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- Title
Understanding the Social Media Audiences of Radio Stations.
- Authors
Al-Rawi, Ahmed
- Abstract
This article investigates the online comments of news items posted on the Facebook pages of two popular Arabic-language radio channels: Radio Monte Carlo—France24 and Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW). This study examines over 184,000 comments with a special focus on the most liked posts in order to understand how audiences of regular radio interact on social media. The results indicate that audiences seem to be more engaged with posts that encourage participating in broad issues, interacting with clever quotes, and entering contests and less so with reading breaking news. With regards to news events and serious issues, this study also examined how social media users of these two Facebook "radio" sites responded to postings that differed from their own opinions, and seemingly actively engaged with contrasting or oppositional views or sentiments.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media; RADIO stations; FACEBOOK (Web resource); ARABIC language; RADIO Netherlands Worldwide (Company); RADIO audiences
- Publication
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
1937-6529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/19376529.2016.1155298