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7 - ‘God’s Great Leveller’

Talkback Radio as Qualitative Data

from Part II - Media Data Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

By
Scott Hanson-Easey  and
Martha Augoustinos
Edited by
Virginia Braun ,
Victoria Clarke  and
Debra Gray
Virginia Braun
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
Victoria Clarke
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
Debra Gray
Affiliation:
University of Winchester
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Collecting Qualitative Data
A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques
 , pp. 119 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Further Resources: Online

TuneIn is an Internet radio website that allows you to search for podcasts of particular TR shows. It provides a good way to find data or to get a feel for what TR feels and sounds like: http://tunein.com

Further Resources: Readings

To read more about the example study, see Hanson-Easey, S. and Augoustinos, M. (2010). Out of Africa: Accounting for refugee policy and the language of causal attribution. Discourse & Society, 21(3), 295–323. See also:Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
For a critical analysis of how men negotiate masculinity on TR, see Nylund, D. (2004). When in Rome: Heterosexism, homophobia, and sports talk radio. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 28(2), 136–168.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
For a fascinating examination of the role of TR in the Cronulla riots, see Poynting, S. (2006). What caused the Cronulla riot. Race & Class, 48(1), 85–92.Google Scholar
To read more about the influence of TR on politics in Australia, see Turner, G. (2009). Politics, radio and journalism in Australia: The influence of ‘talkback’. Journalism, 10(4), 411–430.Google Scholar

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