The impact of the Internet on the participation of listeners in radio programs

Although the interactivity in radio is not new, the Internet arrival has come to multiply the possibilities that listeners have to get in touch with the radio. This has given place to a new typology at the moment of classifying the interventions. The aim of this paper is to describe how it is today this typology. For it, a brief revision on the historical evolution of listeners' participation will be elaborated. Later, the contributions of the Internet consolidation in the last ten years will be described, and finally, an operative and functional typology will be presented. This new classification includes the last participative modalities that can be observed in Spanish full service radio.