Reflections upon the Privacy in the Converged Commercial Radio: A Case Study of Royal Prank

This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio practices for individual privacies. Holding that privacy is constructed through the interrelated information practices of both individuals and their mediated surroundings, it addresses radio as a previously intimate and privacy friendly medium. The case of the Royal Prank call by the Australian 2DayFM radio station demonstrates how contemporary converged radio practices affect the privacies of unintended participants in their shows. In December 2012, Jacintha Saldanha, nurse of London’s Royal King Edward VII Hospital committed suicide after two Australian radio presenters had made a prank phone call pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles concerned about the state of Duchess Kate’s health, who was expecting her first child. The case identifies three conditions, each with implications on privacy. First, digitization renders radio content archivable and repeatable. There is a second life of radio programs keeping available information about any people involved. Secondly, the division of radio related labour leads to a lack of journalistic responsibility for respecting privacy standards. Broadcasters feel no need to be sensitive regarding the consequences of disseminated material, as commercial and legal staff decide on that. Finally, legal frameworks continue to apply legacy radio privacy measures and do not correspond to these new working conditions, as the reactions of the Australian supervisory authority show. In consequence, the case of the Royal Prank call demonstrates the impossibility to fight individual privacy when one is unintentionally involved in radio shows

Julkisuuden inhimillinen ydin : Majdanekin keskitysleirin naisvankien 'radio'

The article elaborates Hannah Arendt’s thought on the public realm to analyze the performed ‘radio’ that women prisoners ‘produced’ with their voice at the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, in Spring 1943. The authors reconstruct the rationale that clarifies why an image of a radio was meaningful at a death camp. The documented memories reveal that the ‘radio’ created a resistant, harm-preventing and despair-relieving space. Mobilizing the meanings Arendt gives to the public realm as the shared reference and shared belonging, the authors show that the memories point towards the prisoners’ efforts to break their exclusion by decisively continuing their belonging to the public world through their own performance. In Arendt’s concepts, ‘broadcasting’ and listening to ‘programmes’ actualized prisoners’ being and subjectivity, the both of which were under constant assaults. Conceptualized through Arendt’s thought, the performed ‘radio’ reveals amid the extreme exclusion, isolation and cruelty of the death camp how profoundly meaningful the public realm is to humans.The article elaborates Hannah Arendt’s thought on the public realm to analyze the performed ‘radio’ that women prisoners ‘produced’ with their voice at the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, in Spring 1943. The authors reconstruct the rationale that clarifies why an image of a radio was meaningful at a death camp. The documented memories reveal that the ‘radio’ created a resistant, harm-preventing and despair-relieving space. Mobilizing the meanings Arendt gives to the public realm as the shared reference and shared belonging, the authors show that the memories point towards the prisoners’ efforts to break their exclusion by decisively continuing their belonging to the public world through their own performance. In Arendt’s concepts, ‘broadcasting’ and listening to ‘programmes’ actualized prisoners’ being and subjectivity, the both of which were under constant assaults. Conceptualized through Arendt’s thought, the performed ‘radio’ reveals amid the extreme exclusion, isolation and cruelty of the death camp how profoundly meaningful the public realm is to humans.Peer reviewe

Women’s attitude towards umbilical cord blood banking in Poland

Introduction: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is considered as a valuable potential source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. A process of collecting and storing UCB in the immediate period after the birth is called UCB banking

Radio, the Resilient Medium Papers from the Third Conference of the ECREA Radio Research Section

Radio is a resilient medium. It has evolved considerably over its hundred-year history and we have every reason to believe that evolution will continue. This book is a peer- reviewed collection of papers from the third conference of the Radio Research Section of the European Research and Education Association (ECREA), held at the London Campus of the University of Sunderland in September 2013. It represents some of the best research presented at the conference, but every chapter has been revised and edited prior to publication. The book, like the conference, is an initiative of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies (CRMCS), which is based in Sunderland. Published by the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom SR1 3SD

The radio talks, but how? On the art of dynamizing the on-air statements. Tradition and the present day

Mimo że termin „dynamika głosu” funkcjonuje w obszarze działań teoretyków i praktyków dziennikarstwa radiowego od powstania medium, wciąż jest różnie interpretowany w kontekście specyfiki wypowiedzi radiowej. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje problem dynamiki i antycypowania wypowiedzi radiowej na przestrzeni lat, wskazując najistotniejsze cechy tych zjawisk. Celem jest podkreślenie zależności pomiędzy wspomnianymi elementami emisji głosu a formatowym i gatunkowym zróżnicowaniem przekazu w radiu. Zastosowana metoda analizy materiału źródłowego w perspektywie historycznej wykazuje, że brzmienie radia jest kształtowane spójnie z jego transformacją jako medium, co skutkuje dowolnością ujmowania kategorii dynamiczności wypowiedzi, a spontaniczne i niereżyserowane wypowiedzi stanowią siłę radia jako medium towarzyszącego. W obliczu coraz intensywniejszego depersonalizowania podmiotów dyskursów medialnych radio pozostaje przestrzenią (wciąż) głównie audialnej komunikacji interpersonalnej.Despite the fact that the term ‘voice dynamics’ has been used both by radio theorists and journalists, its meaning is still interpreted differently in the context of radio speech. This article addresses the question of voice dynamics and on-air speech anticipation and points out the most significant features. It aims to outline the dependency between given elements of voice emission and format and genres of radio broadcast. The method of analyzing sources through a historical perspective indicates, that the sound of radio is coherent with its evolution as a medium, which evokes to some degree of latitude of the ‘voice dynamics’ category. Spontaneous and not pre-arranged speech make the radio more attractive as an accompanying medium. In the face of de-personalization of subjects, which take part in the media discourse, radio still seems to be a space of audio interpersonal communication. The dynamics of communicating through voice features is one of the factors which authenticates the real-time communication in the eyes of the listeners. It also determines the radio format as accepted by the ones, who choose it

Being and Becoming a U.S. Iraq War Veteran: An Exploration of the Social Construction of an Emerging Identity

Background: Traditional perspectives of veteran mental health are grounded in physiological and psychological principles of trauma response and recovery. An alternative perspective is needed for the provision of culturally relevant healthcare to our nation\u27s newest veterans. Research Question: Based on the premise that each veteran cohort has a characteristically identifiable cultural form and process of cultural identification and negotiated development, the research question guiding this study was, What is the culture of the Iraq War veteran? Study Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe, from social constructivist perspective, Operation Iraqi Freedom [OIF] veteran cultural identity development. Study Design and Method: A qualitative, explorative, ethnographic research method was utilized. Veterans participated in one of three participation options: Medical chart review only, Focus group only, or Medical chart review and Focus groups. Eleven veterans participated in the focus group and medical chart review option; one veteran participated in the medical chart review, only, option. A structured interview guide was used to prompt veteran narrative. Data Analysis: Content analysis of medical chart documentation, including mental health, behavioral health, and psychotherapy documentation, and constant comparison data analysis of verbatim transcription of focus group discussion. Results: A conceptual model of Iraq War veteran cultural identity development, based on five dynamic processes of identity resolution, is proposed. The five concepts of the model are: (1) Societal Visitation, (2) Awareness of Permanent Displacement, (3) Dilemma of Transfigured Purpose, (4) Reevaluation of Belongingness, and (5) Identity Confluence. Nursing Implications: Understanding the culture of the Iraq War veteran is an essential foundation for socially-invested and culturally appropriate nursing and interdisciplinary provider responsiveness in addressing the healthcare needs of Iraq War veterans and their families. To promote a relationship of reciprocal involvement with its Iraq War veterans, study findings and the proposed conceptual model can be used by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA clinicians to describe and further investigate the contextual and consensual processes of Iraq War veteran cultural identity development

Głos jako element tożsamości w hybrydycznej rzeczywistości relacji człowiek – asystent głosowy

The article addresses the problem of voice assistants, whose speech synthesis algorithms mimic the natural human voice. Numerous studies show that users of such devices and applications treat them as social beings. This behaviour results from the hybrid nature of the communication reality, in which the characteristics of the natural voice that evoke specific reactions are transposed onto a technologically processed voice. Diagnosis of this issue, which includes aspects of the peculiarities of synthetic speech and the modelling of emotional qualities in the generated voice, allows us to conclude that humans intuitively give the voice of an assistant those qualities that the natural voice signals in interpersonal contacts. Since, from a social point of view, the voice is a carrier of the speaker’s identity (i.e., physical, psychological, and social characteristics), the article shows why the possibility of cloning the voice shatters the cultural order of perceiving the voice as an element of a particular person’s identity, and why it disrupts the awareness of the distinctiveness of one’s own and another’s voice.Artykuł podejmuje problem asystentów głosowych, których algorytmy syntezy mowy imitują głos naturalny. Liczne badania dowodzą, że użytkownicy tych urządzeń oraz aplikacji traktują je jako istoty społeczne. Takie zachowanie jest efektem hybrydycznego charakteru rzeczywistości komunikacyjnej, w której cechy głosu naturalnego wywołujące określone reakcje są transponowane na głos przetworzony technologicznie. Diagnoza tej problematyki obejmująca aspekty specyfiki mowy syntetycznej oraz modelowania walorów emocjonalnych w głosie generowanym pozwala wnioskować, że człowiek intuicyjnie nadaje głosowi asystenta te cechy, które naturalny głos sygnalizuje w kontaktach międzyludzkich. Ponieważ ze społecznego punktu widzenia głos jest nośnikiem tożsamości mówiącego (czyli cech fizycznych, psychicznych i społecznych), artykuł wskazuje, dlaczego możliwość klonowania głosu burzy kulturowy porządek postrzegania głosu jako elementu tożsamości konkretnej osoby oraz dlaczego zakłóca świadomość odrębności własnego i cudzego głosu

COLLECT Matching and reconciliation: Guidance for local authorities

We've decided to focus the November 1st issue of Voices on Helen Bonny’s life, work and music therapy method. We look for people who met her, knew her and whose professional life has been influenced by Helen Bonny