ABC Radio National Features Conference

Went to Sydney to give a paper at the Features Conference - and go to my cousin's wedding.

The paper is about broadcast programs improving online presence and developing online projects – how distribution via a computer screen rather than a radio changes what we do and how we prioritizes things as program makers.

The shift from radio to online as a primary delivery platform is huge. Time and linearity, the two pillars grounding how radio content works, are completely unhinged in a networked environment – which is both timeless and nonlinear… And then there is negotiating this business of the screen – radio has always had a tricky relationship with vision…

Online functions differently to radio – it’s a multifunctional receptive outlet used as…

  • a portable media delivery/distributor - where we pick up our freshly baked media...
  • an information resource - search, find, surf... dig around research interests and news
  • an audio and multi-media player - engage with immersive and often interactive media objects
  • as an outlet for self-expression and social interaction - expression through participation and social media and group allegiances

We have to incorporate all think in our thinking about making and delivering programs… So, in a nutshell – the paper looks at…

(Before anything else) making sure our primary media object is spreadable – that the podcast’s ID3 tags are in order - ensuring we have the basics covered. It’s important to understand and work with how our programs live as digital bits in the world

Approaches to developing online features:

  • Delivery – developing features out of different ways to find and sort through archive material
  • Multimedia –creating media –enriched programs
  • Interactivity - developing participatory initiatives


1 comments:

observer said...

thanks Kyla, intereting post, food for thought