{"id":384,"date":"2023-10-26T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:12:44","slug":"carolyn-birdsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/carolyn-birdsall\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Birdsall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Radiophilia: A New Key Concept in Radio and Sound Studies?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given radio\u2019s initial rapid and sustained popularity for over 100 years, it may seem surprising\u00a0 that media and cultural scholars have not yet sought to further clarify the affective and emotional atachments formed in relation to the medium, its contents and material forms.\u00a0 While the exact conditions and media assemblages of \u2018radio\u2019 may differ acrosstime and place,\u00a0 my recent research has explored <em>radiophilia <\/em>as a conceptual tool for making sense of the love\u00a0 for, or strong atachments to, radio from its inception to the present (Birdsall 2023). In taking\u00a0 up questions of affect and emotion in relation to radio, I\u2019ve sought to redress a gap in historical\u00a0 radio research, which tends to only point to emotional reactions (e.g., fears, enthusiasm)\u00a0 when first introduced as a \u2018new\u2019 technology, rather than in everyday media practices\u00a0 developed over the past century (Tacchi 2009; Kassabian 2013).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this presentation, I will first outline the framework I\u2019ve developed, which builds on recent\u00a0 work on \u201caffective practice\u201d, envisaged as a means to productively resolve oppositions\u00a0 between affect theory and the history of the emotions (Wetherell 2012; Wetherell et al. 2018).\u00a0 In arguing for a <em>longue dur\u00e9e <\/em>perspective, my analysis is focused on loving, knowing, saving\u00a0 and sharing as domains of affective practice in relation to radio as a historical and renewed\u00a0 medium. The second part of the presentation will engage this model with several cases explored in the book, with particular reference made to key historical developments in UK\u00a0 radio, audio and podcasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carolyn Birdsall is Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Her\u00a0 publications include Nazi Soundscapes (2012), \u201cListening to the Archive\u201d (2019, co-ed. V. Tkaczyk) and \u201cHistorical Traces of European Radio Archives\u201d (2022, co-ed. E. Harrison), with\u00a0 her most recent monograph, Radiophilia, appearing with Bloomsbury in September 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiophilia: A New Key Concept in Radio and Sound Studies?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conference.sunderland.ac.uk\/rsn2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}