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Radio, Culture and Society: an ESRC Seminar Series

Call for Papers and Participation

The Economic and Social Research Council has agreed to fund a series of
seminars on radio to take place during 1999 and 2000, to be co-ordinated by
Rosalind Gill of the London School of Economics.

The aims of the seminar series are
*to raise the profile of radio research
*to generate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches for
analysis and discussion of radio
*to show how understanding the role and nature of radio can contribute to
wider debates within the social sciences (for example, about citizenship,
democracy, gender, new technologies and the renegotiation of the public and
the private)
*to foster links and partnerships between academic researchers and the radio
industry, regulators, and arts and broadcasting policy makers.

Seminars will focus on the following broad themes (see below) and we are
seeking presentations from four or five people for each seminar.  Written
versions of the presentations will be pre-circulated to participants in
order to facilitate more productive discussions.

Seminar 1 Radio, Community and Democracy
Discussion may include radio and diaspora; the role of radio in constructing
communities; radio in conflict/war; radio, access and democracy; radio and
new citizenship.
Date: July 2nd 1999.  Venue: LSE.

Seminar 2 The Construction of Audiences and Gender
Discussion may include the creation of gendered audiences; the rise of 'new
lad' radio; selling listeners- the role of advertisers; women's radio.
Date: December 1999

Seminar 3 Music, Youth, 'Taste' and Radio Genres
Discussion may include radio and the cultural industries versus radio as a
cultural industry; radio and the recording industry; broadcasting talk; the
construction of 'Youth'; pirate radio.
Date: April 2000.

Seminar 4 Radio, Identity and Everyday Life
Discussion may include the role of radio in the construction of private
space; radio constructing or reflecting new identities; radio as a domestic
technology; radio Europe?
Date: July 2000.

Seminar 5 Radio Policy for the New Millennium
Discussion may include digital radio - issues and implications; deregulation
or re-regulation?; broadcasting or narrow-casting?  Internet radio; the
future of the BBC.
Date: November 2000.  Venue: LSE.

Note: Other seminars will take place in Lincoln, Birmingham and Edinburgh or
Glasgow.

The seminar themes are intended to be broad and inclusive, and to give
people a chance to talk about a range of issues connected with radio.
Please send abstracts of not more than one page to Rosalind Gill at the
address below.  
All speakers places will be funded.

In addition, we can offer funded places to 20 participants at each seminar.
Competition for these places is likely to be intense.  In order to be
considered, please write, saying which seminar(s) you would like to attend
and why.  Postgraduate students and younger scholars are particularly
encouraged to apply.  We are also keen to encourage participation from
within the radio industry, arts and policy communities.

Please send abstracts or expressions of interest to
Dr Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A  2AE.
Tel: 0171 955 6024; E-mail r.c.gill@xxxxxxxxxx Deadline for receipt of
abstracts: May 1st 1999.



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