‘Digital soap opera’ online radio listening patterns and the digital divide

Moshe, Mira; Laor, Tal; Friedkin, Shimon

doi:10.1080/13537121.2016.1274511

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“…New media offers unprecedented content options to radio listeners, precipitating a profound change in the structure of traditional radio and listening habits. As digital trends continue to accelerate, the radio industry is forced to continually reinvent itself to maintain its relevance in a multimedia web-based world (Cordeiro, 2012; Farrell, 2016; Laor et al, 2019; Moshe et al, 2017; Starkey, 2017; Te et al, 2011). Although digital broadcast has taken longer than anticipated to become established as the norm for radio listening (Lax, 2017), 92 percent of all Americans still report incorporating over-the-air radio content in their daily listening habits (Nielsen, 2017), and about 40 percent now listen to their favourite programmes and hosts on a digital platform such as an iPhone (Punnett, 2016).…”

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“…Slightly over 50 percent of all traditional radio stations have a mobile app (Laor et al, 2017). One-third of Israelis use such digital radio services (Moshe et al, 2017), and 18 percent of Israelis consume radio content on a station app (Bezeq Survey, 2017).…”

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“…This concept is known as ‘time squeezing’, allowing the consumer to ‘shrink’ content in time and space and to adjust it to lifestyle preferences (Moshe, 2012). Accessibility of segments and programmes on demand encourages listeners to consume additional and new content by spillover (Moshe et al, 2017).…”

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Radio on demand: New habits of consuming radio content

Laor

2022

Global Media and Communication

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This research is an investigation into changes in the radio listening habits of consumers who use on-demand radio. Findings indicate high daily listening rates to online on-demand radiophonic content as listeners are not dependent on schedules. Listeners proactively use the options offered by on-demand radio to satisfy listeners’ diverse needs, in line with the uses and gratifications theory. The diversity of online radio offerings encourages frequent consumption of more varied content. Findings indicate that radio’s entry into the new medium offers interactivity, demassification and asynchroneity, expands its distribution and helps it maintain its role as a relevant medium of influence.

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Radio on demand: New habits of consuming radio content

Laor

2022

Global Media and Communication

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“…Social networks emerged as the natural continuation of this process, generating more listeners for radio stations, enhancing engagement, and extending the effects of broadcast content beyond the boundaries of the broadcast itself (Laor and Steinfeld, 2018;Laor et al, 2017;Willems, 2013). The rise of the Internet and social networks created the opportunity for traditional media to transform from unilateral to bilateral media that maintain interactions with and regularly involve their audience (Moshe et al, 2017;Willems, 2013). Social media promoted a new dynamics (Gutiérrez et al, 2014) that attracts audience participation and increases connections with younger audiences.…”

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How does it ‘sound’? Audiences, broadcasters, and managers on visual radio in Israel

Laor

2020

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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In recent years, radio broadcasts on social media have extended to visual radio broadcasts (e.g. Facebook Live) that support a continuous display of viewer comments in real time. Based on 65 semi-structured in-depth interviews, this study presents for the first time the perspectives of the main actors in the visual radio scene: viewers, broadcasters, and radio executives. Findings show that broadcasters generally believe that the recent visual changes to radio, forced by the changing media environment, have an adverse impact on the radiophonic medium. In contrast, radio executives, who set policies, believe that radio must maintain a presence in the visual, viral interactive online space. For viewers, visual radio meets diverse needs, generates enjoyment, and offers the added value of interactivity and enhanced sense of activity resulting from new access to ‘behind the scenes’ of radio broadcasts. This study demonstrates how the theory of technological determinism is reflected in practice, in the radiophonic medium’s adjustments to the features of the new era – visibility, lost anonymity through increased exposure, potential for viral dissemination, and real-time responsivity – despite the fact that these features are contrary to radio’s unique fundamental features. Despite this innovative turn, all actors – executives, broadcasters, and viewers – believe that radio broadcast consumption remains dominated by the traditional in-car audio format.

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“…In Israel, however, most radio stations have websites that listeners can access in order to listen to station broadcasts and avail themselves of various content services [7]. One-third of Israelis use such digital radio services [20]. Slightly over 50% of all traditional radio stations have a mobile app [7], and 18% of Israelis consume radio contents on a station app [35].…”

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