Sometimes I think it is hell to be a girl: A longitudinal study of the rise of confessional radio
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Sometimes I think it is hell to be a girl : A longitudinal study of the rise of confessional radio. / Abildgaard, Mette Simonsen.
In: Media, Culture and Society, 2014.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sometimes I think it is hell to be a girl
T2 - A longitudinal study of the rise of confessional radio
AU - Abildgaard, Mette Simonsen
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Despite wide recognition in media studies, the significance of technology is often understated or overlooked in radio and sound studies. This article addresses this absence in a longitudinal study of uses by radio listeners and radio hosts of an ‘automatic telephone tape recorder’ in a Danish youth radio segment. The study shows that the two groups developed a range of uses for the ATTR from 1973 to 1996 and that especially confessional use, despite its paradoxical synthesis of public and private, emerged as the significant feature of the segment. An analysis of changes in users’ perception of technology over time is performed within a phenomenological media studies framework and the emerging field of postphenomenology, particularly through the concepts of ‘multistability’ and ‘dailiness’. I formulate a sociomaterial perspective on radio as the ‘intimate medium’ whose formation is negotiated through time in a multistable process between technology, listeners and radio hosts.
AB - Despite wide recognition in media studies, the significance of technology is often understated or overlooked in radio and sound studies. This article addresses this absence in a longitudinal study of uses by radio listeners and radio hosts of an ‘automatic telephone tape recorder’ in a Danish youth radio segment. The study shows that the two groups developed a range of uses for the ATTR from 1973 to 1996 and that especially confessional use, despite its paradoxical synthesis of public and private, emerged as the significant feature of the segment. An analysis of changes in users’ perception of technology over time is performed within a phenomenological media studies framework and the emerging field of postphenomenology, particularly through the concepts of ‘multistability’ and ‘dailiness’. I formulate a sociomaterial perspective on radio as the ‘intimate medium’ whose formation is negotiated through time in a multistable process between technology, listeners and radio hosts.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - materiality
KW - dailiness
KW - media technology
KW - participation
KW - postphenomenology
KW - radio
KW - phenomenology
KW - telephone
KW - multistability
M3 - Journal article
JO - Media, Culture and Society
JF - Media, Culture and Society
ER -
ID: 113803707