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ICT acceptance, language use and information culture as tools for enhancing information literacy within smallholder maize farmers in Uganda

PurposeThis study aims to examine the relationship between tool adoption and information literacy within smallholder farmers (SHFs).Design/methodology/approachA structured questionnaire was used to gather data for this quantitative study from 225 SHFs. Structural equation modelling was done to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe findings established that tool adoption dimensions (Information and communication technologies (ICT) acceptance, language use and information culture) positively and significantly influenced information literacy. Information culture had the strongest impact.Research limitations/implicationsThe study enriches the situated learning theory (SLT) literature by introducing tool adoption as a predictor of information literacy in a new context of SHFs. Use of tools as independent variables is a positive deviation from previous studies that have used them as mediating variables. Despite the contributions, the cross-sectional design study undermines the ability to solicit more detailed perspectives from the lived in experience of the respondents.Practical implicationsManagers should promote usage of context-specific tools like local radio stations and mobile phones, but also use language tailored to farmer contexts when disseminating information. Policymakers should leverage on social and cultural settings when designing information interventions.Social implicationsThe study highlights critical factors that significantly promote information use for improved productivity for SHFs, cumulatively increasing the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Socially, findings may reduce on their poverty levels of farmers.Originality/valueThis study offers a novel perspective in information literacy domain by using the SLT to delineate contextual tools that are paramount in predicting of information literacy in an under research informal context of SHFs.

The Business Model of Hertzian Radio with A Presence on The Internet: From the Perspectives of Administration and Communication

The business model of the press, in general, and radio, in particular, remained almost unchanged until the 1990s; however, the situation changed with the arrival of the Internet. Therefore, this article aimed to investigate the influence of the antecedents of the business model—value creation, people, strategy, technology, convergence, interaction, and people—of radio stations, taking into account the influence of the Internet on their performance. To this end, a quantitative, descriptive study was carried out with data collected through a survey of Brazilian radio stations with an Internet presence. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. According to the quantitative data from the survey, the most important antecedents were convergence, strategy, and interaction, and there is a relationship between the business model and the performance of radio stations with an Internet presence.

Clustering Method for Signals in the Wideband RF Spectrum Using Semi-Supervised Deep Contrastive Learning

This paper presents the application of self-supervised deep contrastive learning in clustering signals detected in the wideband RF spectrum, presented in the form of spectrograms. Radio clustering is a method of searching for similar signals within the analyzed part of the radio spectrum. Typically, it is based on one or several specific parameters processed from the signal in a given channel. The authors propose a slightly different, innovative approach; thanks to the self-supervised learning of neural networks, there is no need to define specific parameters, and the feature vector, enabling comparison of Euclidean distances between signals, is generated by a deep neural network trained using a contrastive loss function on a dataset containing different radio modulations. The authors describe self-supervised solutions based on contrastive learning and the methods of signal segmentation and augmentation. The training process utilizes a custom database and the Resnet-50 network with a contrastive cost function. Radio clustering is used for autonomous spectrum analysis across wide frequency ranges and enables, among other things, the detection of tactical radio stations operating with widely dispersed frequency-hopping or a significant reduction in computational power required for real-time analysis of a large number of radio signals.

Community Radio and the promotion of gender equality. A case study of Nyabihoko Sub-County, Ntungamo District

One of the primary roles played by media within communities is fostering unity among people and society as a whole. Community radio serves as a crucial tool in achieving this objective. It is widely acknowledged that community media can encompass various aspects, such as shared interests, locality, and cultural identity. This study focuses on the intersection of community radio and women's empowerment, examining how community media uniquely challenges discriminatory traditions and empowers women. Drawing on multiple development paradigms and feminist theories, the research investigates the extent to which community radio stations contribute to promoting gender equality. The study employs a case study approach in Nyabihoko sub-county, Ntungamo district, Uganda. Utilizing a mixed-methods design, data was gathered from various stakeholders, including clan elders, religious leaders, local council representatives, community-based organizations, and youth, through surveys and qualitative interviews. The research revealed that community radio plays a significant role in enhancing women's empowerment, serving as a vital catalyst for positive change. The findings demonstrate that community radio support significantly contributes to bolstering women's empowerment. After analyzing the collected data, including mean and standard deviation calculations, it became evident that there exists a notable relationship between women's empowerment and gender equality. These findings shed light on the strategies and mechanisms employed by community radio to address gender disparities within the local context. They offer valuable insights for policymakers, media practitioners, and development institutions seeking to leverage the potential of community media for social transformation and empowerment. Keywords: Women empowerment, Radio, Media, Gender equality

Unveiling the Political Influence in Brazil’s Community Radio Licensing: An Empirical Study

As of 2023, there are over 5,000 community radio stations in Brazil. However, obtaining a license for community radio broadcasting can be quite challenging. This study reveals that obtaining a community radio broadcasting license in Brazil is easier with political support, as licenses are typically granted to those backed by politicians. Analyzing protocols showed that applications endorsed by congress members or senators were 2.14 times more likely to get approval. This indicates a need for transparency and fairness in the licensing process, where awards should be merit based, reflecting the community’s needs rather than political influence. This will ensure equitable license distribution, benefiting local communities and deepening understanding of Brazil’s community radio licensing process.

Assessing the quality of suicide reporting in Portugal: 6 case studies of celebrities and non-celebrities over 25 years

Multiple studies from various countries have found evidence of suicide increases after media reports of suicide, which are known as the Werther effect, but responsible suicide reporting can contribute to suicide prevention, a phenomenon known as the Papageno effect. This study aims to assess adherence by the Portuguese media to the suicide reporting guidelines released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and to determine whether there are differences in reporting style between them and over time. News items about six suicides of public and non-public figures between 1996 and 2020 were collected from several Portuguese media—two newspapers, three radio stations, three television channels, and a few websites—in the periods following those deaths, and they were subsequently examined for adherence to the WHO guidelines. A total of 374 news items were analyzed. The majority of them complied with most of the WHO recommendations for suicide reporting, especially the ‘don’t do’ guidelines. However, most of the news items that were analyzed did not follow the recommendations regarding putatively preventive information, notably the inclusion of support contacts and citation of mental health experts. The Portuguese media mostly adhered to the WHO suicide reporting guidelines and there was a positive evolution over time in the level of compliance with them. Nevertheless, there is room for improvement.

The applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model in the usage of African language radio stations: A study of South Africa's Generation Y consumers

The applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model in the usage of African language radio stations: A study of South Africa's Generation Y consumers

Feasibility of Community Based Tourism as Sustainable Development:

The objective of the work was to promote a series of activities for sustainable tourism development, taking as support the physical-natural and cultural potential of the locality of San José de Tostós in the municipality of Boconó, Trujillo state, Venezuela. The methodological approach was based on the qualitative mode of participatory action research with field design. The results showed massive community participation in the actions of transformation, improvement and ornamentation of the most affected roads, creation of a community radio station, and elaboration of a tourist route with gastronomic flavors and job generation. Despite the achievements, there is still apathy to work as a team, and a lack of support from public policies to consolidate tourism enterprises to reduce the exodus. This is an alternative to empower the communities, promote their enterprises, and improve the processes of conservation of natural resources.

Eksistensi Radio Melalui Konvergensi Siaran di Era Digital

Radio is a communication medium that must now be able to compete with new media which is currently increasingly massive. The aim of this research is to find out how national private broadcast radio in West Java is able to maintain its existence and the strategies it implements to continue to exist amidst competition with digital information platforms that currently exist. Research respondents were managers of local radio stations in West Java, especially those in Bandung, Cimahi, Sukabumi and Cirebon. This research uses qualitative methods by describing the result of questioners and interviewing and then processing them in the form of descriptive narratives and pie diagram. The results of this research are that almost all private broadcast radio stations in the West Java region that were respondents implemented a convergence strategy to maintain their existence and made changes to their broadcast model management. Some of the convergence strategies implemented are broadcasting via digital streaming, creating more interesting broadcast program content with an audio-visual style such as podcasts, choosing broadcasters who have popularity and character, upgrading broadcast equipment, having social media as a branding and content publication medium, and upload content to YouTube media. This convergence strategy is also carried out to increase interest and the number of advertisers so that they can continue to choose radio as a medium for marketing the products and services offered more widely and in a contemporary style.

Social Dynamics, Internet and the Survival of Broadcast Journalism in the 21st Century

This study looks at how broadcast news on TV and radio is changing in the 21st century because of the internet. The study used a theory that says technology shapes how we use media to see how social things affect how people consume news. Social media is changing how news is spread, and this paper is studying how regular people's content, online groups, and the quick spread of information play a big role. The paper looks at how the internet is changing traditional TV and radio news. The study is checking out challenges and chances that come with everything going digital, from online streaming to regular people reporting news. The paper looks at how old media and new online platforms work together and how they need to be flexible to survive. The study also looks at how people trust and believe in the news, especially with so much information online. Understanding how social things mix with online stories helps us get a better idea of what influences how the public sees and interacts with broadcast news. The study found that broadcast news needs to use social things and the internet to reach more people, but it also needs to keep its integrity and trustworthiness, especially in a time where false information can spread quickly. The study suggests that TV and radio stations should use online platforms to connect with people.

‘Imperial Germany's Push to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean: A Strategic Imperative of Weltpolitik’

With the extension of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and Germany's search first for naval coaling and later for radio station locations, the strategic usefulness of footholds in the Persian Gulf region came to the fore. Reliable communication with the African colonies and warships of the East Asian Cruiser Squadron in the expanse of the Indian Ocean was essential. With the allied Ottoman Empire regional expansion aimed to create a wedge to split the British Empire. Disruptive activities in Persia and Afghanistan aimed to pressure India and distract Britain. This places German strategy in the region in a significant world-political context leading up to the First World War.

Upaya Radio Elbayu Mempertahankan Pendengar

Radio El Bayu is one of the AM radios that still exist today. This radio is also the only active radio station in Gresik. This radio, established in 1994, has a target audience of 40 years and over. In its time, this radio often held an event for the local community to build its image among the public. When many radios broadcast with FM, El Bayu remains consistent with the AM transmitter used. In fact, in Indonesia itself, it is very rare to find radio stations that still use this AM transmitter. Although the number of radio listeners has decreased, some people still choose to listen to radio channels. In this journal, we will discuss the efforts made by El Bayu Radio to retain radio listeners, considering that El Bayu still uses AM transmitters and has to compete with current digital media.

The Problem of Media Translation Into the Amazigh Language in the Algerian Radio Station

The increasing activity of the various media, as well as their work on continuous and direct transmission of events, and their reliance on multilingual sources, necessitates translation to assist the journalist and editor in writing and understanding the news, as well as knowing its background and details. In today's world, media translation plays a significant role. As is the case with many written and audio translations, itis one of the most significant types of translation. The Algerian Radio Corporation, for example, broadcasts in the Amazigh language and with various linguistic variations .As a result, these Tamazight radio stations in Algeria are seen as an ideal space in which this close relationship between translation and the media mightbe embodied. According to some experts, if the media keeps up with global development, translation is attempting to express the contents of that progress, regardless of the circumstances. The process of translating news collected by journalists from many sources and in multiple languages, particularly Arabic, French, and English, into the Amazigh language, where the content is edited and then disseminated in news bulletins or through audio radio programs in these channels. Therefore, this paper seeks to shed light on the reality of media translation, into the Amazigh language on Algerian radio, through an analytical study of some translated works, with an indication of the difficulties that journalists face in the translation process and the rolethey play, in light of the challenges they face in order to maintain honesty, accuracy and objectivity in translating news.

Peminat Radio dan Podcast Kalangan Generasi Z Saat Berkendara

This research explores the change in interest in listening to Radio rather than Podcasts and assesses what factors support the change in interest in listening. The research was conducted to understand how technological developments such as digital audio platforms, and the integration of social media platforms affect the distribution of audio content such as podcasts. The researchers analyzed how these platforms affect audience, user engagement and monetization of audio content. Explored consumer behavior, listening habits, and audience preferences especially within Generation Z in relation to radio and podcasts. Researchers studied how factors such as content type, delivery style, and speed of access influence interest in listening to podcasts and online radio stations. Explore the extent to which the availability of digital audio content such as podcasts and online radio affects listener satisfaction. Researchers studied the factors that influence content selection, suitability to audience interests and listeners' response to the content presented. The trend of commodities with different purposes coming together to produce a single, multipurpose good or service is known as technological convergence, and it is a growing phenomenon that is changing the commercial landscape. Recent technological advancements have come to the attention of all human beings. The pursuit of convergence is accelerating market transformation and the creation of innovative products and services for increasingly perceptive and discerning customers. It is from this Media Convergence that research was conducted to investigate the impact of recent technologies such as on-demand audio, streaming platforms, and podcast monetization on the radio and podcast industry as a whole.

Application of New Website Technology and Social Media on Conventional Media Radio Stations Indonesia

Objective: This study aims to acquire factual knowledge revealing the important benefits that arise in the use of the Internet with new Internet technologies: websites and social media on conventional media of radio stations. Methods / Design / Approaches: This research uses qualitative methods with case study approaches that study the utilization of the internet with new internet technologies on traditional media of the radio station. This study examines from various perspectives namely communication, media, technology in the maintenance of radio broadcasting with various sources. Results and Conclusions: Nowadays new technologies and distribution methods are beginning to emerge that have a profound effect on the way the audience listens to radio broadcasts through internet media. It's for the radio station agency with new opportunities, but also new challenges in addition to conventional radio services available, now available as well as file-sharing, podcasting, downloading, and streaming audio, all facilitated through internet media. Implications: Currently, it is difficult to obtain listener data in conventional media. The listening data that can be measured nowadays is easier on the Internet (new media) both through website as well as social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter in real online. Understanding/Values: A systematic review of literature contributes to studying and providing an overview in literature regarding the integration of old media and new media to existence of the radio industry that existed over the years.

Letting the Lark Ascend: Vaughan Williams's ‘Most Popular Work’ and the Limits of Revisionism

Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending is a perennial favourite in the British classical music radio station Classic FM's ‘Hall of Fame’ poll. In spite of its apparent popularity, however, the work sits uncomfortably with the way revisionist critics and scholars have wanted to portray the composer. As an escapist piece of English musical pastoralism, The Lark undermines their preferred view of Vaughan Williams as a progressive or even ‘modernist’ participant in his artistic milieu. To combat this image, some critics and musicologists have argued for complex, harder-edged interpretations of the work that have little to no basis in the music's primary source materials or the composer's stated priorities in his own writings. Such emphases reflect a problem in recent revisionist literature, wherein traditionalist, nationalist, or Romantic aspects of Vaughan Williams's music are excessively downplayed (or re-situated) in favour of arguments that better support elite sensibilities. As a work consisting of accessible, melody-centric music, and following from a poem excerpt suggesting an idyllic scene, The Lark serves as a bulwark against revisionist overreach and a check against over-emphasis on trendy priorities.

Implementation of Radio Convergence of The Republic of Indonesia (RRI Pro 1 Yogyakarta) in Maintaining Existence in The Digital Era

In a modern era as it is today, technology is developing very rapidly, so the media industry must also grow.The mass media, especially radio, must go hand in hand with globalization and the Internet to survive, let alone society has shifted from digital media to conversional, so convergence is a solution to keep radio heard by the public. Media convergence is the integration of the traditional telecommunications media with the Internet. The Radio of the Republic of Indonesia (RRI) is the only radio station owned by the State of the Union of Indonesia. (NKRI). The aim of this research is to know and explain the form of Yogyakarta RRI strategy inining its existence in the digital age. The theory used in this study is Henry Jenkins' theory by uniting the 3c of computing, communication, and content. The study uses qualitative methods and participant observation. The results of this study found that the step RRI Yogyakarta took to preserve its existence in this digital age was by making convergence. Convergence carried out by RRI Yogyakarta among others Website, RRI Go Play, Chanel Youtube and RRI Net. The impact of the convergence done by Yogyakarta RRI is the ease of access, the public can access and can enjoy through smartphone anywhere and anytime.

Keep it locked (down): how Melbourne’s community radio stations performed scene functions in the context of the coronavirus pandemic

ABSTRACT While community radio scholars have been astute in documenting the democratic and socio-political value of community radio, there has been a lack of analysis towards its specifically musicalized role and the influence that has on local music scenes. Comparably, popular music research has tended to focus on physical, ‘bounded’ spaces such as band rooms and clubs. But what happens when these spaces cannot be accessed? By positioning Melbourne’s six COVID-19 response lockdowns as an ‘unbounded’ context, this article sets out to uncover which, and to what extent, scenic functions are performed by the city’s community radio stations. Focusing on three of the FM community broadcasters – PBS, 3RRR, and 3MBS – it draws on both community radio studies and scene theory to identify conceptual overlaps as well as a gap in pre-existing scholarship between the two. Scene and community are discussed in conjunction with the ideas of ‘space’ and ‘empowerment’, which I argue pertain equally to community radio studies and the scene concept. Based around these frameworks, an ethnographic study was conducted in order to collect qualitative data and best determine the scenic responsibilities upheld by community radio across Melbourne’s 267 days in lockdown.

DIGITALIZATION OF INFORMATION ON ARDAN BANDUNG RADIO BROADCASTING

Broadcasting media, namely radio and television, is a form of mass media that is efficient in reaching a very large audience. Therefore broadcast media plays a very important role in communication science in general and mass communication science in particular. The publishing industry in Indonesia shows its rapid development. One of the radio stations is Ardan Radio. This research uses a qualitative approach using the case study method. This research was carried out through an interview process, in this research an interview process was carried out with Muhamad Faisal as producer of Ardan Radio & Broadcaster in 2021 in the Ardan School school bus program. Ardan Radio Bandung has a broadcast format that prioritizes pop music, both local and international. Apart from that, they also present news, updates, and interesting segments such as talk shows, games, and interactions with listeners via telephone or social media. This radio has succeeded in building a strong image among young people and the people of Bandung. Ardan Radio has the tagline "Radio Anak Muda Bandung" which reflects its identity as a radio that presents programs that are liked by the younger generation. With the presence of Ardan Radio, listeners can enjoy their favorite music, get the latest information, and be involved in various activities and events hosted by this radio station. Ardan Radio continues to innovate and adapt to technological developments and listener preferences. They are also active in various social activities and support community events in Bandung.