The History of Radio From Hertz To The Web. Communication, Entertainment and Education

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: Communication, Education, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (Núcleo Semente), course: Núcleo Semente, language: English, abstract: The technological convergence of the mass media is the result of a long adaptation process of their communicative resources to the evolutionary changes of each historical moment. Thus, the new media became (plurally) an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical descriptive nature focuses on a literature review about Web Radio and its educative strand. This is an innovator and incipient issue on literature when investigating the potentialities of the radiophonic universe to the online educative process.

By itself, the fruitful study follows the path of the radiophonic evolution integrating the online education on the media sphere, especially on the production of educational content to the programs and the conception of a new language to the environment, a promising ambience to the contemporary radiophonic culture. Due to the unusual nature of this investigation, we intend to promote the phenomenon of the "Educative Modalities of Radio on the Digital Era", that makes itself present on many European countries, at the same time, expanding the debate among the international scientific community. Such information offers us consistent elements to move from the tacit to the explicit knowledge, with property of causes and consequences, going beyond the bibliographic limitations.