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Research Note: Mass Communication as Participation

Web-Radio in Germany: Legal Hazards and its Contribution to an Alternative Way of Mass Communication

EMPAS - Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, University of Bremen, Celsiusstrasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany, muehlenfeld{at}sfb186.uni-bremen.de

Web-radio in Germany is becoming rather popular and gives numerous people the opportunity of spreading their own radio programmes to millions of potential listeners. However, web-radio in Germany faces several hurdles, political and economic ones. This article gives an overview of the problems and attempts to depict the position of today's German web-radios within the general broadcasting system. It also looks at other forms of alternative broadcasting, such as the open channel, and compares their respective historical backgrounds.

Key Words: broadcast system • Internet • legal constraints • mass media • web-radio

European Journal of Communication, Vol. 17, No. 1, 103-113 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0267323102017001609


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