For Science, Broadcasting, and Conservation: Wildlife Recording, the BBC, and the Consolidation of a British Library of Wildlife Sounds

Bruyninckx, Joeri

doi:10.1353/tech.2019.0068

Technology and Culture

2019

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2019.0068

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For Science, Broadcasting, and Conservation: Wildlife Recording, the BBC, and the Consolidation of a British Library of Wildlife Sounds

Joeri Bruyninckx¹

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Information Practices and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through Sound

Stewart‐Robertson

2024

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Environmental sound recording is increasingly vital to the production of scientific and ecological information and knowledge. While research applications have grown tremendously, there is a lack of empirical research around the practices and experiences of those responsible for creating and managing these recordings. This poster reports on initial findings of a qualitative research project that interviewed 30 academic and professional researchers from across Canada and the United States, exploring information activities and meaningful elements and actors involved in their interactions with environmental sound recording. From preliminary findings, two themes are discussed: sound and listening skills involved in the creation and analysis of environmental sound recordings are complex, multisensory information practices, and changing environments and technological affordances enable and constrain the seeking and sharing of information and resulting knowledge production.

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Information Practices and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through Sound

Stewart‐Robertson

2024

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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A Sound Artist’s Breakdown of Field Recording over History

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Nature on the airwaves: natural history and the BBC in interwar Britain, 1922–1939 (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2021)

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2023

Archives of Natural History

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Archival and other historical evidence, including digitized issues of The Radio Times and files from the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Written Archives Centre, reveal the pivotal importance that natural history played in the BBC’s programming during the 1920s and 1930s. Beyond merely replicating the forms and styles that could be found across other forms of mass media, natural history broadcasts demonstrated to the British public what radio technology was capable of. At the same time, radio was not isolated from the media landscape of the period, and natural history broadcasts made full use of visual accompaniments such as magazines and pamphlets. Examining a variety of different broadcasts, this paper focuses on how expertise was fashioned behind the microphone, on “stunts” such as broadcasting the live sounds of animals, on audience participation, and on broadcasts aimed at young audiences. Broadcast lessons for schools, which are generally overlooked by historians, offer a rich opportunity for examining how natural history radio developed over the years. Children’s hour characters like the “Zoo Man” modelled an intimate, direct way of engaging with young audiences. Moreover, experiments in field ecology involving listeners in the collection of data showed that radio could act as a two-way medium. These broadcasts helped to shape the modern phenomenon of the nature documentary that would take off after 1945. While the origins of this phenomenon are usually traced either to the establishment of the BBC’s Natural History Unit in 1957, or in some cases to early nature films, there is a strong case for considering the BBC’s interwar broadcasts (1922–1939) as part of this trajectory.

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For Science, Broadcasting, and Conservation: Wildlife Recording, the BBC, and the Consolidation of a British Library of Wildlife Sounds

Cited by 3 publications

References 52 publications

Information Practices and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through Sound

Information Practices and the Production of Scientific Knowledge through Sound

A Sound Artist’s Breakdown of Field Recording over History

Nature on the airwaves: natural history and the BBC in interwar Britain, 1922–1939 (William T. Stearn Student Essay Prize 2021)

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