Stephen Lax

Biographic Data

ID6211342
NAMEStephen Lax
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMELax
SIGNATURELAX S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • The short future of public broadcasting

    Open AccessMarko Ala-Fossi, Stephen LaxARTICLEInternational Communication Gazette2016Cited by: 2References: 6

    According to recent European estimates, the life expectancy of broadcasting as a free-to-air television platform is not more than 15 years. BBC, Yle and the UK regulator Ofcom have reached this conclusion in their reports about the future of news, media distribution and digital terrestrial television. Although broadcasting is seen as necessary until 2030, all three assume that digital terrestrial television can – under certain conditions – be rep…

  • Digital radio switchover

    Stephen LaxARTICLEInternational Journal of Digital…2011

    The United Kingdom remains one of the world’s leading countries in the development of digital radio. However, it is unclear when radio will migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting in a similar way to television, which is progressively switching to digital transmission in a number of countries. When digital radio was first emerging, the industry, regulators and policymakers were broadly united in promoting digital radio as the natural succes…

  • Media and Communications Technologies

    Open AccessStephen LaxBOOKMedia and Communications…2009

  • Dab

    Open AccessStephen Lax, Marko Ala-Fossi et al.ARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2008Cited by: 1References: 3

    Digital radio reached its tenth birthday in 2005. However, anniversary celebrations have been rather muted. In contrast with digital television, where audience awareness levels are high and adoption rates similar, digital radio’s penetration into the marketplace has been minimal. Even when people have heard of digital radio, survey data shows that very few feel knowledgeable about it. Nevertheless, most broadcasters and most governments believe t…

  • Digital Radio and the Diminution of the Public Sphere

    Open AccessStephen LaxCHAPTERMedia and Public Spheres2007

    It is more than 70 years since Bertolt Brecht lamented that radio was ‘one-sided when it should be two-sided’, urging instead that it should ‘let the listener speak as well as hear ... radio should step out of the supply business and organise its listeners as suppliers’ (Brecht 2000 [19321: 42). While short on detail, Brecht argued that more citizens could be involved in the transmission side of radio. Instead, governments and broadcasters around…

  • The Prospects for Digital Radio Policy and technology for a new broadcasting system

    Stephen LaxARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2003

    Digital audio broadcasting is a major innovation in radio, one that is at its most advanced in Europe. It has the potential to deliver high-quality audio reception and to increase significantly the capacity of the radio spectrum, with the possibility of an expansion of both the range and diversity of radio programming. Nevertheless, in the UK and elsewhere it remains relatively unknown and under-adopted in comparison with other consumer technolog…

  • Access Denied in the Information Age

    Stephen LaxBOOKAccess Denied in the Information…2001

  • Windows of opportunity? Schools and the Internet in the U.K

    Open AccessStephen LaxARTICLEIEEE Technology and Society…1998

    For many with an interest in education, and certainly for the governments of most industrialized nations, connecting schools to the Internet is the number one priority for investment. Typical levels of connectivity for schools at present involve one or two networked computers, introduced at a fairly negligible cost, with a similarly minimal effect on education provision. What is envisaged goes much further than this, with whole classrooms wired u…