Listening to Europe's migration 'crisis': The discursive, affective and imaginative responses of audiences to BBC Radio 4 broadcasts
Listening to Europe's migration 'crisis': The discursive, affective and imaginative responses of audiences to BBC Radio 4 broadcasts
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聆听欧洲移民“危机”：观众对 BBC 广播 4 台广播的话语、情感和想象力的反应
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12670
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Watson A
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Watson A
虽然地理学有着悠久的传统，研究地缘政治话语和媒体和流行文化中的隐喻，但受众仍然没有得到充分的研究。对表现场所的关注，加上对分析视觉媒体和文化的学科偏见，掩盖了了解、表现和参与世界的其他方式。本文通过探索广播及其塑造受众地理想象力的能力来纠正这些不平衡。一种创新的“播放列表日记”方法被用来揭示听众如何听到，解释和想象2014年至2019年期间英国广播公司广播4台关于欧洲移民“危机”的广播;一种新颖的方法，它回答了地理学家与声音和倾听方法的要求，并更好地了解观众对移民新闻故事的反应。这份文件在概念上对这一领域作出了重大贡献，它说明了听众是如何以话语、情感和想象的方式收听广播的，并确定了难民的声音和故事在形成承认政治方面的关键作用;也就是说，广播新闻如何以及在什么条件下瓦解“我们”和“他们”的话语，扩大想象中的归属社区，并导致听众和难民之间的识别和联系。因此，它通过揭示广播如何塑造受众对移徙的地理想象力，并调节感知、识别和与流动中的人的关系等领域，超越了侧重于媒体中的话语和情感邀请的研究。
Whilst geography has a long tradition of examining geopolitical discourses and imaginaries in media and popular culture, audiences remain understudied. A preoccupation with the site of representation is coupled with a disciplinary bias towards analysing visual media and culture, which obscures alternative ways of knowing, representing and engaging in the world. This paper redresses these imbalances by exploring radio and its capacity to shape audiences' geographical imaginations. An innovative ‘playlist‐diary’ method is used to reveal how listeners hear, interpret and imagine BBC Radio 4 broadcasts on Europe's migration ‘crisis’ between 2014 and 2019; a novel approach which answers calls for geographers to engage with sounds and methodologies of listening, and better understand audience responses to journalistic storytelling on migration. The paper makes a significant conceptual contribution to the field by illustrating how listeners hear broadcasts in discursive, affective and imaginative registers, and by identifying the pivotal role of refugee voices and stories in forging a politics of recognition; that is to say, how and under what conditions radio journalism collapses discourses of ‘us’ and ‘them’, expands imaginative communities of belonging, and leads to instances of identification and connection between listeners and refugees. It therefore pushes beyond research that focuses on discursive and affective invitations in media by uncovering how radio shapes audiences' geographical imaginations around migration and regulates fields of perceptibility, recognition and relatability with people on the move.