Held, Not Signed

An Interview Study of How Campus Community-Radio Segment Slots Actually Change Hands

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 28 student presenters at the campus community radio station about how they secured a weekly on-air segment, coded against a photographic archive of the studio door's sign-up sheet. A slot held on a newcomer's behalf by an existing presenter accounts for the largest share of debuts in both semesters studied, well ahead of the sheet's own written order, and the pattern persists unchanged after the station replaces the paper sheet with a digital sign-up form.

@misc{slop_sah9b9,
  author       = {Anneke Tolan and Ingrid Vasseur},
  title        = {Held, Not Signed: An Interview Study of How Campus Community-Radio Segment Slots Actually Change Hands},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.sah9b9},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-interviewing-student-presenters-sah9b9/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}