[eccr] International Radio Research Network

>IREN INTERNATIONAL RADIO RESEARCH NETWORK
>
>International Colloquium Radios, Services, Publics. La radio à quoi ça
>sert ?
>Bordeaux, 1, 2 & 3 April ( http://greriren.free.fr )
>International Radio Summer School, University of Siena (Italy)
>26 July ­ 1st August 2004 ( http://www.radiouniversity.net )
>
>Background
>IREN started as an idea at a meeting at the University of Louvain la Neuve,
>Belgium, in January 2003. It has now been approved for funding by the
>European Commission as a 30-month co-ordination action1, starting in
>March 2004. Its founding partners are 13 institutions from 10 countries,
>universities and professional organisations, whose representatives are
>mainly university teachers and researchers, specialists in radio2. They
>share a common passion for the medium, coupled with a belief that, both as
>an academic field of study and as a professional practice, radio will
>benefit from an initiative which links and brings together diverse and
>often isolated academic research work across Europe.
>
>In the debates on the European public sphere and the role of the media in
>this process, radio is widely neglected, and this neglect is due, the IREN
>group argues, to the under-development of radio study and research in
>academic circles. Neither policy neglect nor academic under-development are
>justified considering the popularity (in audience ratings) of radio across
>Europe, its importance in listeners daily lives, and the mediums historic
>and cultural place in European heritage. Radio is, moreover, at the cutting
>edge of technological convergence if digital broadcasting, mobile telephony
>and internet radio are taken into account.
>
>The countries represented in the projects consortium illustrate a range of
>contexts, from countries where initiatives are already in place to co-
>ordinate academic activity, such as the French GRER, the UKs Radio Studies
>Network (see http://www.radiostudiesnetwork.org.uk/), the Nordic radio
>group and the Italian initiatives based at the University of Siena, to
>others where radio study is marginalised within strong media programmes, to
>yet others where individual scholars are isolated and receive little
>institutional support.
>
>The disciplines within which radio is studied are richly varied and include
>the social sciences, cultural studies, economics, history, media and
>communication studies, journalism, law, linguistics, politics, engineering
>and performing arts. This variety of approaches has the potential for
>fruitful inter-disciplinary exchange if the infra-structural conditions can
>be supplied. What essentially is lacking at present are places and
>occasions to meet and share viewpoints and findings, as well as networks,
>databases and publishing outlets. Once this is in place, radio as a subject
>of study and research can be made more visible for younger generations of
>undergraduates, post-graduates and post-doctoral scholars.
>
>IRENs plans include
>· the creation of a membership Association that will outlast the EU
>projects funded existence, establishing relationships with existing groups
>and networks and encouraging their development where none exist, especially
>in countries in Eastern and Southern Europe
>· mapping radio-related research competencies and projects that are
>being, or have recently been, undertaken
>· the identification of fields of collaboration across different
>disciplines, between universities and with broadcasters, as of
>· &.neglected areas in need of development, especially involving
>comparative researh
>· the exchange and sharing of research methodologies
>· a dialogue with broadcasting organisations, both national and
>European, with a view to making research projects and findings relevant and
>available to broadcasters and their publics.
>
>A programme of seminars and conferences, backed up by websites and
>publications, begins in Bordeaux, April 1-3, when GRERs International
>Colloquium Radios, Programmes, Audiences& Are you being served? is followed
>by the first General Meeting for the IREN partners ­ see
>http://greriren.free.fr/
>
>The University of Sienas International Radio Summer School is the second
>event on the IREN calendar, taking place from July 26 to August 1st. See
>http://www.radiouniversity.net/
>
>Further information from: Jean-Jacques Cheval (IREN Project Co-ordinator),
>GRER  IREN - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 10, Esplanade des
>Antilles, Domaine universitaire - 33607 PESSAC Cedex. Tél. + 33 (0) 5  56
>84 45 73  Fax 33 (0)  5 56 84 68 10 (grer.iren /at/ msha.fr)
>
>or from: Peter Lewis (IREN Scientific Co-ordinator), Visiting Research
>Associate, Department of Media & Communication, London School of Economics
>& Radio Studies Network, tel: + 44 (0) 207-911-0763 (p.m.lewis /at/ lse.ac.uk)

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