Podcasting as an intimate medium / / Alyn Euritt.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture
• VerfasserIn: Euritt, Alyn,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (161 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast criticism, monetization, and production advice. Through analysis of these sources' self-descriptions, the text builds a podcasting-specific framework for intimacy and uses that framework to interpret how podcasting imagines the connections it forms within communities. Instead of intimacy being inherent, the book argues that podcasting constructs intimacy and uses it to define the quality of its own mediation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of New and Digital Media, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Journalism, Literature, Cultural Studies, and American Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a CreativeCommons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Defining Podcasting -- Transmedia Distinction -- Podcasting as a Medium -- Liveness -- Intimacy -- Roadmap -- 1 Touching Podcasts: Recognition, Eroticism, and the Haptics of Sound -- Physically Close -- "She is Breathing Out into You": Within the Wires' Queer Eroticism -- Time, Touch, and Roland Barthes' Recognition -- Attention, Engagement, and Presence -- Monetizing Intimate Repetition -- Love and Patronage -- "Intimacy Curdles into Invasiveness": Disgust and the Affect of Bad Intimacy -- Conclusion -- 2 Chatcast Liveness: Temporalities of Parasocial Reciprocity -- Making Podcasts at Home and the Intimacy of Domesticity -- Parasocial Liveness -- Seriality, Conversation, and Monetization -- Niche Community and an Audience of One -- Fundraising, or "Giving Back to Your Podcast Pals" -- Conclusion -- 3 "You Can Even Sleep with Them if You Want To": Participatory Culture, Worldbuilding, and Integrating into Daily Life -- Everyday Listening -- Hello from the Magic Tavern: Improvising a Live Secondary World -- Live Transmedia Presence -- Monetizing Participatory Liveness -- Conclusion -- 4 Intimacy in the American National Imaginary -- The Nation in Homogeneous Empty Time -- Temporalities of National Recognition -- Aural Basking: Creating a National Presence -- Recognition and Liveness in Imagining the Nation -- Voice, Place, and Authority -- Intimate Communities and the Nation -- Conclusion -- 5 Conclusion -- Index.