Author Archives: Dubber

Public Radio Exchange 1

Thought this was worth a mention. I’m a huge fan of the concept, and recommend to all my students that if they make radio programmes, they should submit them for peer review and possible broadcast here on PRX.org

What's radio anyway? 0

One of the problems we face when talking about what’s happening to radio in the digital environment is the lack of clarity about what we mean when we say ‘radio’.
The trouble is, it has come to mean so many different things over the course of its history as a medium.
A radio is a device that [...]

What's your orientation? 0

Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve been involved in a research project with the BBC. We’ve been looking at what listeners and fans do online. The project investigated notions of interactivity; it looked at the ways in which fans of specific presenters express their fandom online; it examined the things that fans of [...]

Virgin territory 1

I may be a bit slow, but I still haven’t fully processed what’s happening to Virgin Radio. So they’ve been bought by an Indian media conglomerate. Fine. So they’re dropping the name. Sure – I get it.

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But the new bosses appear to be – bloggers? Not only that – [...]

iPlayer radio widget test 1

Tristan Ferne posted the new iPlayer widget on the BBC Radio Labs page the other day, and I thought I’d see what it looked like in here.

I suspect that this will only work in the UK – but I’d be keen to hear your thoughts on it.