Community Radio, Transnational Identities and Radio Garden
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University of Sunderland
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- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
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- 1432
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Project, web resource, chapter
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- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- These publications relate directly to the research and outcomes of the HERA funded Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE) project. Mitchell co-wrote the chapter with fellow PI Peter Lewis, and they commissioned and co-edited the ‘Asserting Identity: Minorities’ use of Community Radio’ section of the book. Participatory Action Research with UK and international community broadcasters found that community radio is the sector where the voices and opinions, for the most part ignored or misrepresented in the mainstream, can be expressed. Among minority ethnic groups – whether historically settled communities, or more recent refugee and migrant communities – transnational radio encounters include connections with a homeland or with a diaspora in Europe and beyond.
Radio Garden is an online interactive exhibition commissioned by TRE and designed by Studio Puckey in collaboration with Moniker. It allows users to hear and explore radio’s past and present across the entire globe. The international community radio sector is represented amongst the 30,000 plus stations on an equal basis with public service and commercial radio. Mitchell and Lewis located and scraped databases of radio station streams via national and international community broadcasting associations and contacted community stations across the world to participate.
Mitchell’s MURAL demonstrates assets she produced for the History, Story and Jingle layers of the platform, including historical examples of transnational community radio from Teesside, Tyneside, Bristol and Hamburg; examples of bilingual and cross-cultural promos and jingles and stories of communication across linguistic and geographical barriers where individuals and communities across the world have found ‘home’ on the radio.
Radio.garden use went viral directly after its launch in 2016 with 7.5 million views in one week. It continues to have a high international profile and usage, currently 15 million users after a lockdown surge (Marsh: 2021).
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