8th ECREA Radio and Sound Conference Cog in a wheel? Radio and Sound in the Changing Mediascape
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📻 8th ECREA Radio and Sound Conference
Cog in a wheel? Radio and Sound in the Changing Mediascape
ECREA Radio and Sound Section
🗓️ 8-10 September 2025
Additionally, PhD pre-conference
🗓️ 7 September 2025
Department of Media, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus
https://ecrearadioandsound2025.org/
✍ This conference aims to examine the past, present, and evolving role of radio around the world within a dynamic global media landscape. We will highlight the transformation of radio from a static entity to an adaptive component of the larger media ecosystem, continually reshaping itself in response to socio-political, economic, and technological changes.
🖊️ The conference will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, and paper presentations that address the following themes related to the one or many main topic(s) of this conference:
RADIO AND SOUND: PRODUCTION, FORMATS AND PURPOSES
Production
Practices
Studies
Podcasting
Ethnographies
Broadcast locations (e.g. prisons, hospitals, educational institutions, refugee camps, farms, armed forces, …)
Formats
Information
Storytelling
Narratives
Music
Sounds
Codes (non-talk)
Drama
Sound Creation
Documentaries,
Talk shows,
Podcast typologies
Purposes
Politics
Pedagogy and education
Awareness raising
Activism
Entertainment
(Dis)information
RADIO AND SOUND: MEDIUM IN CONTEXTS
Medium
Civic radio
Free radio
Pirate radio
Alternative radio
Radical radio
DIY radio
Not-for-profit radio
NGOs radio
Feminist radio
Community radio
Local / national / regional radio
Contexts
Radio in the global media landscape
Ownership, regulation and governance of radio
Freedom of speech
Political and economic constraints
Policies of broadcasting
RADIO AND SOUND: AUDIENCES AND LISTENING
Audiences
Community
National
Transnational
Diasporas
Demographics within audiences
Listening
Poetics of listening
Philosophy of listening
Politics of listening
History of listening
Listening as a cultural practice
Phenomenology of listening
RADIO AND SOUND: TECHNOLOGIES
DAB, streaming or LTE broadcasting
Podcasting distribution
Sound platforms
Internet
Social media
Radio as an app
(De)materialisation
Hybrid radio
Artificial intelligence
Radio production and reception
Trust, information and disinformation
RADIO AND SOUND: RESEARCH
Radio and sound as research fields
Theories of radio and sound studies
Political economy of the radio
Radio and gender studies
Methodological approaches to sound research
Digital ethnography
Digital methods
Network analysis
Archiving and oral history
Radio history
Journalism
Radio journalism
Radio art
Sound art
Aural culture and cultural aural expressions
Reception studies
🔴 Important Dates 🔴
Deadline for abstract submissions:
17 February 2025
Notification of acceptance (and announcement of Early Bird date):
31 March 2025
Publication of Programme:
w/c 28 April 2025
📬 For further information: cmFkaW9hbmRzb3VuZGNvbmZlcmVuY2UgfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==
Cog in a wheel? Radio and Sound in the Changing Mediascape
ECREA Radio and Sound Section
🗓️ 8-10 September 2025
Additionally, PhD pre-conference
🗓️ 7 September 2025
Department of Media, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus
https://ecrearadioandsound2025.org/
✍ This conference aims to examine the past, present, and evolving role of radio around the world within a dynamic global media landscape. We will highlight the transformation of radio from a static entity to an adaptive component of the larger media ecosystem, continually reshaping itself in response to socio-political, economic, and technological changes.
🖊️ The conference will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, and paper presentations that address the following themes related to the one or many main topic(s) of this conference:
RADIO AND SOUND: PRODUCTION, FORMATS AND PURPOSES
Production
Practices
Studies
Podcasting
Ethnographies
Broadcast locations (e.g. prisons, hospitals, educational institutions, refugee camps, farms, armed forces, …)
Formats
Information
Storytelling
Narratives
Music
Sounds
Codes (non-talk)
Drama
Sound Creation
Documentaries,
Talk shows,
Podcast typologies
Purposes
Politics
Pedagogy and education
Awareness raising
Activism
Entertainment
(Dis)information
RADIO AND SOUND: MEDIUM IN CONTEXTS
Medium
Civic radio
Free radio
Pirate radio
Alternative radio
Radical radio
DIY radio
Not-for-profit radio
NGOs radio
Feminist radio
Community radio
Local / national / regional radio
Contexts
Radio in the global media landscape
Ownership, regulation and governance of radio
Freedom of speech
Political and economic constraints
Policies of broadcasting
RADIO AND SOUND: AUDIENCES AND LISTENING
Audiences
Community
National
Transnational
Diasporas
Demographics within audiences
Listening
Poetics of listening
Philosophy of listening
Politics of listening
History of listening
Listening as a cultural practice
Phenomenology of listening
RADIO AND SOUND: TECHNOLOGIES
DAB, streaming or LTE broadcasting
Podcasting distribution
Sound platforms
Internet
Social media
Radio as an app
(De)materialisation
Hybrid radio
Artificial intelligence
Radio production and reception
Trust, information and disinformation
RADIO AND SOUND: RESEARCH
Radio and sound as research fields
Theories of radio and sound studies
Political economy of the radio
Radio and gender studies
Methodological approaches to sound research
Digital ethnography
Digital methods
Network analysis
Archiving and oral history
Radio history
Journalism
Radio journalism
Radio art
Sound art
Aural culture and cultural aural expressions
Reception studies
🔴 Important Dates 🔴
Deadline for abstract submissions:
17 February 2025
Notification of acceptance (and announcement of Early Bird date):
31 March 2025
Publication of Programme:
w/c 28 April 2025
📬 For further information: cmFkaW9hbmRzb3VuZGNvbmZlcmVuY2UgfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==
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