Radio's New Wave

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YOUTH, NEW MEDIA, AND RADIO

Mobile Phone and Local Radio Convergence in Turkey

Ece Algan

Media convergence has become a widely accepted term that describes how we consume media today. While the concept is generally used to refer to the consumption of (mostly old) media using new internet and mobile platforms, it is also used to explain the current trend of media systems across the world becoming increasingly alike with regard to their products, their professional practices and cultures, and their systems of relationships with other political and social institutions.¹ This particular era of “global homogenization of media systems,” as Hallin and Mancini refer to it, raises concerns over the corporate and commercial interests of big global media ...