[ecrea] Radio, Sound & Society Journal :: Call for papers

Radio, Sound & Society Journal
Vol. 2 | N. 1
Listen, Watch, Share. The role of listening in a screen-based mediascape.
http://ecrea-radioresearch.eu/rss-journal

Call for papers | Deadline: 31st March


A study commissioned by Nokia in 2013 discovered that people check and 
touch their smartphones an average of 150 times during a waking day of 
16 hours, but according to 2016 Facebook data, 85% of Facebook video is 
watched without sound.
How much radio and sound are involved in our daily use of mobile 
communication technologies?
We may watch videos on our mobile screens without sound, but we still 
engage with contents generated by radio stations, through sharing videos 
of radio shows on Twitter or posting or liking a comment on the official 
fanpage of a radio station. In 2013 Ben Cooper, the controller of BBC 
One Radio, inaugurated a new strategy: “Listen, Watch, Share”, asserting 
that “Engaging with radio content is more valuable for us than being 
exposed to our content” (2013).
Attention toward radio content is no longer only aural or visual: people 
touch the screen to open an app like TuneIn, Stitcher, Spreaker, 
SoundCloud, Mixcloud, or the proprietary app of a single radio channel 
(like NPR One) in order to listen live or on demand to their favourite 
radio programme.
Listeners touch the screen to watch a YouTube video of their favourite 
music band being interviewed in the studios of BBC One, as planned by 
Ben Cooper; touch the screen to go on Facebook or Twitter and share, 
comment, mention or like (all tactile actions) content produced by their 
favourite radio or host; touch the screen to open an app like Shazam to 
find out what song is being broadcast on the radio.
The ways to connect and relate to radio content imply an aspect that is 
more and more tactile, as well as being auditory and visual. This rise 
in the tactile activity of the networked publics of radio produces a 
change in the methods of valuation of radio.
If classic radio listening can only be measured through traditional 
survey methods (portable people meters, diaries, phone call-based 
surveys), listeners’ interaction with these screens produces a different 
type of data: every time we touch the screen to open an app, leave a 
comment, like, Retweet, press play or pause, download a podcast, or 
share a video, each of these single actions is tracked and archived in 
order to be analysed, so we are able to calculate not just the time 
spent listening to a brand, but the time spent interacting with the 
content of that brand. Our tactile actions provide broadcasters with a 
new mass of data to manage, in order to refine the mechanism of audience 
behaviour prediction underlying the commodification of broadcasting that 
has been in use since the beginning of commercial broadcasting in the 
early 1920s.
What is the role of sound-based content in our daily routine of media 
consumption? Is sound, and more in general, the aural experience 
mediated by ICT more threatened than ever?
Aware of the necessity to recentre some attention on the aural 
experience in a digital screen-based mediascape, Radio, Sound & Society 
Journalwelcomes proposals focused not only on radio but more widely on 
sound-based media content and consumption.
The journal invites researchers to submit proposals discussing how sound 
may still shape the interpretation of social and cultural life. Thus, 
themes and topics that might be covered include: audience studies; 
political economy of digital radio; radio and digital culture; 
podcasting and dissemination; sound aesthetics; algorithmic radio; 
automated content curation and communication in digital and social 
media; human content curation vs. automated content curation; networked 
listeners; digital Methods applied to social media; changing listening 
practices; community radio and digital culture; innovation in Public 
Service Media; web and mobile platform content; digitisation; research 
methodologies; social networking and user-generated radio; sound art.

Deadline for submissions: March 31st, 2017
Authors notification: May 15th, 2017
Publication: June 2017
Instructions for submission: Access 
http://ecrea-radioresearch.eu/rss-journal/index.php/rssj/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies 
and scroll down to check information on citing references; journal 
sections; editorial procedure; author guidelines; and how to register 
and submit.



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