A concept of expanded listener

Abstract

From what the authors of the Weimar Republic (Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Rudolf Arnheim) thought about the connection between radio and its listeners, going through the consideration of English Cultural Studies and the concept of structure of feeling from Raymond Williams, it is possible to create a path for the discussion of how the listener experiences interactivity with radio and sound nowadays. Despite the current breadth of audience participation in radio programs, this does not contemplate the ideals of Benjamin and Brecht, the latter who, in his Radio Theory, describes a listener that speaks to the same extent as the presenter. The study shows that it is possible to categorize the current listener as an expanded listener, an extension of the expanded radio concept of Marcelo Kischinhevsky.