Comments on: Does radio present problems of democratic legitimacy for Deafs? http://deafphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/does-radio-present-problems-of-democratic-legitimacy-for-deafs/ a blog about everything and nothing at the same time deafilosophy(AT)gmail.com Sat, 19 May 2007 21:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bucky the GREAT http://deafphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/does-radio-present-problems-of-democratic-legitimacy-for-deafs/#comment-45 Bucky the GREAT Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:19:29 +0000 http://deafphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/does-radio-present-problems-of-democratic-legitimacy-for-deafs/#comment-45 Radios. How I'd love that there was a way for us to gain access from it. Yes, NPR is probably the most heard station nation-wide, maybe BBC. I always talk with hearing people and they tell me what they learned from NPR. Information from that station is so wonderful. Yes, we can get access from NPR on their website but it's somewhat different. According to http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_radio_audience.asp?cat=3&media=8 in 2002, 40% people listen to the radio at home and 33% in the car while only 25% listen at work. The percentage of listing to radios at homes has declined from 1998 to 2002 whereas listening to it in the car has gone up. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/261950_snaptune07.html says that 95% of people listen to the radio while driving. This article was written in 2006. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650201928,00.html adds that in the Spring of 2006, 25.5 million people listen to an NPR program during an average week!! Interesting numbers there however the point I am trying to address here is that a HIGH percentage of people listen to the radio when they are doing other things that don't require much thinking like driving a car. They are able to think about other things while driving so they turn on the radio. At home they probably do it while cooking dinner, washing dishes or folding clothes. At work, they probably listen to it while tuned in some kind of work. Their mind can screen out sounds at one’s will but if something interesting comes along, they stop working and listen for a bit. In this day I do not see a single hearing person sitting down at home taking time to listen to the radio, those days are gone. Thanks to NPR for making their transcripts available to us (probably can get them for free if we told them we couldn't listen to it on the radio) but it's difficult for me to actually read NPR's transcript on the website because it actually requires some of my time to sit down in front of the computer and read versus listening to it while driving. How can it be accessible to us while driving? That is something I would like to see done. Radios. How I’d love that there was a way for us to gain access from it.

Yes, NPR is probably the most heard station nation-wide, maybe BBC. I always talk with hearing people and they tell me what they learned from NPR. Information from that station is so wonderful. Yes, we can get access from NPR on their website but it’s somewhat different.

According to http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_radio_audience.asp?cat=3&media=8 in 2002, 40% people listen to the radio at home and 33% in the car while only 25% listen at work. The percentage of listing to radios at homes has declined from 1998 to 2002 whereas listening to it in the car has gone up.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/261950_snaptune07.html says that 95% of people listen to the radio while driving. This article was written in 2006.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650201928,00.html adds that in the Spring of 2006, 25.5 million people listen to an NPR program during an average week!!

Interesting numbers there however the point I am trying to address here is that a HIGH percentage of people listen to the radio when they are doing other things that don’t require much thinking like driving a car. They are able to think about other things while driving so they turn on the radio. At home they probably do it while cooking dinner, washing dishes or folding clothes. At work, they probably listen to it while tuned in some kind of work. Their mind can screen out sounds at one’s will but if something interesting comes along, they stop working and listen for a bit.

In this day I do not see a single hearing person sitting down at home taking time to listen to the radio, those days are gone. Thanks to NPR for making their transcripts available to us (probably can get them for free if we told them we couldn’t listen to it on the radio) but it’s difficult for me to actually read NPR’s transcript on the website because it actually requires some of my time to sit down in front of the computer and read versus listening to it while driving. How can it be accessible to us while driving? That is something I would like to see done.

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