The Radio Conference 2005
The Radio Conference is a transnational forum for radio scholars, teachers and broadcasters to be held at RMIT University City Campus, Melbourne, Australia 11-14 July 2005.
The cultural impacts of radio broadcasting, and the continuing social and political importance of radio almost all over the world, are important and under-researched areas. Studies of radio - long neglected in the era of television - have been reinvigorated in many nations.
In Britain, the Radio Studies Network, formed in 1998 to encourage critical study and research and improve the academic and cultural status of radio, held an international conference, 'Radiodyssey' in 2001. In parallel, the "Radiocracy" conferences (Cardiff, 1999 and Durban, 2002) widened the international circle, and in 2003 the Radio Conference: a transnational forum at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, supported by RSN, brought participants together from all over the world. In 2004, IREN, a radio research network, was initiated in EU countries and has so far organised meetings in Bordeaux and Siena
The Radio Conference 2005 in Melbourne will continue this movement toward a critical appreciation of radio. Australia’s position in the south, adjacent to Asia and the Pacific, should assist in achieving broad cultural participation in the conference.
The conference will provide an international forum that aims to:
- strengthen international links between participants; and
- continue in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, the processes of building co-operative networks between radio practitioners and humanities-based scholars of radio history and theory.
The Radio Conference 2005 is organized by staff at Melbourne, RMIT, La Trobe and Deakin Universities as a co-operative project.
The Radio Conference
http://www.rmit.edu.au/adc/appliedcommunication/radio2005