Web Radio
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Instant global radio, or , is the latest manifestation of the Internet’s multimedia successor, the World Wide Web. Improved technology and content are turning into a mass medium. (Hickman 30) The concept is mainly underlined by the concept of Webcasting, or broadcasting station content ov ....
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.... clips are sent over the Internet as a stream of compressed data packets. (O’Malley 64) Free audio-player software that works with Web browsers then decompresses and assembles these packets at the user’s computer and automatically plays them back as they are received. Streaming systems typically use a buffering system that stores an extra few seconds worth of data to prevent Internet "hiccups" from disrupting the steady flow of audio – not unlike the shock-protection syste ....
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