[ecrea] cfp - 9th Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum

Reminder

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/mfj/radio-conference-2018-prato-italy/

The Monash University School of Media, Film and Journalism, in 
association with local and international committees and the MeCCSA Radio 
Studies Network, is pleased to host the 9th Radio Conference: A 
Transnational Forum in Prato, Italy, 10-13 July 2018. This prestigious 
international event will bring together radio and audio scholars and 
practitioners from across disciplines and continents.

Hosted at Monash University’s Prato Centre, this year’s conference 
takes inspiration from its location in Italy and the ‘Free Radio’ 
movement’s push for greater access to media.  In the 1970s, the 
Libertà d’antenna (Antenna Freedom) advocated strongly for media 
access by both civil society bodies and commercial interests, forcing an 
end to the state’s broadcasting monopoly. At the height of the 
movement, in mid-1978, more than 2000 independent radio stations were on 
air, making Italy the world leader in stations per capita. The movement 
not only freed up the Italian broadcasting landscape so new voices from 
across the political spectrum could be heard, but some stations also 
actively sought to break radio free from its established aesthetic 
through experiments in production technology, style and form.

We invite scholars to consider ‘free radio’ (in its broadest sense) 
in a contemporary mediascape where evolving forms, such as podcasting, 
are providing global audiences with unlimited free audio content and 
promises of increased access. Do recent radio/audio/sound practices and 
forms represent a state of being ‘free’ – free from dominant 
structures, commercial constraints, freedom from format and convention, 
freedom to participate and publish, messages of liberty, freedom and 
democracy, free voices? Alongside the contemporary, how can we reflect 
on the past? Notions of free radio have reached many corners – what 
can the diverse histories of radio/audio/sound media also teach us about 
the boundaries of practice, form and experience?

We invite papers that might explore these ideas and other radio studies 
themes from a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. 
Following in the footsteps of previous Radio Conferences, we hope to 
gather the widest range of radio and audio media research and offer a 
forum to debate topics that may link to the general theme or extend 
beyond it, such as (but not limited to):

Reception and Interaction
Production and Aesthetics
Community Radio
Public Service and Policy
Commercial Industries
Technology and Innovation
Podcasting and Webstreaming
New and Old Forms
Sound and Radio History
Education and Training
Storytelling and Narrative
Art and Creative Practice
Radio & audio media translation
See below for detailed submission instructions.


Contact

General: (Radio.Conference.2018 /at/ monash.edu)

Mia Lindgren: (mia.lindgren /at/ monash.edu)

Rufus McEwan: (rufus.mcewan /at/ aut.ac.nz)

Chris Wilson: (christopher.wilson /at/ rmit.edu.au)


Connect

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/mfj/radio-conference-2018-prato-italy/

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