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Comparing the Regulatory Models of Net-Radio with Traditional Radio

Author: Andrea J. C. Baker

Abstract

This article establishes the historical framework of net-radio and traditional radio in the context of emerging technologies, programming ideologies and government regulations in North America and Australia. It illustrates how the unregulated nature of net-only radio relaxes the structural constraints associated with traditional radio.

Keywords: Traditional radio – internet – net radio – radio online – net only radio – regulation – music copyright
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About the Author

Dr Andrea Baker is a Lecturer in Journalism at the Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Communications (HUMCASS), Monash University.

Her research interests include journalism internships, study tours, radio, internet and net-radio histories (public, community and commercial radio), broadcast journalism histories,
music journalism, indigenous media, press censorship and FoI, alternative media, community television, net radio, British Cultural Studies (1960-1990s), global journalism, USA, UK and European media, youth media, youth subcultures, media ethnography and
quantitative research.

Contact: Andrea.Baker@arts.monash.edu.au

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