance, Language Styles
Sauls, Samuel J. – 1996
A study profiled college radio stations and explored the feasibility of a college radio network. A mail survey was sent in April 1995 to 1,469 college radio stations (including broadcast stations, carrier current stations, closed-circuit campus stations, radiating cable FM, and cable television access stations). A total of 228 surveys were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Audiences, Cable Television, Closed Circuit Television
Sauls, Samuel J. – 1998
College radio is quite often viewed as the true alternative to commercial radio. However, what is alternative radio and how does college radio factor into the ideal? To further understand this concept, this paper focuses on the role of alternative programming in college radio. Areas discussed include alternative radio as a non-mainstream form of…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Broadcast Industry, Censorship
McKenzie, Robert – 1993
This paper states that college radio invokes two ends of a language spectrum -- the clean language authorized for on-air use and the dirty language prohibited from such use, and that the interaction between the two produces "expositional obscenity," a catalytic form of discourse that invites the audience to render a judgment about…
Descriptors: Audience Response, College Students, Court Litigation, Discourse Communities