Origin and decline of the first university radio web in France

Abstract

Résonances was the first university radio web in France. It was founded at the University of Limoges, in 2010. This article is about the origin and decline of this transmedia project. Two strategies are here unfolded: historical the first one, ranging from the conception of the idea, the vicissitudes experienced by the team for implementing the radio and keeping it alive; the second one, a short semiotical approach. Following the principle according to which is sometimes necessary to move to a higher level of analysis to understand the lower one, the thesis of this article is that the suppression of Résonances cannot be understood either historically or semiotically without adding a higher level of analysis.

Keywords:

• University radio web
• transmedia
• historical and semiotical approaches
• convergence culture
• digital communication
• academic journalism
• Semiotic Spiral Dynamics

Notes

1. The programme on Radio Universidad was called Laberintos del Alma (Labyrinths of the Soul). The relationship between semiotics and psychoanalysis was the subject we were talking about with Ivan Darrault-Harris, the first time he was interviewed by the author of this article. On that occasion he invited him to Limoges to do a Ph.D. in Language Sciences at the Semiotic Researches Centre (CeReS).

2. The official site of Jamendo is available at https://www.jamendo.com/es/welcome.