IREN partners 1

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IREN partners (1)

• Co-ordinator Jean-Jacques Cheval, CNRS
• Bordeaux-3
• Scientific co-ordinator Peter Lewis, LSE
  Radio Studies Network

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IREN partners (2)

• Belgium
• France
• Germany (2)
• Greece
• Ireland

• Italy (2)
• Poland
• Spain (2)
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

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IREN project

• started March 1st 2004
• duration 30 months
• inclusive Association to encourage members from
  all European countries
• funded as Co-ordination Action (FP6)
• Priority 7.2 Citizens and governance in a
  knowledge-based society

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IREN project aims

• creation of a membership Association
• map research competencies and projects
• identify fields of collaboration across
  disciplines, between universities and with
  broadcasters
• identify areas in need of development, especially
  involving comparative research
• exchange and share research methodologies
• dialogue with broadcasting organisations

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Some possible research areas (1)

• industry structures and economic models
• European policies
• - on pluralism of information and culture
• - concentration of ownership
• - local radio and access for democratic
  expression
• Forms and the formats
• - music radio national/trans-national
  distribution of European
• music music quotas contribution towards
  cultural diversity
• - News/information contribution to
  construction of European
• public spheres, enhancement of European
  citizenship, better
• knowledge of European institutions

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Some possible research areas (2)

• Forms and the formats (contd)
• - interactive radio does radio favour
  existence of public spaces for exchange
  and debate? Encourage active participation
  of citizens? And which citizens? (socio-political
  context, social class, gender, cultural
  criteria, age, ethnicity etc)
• Audiences implications for streaming on Internet
  
• Radio technology Internet, mobile telephony, DAB
• European radio services in developing countries
  and towards other continents

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Why bother?

• academic absence has effects beyond academia
• radio is reviewed less than theatre, ballet,
  concerts or art exhibitions
• no regular forum for extensive, informed
  discussion of radio issues
• critics cant assume familiarity with a shared
  knowledge of technical or historical development
  such as film and television critics can expect
• At root is an absence of a critical discourse
  for sound and radio though words are what radio
  uses above all else, it is as if there are no
  words to describe what radio is about.

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What is to be done?

• Contacts
• - university radio courses
• - information for students
• - research needs
• Conferences
• Exchanges broadcasting fellowships )( academics
  in residence
• Publications
• Radio archives access, use in teaching,
  publication

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