The The power of sound images: radio storytelling during euro crisis

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https://doi.org/10.12795/Ambitos.2021.i54.04

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radio, sound images, radio storytelling, economic journalism

Abstract

Although we live in a highly digitalized world, radio is still a media whose messages depend exclusively on sound and sound images. And it achieves it by unfolding a variety of visual and conceptual language resources with a high evocative power. By building conceptual metaphors, which allow it to turn abstract notions into specific ones, radio gets to explain and show reality through sound images, making use of its audience’s  everyday life. The use of these language resources and the building of these images increase during crucial information moments. When news is too complex, radio resorts more frequently to conceptual metaphors –gathering resources and redundancies– for reproducing the images which explain them. The aim of this research is to describe and characterize how radio reported on the euro crisis by creating sound images. In particular, it analyses the construction of the conceptual metaphor The crisis is a war on the radio programme “El equipo económico de La linterna” in Cadena COPE from May 2010 to July 2012, the main phase of the crisis in Spain and the eurozone. In the construction of that conceptual metaphor and the related sound images, it is specifically analysed the symbols and notions allocated to the term “rescue”, whose explanations were key to show –at first as a “rescue operation” and then as an “invasion”– the crisis development.

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Author Biographies

Juan Pablo Colmenarejo, University of Navarra

Doctor in Public Communication from the University of Navarra. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Navarra and collaborates with several master’s degrees in journalism and communication at Spanish universities. As a radio journalist, he has 30 years of experience in private and public radio stations in Spain: Cadena Cope, Onda Cero, RTVE and Radio Televisión Madrid. He is a columnist for various print and digital media.

María del Pilar Martínez Costa, Universidad de Navarra

Doctor in Public Communication from the University of Navarra. She is a Professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Navarra where she teaches the subject Genres and radio programs. She has published numerous academic articles and has been a principal investigator for several competitive research projects focused on the study of digital media, digital audio and its narrative models, multiplatform production and distribution.

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2021-10-18

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Colmenarejo, J. P. ., & Martínez Costa, M. del P. (2021). The The power of sound images: radio storytelling during euro crisis. Ámbitos. Revista Internacional De Comunicación, (54), 71–83. https://doi.org/10.12795/Ambitos.2021.i54.04

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