Review: The Sound Medium In American Life

This contemporary article discusses the popular opinion of what makes Internet radio appealing to users and if it is accurate. It is well known that Internet radio is an increasingly popular platform and is challenging traditional FM/AM radio in terms of popular use. The ability to customize, share and access endless amounts of music at hand creates defining differences between internet radio and traditional radio. Internet radio is favorable in our increasingly digital age, especially amongst younger generations. In the article, ‘Internet Radio Is About To Surpass FM/AM, But Have Spotify And Pandora Really Changed Anything?’ the author, Jason Gilbert, introduces what is commonly believed to be the draw to Internet radio over traditional radio. Listeners that use services like Pandora, Spotify and Rhapsody enjoy and prefer …show more content…
Music that is most popular on the radio carries over to Internet radio in popularity. This can relate to my article, Radio Cultures: The Sound Medium in American Life, where author Michael C. Keith emphasizes the cultural impact of one voice being broadcasted and heard nationwide. While the same voice is not being shared amongst all Spotify users, there is still the cultural impact from popularity trends shared between traditional and internet radio. While this is a common outcome there is are still countless artist and playlist to be discovered through Internet radio. Internet radio appeals to the digital generation users by giving listeners endless options to explore and the free will power to choose from the options. Traditional radio doesn’t give individuals decisive power on what is played in this sense. In conclusion to Jason Gilbert’s questions, users method for listening to music is shifting for convience with the extra incentive that users now have the opportunity to discover new music if they choose