Dlaczego Kopciuszek spóźnił się na bal. Rozwój badań nad radiem w Wielkiej Brytanii i w Europie

Guy Starkey

doi:10.31648/mkks.3004

Published: 2019-02-121

Vol. 4 No. 12 (2016)

How Cinderella Came Late to the Ball: The Development of Radio Studies in the United Kingdom and Europe

Guy Starkey

Media - Culture - Social Communication

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3004

Abstract

This paper examines the reasons for radio studies being relatively slow to develop as a field of academic study in the UK and in other contexts, mainly European. It contrasts the longevity of the medium, its hundred-year history, its durability in response to numerous challenges from other media and its relative cheapness to resource in educational contexts, with a far from impressive record in attracting the attention of academics and students in higher and further education. Tracing media education back to Frank Raymond Leavis and other influences, the paper invokes Reithian traditions to explain the absence of radio from a nascent subject so maligned in the second half of the twentieth century. It compares and contrasts the medium with others which have attracted far greater attention and argues that the tendency of media academics to ignore radio leaves a significant hole in the media studies curriculum. On a more positive note, the paper discusses the current state of radio studies in the UK and Europe, reconciling teaching and research with national and international networks and a number of initiatives intended to promote understanding and academic engagement with radio.

Keywords:

radio, radio studies, media studies, education, teaching

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Starkey, G. (2019). How Cinderella Came Late to the Ball: The Development of Radio Studies in the United Kingdom and Europe. Media - Culture - Social Communication, 4(12), 11–25. https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3004

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European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), [online] <http://ecrea-radioresearch.eu/>, accessed 23 September 2016. Groupe de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Radio (GRER), [online] <www.grer.fr>, accessed 23 September 2016.
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Guy Starkey

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Faculty of Media and Communication Bournemouth University, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

prof., wykładowca na Bournemouth University (Wielka Brytania). Teoretyk i praktyk radioznawca. Pracował jako dziennikarz prasowy i radiowy m.in. dla BBC Radio 4 oraz British Forces Broadcasting Service w Gibraltarze, obecnie nadaje audycje w radiostacjach internetowych. Członek m.in.: Advisory Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Steering Committee of the Radio Studies Network within MeCCSA oraz Groupe de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Radio (GRER). Zasiada w jury konkursów, m.in.: The New York International Radio Awards, The Radio Academy Radio Production Awards i The Frank Gillard BBC Local Radio Awards. W kręgu jego zainteresowań naukowych znajdują się m.in. takie zagadnienia, jak: socjologiczne, ekonomiczne i polityczne wpływy na zmediatyzowane środowisko głównie poprzez takie medium, jak radio, a także praktyka dziennikarska, globalizacja, postęp technologiczny oraz zjawisko cyfrowej migracji. Autor m.in. książek: Radio in Context (London 2004, wyd. 2 London 2014), Balance and Bias in Journalism: Representation, Regulation and Democracy (London 2007), Local Radio, Going Global (London 2011, wyd. popr. London 2015); współautor m.in. opracowania: Radio Journalism (Sage 2009, współautor Andrew Crisell).