Awarded the joint Hampton Press and International Association of Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) publication prize.
- Transnational study of college students’ net-radio consumption practices
- Uncovers two types of audiences (radio online or net-only radio audiences) and a three-tiered net-radio subculture (conservatives, swingers, and radicals), which is determined by users’ taste distinctions and how much power they have over their net-radio consumption and production practices.
- Contends that net-radio is an important and ongoing social-cultural and global phenomenon and contributes to cultural studies research on the Internet.
Reviews
A very thorough and well-researched analysis, Virtual Radio Ga Ga generates exciting original research into an important radio niche and setting it in a range of institutional and theoretical contexts.
Guy Starkey, Professor of Radio and Journalism, University of Sutherland, UK
Journalism, University of Sutherland, UK). “The music and radio industries desperately need many more such studies, for which Baker’s work provides an excellent template.
Chris Priestman, Head of Media Arts & Design, Faculty of Arts, Media & Design, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and author of Web radio: radio production for internet streaming, 2002
The most substantive and valuable history of net-radio to date, Virtual Radio Ga Ga will be of tremendous historical value in decades to come.
Dr Martin Spinelli, Senior Lecturer, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UK
Baker, A. (2012). Virtual Radio Ga Ga: Youth and Net Radio, New York; Hampton Press, pp.1-316.
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