Do it for charity! Radio's mediation of civic engagement among British ex-pats in Portugal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Inês David (0000-0003-0871-6102, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author), M V Rosales (0000-0001-6576-2039, University of Lisbon) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-124 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138113502541 |
| OpenAlex | W2055576847 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Following the social life' of broadcasts, to use Marcus' (1995) metaphor, this article explores how self-designated 'expatriates' residing in the south of Portugal use radio to advance efforts in support of local causes of public concern they become involved with as strategies of reterritorialization. Drawing on media ethnography, it argues that the radiophonic mediation of 'charitable' efforts foregrounds the possibilities and limitations of a connection to the public sphere facilitated by a commercial station in a lifestyle migration setting (Benson and O'Reilly, 2009; O'Reilly, 2000). Operating within an English-language public sphericule (Gitlin, 1998), broadcasts do not allow for deliberative interaction on air but rather promote the reproduction of 'charitable' values and practices among, mostly, British residents. However, mixing elements of critical and representative publicity, the radio's specific mode of address and circulation of texts particularly reflects and plays into naturalized but ambivalent stances of connection with local realities
Ambivalence · Ethnography · Kinship · Media studies · Mediation · Metaphor · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Psychology
The Local Public Sphere as a Networked Space
Bowling alone
Habermas and the public sphere
Ethnography in/of the World System
Introduction
Communicating philanthropy
Media Worlds
Anthropology and Mass Communication
Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version)
Radio space and industrial time
Playing with publics
Anthropology and Mass Media
Media Ideologies
Religious Involvement and Status-Bridging Social Capital
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |