Radio's Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780415656122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

John Nathan Anderson

Opis

Radio s Digital Dilemma chronicles the development of digital radio broadcasting, which has been fraught with difficulty as evidenced by the fact that what we have come to understand as "radio" in the twentieth century still has no feasible digital broadcast component.

As we approach the centennial of radio broadcasting, with Internet-inspired media convergence well apace, the medium s struggle to navigate digitalization raises previously unexplored questions about the future identity of radio itself. Its digital dilemma also stands as a parable about the dangerous prioritization of certain political and economic principles over scientific integrity in contemporary media policymaking. This book closely interrogates the record of FCC deliberation and trade press coverage of the issue and reveals how the U.S. digital radio standard is not the outcome of thinking about the medium s convergent future. Furthermore, Anderson addresses new audio distribution technologies born out of convergence that in turn complicate how broadcasting is defined. In essence, Anderson explores why the U.S. digital radio transition has stalled and may actually be regressing.

Spis treści

1. Identifying Radio’s Digital Dilemma  2. The Developmental Trajectory of U.S. Digital Radio  3. The Fundamental Detriments of IBOC-DAB  4. FCC "Deliberation" of HD Radio  5. The Troubled Proliferation of HD Radio  6. Tweaking an Imperfect System  7. HD Radio’s Murky Future  8. Confronting Radio’s Digital Dilemma

O autorze

John Nathan Anderson is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Broadcast Journalism in the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Formerly a radio journalist, he’s been working in the fields of media policy and activism for nearly two decades.