What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners
What makes you happy in your daily activity at the radio? This question was asked to more than forty community radio practitioners from all over the world in the framework of a research on community radios as a social movement. People were encouraged to reveal their feelings and elaborate on their i...
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| description | What makes you happy in your daily activity at the radio? This question was asked to more than forty community radio practitioners from all over the world in the framework of a research on community radios as a social movement. People were encouraged to reveal their feelings and elaborate on their inner motivations for joining the radio station. Three main points could be singled out from the interviews: the idea of the radio as a ‘free space’ for the articulation of views and opinions, the role of community radio as amplifier of voices of other social groups, and the collective dimension of projects.This article draws on interview texts using the method of discourse analysis to illustrate motivational frames of community radios activists, providing an original view of the radios, often considered ‘only’ as producers of alternative audio material or mere ‘infrastructures’, while the dimension of motivations and feelings is often neglected. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de44ae50d3cf4470891c8d1809cf041e2022-12-21T22:51:08ZengUniversity of Westminster PressWestminster Papers in Communication and Culture1744-67162017-06-015110.16997/wpcc.49What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitionersTarik Sabry0Communication and Media Research Institute University of WestminsterWhat makes you happy in your daily activity at the radio? This question was asked to more than forty community radio practitioners from all over the world in the framework of a research on community radios as a social movement. People were encouraged to reveal their feelings and elaborate on their inner motivations for joining the radio station. Three main points could be singled out from the interviews: the idea of the radio as a ‘free space’ for the articulation of views and opinions, the role of community radio as amplifier of voices of other social groups, and the collective dimension of projects.This article draws on interview texts using the method of discourse analysis to illustrate motivational frames of community radios activists, providing an original view of the radios, often considered ‘only’ as producers of alternative audio material or mere ‘infrastructures’, while the dimension of motivations and feelings is often neglected.https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/95/empowermentvoicesocial changeemotionsframingcommunity radio |
| spellingShingle | Tarik Sabry What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture empowerment voice social change emotions framing community radio |
| title | What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners |
| title_full | What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners |
| title_fullStr | What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners |
| title_full_unstemmed | What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners |
| title_short | What makes you happy? Insights into feelings and muses of community radio practitioners |
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| topic | empowerment voice social change emotions framing community radio |
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