Overview
Draws on a unique and rich qualitative study of production culture that includes interviews with 30 employees of the BBC Asian Network
Adds to a growing body of research on media production, specifically in relation to race
Offers new insights to the fields of media, radio and creative industries studies and internationally, given the BBC's prominence around the world as a public service broadcaster
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This ground-breaking new book provides a unique, in-depth analysis of the BBC Asian Network, the BBC’s national ethnic-specific digital radio station in the UK. Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu offers an insight into the internal production culture at the radio station, revealing the challenges minority ethnic producers faced as they struggled to create a cohesive and distinct 'community of listeners'. Besides the differences of opinion that emerged within the inter-generational British Asian staff over how to address the audience’s needs, the book also reveals the ways in which 'race' is managed by the BBC, and how the culture of managerialism permeates recruitment strategies, music playlists and mother tongue language programmes. In-depth interviews unveil how the BBC's 'gatekeeping' system limits the dissemination of original journalism about British Asian communities, through the marginalisation of the expertise of narratives created by the network's own minority ethnic journalists.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu is an Associate Professor in Journalism at De Montfort University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The BBC Asian Network
Book Subtitle: The Cultural Production of Diversity
Authors: Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65764-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65763-5Published: 20 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65766-6Published: 20 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65764-2Published: 19 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 229
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Music, Journalism, Communication Studies, Ethnicity Studies