The introductory chapter to The One to Watch provides an overview of how radio and the internet are being used together. The text first examines characteristics of the two information and communication technologies – radio and the internet. Then it looks at the imbalanced global expansion of the lnternet and some of the limitations that this imposes when applying North American or European models for its use in the less-industrialised regions, especially in rural areas. Finally, it turns to some of the characteristics that have enabled radio’s success in the same regions.
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