Learning to Listen: Developing the Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s

Facebook Live is not “liked”: Construction of liveness and the reception of video livestreaming

“…These could be especially relevant for giveaways given that studies of Facebook Live found that most of the engagement with this “live” platform takes place after the moment of live streaming, thus challenging the value of the live streaming for engagement (Raman et al, 2018). Scholars of the early days of the radio such as MacLennan (2013) argue that listeners had to learn how to listen. Similarly, future studies could investigate how and if radio listeners and other mass media audiences comprise Facebook Live audiences and how listening practices are adjusted for social media’s sociotechnical context.…”

Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age

“…The historical moment when the electronic medium of radio was enfolded into the everyday time and spaces of the modern home tells us a great deal about contemporary mediations of everyday life because radio broadcasts constructed an immediacy and semblance of presence that had never before been experienced in the domestic sphere. Radio's coincidence with maintenance and transgression of social boundaries has long been highlighted by media historians (Hayes 2012;MacLennan 2013;Moores 1988;Razlogova 2003Razlogova , 2006Razlogova , 2011Scales 2010Scales , 2016Smulyan 1993;Valliant 2013). While modern print mass media (books, newspaper, magazines) had already been "at home" for some time, radio's reception has been associated with an "intimization" of public address, as institutions such as national governments (Lacey 1994(Lacey , 1996Nicholas 1996) as well as commercial interests (Johnson 1983;MacLennan 2013) and civic associations (Goodman 2007) sought to access new constituencies in novel ways.…”

“…Radio's coincidence with maintenance and transgression of social boundaries has long been highlighted by media historians (Hayes 2012;MacLennan 2013;Moores 1988;Razlogova 2003Razlogova , 2006Razlogova , 2011Scales 2010Scales , 2016Smulyan 1993;Valliant 2013). While modern print mass media (books, newspaper, magazines) had already been "at home" for some time, radio's reception has been associated with an "intimization" of public address, as institutions such as national governments (Lacey 1994(Lacey , 1996Nicholas 1996) as well as commercial interests (Johnson 1983;MacLennan 2013) and civic associations (Goodman 2007) sought to access new constituencies in novel ways. Most notably, public figures such as politicians struggled to find ways to adapt to and control their message in the new medium (Loviglio 2005).…”