It's not often that CBC3 is put under the microscope, so when this happens, we're happy to help so long as it doesn't involve needles or other forms of sampling. In this case, we have a call out from Elizabeth Curry who is doing her Masters in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Studies, specifically in Interactive Media and Performance at the University of Regina.
Elizabeth wants to interview as many of you as possible to discuss how you use CBC Radio 3 to connect with Canadian music, your fellow listeners, and your own inner Canadian. Please feel free to contact Elizabeth directly. (Her email is after the jump)
For more info on her project, please read: “Radio 3, Canada, and Me: Nationhood and Identity-formation in Radio Cyber Space” after the jump...
“Radio 3, Canada, and Me: Nationhood and Identity-formation in Radio Cyber Space”
The topic of my Masters thesis stems from an interest in the ways that subjects articulate themselves through interactive media and particularly through online music communities. The particular site of examination, CBC Radio 3, is a provocative and necessary point of exploration due to its attachment to the ideals and mandates of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and also due to its continuing growth as a powerful influence in Canada’s music industry. In negotiating CBC Radio 3’s complex location as both online and Canadian, I will figure this research within the context of nationhood, exploring how both online presence and the affect of music can simultaneously set up and break down borders.
The guiding questions of this thesis are as follows:
Insofar as Radio 3 articulates itself as the “Home of Independent Canadian Music,” how does the music on Radio 3, as an affective experience, manifest itself as Canadian music? How does the consumption of this music materialize as cultural practice, national discourse and personal identification?
In 1932, Bertolt Brecht made the claim that: “Radio could be the most wonderful public communication system imaginable, a gigantic system of channels - could be, that is, if it were capable not only of transmitting but of receiving, of making the listener not only hear but also speak, not of isolating him but of connecting him.” In 2007, dana boyd made the claim that social networking sites provide “public displays of connection” that “serve as important identity signals that help people navigate the networked social world.” In what ways does Radio 3, as a conjunction of “public communications systems” and “social networking sites” isolate, connect and help navigate the networked social world?
In order to address the above ideas, it is important that I build a keen knowledge of how the CBC Radio 3 website is being used. As such, I will interview (in person, by phone and by email) users and producers of site content - that's YOU!. With your consent, I will record audio of our interview. Using a series of questions that I have created to address the use of CBC Radio 3, I will facilitate a conversation about your interactions with the website. As the intention of the data collected from these interviews is for research towards my master’s thesis, all participants will be given a copy of the thesis. If further productions of this research are made, I will make every reasonable attempt to advise you of when and where the data collected will be published and how you may gain access to all forms of dissemination.
Elizabeth Curry
curry99e@uregina.ca