World Radio Day: Ghanaian Local Language Radio Talk-Shows Impeding Access to Participation?
By Messan Mawugbe (PhD)
th century has evolved till 21
st century of our time and beyond. Traditionally radio was from the gathering era (where radio acted as a social magnetic box that drew family, communities to a sound box). This gathering era is synonymous to fruits and seeds picking and gathering era in the period of the hunting age. Today, the gathering around a radio box has taken a different format and a shift in newness of what is now known as ‘content sharing’, by individuals, and communities across human diversities through all types of new technological enablers are able to gather in an unseen telesteria spaces induced by technological innovations, radio content could be edited into ‘bites’ for sharing, re-commenting, and re-packaging for sharing. Today, digital innovations have simply made radio communally more dynamic with a positive future.