@inproceedings{01b7d944bcc94f1e9b371092b7b6c68b,
title = "Older voices: Supporting community radio production for civic participation in later life",
abstract = "Community radio can support the process of having a voice in one{\textquoteright}s community as a part of civic action, and promote community dialogue. However, older adults are underrepresented as producers of community radio shows in the UK, and face different challenges to their younger colleagues. By working within the radio production group of an existing organisation of older adults, we identify the motivations and challenges in supporting this type of civic participation in media in later life. Key challenges were identified, including audience engagement, content persistence and process sustainability. In response, we 1) supported the group{\textquoteright}s audience engagement using Facebook Live and a phone-in option, and 2) developed a digital production tool. Reporting on the continued use of the tool by the organisation, we discuss how tailored and non-intrusive processes mediated by digital technology can support older adults in delivering richer media experiences whilst serving their civic participatory interests.",
keywords = "Ageing, Civic participation, Community radio, Digital civics",
author = "Arlind Reuter and Tom Bartindale and Kellie Morrissey and Thomas Scharf and Jennifer Liddle",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the Older Voices team for their collaboration. This research was funded by the EPSRC CDT in Digital Civics (EP/L016176/1). Data supporting this publication is openly available under an{\textquoteright}Open Data Commons Open Database License{\textquoteright}. Additional metadata are available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17634/154300-102. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 ; Conference date: 04-05-2019 Through 09-05-2019",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3290605.3300664",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "ACM",
booktitle = "CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}
