Purposeful Play: Women Radio Artists in Canadian Campus and Community Radio
Studies show that women are under-represented in Canadian campus and community radio. Based on ethnographic research and survey data, this article posits a theory of "purposeful play," a set of strategies employed by women radio artists to create community and find their voices on the air.
Locating listening: Technological space, popular music, Canadian mediations
Because of the traditional relationship between places and situations, group identities have usually been closely linked to shared but special access to physical locations. … By severing the traditional link between physical location and social situation, electronic media may begin to blur previously distinct group identities by allowing people to ‘escape’ informationally from place-defined groups and by permitting outsiders to ‘invade’ many groups' territories without ever entering them. (Meyrowitz, 1985) Space has its own reality in the current mode of production and society, with the same claims and in the same global process as merchandise, money, and capital. Natural space is irreversibly gone. And although it of course remains as the origin of the social process, nature is now reduced to materials on which society's productive forces operate …. Spatial practice defines its space, it poses it and presupposes it in a dialectical interaction. Social space has thus always been a social product, but this...
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