Radio In The Digital Age     

The book concludes with a summary of the strengths, limitations and unique characteristics of the medium of radio, and the ways in which it is being (and could further be) integrated into the digital media environment, from a technological and cultural perspective. It looks at the ways in which radio can be understood as a category of content, a means of distribution, a reception technology, a consumption practice, a social and cultural medium, a part of daily life and an important economic and political force. It examines the extent to which the technological, economic and cultural context into which the discursive practice of radio has been transposed has already transformed the medium as well as how we make and understand it; the ways in which producers, legislators and users of radio have adapted the medium to its new milieu; and the opportunities for further development in the new media age.