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Radio – Community, Challenges and Aesthetics, edited by Grażyna StachyraPublisher: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, Lublin, Poland, 2013Paperback: 306 pages - Language: EnglishISBN: 978-83-7784-321-5IntroductionAmong modern media like television or internet, radio sometimes is perceived like an old-fashioned cousin who does his best to keep up to date with the latest fashion. Nevertheless, as this book proves, it still remains lively and still offers a lot of inspiration both to the audience and to the researchers. Despite its long history radio is still able to change and to make a proper use of the new technologies. We listen to the radio during work and on the way to work; in hurry, early in the morning when we need to find out about the latest news, and more comfortably at night, when we need to relax. We may access it through analog or (in some places) digital radio set, internet or mobile phone. We are surrounded by radio messages in some shops, restaurants, taxis or offices. But after a hundred years of its existence do we really know all about radio? The question is rhetorical. We still learn a lot about this fascinating medium. This book attempts to rise some questions about radio’s role in modern society in many dimensions. The title Community, Challenges and Aesthetics shows some focus points, but does not draw the border between them. Selection of papers written by media researchers from many countries (representing Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain) indicates that there are many perspectives through which we can describe radio and its role. Nonetheless, this book is divided into two parts. The first one is dedicated to widely considered radio challenges and community building. The second part analyzes radio content in communicational and aesthetical context including also problematics of radio genres. I hope that such variety may interest not only radio researchers, but all those who observe new media and their influence on the society. The era of technical r-evolution is also a period when many cultural, social and ethnic problems arise. Some of them are reflected through the radio broadcast and the changes of its aesthetics. The authors would be grateful if the presented book could bring some more inspiration to the debate about our favourite medium.Grażyna StachyraTable of Contents: Grażyna Stachyra - Introduction (p. 7)I. Society, Community and Radio ChallengesGuy Starkey - Radio and localness: ownership and content in the convergent/divergent age of media proliferation (pp. 11 – 28)  Tiziano Bonini - Radio public isn’t what it used to be: emerging models in the age of networked society (pp. 29 – 38) Stanisław Jędrzejewski - Public Service Media Radio 2.0 ahead (pp. 39 – 52)Jean-Jacques Cheval - Guess who was on the radio last night? (pp. 53 – 62)Urszula Doliwa - Polish radio stations run by NGOs and the community media model (pp. 63 – 78)Katarzyna Maciejewska-Mieszkowska - Public regional radio stations as a participant in the electoral communication in Poland. Case study (pp. 79 – 96)Mirosława Wielopolska-Szymura - Ethnic community radio in Canadian and Australian multicultural societies (pp. 97 – 110) Magdalena Szydłowska - Programmes for national minorities in the Polish Radio. The important tasks of the public radio (pp. 111 – 120) Robert Rajczyk - National minorities’ groups in Romania access to media. The case study of radio (pp. 121 -132) Lidia Pokrzycka - Radio in Iceland. General characteristics of the market (pp. 133 – 145) II. Radio Content and AestheticsAngeliki Gazi - Images, acoustic identity and radio sound (pp. 147 – 152)Karolina Albińska - Did pictures kill the radio star? ‘Radiovision’ as a new/old incarnation of radio in the audiovisual era (pp. 153 – 176) Madalena Oliveira - Sounds and Identity: The role of radio in community building (pp. 177 – 188) Thomas Wilke - On the meaning, uses and representation of hate radio in Hotel Rwanda (pp. 189 – 210) Emma Rodero - The same song for different broadcasters. Voice and prosody in radio news (pp. 211 – 224) Golo Föllmer - “Radio Aesthetics – Radio Identities”. A project overview and a methodological study on the experimental variation of radio speech (pp. 225 – 234) Grit Boehme - How listeners perceive the presenter’s voice (pp. 235 – 250)Paulina Czarnek - The entertaining role of call-out in Polish commercial radio stations (pp. 251 – 262) Monika Białek - The image of contemporary Poland in Polish radio feature broadcasts (pp. 263 – 276) Joanna Bachura - Feature – the marriage of fact and fiction (pp. 277 – 286) Grażyna Stachyra - Radio charitainment. A case study of Radio Eska’s campaign ‘We undress to dress’ (pp. 287 – 298)Notes on Authors (pp. 299 – 306)