A psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production

Abstract

a psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production aBstract This discussant piece introduces and explains a psycho-cultural approach to understanding the emotional dimensions of radio listening and creative production. It then explores the ways in which radio is unconsciously used by listeners as a tool for maintaining psychic coherency. A psycho-cultural approach is a valuable tool for research because it is specifically attuned to the emotional dimensions of radio use and programme-making in a therapeutically infused culture. It also provides a means of explaining why radio is used in particular ways, in terms of the everyday maintenance of the self. The article closes with a consideration of the meta-psychological consequences of convergence and recent developments in listening technologies. The aim of the article is to initiate a discussion with radio scholars on the utility of this approach.In this concluding, discussant piece, I will demonstrate why a psycho-cultural approach should be considered as a complementary tool of analysis which seeks to explain the motives or reasons that lie behind radio listening and programme-making. I will then identify and explore themes in the preceding articles of this issue and re-articulate them from a psycho-cultural perspective informed by object relations psychoanalysis. Object relations psychoanalysis is very wide ranging in its scope and conceptual tools, and only a very small sample of its theoretical contributions feature here. I will present a taste of this oeuvre: concepts that have been used by the authors in this issue and have been KeywOrds object relations psychoanalysis psycho-cultural emotion engagement unconscious self-maintenance

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