Paper short abstract:

A study about bodily intra-actions with radio as materialisation, sound and the structured rythms of daily life. The study is based on interviews with people 70+ about their life-long interactions with radio. The analysis is based on a life course perspective with specific interest in later life.

Paper long abstract:

Since the beginning of the 20th century radiobroadcasting and the radio apparatus have travelled in time and technological maturing, which means that radio as a media and radio-listening as a human activity incorporate several aspects relevant to the study of ageing and experiences of ageing. In this study I am interested in the bodily intra-actions with radio as materialisation, sound and rythms of daily life.

This study of radio-listening is based empirically on a current fieldwork among Danish people above 70 years who are interviewed about their radio-listening and -practices in a life course perspective.

Initially, the analysis is of temporal character; applying a life-course perspective including:

-Individual aspects: Taste and practice, identification, emotionality and daily routines,

-Social aspects: Sociability, joint experiences of listening, (in real or in imaged

communities), feelings of community

-Cultural aspects: Historical and generationally specific experiences and memories.

The study is applying socio-material theories while analyzing practices of radiolistening as material-discoursive intra-actions involving bodies, radioapparatuses, and the content chosen from these in a life course perspective. I am interested in intra-actions where these phenomena involves a "becoming with" ageing.

This analysis includes materiality, time and space, memory and experience, so

I apply a mix of socio-material and narrative theoretical inspirations. This means that the interactions between the listening bodies and the apparatuses, their spatial positions and movements are interpreted as material-semiotic intra-actions, as well as embodied experiences and memories in time and space are interpreted in a postphenomenological perspective, influencing on daily rythm and bodily movements.