Introduction / Madalena Oliveira, Grazyna Stachyra and Guy Starkey, iii
I. TECHNOLOGIES
1 The future of radio is the internet, not on the internet / Richard Berry, 3
2 Radio in the new media environment / Stanislaw Jedrzejewski, 17
3 Radio days (are now): The radio marketplace of innovation in the context of audiovisual culture / Joanna Bachura-Wojtasik, 27
4 Radio news on the internet: Is sound still dominant? / Ana Isabel Reis, 41
5 Radio entertainment from the perspective of convergence: Case studies of Polish radio stations / Paulina Czarnek, 53
6 Masters of brand: A study of social media workers in the Italian and Spanish radio industries / Toni Sellas and Tiziano Bonini, 65
7 2.0. in form, yet still 1.0. in purpose: A comparative study of Spanish music radio stations on Twitter / Susana Herrera Damas and José Luis Requejo Alemán, 83
8 Ex-static but not ecstatic: Digital radio and the end of interference / Evangelia Karathanasopolou, 95
II. GEOGRAPHIES
9 The participative medium: Radio in the processes of democratisation / Esther Dorn-Fellermann, 103
10 Radio as an old and a new medium: Sustaining cultural identities of listeners / Miroslawa Wielopolska-Szymura, 115
11 The obligations of listeners in 'expression-seeking' dialogues / Grazyna Stachyra, 125
12 Narcissism in Western Australia's community radio sector / Simon Order, 139
13 The strengths of radio journalists working in lesser-used European languages: Between convergence processes, specialisation and social responsibility / Irati Agirreazkuenaga, Ainara Larrondo and Koldo Meso, 155
14 Narrative elements in The Archers: An analysis of a long-running radio soap opera / Emma Rodero, Lluís Mas, Olatz Larrea and María Blanco, 169
15 Free and community radio in Spain: Waves in a global village / Carmen Peñafiel, 179
16 Public broadcasting in Brazil: Images and perspectives of the audience - challenges to overcome the passive symbolic and achieve social credibility / Carlos Eduardo Esch and Nélia R. Del Bianco, 191
17 Religious radio stations in Poland: A community-oriented Catholic ghetto? A case study of Radio Niepokalanów / Urszula Doliwa, 205
III. HISTORIES
18 Comedy shows: Humour, crisis and the resilience of radio / Madalena Oliveira, 221
19 Noise, soundplay, extended radio: Bugs & Beats & Beasts as an example of resilience in the German Hörspiel / Ania Mauruschat, 229
20 Breaking the taboo of avisuality: When pure audio theatre is not enough / Karolina Albinska, 241
21 Radio documentary in times of media convergence / Monika Bialek, 257
22 What is over is (not) over: Radio as an artist and its audience in Poland / Elzbieta Pleszkun-Olejniczakowa, 267
23 Radio series in Poland: Characteristics, forms and trends / Aleksandra Pawlik, 281
24 'Always on the air, always with you': Rádio Clube Português in 1963 / Rogério Santos, 295