This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio practices for individual privacies. Holding that privacy is constructed through the interrelated information practices of both individuals and their mediated surroundings, it addresses radio as a previously intimate and privacy friendly medium. The case of the <em>Royal Prank </em>call by the Australian 2DayFM radio station demonstrates how contemporary converged radio practices affect the privacies of unintended participants in their shows. In December 2012, Jacintha Saldanha, nurse of London’s Royal King Edward VII Hospital committed suicide after two Australian radio presenters had made a prank phone call pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles concerned about the state of Duchess Kate’s health, who was expecting her first child. The case identifies three conditions, each with implications on privacy. First, digitization renders radio content archivable and repeatable. There is a second life of radio programs keeping available information about any people involved. Secondly, the division of radio related labour leads to a lack of journalistic responsibility for respecting privacy standards. Broadcasters feel no need to be sensitive regarding the consequences of disseminated material, as commercial and legal staff decide on that. Finally, legal frameworks continue to apply legacy radio privacy measures and do not correspond to these new working conditions, as the reactions of the Australian supervisory authority show. In consequence, the case of the <em>Royal Prank </em>call demonstrates the impossibility to fight individual privacy when one is unintentionally involved in radio shows.
Celem artykułu jest analiza cech podcastu wynikających ze specyfiki technologii podcastingu oraz określenie związków podcastingu z radiem. Podczas gdy część badaczy uznaje podcasting jako alternatywę dla broadcastingu, część ujmuje go jako continuum radiowej transmisji. Rozważania prezentują podobieństwa i różnice pomiędzy podcastingiem oraz logiką nadawczo-odbiorczą radia
Artykuł prezentuje zagadnienie podcastingu jako jednej z technologii przemysłu audio. Rozważania zmierzają do wskazania czynników wpływających na rozwój podcastingu, w tym narzędzi umożliwiających rozpowszechnianie podcastów i zwiększanie ich audytoriów. Przeprowadzone analizy dotyczą także przyczyn stosunkowo małej popularności podcastingu w Polsce, szczególnie w porównaniu do dużych rynków USA czy Kanady.
The article elaborates Hannah Arendt’s thought on the public realm to analyse the performed ‘radio’ that women prisoners ‘produced’ with their voice at the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, in Spring 1943. The authors reconstruct the rationale that clarifies why an image of a radio was meaningful at a death camp. The documented memories reveal that the ‘radio’ created a resistant, harm-preventing and despair-relieving space. Mobilizing the meanings Arendt gives to the public realm as the shared reference and shared belonging, the authors show that the memories point towards the prisoners’ efforts to break their exclusion by decisively continuing their belonging to the public world through their own performance. In Arendt’s concepts, ‘broadcasting’ and listening to ‘programmes’ actualized prisoners’ being and subjectivity, both of which were under constant assaults. Conceptualized through Arendt’s thought, the performed ‘radio’ reveals amid the extreme exclusion, isolation and cruelty of the death camp how profoundly meaningful the public realm is to humans.
This article analyses the play-element of radio communication, based on examples taken from Poland's commercial radio stations. The theoretical framework is provided by Roger Caillois's distinction of four types of games (agôn, alea, mimicry, ilinx) that stretch between two poles: spontaneity (paidia) and rules (ludus). The article illustrates how different kinds of radio games exist on the air and the type of communicational function they have in modern society.
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