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Narrative podcasting in an age of obsession / Neil Verma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verma, Neil, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Podcasts--History and criticism.
- Podcasts.
- Podcasts--Social aspects.
- Podcasting--History.
- Podcasting.
- Podcasting--Social aspects.
- Social media addiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- It has been a decade since Serial brought the narrative podcast to the center of popular culture. In that time, there has been an enormous boom in the production of podcasts that tell stories, particularly in the fields of true crime, storytelling, history, and narrative fiction. Now that the initial glow around the medium has begun to fade, it is time to reevaluate the medium's technological, political, economic, and cultural rise, in particular what types of storytelling accompanied that rise. Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession is the first book to look back on this prodigious body of material and attempt to make sense of it from a structural, historical, and analytic point of view. Focusing on more than 350 podcasts and other audio works released between Serial and the COVID pandemic, the book explores why so many of these podcasts seem "obsessed with obsession," why they focus not only on informing listeners but also dramatizing the labor that goes into it, and why fiction podcasts work so hard to prove they are a brand new form, even as they revive features of radio from decades gone by. This work also examines the industry's reckoning with its own implication in systemic racism, misogyny, and other forms of discrimination. Employing innovative new critical techniques for close listening--including pitch tracking software and spectrograms--Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession makes a major contribution to podcast studies and media studies more broadly.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Has Supplement:
- Supplement (work): Verma, Neil. Narrative podcasting in an age of obsession 1 online resource (1 audio file, 1 video file, 1 digital image)
- ISBN:
- 9780472129881
- 0472129880
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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