Journal Articles

From liberalization to fragmentation: a sociology of French radio audiences since the 1990s and the consequences for cultural industries theory

---

The last 30 years have seen a fragmentation of the radio station landscape in France. Since the 1980s, the liberalization of the French radio landscape has resulted in a strong trend towards the private youth music model of radio. But the process is neither a strict fragmentation by radio station or cluster of stations, nor a sharing out of listeners across all the nations. Such a structuring does not seem to be adequately theorized in "field" theory. Bourdieu proposed a "filed of large-scale cultural production" theory which seems arguably inadequate to describe current relations between audiences and media. Using recent audience data from the French audience measurement company, Mediametrie, we show that the best way to describe and analyse the radio audience is to isolate a dominant profile of listeners to youth and music radio stations. Historically, we see the old "radio generaliste" and the public vs private duopoly model moving towards a bipolar landscape. The consequences of this picture for theory include a renewal of the notion of the "filed" and the "general public" (grand public) within the sociology of the cultural industries

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Media, Culture & Society

Call Number

-

Publisher

London : Sage Publications., 2008

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0163-4437

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

Vol. 30, No. 2, Page 215-238

Subject(s)

Radio
Audiences
Age
Cultural Industries Theory
Field Theory
Music

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment