Monthly Archives: May 2021

Call-In Talk Radio: Compensation or Enrichment?

From a 2005 essay: * This study focused on call-in talk radio because it provides a unique opportunity to test competing hypotheses drawn from two different perspectives about the appeal of media programming. A good deal of research on call-in … Continue reading

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Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio

Cognitive Science professor Seana Coulson writes in 2005: * When speakers produce language, listeners use that linguistic input along with background and contextual knowledge to set up simple cognitive models in mental spaces (Coulson, Semantic Leaps). Similarly, when people look … Continue reading

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JUST BE YOURSELF? TALK RADIO PERFORMANCE AND AUTHENTIC ON-AIR SELVES

When you are an actor, you are performing, and sometimes in the course of performance, you can allow natural parts of yourself to come through. As a radio host, you are also performing, but you can often allow large parts … Continue reading

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Australian Talk Radio

From the 2006 book, More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World:

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Life After Globalization & The One-Year Anniversary Of The George Floyd Riots (5-30-21)

01:00 ‘We Will Not Be Frightened’: Young Israel Of Century City Synagogue Vandalized, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/05/28/we-will-not-be-frightened-young-israel-of-century-city-synagogue-vandalized/ 11:00 ‘Mail-in Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139307 19:00 Life After Globalization (Peter Zeihan), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kch4Z1GpNOQ 24:00 NYT: Efforts to Advance Racial Equity Baked In … Continue reading

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