Forget the algorithm. Students are taking over the airwaves

Student Experience Forget the algorithm. Students are taking over the airwaves By Alice Berry, [email protected] November 2, 2026 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email (Illustration by Meredith Michael Smith, University Communications) Trending Discovery & Innovation Decades of work lead to a new Parkinson’s treatment University News UVA Health acquires State Farm site on Pantops Student Experience Love and basketball: A UVA romance comes full circle Neither video, nor streaming, nor AI has killed the radio star, according to University of Virginia student DJs at WXTJ.In fact, WXTJ’s station director, Salma Mamane, said the ubiquity of frictionless technology – like how your music streaming service automatically plays similar music to the track you just listened to, as determined by an algorithm – has only increased people’s appetite for older ways of listening to music.“We’re remembering how cool it is,” said Mamane, a fourth-year student studying cognitive science.

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