Welcome
Radio has played an important role in the linguistic and cultural heritage of all European countries. It continues to be ubiquitous, influential and multi-faceted and must be investigated, analysed and theorised.
Radio as a social institution and as an art will benefit from increased attention being paid to it by the academic sector. The development of a discourse and literature based on research on this medium will profit all parties who have an interest in radio.
The Radio Research Section of ECREA fosters and promotes research into all aspects of radio from programming and production to policy and legislation, from audience consumption to public participation and radio’s contribution to the public sphere.
Here you will be able to retrieve information about ECREA's Radio Research Section mission and vision, past and forthcoming events and conferences, and browse through publications and relevant links.
Radio Research news
Radio Research Section - Call for proposals for the ECREA 2012 conference
Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 October 2012
Abstracts for the 4th European Communication Conference are welcome from across as wide a range of interests related to radio as possible. We do not wish to limit the focus and scope of members' research in the medium, and the panels will be organized thematically once abstracts have been peer-reviewed and accepted. Whole panel proposals are also welcome, although please note that there will inevitably be pressure on the available timeslots in the programme.
Panels and papers could be situated in the following fields as they relate to radio: audience studies; community radio; audio content (programming and genre); audio narratives; radio identities; parallel web and mobile platform content; digitisation; new or revised research methodologies; social networking and user-
generated radio.
Papers in languages other than English are very welcome, but in the absence of funding for translation services, paper proposers are encouraged to consider ways of communicating their research to as wide a range of participants as possible. This may involve showing a PowerPoint in English or another of the widely-used European languages.
Deadline for submission (via the conference website): 28 February 2012
> Visit the conference website
The ECREA Radio Research Section has published its 2011 annual report, containing information about the 2011 Conference in Braga, and update from YECREA's representatives, a profile of the first book published by the Section (Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium, an outcome of the 2009 Limassol conference) and the call for papers for ECREA 2012 general conference, to be held at Istanbul Bilgi University on 24-27 October 2012
> Read the ECREA Radio Research Section 2011 report
Radio Content in the Digital Age
A new book consisting mainly of conference papers from the Radio Research Section 2009 conference in Cyprus has just been published by Intellect Books. Taking its title from the section conference organised by Vice Chair Angeliki Gazi at the Limassol campus of the Cyprus University of Technology, Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium, features fifteen edited papers written by twenty-four authors. The papers are divided into three sections, Convergence, Content and Community, which reflect some of the current issues facing radio and radio research at the present time.
> Further information and full list of the chapters
The ECREA Radio Research Section conference took place on 14-16 September 2011. at the Universidade do Minho, in Braga, Portugal.
> Visit the conference website
> Read the ECREA Radio Research Section 2011 report (includes a conference report)
Highlights
Multimedia section: In "Conference multimedia gallery section > Hamburg" you can listen and/or download the podcasts from the RRS's conference session at Hamburg. (Production by Guy Starkey)
Multimedia section: In "Conference multimedia gallery section > Hamburg" you can recall moments from the conference at the slideshow available in RRS site.
Reports section: In the "reports" category you will find the RR Section''s annual reports and the minutes from the Hamburg 2010 business meeting.
Modus Operandi section: In the "modus operandi" category you can read and download in pdf format the RRS's modus operandi (amended on 14/10/10 at the Section business meeting, ECC10, Hamburg).