More Than a Music Box

by Crisell, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781845450465
• ISBN10: 1845450469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Higher education plays a vital role in the sharing of the identity and culture of Europe and therefore receives considerable attention from scholars and policy makers. This volume is different in that it brings a philosophical perspective to the debate on higher education in Europe. As a work of applied philosophy, it reflects on changes in European identity with the development of the European Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall and considers the reciprocal relationship between these changes and higher education. By uncovering the unavoidable philosophical problems embedded in policies, the book sets out both to provide a clearer understanding of the current situation of higher education in Europe and to contribute to its development. It attempts to redefine the democratic basis of higher education in the light of social and political change in the evolving European society. Francis Crawleylectures in philosophy and literature at the Free University of Brussels. Paul Smeyersis Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven. Paul Standishis Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	vii
Andrew Crisell
PART I: INSTITUTIONS
1. Look with Thine Ears: BBC Radio 4 and Its Significance in a Multi-Media Age	3	(18)
Andrew Crisell
2. BBC Radio 5 Live: Extending Choice Through 'Radio Bloke'?	21	(18)
Guy Starkey
3. U.S. Public Radio: What is It - and For Whom?	39	(18)
Bob Lochte
4. Digital Reflections of Finnish Speech Journalism: YLE Radio Peili	57	(20)
Marko Ala-Fossi
PART II: IDENTITIES
5. Indigenous Radio in Canada	77	(18)
Valerie Alia
6. Native American Radio: Wolakota Wiconi Waste	95	(14)
Bruce L. Smith
7. National Public Service Radio in the South Pacific: A Community Loudspeaker	109	(18)
Helen Molnar
8. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away: Gay Radio, Past and Present	127	(18)
Alan Beck
9. Continuities and Change in Women's Radio	145
Kate Lacey
PART III: GENRES
10. 'Reality Radio': The Documentary	167	(22)
David Hendy
11. Radio and Popular Culture in Germany: Radio Culture Between Comedy and 'Event-isation'	189	(24)
Andreas Hepp
12. Radio as a Medium for Poetry	213	(16)
Mike Ladd
13. A Medium for Mateship: Commercial Talk Radio in Australia
Terry Flew	229	(18)
14. Fireside Issues: Audience, Listener, Soundscape	247	(18)
Frances Gray
PART IV: NEW TECHNOLOGY
15. Dutch Web Radio as a Medium for Audience Interaction	265	(18)
Martine van Selm, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Bibi Kleijn
16. Speech Radio in the Digital Age	283	(14)
Richard Berry
Notes on Contributors	297	(6)
Index	303