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Radio in the Digital Age

I was approached by Polity Books to write this volume. Several of the authors on their Digital Media in Society Series recommended me as the appropriate author of the book on radio for the series. The book draws on and pulls together all of my research into digital and online radio, which I have been engaged in over the past 14 years, as well as on my twenty-five years’ experience as a radio industry professional. Its aim is to address the complex and discursive nature of radio as a medium (both analogue and digital) in an age characterised by the prevalence of digital technologies - where other works in this field had simply focused on online radio and DAB. Although my approach to the book was research-intensive with aims to contribute new knowledge and insight to the academic field of Radio Studies, the work also endeavours to communicate in an accessible register because of my interest in making my research transferrable as useful knowledge within the industries. Several of the interviewees in the book are experts in the field situated here in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research at BCU and the writing of the book was supported by the Centre with a research sabbatical that allowed me the time to focus on its completion. The book was finished in December 2012, and was one of the key outcomes of my academic research that led the university to grant my professorship in February 2013.