Portuguese Community Radios on the Internet: Broadcasting Exclusively Online and the High Practice of Podcasting

• Autor(a) principal: Midões,Miguel
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2184-31202022000200045
• topic: Community radio; Internet; Podcasting; Online broadcasting

Abstract The Portuguese community radios, with their exclusively online presence, enhance new ways of civic participation and a new democracy stage (Dahlgren, 2013; Ferreira, 2012), and assume themselves an ideal place to mobilize people to a common cause. The participation’s intensity is observed by the fact that their programs are being made by their own listeners and regards some subjects that don’t find space in the mainstream radios. Consequently, it reinforces the proximity with the local communities. For instance, each radio program corresponds to a different author, clearly existing diverse contents or subjects, even though we can notice there is an excessive number of musical programs. About the contents, 367 radio programs of these 21 radio projects were analyzed, following a grid made based in the studies of Beaman (2006), Bonini et al. (2014) and Fleming (2009). The 21 online radio projects analyzed mostly present a program grid with the name and time of broadcasting. Online broadcasting occurs in 62% of these stations, the same percentage of projects that makes their programs available in content format. This percentage equals 13 radio projects that allow listening to the programs in streaming (57%) or podcast (19%). Of the 367 analyzed programs, the majority is inside a musical author typology. We can also see a few programs in the categories of radio drama, call-in-phone in, soundscape, sports, and religious.