Introduction: Flirting, Scandal, Intimacy

Bartlett, Alison; Clarke, Kyra; Cover, Rob

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15508-7_1

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“…This structure creates intimacy insofar as musicians publicly reveal to listeners the personal details, idiosyncratic ideas and individual techniques that together comprise their process of writing a popular song. These technical disclosures construct a kind of intimacy that blurs distinctions between public and private in ways that echo both mediated intimacies (Bartlett et al, 2019; Dobson et al, 2018) and podcast intimacies research (Euritt and Korfmacher, 2021). After all, making music is, as producer-musician Finneas states, ‘a very vulnerable process’ (‘Episode 197: Billie Eilish’).…”

Section: Producing Intimate Stories In Song Explodermentioning

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‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder

Clarke

Bjork

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Intimacy is an important and growing concept in both media studies and podcast studies. But research regarding intimacies in both disciplines has yet to fully account for the connection between sound and normativity, which is essential to podcasting and important to mediated intimacies more broadly. In this article, we mobilise scholarship from these two fields to analyse the award-winning music podcast Song Exploder. Our study highlights that attending to intimacies in podcasting involves both analysing how the story structure aligns with social norms and listening critically to the ways the sound design and audio editing complements and complicates these intimate stories. We contend that identifying the intersection of sound and normativity in this podcast contributes to understanding the cultural work of podcasting and underscores the key role of sound in mediated intimacies.

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Section: Producing Intimate Stories In Song Explodermentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder

Clarke

Bjork

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…That is, there is an argument that some ‘call out’ shaming of subjects who have acted inappropriately has value in fostering more ethical relations or generating behavioural or social change (Probyn, 2005), such as when a public figure has used black face and is ‘called out’ in such a way as to draw attention to historical and continuing inequities and injustices as seen in the positive outcomes of the #MeToo movement online (Bartlett et al, 2019). There is, however, also an argument that the contemporary pile-on behaviour of the call-out more generally risks burying the ethical intent of positively-focused justice claims beneath a digital bombardment of overwhelmingly large numbers in adversity (Hamad and Liddle, 2017), reducing the capacity to produce institutional change that comes from non-adversarial dialogue (Hamad, 2019).…”

Section: The Pile-on: Mass Shame the Multitude And The Publicmentioning

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Digital hostility, subjectivity and ethics: Theorising the disruption of identity in instances of mass online abuse and hate speech

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2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The experience of hostility, hate speech and adversarial behaviour in everyday online spaces has increased substantially in recent years, with known health and mental health outcomes for users. This paper argues that due to the ‘massified’ form of contemporary hostility experienced in the internet ‘pile on’, a new framework for understanding and remedying hostility is required. This paper draws on Judith Butler’s theories of identity to present an account of digital hostility as cultural and as having a negative effect on the identities and selfhood of users. It discusses the impact of the online pile-on, shaming and the ways in which hostility positions victims as ungrievable subjects. The essay recommends new ethical approaches grounded in the recognition of subjects as vulnerable, arguing that cultural ethics approaches are valuable not only as public pedagogies but for development of technological solutions and moderation interventions to help prevent hostility and hate speech.

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“…Firstly, the debate involves an application of the practices of ‘callout culture’ that, arguably, demand non-complex alignment and the eradication of ‘gray areas’ in industry practice. While callout culture plays an important role in highlighting a range of gender issues from problematic employment practices to sexual assault, as witnessed in its deployment as a communication tool of the #MeToo movement, it has had a tendency to deride or reject nuanced social practices that are open to multiple readings, opting for the articulation of grievance without always the necessary engagement and critique that enables genuine social change (Bartlett et al, 2019). The more extreme elements of callout culture, it has been argued, take advantage of digital and social media’s capacity to produce pile-ons of mob outrage that sometimes risk scandalizing its subjects or shaming individuals rather than investigating systemic and cultural causes of problematic behaviors.…”

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Straight and cisgender actors playing queer and trans characters: the views of Australian screen stakeholders

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2022

Media, Culture & Society

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A concept of visibility frames much scholarship and public writing on LGBTQ+ representation in film and television, and underpins diversity reporting and inclusivity measurement. Although visibility is often depicted as a social good, there is a growing critical interest in asking if there are different kinds of visibility, and how these might be differentially valued. This paper reports insights gained from interviews with Australian stakeholders involved in the production of screen entertainment with LGBTQ+ content. The study found that stakeholders are motivated by to create texts that make LGBTQ+ stories and characters visible. The range of approaches to visibility was, however, nuanced and diverse: some understood any LGBTQ+ representation as valuable, while others discussed visibility in contexts of character depth, anti-stereotyping, and visibility tempered by concepts of human dignity. Although visibility is perceived diversely, it remains a significant lens by which creative artists involved in LGBTQ+ texts understand their work.

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Introduction: Flirting, Scandal, Intimacy

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder

‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies inSong Exploder

Digital hostility, subjectivity and ethics: Theorising the disruption of identity in instances of mass online abuse and hate speech

Straight and cisgender actors playing queer and trans characters: the views of Australian screen stakeholders

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