Introduction: radio, sound and the internet in a hard of hearing society

(Excerto) Three main conclusions of this project inspired the invitation for the Net Station International Conference which took place on 23rd and 24th April 2015, at the University of Minho, Braga (Portugal): 1) there is no doubt that radio invested in its adaptation to the Web, but multimedia resources are still underdeveloped on radios’ websites as audio is not particularly ‘visible’ neither on websites nor on apps and social networks; 2) there seems to be a complementariness between traditional radio and radio on the Internet in terms of uses, because Internet users who access radio websites state they access their preferred FM radio too, as explained in detail by Pedro Portela in his PhD dissertation (Portela, 2015); 3) the Internet demands the reconfiguration of radio language but it is also a powerful platform to stimulate sound production, to promote listening literacy and to draw attention to the requalification of our listening sense.Project “Net Station: shaping radio for Web environment (PTDC/CCI-COM/122384), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and by structural funds COMPETE and QRE