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    RadioQuake: Getting back 'on air' after the Christchurch earthquakes (2015)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/15155
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao.13.1-2.57_1
    
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    1476-4504
    2040-1388
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    Joyce Z
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    Abstract

    Local independent radio stations in Christchurch, New Zealand, had their operations severely disrupted by major earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011. This article examines the experiences of three radio stations that were shut out of their central city premises by the cordon drawn around the city after the 22 February quake. One of the stations continued broadcasting automatically, while the others were unable to fully get back on air for several weeks afterwards. All of the stations had to manage access to workspaces, the emotional needs of staff and volunteers, the technical ability to broadcast, and the need to adapt content appropriately when back on air. For the locally based radio managers decisions had to be made about the future of the stations in a time of significant emotional, physical, and geological upheaval. The article explores how these radio stations were disrupted by the earthquake, and how they returned to air through new combinations and interconnections of people, workspace, technology, content and transmission.

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    Joyce Z (2015). RadioQuake: Getting back 'on air' after the Christchurch earthquakes. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media. 13(1-2). 57-73.
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    Keywords
    disaster; independent radio; New Zealand radio; Christchurch earthquake; Iwi (Maori) radio; local radio
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2001 - Communication and Media Studies
    44 - Human society::4410 - Sociology::441016 - Urban sociology and community studies
    43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430320 - New Zealand history
    16 - Studies in Human Society::1604 - Human Geography::160403 - Social and Cultural Geography

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