Radio and affective rhythm in the everyday

Tacchi, Jo

doi:10.1386/rajo.7.2.171/1

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“…Jo Tacchi has explored the role of radio materiality in creating the textures of everyday life by engaging the capacity of sound to further affective rhythm as the combination of mood and routine. In Tacchi’s account of media texture, affective rhythm maintains elements of the everyday in which people’s well-being is invested (Tacchi, 1998, 2009). In a similar vein, Sarah Pink and Kerstin Leder Mackley (2013) have considered the swithching on and off of media as co-creative of the home environment.…”

Section: The Bond With Media and ‘Body Time’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Givskov

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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During the 20th and 21st century, media such as radio, telephone, television, computers and cell phones moved into everyday life as taken-for-granted elements. Based on observations and life-history interviews with 22 older women, this article discusses how media technology is materially involved in the experience of growing old. The analysis reveals two aspects of this. First, different technology stands out from its background presence as problematic because the media no longer enable the experiences they used to. Second, disconnects with and through media technology direct attention towards the declining body. The participants embody ‘old age’ by linking their experience with media to two cultural constructions of material ageing: generation and natural ageing. I argue that inasmuch as everyday life has become mediatized, the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.

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Section: The Bond With Media and ‘Body Time’mentioning

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Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Givskov

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…While the relevance of situating media in everyday life as non-media-centric is more embedded in media anthropology (e.g. Ginsburg et al 2002, Askew and Wilk 2002, Tacchi 2009, Bräuchler and Postill 2010, where media are often researched as part of other phenomena, media scholars are also advancing this theme. Couldry refers to his (2012) approach to media as 'not media-centric', stressing that: 'I do not assume media are the most important things in people's lives: a problem with media studies is that it often seems to assume this.…”

Section: Advancing the De-centring Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Saturated and situated: expanding the meaning of media in the routines of everyday life

Pink

Mackley

2013

Media, Culture & Society

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Recently media scholars have made renewed calls for non-media-centric, non-representational and phenomenological approaches to media studies. This article responds to this context through an investigation of how media form part of the experiential, habitual and unspoken dimensions of everyday routines. Drawing on examples from ethnographic research into digital media and domestic energy consumption, we explore the role of media in the making and experiencing of environments, centring on their salience to daily routines of transition in the home. While media content forms part of how people make their homes, attention to these routines brings into focus a notion of the ‘media-saturated’ household that goes beyond attention to media content in significant ways. This, we argue, has both theoretical and practical implications for how we situate and interpret media as part of everyday life.

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“…Previously in this journal, the connection between feelings and radio listening in everyday life has been described as 'affective rhythms' (Tacchi 2009). This refers to how musical and daily life rhythms are inextricably bound with feeling states or moods.…”

Section: Radio Providing Ontological Continuitymentioning

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A psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production

Breton

2013

Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast &Amp; Audio Media

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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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Radio and affective rhythm in the everyday

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Saturated and situated: expanding the meaning of media in the routines of everyday life

A psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production

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