Talkback, Community and the Public Sphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5904052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Fitzgerald (0000-0001-8508-4394), W Housley (0000-0003-1568-9093) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-163 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media International Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1329878x0712200118 |
| OpenAlex | W1817861130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper explores the relationship between the audience of commercial talkback radio and the actual existing democratic public sphere in Australia. Drawing upon Anderson's (1987) notion of an imagined community and Warner's (2002) discussion of publics, the paper suggests that two different but entwined modes of address operate around the talkback audience. The first centres on the active creation of an imagined community brought into being and maintained through host and caller interaction, whilst the second, which is dependent on this prior formation, involves the audience being treated as a political public within the public sphere
Democracy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Public sphere · Publics · Publishing · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Law
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Exercising politeness
Being a ‘Host’ or a ‘Journalist’
The Power of the “Audience-Public”
Producing diversity in BBC radio
Australians are the Greatest Sport Loving People in the World’
The microblogging discourse of disasters
The function of hosts
Radio, someone still loves you! Talkback radio and community emergence during disasters
Membership categorization, culture and norms in action
Ironic detachment’
Dynamics of media convergence in translingual expert interviews — An example from isiXhosa radio in South Africa
Spontaneous or controlled
Local people, local places, local voices and local spaces
Grab a pen and paper
I’m a Scouser
Two hosts and a caller
The Role of Talkback Radio in Hong Kong and Singapore
Host/Host Conversations
With whom do I have the pleasure
Confrontation Talk
Lectures on Conversation
Sociological Imagination
A Medium for Mateship
Categorization, Interaction, Policy, and Debate
Identity, categorization and sequential organization
Talkback Radio
Political talk radio and democratic participation
The Jerry Springer Show as an emotional public sphere
Radio Leaks
Political Talk Radio
From problematic object to routine `add-on
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Categorisation, Narrative and Devolution in Wales
Publics and Counterpublics
The reconsidered model of membership categorization analysis
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |