‘Just Because You Play a Guitar and Are from Nashville Doesn’t Mean You Are a Country Singer’: The Emergence of Medium Identities in Podcasting

Berry, Richard

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90056-8_2

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“…Over the last decade, several authors (Sellas, 2011;Gallego, 2010;Markman, 2011;Millette, 2011;McHugh, 2016;Cordeiro, 2010Cordeiro, , 2012Bonini, 2015;Berry, 2018;Bonet & Sellas, 2019) have addressed the study of this medium. The common element of their research lies in the definition of the podcast under its own identity principles.…”

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Mapping the factors that determine engagement in podcasting: design from the users and podcasters’experience

García-Marín

2020

Communication & Society

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The current media ecosystem offers enormous participatory possibilities to media audiences that, in this way, have the opportunity to engage in the co-creation of media discourse in ways unknown during the 20th century. Following the marketing 2.0 theories, the creation of attractive user experiences is considered as one of the aspects that the media increasingly take into consideration in order to get profitable content. The aim of this research is to detect the factors that influence engagement in podcasting, a digital and interactive medium that, due to its transmedia and mostly amateur nature, develops dynamics of permanent connection between media creators and listeners. By conducting a total of 17 in-depth semi-structured interviews with pioneers of the medium, podcasters and listeners, a total of 13 factors that determine user engagement were identified. These factors are integrated in three groups: medium-centered (technology, asynchrony, topics, genres and formats, and podcast subcommunity’s size), user-centered (participatory culture, consumption situation and number of subscriptions, knowledge on the topic and about the podcast subcommunity, their own relevance in the podcastphere, and the perceived relevance about their participation), and podcaster-centered (skills, attitude and tone). These factors maintain relations of interoperability that build a grammar of engagement of the medium. This study provides some clues that can be exploited by commercial media that are opting for podcasting in order to build innovative experiences of interaction with their users with the purpose of increasing their audiences.

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Section: Podcasting In Spainmentioning

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Mapping the factors that determine engagement in podcasting: design from the users and podcasters’experience

García-Marín

2020

Communication & Society

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“…El carácter participativo del medio puede llegar a tener una dimensión performativa, implicando la interacción física del oyente con el espacio descrito en el podcast (Wilson, 2018). Berry (2018) y Spinelli y Dann (2019) subrayan que el podcasting debería ser percibido como un medio con identidad propia, no como una extensión de otras prácticas mediáticas. En una línea similar, Massarelli y Perrotta (2006), Cordeiro (2012) y Bonini (2015) abordaron el podcasting como una tecnología desafiante para los medios tradicionales, al permitir a los usuarios crear su propio contenido, a la vez que constituye un cambio en los hábitos de escucha de la radio convencional.…”

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Del zine al podcast. Repensar la cultura de la participación desde un análisis comparativos de los medios alternativos

García-Marín

2020

Doxa Comunicación. Revista Interdisciplinar De Estudios De Comunicación Y Ciencias Sociales

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La llegada de la Web 2.0 trajo consigo la explosión de numerosas teorías de la participación que vislumbraban el empoderamiento comunicacional ciudadano y la descentralización del relato mediático, ahora también potencialmente protagonizado por creadores no profesionales, “los antiguamente conocidos como la audiencia”. Este artículo plantea un análisis comparativo entre el zine y el podcast como medios alternativos catalizadores del empoderamiento mediático y la distribución de discursos contraculturales, a partir del estudio de sus aspectos definitorios, tales como su financiación, distribución y circulación, la durabilidad de los proyectos, su carácter de medio personal, instrumental y social, la calidad de los objetos mediáticos que ambos medios producen y sus lógicas creativas. A partir de este análisis, el trabajo teoriza sobre la falsa novedad de la cultura de la participación y las escasas posibilidades emancipatorias reales que los ciudadanos encuentran en los medios digitales, instando a un enfoque crítico hacia las utópicas visiones de la comunicación digital.

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“…Podcasting is an audio-only medium broadcast via the internet and apps like Apple Podcasts. Podcasting developed as a means of sharing content independently of established institutional media (Berry, 2018). For instance, Apple (2019) allows anyone to upload podcasts to their online store.…”

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Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder

Driel

2022

Language and Literature

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Genre definitions by Swales (1990) and Miller (1984) include the communicative purpose of a text as an indicative feature of its genre. Genre studies have also identified how expert members of discourse communities possess professional expertise in genre styles. This article shows that beyond discourse community expert members, ordinary audiences also have conceptions of genre and use those conceptions to evaluate texts. Through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of listener reviews of the true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder, the analysis shows that negative reviews view the true crime-comedy categorisation as two separate genres, evaluating the podcast based on expectations of true crime and expectations of comedy. Positive reviewers accept the true crime-comedy genre as a new, mixed genre and evaluate the podcast from an in-group perspective, identifying themselves as members of the My Favorite Murder discourse community. Through this analysis, I show that audiences implement some form of genre analysis in text evaluations and that membership of the discourse community influences how they apply genre expectations to evaluations of texts.

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‘Just Because You Play a Guitar and Are from Nashville Doesn’t Mean You Are a Country Singer’: The Emergence of Medium Identities in Podcasting

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Mapping the factors that determine engagement in podcasting: design from the users and podcasters’experience

Mapping the factors that determine engagement in podcasting: design from the users and podcasters’experience

Del zine al podcast. Repensar la cultura de la participación desde un análisis comparativos de los medios alternativos

Genre expectations and discourse community membership in listener reviews of true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder

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