At present, it is becoming clear in Europe how great the dependence on monopolistic U.S. providers is. These do not see themselves as media publishers and, in this sense, do not want to take responsibility for their role in a democratic discourse process. The predominant business model is the trade […]
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The Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is a civil society media and communication platform. In addition, CBA is Austria’s largest podcast provider with completely free access. CBA is now to be expanded in the German-speaking region. Datasets and the communityThe focus with the CBA is for the Endnutzer:innen on speed. The […]
Radio and Social Activism A synonym for radio in Serbia is radio station B92 – it is even today, six years after it has been shut down. During the 1990s war in Yugoslavia and Serbia, this radio station played a key role in informing the citizens of Serbia, being the […]
The usual question “How are you?” in Serbia is not just a formality. It happens rather often within daily communication to receive in response a detailed “report” from the interlocutor.These days, that answer in Belgrade often sounds like this: “I feel like we are back the 90s. It is as […]
When someone asked me to introduce and say a few sentences about Hungary’s media landscape and about the state of free media, I lost my bearings. I could recite the government’s or the National Media Authority’s statements about Hungary’s media – “it is diverse, free, media pluralism was never so […]
The free radio scene is participating at re:publica21, the largest conference on topics of the Internet and digital society in Europe promoting their slogan “FREE, ANONYM, FREE OF CHARGE – What happens to the FREE FREQUENCIES?” „We have noticed that it is unclear in almost all federal states what will […]
If we want to build modular software applications, we need a defined interface. At Free Radio App we used XML for data exchange. Better is an API. The aim of our API is Exchange of programmes Display on websites of a radios: what is available elsewhere on the same topic […]
Programme exchange was the most important motivation for networking among independent radios in the 90th. It’s hard to imagine how that worked without the internet: People sent each other copied lists (yes, photocopiers already existed) by letter. Such a thick envelope contained often handwritten lists descriping library holdings of stations […]