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  • The Map That Lets You Listen to Radio Everywhere

    Adrienne LaFrance

    December 12, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    By mapping links onto satellite imagery, Radio Garden provides an easy way to listen to the online broadcasts of radio stations around the world. Through these broadcasts, a listener can expand their cultural awareness in a direct, entertaining way that reinforces common humanity while retaining distinct individuality.

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  • What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now

    Joel Oliphint

    August 03, 2016 |

    Pitchfork |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    As popular music has become digital and immaterial in the twenty-first century, record stores are hard to find and those in business struggle to be commercially viable. Used Kids record store in Columbus, OH has been in business for thirty years and is perhaps even more popular now that it was ten years ago. The current management treat the medium of vinyl not as a museum artifact, but rather as a commodity in demand by selling online, holding private events with collectors, and selling the materiality to young people.

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  • Radio Vietnam in America's Heartland Serves Growing Community

    Kristi Eaton

    September 01, 2015 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    A woman named MaiLy Do started a Vietnamese-language radio show in Oklahoma City after she realized on Sept. 11, 2001 that her family back home with limited English had no way of finding out if she was okay. Today the station broadcasts for 24 hours across the US and 40 other countries. It offers a voice to the Vietnamese-American population in Oklahoma City and is also essential in disseminating critical information to residents who have limited English skills.

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  • In Tanzania, Farmers Reap the Benefits of Radio

    Sarika Bansal

    November 27, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Tanzania

    In Tanzania, a country that has yet to fully embrace mobile phones and whose road infrastructure remains weak, farmers have embraced radio as a means of receiving pricing and planting information. The reach and relatively low expense of radio afford the medium its popularity.

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  • Without the web, Syrian journalists turn to pirate radio

    Amar Toor

    July 08, 2013 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In response to media censorship and the persecution of journalists in Syria, a Paris-based radio station has trained journalists in Syria and are broadcasting news into Syria by satellite over the FM airwaves.

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  • Soap Operas With a Social Message

    Sarika Bansal

    January 26, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    By depicting crucial social issues such as infant mortality, domestic abuse, and alcoholism, TV and radio soap operas are being used internationally as a powerful tool for mass behavior change.

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