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.