Literary forensic rhetoric: maps, emotional assent, and rhetorical space in <i>Serial</i> and <i>Making a Murderer</i>

Pâquet, Lili

doi:10.1080/17521483.2018.1457243

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“…While this paper departs from existing rhetorical analysis of popular podcasts such as Serial 46 and Revisionist History 30 by examining listeners’ experiences with a broader genre, thinking about medical education podcasts as rhetorical objects can deepen our understanding and facilitate our investigation of the role of language in medical training. 47 We can begin to extend our attention beyond the mere ordering of medical facts outlined in a podcast to consider the social values and goals represented by, and reflected in, the platform.…”

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Residents’ Perceptions of Effective Features of Educational Podcasts

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Robins²,

Sherbino³

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Residents’ Perceptions of Effective Features of Educational Podcasts

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Sherbino³

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“…The broadcasting of criminal investigations and trials is not a new phenomenon. Trials have been previously broadcast on radio, such as the Nuremberg trials following World War Two, which were broadcast by the BBC (Pâquet, 2018: 75). Podcasting true crime has some distinct advantages over live broadcast.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Also, online networks have the ability to connect many-to-many rather than one-to-many (Salter, 2013: 228), which can allow podcast listeners the means of communicating with each other and exchanging ideas rather than passively listening to the narrator. As I have written elsewhere (Pâquet, 2018: 90-91), true crime podcasts and television series are orbited by an online ecosystem of conjecture and further community investigation by Internet detectives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, fears gained by female audiences of true crime can shape public opinion on policy around criminal justice (Kort-Butler and Hartshorn, 2011: 41). Often, the narratives within contemporary true crime attempt to appeal to audiences who are disenchanted with justice institutions (Pâquet, 2018: 77). Both podcasts discussed herein explicitly question police institutions.…”

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Seeking Justice Elsewhere: Informal and formal justice in the true crime podcastsTraceandThe Teacher’s Pet

Pâquet

2020

Crime, Media, Culture

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Following Carol Smart’s argument that feminists have reason to mistrust legal institutions and to seek justice elsewhere, this article suggests that contemporary Australian true crime podcasts offer women and their families alternatives to seek justice beyond formal systems. This article will examine the representation of women in two recent and popular Australian true crime podcasts that followed inconclusive investigations of murder cases. Trace (2017–2018) is a seven-episode true crime podcast by Rachael Brown for the ABC about the 1980 murder of Maria James in her Melbourne bookshop, where she lived with her two sons. The Teacher’s Pet by Hedley Thomas for The Australian is about the disappearance of Lynette Dawson from the northern beaches of Sydney in 1982, leaving behind her two daughters. Thomas explicitly accuses Dawson’s husband, former professional rugby player, Chris Dawson, of murdering her and disposing of her body. Both true crime podcasts represent women in ways that—while not always feminist—use the affordances of mass media to draw support from the public, effectively inviting the audience to perform as an alternate jury. In both cases, this jurified audience has then engendered changes in formal processes.

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“…(Žižek, 2009: 45-46) However, given the capacity of the podcast to breathe new life into the documentary and transcend the news agenda (McHugh, 2014), the impact of this format upon popular criminology should be critically considered. Serialized true crime podcasts have the potential to reach into a new emotional space and engage audiences in new ways (Pâquet, 2018). Are they doing so?…”

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Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber

Yardley

Kelly

Robinson-Edwards

2018

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Within this article, we explore the emergence of the serialized true crime podcast through an ultra-realist lens. These representations have become increasingly popular in recent years and appear to embody changing sensibilities towards crime and criminal justice – we critically consider whether serialized true crime podcasts do or could represent a change from the true crime of the past. More importantly, we question the extent to which academic criminology is equipped to engage in critical analysis of this media and address the questions that they raise about crime and society’s response to it in late capitalist society.

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Literary forensic rhetoric: maps, emotional assent, and rhetorical space in Serial and Making a Murderer

Cited by 8 publications

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Residents’ Perceptions of Effective Features of Educational Podcasts

Residents’ Perceptions of Effective Features of Educational Podcasts

Seeking Justice Elsewhere: Informal and formal justice in the true crime podcastsTraceandThe Teacher’s Pet

Forever trapped in the imaginary of late capitalism? The serialized true crime podcast as a wake-up call in times of criminological slumber

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