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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Zakia Kalam Zakia Kalam is currently employed as an Assistant Professor of English at Chakdaha College, affiliated to the University of Kalyani, West Bengal. She has acquired both her Master’s and the M.Phil. in English Literature from the University of Calcutta. Her M.Phil. thesis attempted a Marxist analysis of memory with three memory plays from different socio-cultural contexts. She is currently a doctoral scholar at the Presidency University, Kolkata. Her research enquires into the cultural history of the Tawaifs, the Indian courtesans, and the political erasure of their community in the context of twentieth-century nationalism.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Tony R. DeMars Tony R. DeMars is Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at Lamar University and past president of the Broadcast Education Association. His most recent book is Narratives of Storytelling across Cultures: The Complexities of Intercultural Communication.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Roberta Meloni Roberta Meloni is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Kansas State University. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2019 to pursue her Ph.D. program in the United States. Since then, Roberta has carried out her doctoral studies and dissertation research, which combine the fields of U.S. foreign relations, the history of technology, and radio studies, through the generous contribution of the History Department at Kansas State University. She has been awarded several awards and grants, including the Shirley A. Martin Scholarship, and the Cora Stewart Wilcoxon Graduate Fellowship. Her research has also received contributions from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Small Grant Program at Kansas State and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Research Grant. Her dissertation is primarily concerned with the interplay between radio and U.S. foreign relations toward East Asia during the Cold War, particularly from the 1950s to the late 1970s in China, Korea, and Vietnam.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Fabian Mayer Emma Auschel Marleen Baumbach Karolin Schindler Fabian Mayer (M.Sc., University of Würzburg) is research associate and Ph.D. student in Communication Science at the Department of Media and Business Communication, University of Würzburg, Germany. His research fields are advertising, environmental communication, and music in the media, with focus on emotional and persuasive processes and effects.Emma Auschel is a B.Sc. student in Media Communication at the University of Würzburg. Her research interests focus on entertainment and advertising.Marleen Baumbach is a B.Sc. student in Media Communication at the University of Würzburg. Her research interests focus on the reception and effects of digital media, particularly in the area of persuasive communication.Karolin Schindler is a B.Sc. student in Media Communication at the University of Würzburg. Her research interests include advertising, with a particular focus on digital media like podcasts and videoadvertising.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Mgr. Matěj Skalický Matěj Skalický is a Ph.D. student at the Institution of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Prague, Czechia) focusing on Czech podcasting. He is also a radio journalist at Czech Radio, a public service broadcasting service in Czechia.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Emma Rodero Emma Rodero is a researcher and full professor of Media Psychology and Neurocommunication in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain), PhD. in Communication, PhD. in Psychology, Master in Pathology of Voice and Master in Psychology of Cognition. She is the director of the Media Psychology Lab at UPF and the CCLab (oral communication skills) at Barcelona School of Management. She is the author of more than ten books and seventy scientific papers about cognitive processing of voice, prosody, advertising, and audio. In her lab, she uses psychophysiological methods to study how individuals process information.
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Journal of Radio & Audio Media
By Anita Šulentić Marina Mučalo Anita Šulentić gained her doctorate in June 2022 with the dissertation Media convergence: Radio in the Republic of Croatia. Her area of scientific and research interest encompasses electronic media (notably radio) and media convergence in the digital age. She has been a lecturer at Edward Bernays University of Applied Sciences since 2018. She is also the President of the Institute of the Radio Industry of the Republic of Croatia, the body which is in charge of the promotion and improvement of the medium of radio. So far, she has published twelve papers, four of which as a single author.Marina Mučalo is employed at the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Political Science. She is a tenured full professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production. The area of her scientific interest is electronic media (public, commercial and non-profit), notably radio. In her research activity, she deals with the issues of media legislation, ownership relations, determinants of radio programming and media financing. She has authored two scientific monographs and a great number of papers.
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Sounds Studies
By Luis Achondo Music Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileLuis Achondo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University. His research on Latin American expressive cultures in contexts of violence and precarity has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music, Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Soccer and Society, and the Journal of Musicological Research. He has a book on the politics of football fandom in South America under contract with Wesleyan University Press. This review was supported by ANID Fondecyt Postdoctorado 3220114 and ANID Millennium Science Initiative NCS2022_016.
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Sounds Studies
By Morgaine Rire Independent Researcher, York, UKMorgaine Rire is a South African musician, independent researcher, and practitioner of ritual magic based in the UK. Graduating from the University of York with a PhD under the supervision of Roger Marsh and Bill Brooks, zir think-doing practice based research freely crosses over between creative practice, stream of consciousness writing, and critical theory. Ze is is primarily concerned with themes of embodiment and flesh in musicking, and variously explores these ideas with reference to contemporary music and ludomusicology.
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Sounds Studies
By Hazel Shu Chen Division of Languages and Communication, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ChinaHazel Shu Chen is a lecturer at Division of Languages and Communication, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research lies in the intersection of Chinese literary and media studies, studying how sound media like radio, as an invisible force and a sonic environment, shapes the dynamics of other forms of cultural production during the modern era. Her scholarly interests encompass sound studies, Sinophone literature and culture, transnational cinema and visual culture. Her publications appear in Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Hong Kong Literature Bi-Monthly, Journal of Modern Chinese Studies, The Margins and Dance Journal/HK. She is currently working on a book project on sound media and its transmedia reverberations in the modern Chinese context.
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Sounds Studies
By Jordan Krohn Interdisciplinary Humanities, York UniversityJordan Krohn is a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary Humanities department at York University in Toronto, Ontario. His doctoral project works across Black Studies, Deaf Studies, and Sound Studies, listening to the sounds of Black cultural production during the U.S. Great Migration (1910–1970). Jordan’s research applies a “Deaf gain” socio-cultural paradigm to amplify Deaf texts and experiences outside the Western canon.
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Sounds Studies
By Emil Kraugerud Joseph Coughlan-Allen a Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norwayb Department of Music, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UKEmil Kraugerud is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His work takes a musicological approach to the study of record production, including the technological and aesthetic affordances of music production technologies, with a particular focus on the production and meaning of acousmatic intimacy in recorded popular music. Kraugerud is currently part of the research project “The Platformization of Music Production” – funded by The Research Council of Norway – which concerns the development and use of music production technology in the online environment.Joseph Coughlan-Allen completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool. His thesis was titled “Buzz, Hiss, Crackle, Clunk: consequential sounds of music technology in music recordings, their meanings and roles.” His research interests centre around the interpretation of sound and music, and particularly around the sounds that lie on the cusp of musicality but nevertheless contribute to musical meaning.
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Sounds Studies
By Francesca Laura Cavallo Paul Dorfman Judy Edworthy Lisa Lavia Gascia Ouzounian Irene Revell Aura Satz Joel Stern a Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London, UKb Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, UKc School of Psychology (Emerita), University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UKd Noise Abatement Society, Brighton & Hove, UK and The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UKe Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKf School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, AustraliaFrancesca Laura Cavallo is a curator, art historian, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the intersection between art and the activation, management, and perception of risk. Her work includes writings on Pre-enactment, Survival Manuals, The Aesthetics of Risk, and a decade-long commitment to creating platforms that allow artists, researchers and the public to explore risk through exhibitions, workshops and performances. These have included Brazil Footprint00’s festival’s three editions (Barbican, Science and Industry Museum and the British Museum) and programmes at Turner Contemporary, Manifesta 11, and the ICA. Francesca is an AHRC Research Associate on Preemptive Listening at the RCA, where she teaches across different departments. She is an affiliate of the UCL Warning Research Centre and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, University of Kent.Paul Dorfman is Visiting Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; Chair, Nuclear Consulting Group; Member, Irish Govt. Environment Protection Agency Radiation Protection Advisory Committee; Member, International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group. Paul served as Secretary to the UK Govt. scientific advisory Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters; led an European Environment Agency response to Fukushima; served as Expert to the European Economic and Social Committee; Advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence Nuclear Submarine Dismantling Project; Adviser to the French Govt. Assemblee Nationale relative à la Faisabilité Technique et Financière du Démantèlement des Installations Nucléaire.Judy Edworthy is Professor Emerita of Applied Psychology at Plymouth University. She has extensive experience of alarms research, design, and implementation across the work domain including clinical, process control, and transport. She is author of many of the key publications in this area and has recently led a project to update and improve the alarm signals associated with a global medical device standard. She has also carried out research on the cognitive psychology of music and the design and evaluation of written warnings and safety information. She was the recipient of the US Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Hal W Hendrick Distinguished International Colleague award in 2021.Lisa Lavia is Managing Director of the Noise Abatement Society and conducting doctoral research at Heriot-Watt University. She investigates and develops soundscape practice, education and policy and is a member of ISO working groups on soundscape and non-acoustic factors (NAFs). Recent projects include helping inform development of the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill and the Noise and Soundscape Plan 2023-2028, the Welsh Government’s first statutory national strategy on soundscapes; advising the UK Government, Defra, regarding NAFs generally and for selected indoor soundscapes; providing oral evidence to the House of Lords “Inquiry into the neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health”. Her research interests include sound, perceived control, mental health, social justice and engagement.Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at University of Oxford and Principal Investigator of Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism (SONCITIES). Her work is concerned with understanding sound in relation to space, urbanism, and violence. She is the author of Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (MIT Press 2021) and The Trembling City (forthcoming from MIT Press). Her recent projects include Scoring the City, a series of workshops exploring experimental notations for urban design; the collaborative edition Acoustic Cities: London & Beirut; and Concrete Dreams of Sound, a research programme and Open Lab exploring sonic materialities at daadgalerie in Berlin.Irene Revell is a writer and curator who works with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image. Much of her work since 2004 has been with Electra, and she has close involvement with collections including Electra’s Her Noise Archive and Cinenova: Feminist Film + Video. She recently completed her doctoral thesis, Live Materials: Womens Work, Pauline Oliveros and the Feminist Performance Score at CRiSAP where she has taught on the MA Sound Arts since 2014. With Sarah Shin she is currently editing Bodies of Sound: Becoming a feminist ear (Silver Press, 2024). She is an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate on Preemptive Listening, at the RCA.Aura Satz is an artist who works with film and sound, and a Reader and Tutor at the RCA. Recent exhibitions and events include Kunstnernes Hus; Te Uru Gallery; the Walker Art Centre; Amant Foundation; Sonic Acts; Onassis Stegi; Harvard Observatory; Smithsonian NPG; LOOP Barcelona and more. Her research project ‘Preemptive Listening’ (2024) was funded by a 2 year AHRC fellowship hosted at the RCA, and culminated in her first feature film. After a world premiere at MoMA NY, the film won the New Vision award at CPH Documentary Festival in Copenhagen, and was celebrated across three days at Tate Modern with a series of associated performances and a symposium.Joel Stern is a Research Fellow at School of Media and Communication RMIT University, and co-lead on the Machine Listening project with Sean Dockray and James Parker, a platform for collaborative research and artistic experimentation, focused on the political and aesthetic dimensions of the computation of sound and speech. Machine Listening emerged out of Stern’s previous work, with James Parker, on Eavesdropping, a multifaceted project staged at Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, and City Gallery, Wellington, addressing the capture and control of our sonic worlds, alongside strategies of resistance. Between 2012-2022 he was Director of Liquid Architecture.
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Sounds Studies
By Bailey Hilgren New York UniversityBailey Hilgren is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at New York University. She is interested in music and sound and ecofeminism, critical environmental justice, and human-animal studies. Before attending NYU, she taught in the Western Oregon University Sustainability Department. She received her M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon and M.M. in Historical Musicology from Florida State University.
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Sounds Studies
By Peter Wicke Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyUntil his retirement in 2016, Peter Wicke held the Chair of Theory and History of Popular Music at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was Director of the Research Centre for Popular Music, which he founded there in 1981. He is a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and served as its Secretary General from 1987 to 1993. He was European Director of the International Communication and Youth Culture Consortium of UNESCO from 1986 to 1992 and is also a member of the editorial board of the journals Popular Music and Popular Music History. Additionally, he serves on the international advisory boards of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and the Norwegian Journal of Musicology Online and as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Popular Culture, University of Turku, Finland.