Television and Radio Programs and Programming

This article analyses Australian media’s coverage of China’s efforts to contain COVID-19. The article is a critical discourse analysis of the major news stories, documentaries, opinions, and analyses published in the entire array of Australian media, including both television and radio programs from the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster the ABC, commercial media outlets such as Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper and Nine Entertainment’s The Sydney Morning Herald, and several tabloid papers. By identifying the key themes, perspectives, and angles used in these reports and narratives, this article finds that the more credible media outlets have mostly framed China’s efforts in political and ideological terms, rather than as an issue of public health. In comparison, the tabloid media—including commercial television, shock jock radio, and newspapers—have resorted to conspiratorial, racist, and Sino-phobic positions. In both instances, the coverage of China’s experience is a continuation and embodiment of the “China threat” and “Chinese influence” discourses that have now dominated the Australian media for a number of years.

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RADIO PROGRAMS

Science ◽

10.1126/science.87.2249.100-a ◽

1938 ◽

Vol 87 (2249) ◽

pp. 100-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Radio Programs

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Trends in Radio Programs

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/000271624121300104 ◽

1941 ◽

Vol 213 (1) ◽

pp. 15-25

Author(s):

Kenneth G. Bartlett

Keyword(s):

Radio Programs

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Bridging Gender Gaps in Provision of Agricultural Extension Service Using ICT

International Journal of ICT Research and Development in Africa ◽

10.4018/ijictrda.2014010101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

C. Sanga ◽

V. J. Kalungwizi ◽

C. P. Msuya

Keyword(s):

Group Discussion ◽

Agricultural Extension ◽

Women Farmers ◽

Extension Service ◽

Advisory Panel ◽

Extension Services ◽

Agricultural Extension Service ◽

Ict Tools ◽

Radio Programs ◽

Important Evidence

This article was designed to present the assessment of the effectiveness of radio - based, impact driven smallholder farmer extension service system provided by FVR to enhance accessibility of extension services to women and men in the project areas of Tanzania. Specifically, this paper assessed women and men farmers' access to ICT and factors influencing the utilization of ICT to deliver agricultural information and knowledge. The paper used data from impact assessment survey of the project conducted between April 2012 and June 2012. These data were complemented by focus group discussion involving members of gender advisory panel that had been established in the selected project sites. Quantitative data were analyzed to yield frequencies and percentages. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. Even though ownership of mobile phones and radio was higher among women in all study areas both men and women farmers' had almost the same percentage in accessibility to agricultural extension information. The factors that affected women and men farmers to get quality agricultural information via these ICT tools were namely: poor radio signal reception, power outrage and poor timing of radio programs among others. This is important evidence that careful use of ICT can reduce gender imbalance in agricultural extension services and information delivery.

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Radio Programs

Science ◽

10.1126/science.86.2224.132.d ◽

1937 ◽

Vol 86 (2224) ◽

pp. 132-133

Keyword(s):

Radio Programs

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Investigating the factors that influence use of ICTs for citizen engagement in Malawi

10.21504/10962/177019 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Rachel Sibande

Keyword(s):

Service Delivery ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Citizen Engagement ◽

Willingness To Participate ◽

Social Constructs ◽

Utaut Model ◽

Utility Companies ◽

And Gender ◽

Radio Programs

Literature has suggested that Malawians are keen to participate. Malawian’s willingness to participate is evident as the country has recorded high voter turnouts during the elections in recent decades. However, literature also suggests that there is minimal citizen engagement in between elections. Elsewhere, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been used to enhance citizen engagement, but ICT led citizen engagement is still an emerging field and yet to be explored as an area of research particularly in Malawi. We thus sought to explore if the use of ICTs could improve citizen engagement with councils, councilors, and utility companies that provide water and electricity in Malawi. We developed and deployed an ICT platform called Mzinda which means My location in Malawi’s populous Chichewa language. The platform provided various channels for citizens and duty bearers to engage via SMS, USSD, web and a mobile application. We sought to understand the factors that influence citizen’s behavior intention to use an ICT platform to engage. We applied the modified UTAUT model by including Attitude and Self Efficacy social constructs that have among others been cited as limitations of the UTAUT model. We conducted factor loadings of six social constructs of the modified UTAUT model to validate content and reexamine the model in the context of citizen engagement using ICTs in Malawi. We found that, Attitude and Self Efficacy were not significant determinants of the Behaviour Intention for citizens to use the ICT platform. However, 75% of the Behaviour Intention was influenced by Perfomance Expectancy and Effort Expectancy as moderated by age and gender. Empirical evidence showed that responsiveness and actionability of councils and councillors had improved. We also learned that citizens believed that service delivery had improved and that they had more influence over councils, councillors, and the utility companies because of using the ICT platform. We conclude by noting that improvements in service delivery; enhanced responsiveness and actionability of councils, councillors and the utility companies were not necessarily as a result of the ICT platform alone; but a combination of ICTs and non-technology mechanisms of engaging the stakeholders through community campaigns, radio programs, print media engagement, community meetings and debates among others. It is evident that ICTs are not the panacea of all citizen engagement problems. This research can be useful to researchers and practitioners in the technology and citizen engagement domains.

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“All Those Homes Beyond the Microphone”

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190691240.013.43 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 335-351

Author(s):

David VanderHamm

Keyword(s):

Music Industry ◽

Country Music ◽

Advertising Industry ◽

Radio Programs

Radio programs called barn dances employed music and friendly address to insert advertising into rural forms of sociality. Rather than merely trying to cultivate goodwill or engage in hard-sell tactics, these variety programs sought to cultivate a mediated friendship that made advertisements helpful suggestions rather than rude interruptions. Barn dance radio was so intertwined with broadcast advertising that early country music during the 1930s can be understood as a subset of the advertising industry rather than the music industry. Although they could not personalize each message, the friendly environment created through music, advertising copy, and on-air patter encouraged listeners to imagine broadcasters as “radio friends,” and thus personalize broadcast messages to themselves.

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Howard Jarvis, Populist Entrepreneur: Reevaluating the Causes of Proposition 13

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s0145553200018058 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 173-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Daniel A. Smith

Keyword(s):

Property Tax ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Letters To The Editor ◽

Proposition 13 ◽

Primary Election ◽

Local Newspapers ◽

Tax Limitation ◽

Radio Programs ◽

Ballot Measure ◽

Opinion Polls

During the months immediately preceding California’s June 1978 primary election, Proposition 13, the fractious property tax ballot measure, received a dizzying amount of media attention. Newspaper columnists from California and around the country swapped partisan barbs, debating ad infinitum the initiative’s merits and faults. In public forums, political scientists and economists calculated and recalculated the measure’s possible effects and unintended consequences. Heated letters to the editor and sharp-edged political cartoons saturated the editorial pages of local newspapers. Opinion polls registered the public’s sentiment toward the measure on a weekly basis. Shrill advertisements touting either the necessity or the destructiveness of the proposition interrupted regularly scheduled television and radio programs. Indefatigable Howard Jarvis, the monomaniacal, septuagenarian leader of the tax limitation movement, was seemingly everywhere. By election day, the proponents and opponents of Prop 13 had spent over $2 million each on the measure (CFPPC 1988).

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