Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 855-859).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-101).

The main proposition of this thesis is that the news media serve as public connectors in sustaining and stabilizing national citizens’ transnational public connection to the global public sphere. The term transnational public connection refers to civic orientation to affairs beyond national borders. This approach builds on Couldry et al.’s (2006, 2007)’s notion of nationally based “public connection”. This thesis contends that in order to fulfill such a role, the news media need to provide international news with a transnational outlook, which interprets and describes international events and affairs in relation to different countries, the region and ultimately the globe. / Considering different factors affecting international news reporting, this thesis posits that news content carried by international broadcasters would generally have a broader outlook than national news media. Hence it focused its effort on examining one type of international broadcaster: government-funded shortwave radio. This thesis argues that shortwave radio broadcasting is still relevant in today’s multimedia environment. This thesis contends that shortwave radio broadcasting functions as a crucial supplementary “external public connector” in connecting publics located in the world’s less developed regions and/or under repressive regimes to the global public sphere. Therefore it is important for them to incorporate transnational news outlook in their news reporting. / This thesis argues that shortwave radio broadcasters’ core mission of carrying out government public diplomacy does not necessarily act as an impediment to their incorporating a transnational outlook in their news reporting. It proposes that the changing notion of public diplomacy is theoretically intertwined with the concept of transnational public connection; hence it is potentially an impetus for news with transnational outlook to emerge. But for such potential to be fully realized, this thesis argues that the broadcasting stations needs to have certain levels of editorial independence and be able to balance the interests of its home country and target region in its news coverage. / Using Australia’s international shortwave broadcaster, ABC Radio Australia as a case study, this research attempts to discover whether international news with a transnational outlook could be found and to try to define the parameters of such a type of news. Operationalizing a three dimensions approach proposed by Berglez (2008) in a quantitative content analysis, this study examined news content broadcast by Radio Australia’s flagship news program Connect Asia over a period of nine weeks. It found that news with a transnational outlook does exist in Connect Asia’s news coverage and the emergence of this type of news is closely linked with news topics. This type of news is more likely to emerge in news topics such as environment and health. It also found that news with a transnational outlook comprises a very small proportion of the totality of Connect Asia’s news coverage. The frequency of such news is limited by Connect Asia’s overwhelming focus on the news topic of politics. This thesis discusses several contributory factors which resulted in Connect Asia’s overall emphasis on politics and contends that government-funded international broadcasters, as well as other international broadcasters might need to de-politicize and broaden the scope of their news coverage in order to further incorporate a transnational outlook.

John E. Ward, Ithiel de Sola Pool, Richard J. Solomon. / "10 February 1983. -- Rev. 25 April 1983." On title page: MIT Research Program on Communications Policy. / Prepared for The Voice of America. IA-20076-23 MIT OSP ; 92012

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Since 1927 international broadcasters have spanned oceans and transcended borders through the use of shortwave radio. In the beginning of the 21st century, some longtime shortwave stations have sharply cut back their English language services, particularly to North America and the Pacific region; at least one station has signed off forever. This paper examines the history of shortwave broadcasting--how it came to be, how it was used and by whom. Through interviews with broadcasters and listeners, it also explores the nature of the shortwave "experience"--especially how shortwave listening is different from listening to other media. Finally, this paper looks at what forces have precipitated such rapid and drastic changes in an 80-year old medium, why some adherents say new technologies are not necessarily suitable substitutes for shortwave, and what the near future holds for international radio broadcasting.

Most of the international broadcast stations in the world have their historic background and tasks. International broadcasting prevails in the period of the World War ¢º and Capitalism against Communism. Its tasks include politics, military, religion and so on. But with time, along with the development of communication, Internet and media, global village gradually forms. The spread of international broadcasting in politics, military, culture and entertainment faces multiplication. Therefore, to take the listeners¡¦ acceptation becomes the essential condition of the international broadcast stations¡¦ existence. Besides tone quality and the signal¡¦s stability, broadcasting¡¦s quality should take the most consideration in the acceptation of the listeners in destination areas. The followings are three elements of broadcasting¡¦s quality: 1. Condition of psycho-acoustic quality. 2. Satisfaction among the listeners. 3. Motivation which can attract more listeners. In the research, it describes the outline and evolution of broadcast's engineering, international broadcasting's history and the course of change and development in Central Broadcasting System(CBS) and further studies and discusses the factors to affect broadcasting quality's engineering, listeners¡¦ listening behavior and listeners¡¦ figure in midland China. To study the relevance between international broadcasting 's quality and listeners¡¦ behavior in listening. It analyzes 632 letters from China¡¦s listeners and results as follow¡G A, The quality of international radio's broadcasting is related to the frequency of listeners who listen to the radio. There is acoustic difference among the regions, and it affects the listeners¡¦ willing to turn on the radio. B, The quality of international radio's broadcasting is related to " Use with satisfy " of radio listeners. " Program type " and " Host factor " show obvious otherness in listeners¡¦ sex and their living areas. C, The quality of international radio's broadcasting is related to the listeners¡¦ motivation in listening. People who are different sex and come from different areas have different motivation in " Takes interest in project " , " Problem discuss " , " Requirement " , " Take action¡¨ According to the result of this research, I brings up some suggestions after discussion: A, suggestions about the broadcastings quality of CBS to midland China, such as psycho-acoustic improvement, satisfaction with the listeners¡¦ usage requirement and enhancing listeners¡¦ motivation in receiving broadcasts. Two, suggestions about the development of CBS.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2010. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MA)(Media&Comm)--University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, Media and Communication Program, 2010. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-115)