Calls to cancel singer R. Kelly have been around for decades, but they intensified with the twin debuts of the #MeToo and #MuteRKelly movements in 2017. The Surviving R. Kelly documentary, which premiered in 2019, chronicled the decades of abuse at the hands of Kelly, with appearances from survivors, their supporters and those closest to Kelly. Although what was presented in Surviving R. Kelly is not necessarily new information, the cultural shift that stemmed from #MuteRKelly and #MeToo helped to catapult the experiences of the primarily Black women and girls into mainstream media and ultimately led to Kelly being convicted of the crimes. Days after the documentary initially premiered in 2019, several Black podcasts reviewed the series – Tea with Queen and J, The Clubhouse with Mouse Jones and Marsha’s Plate. This article will provide a textual analysis of these episodes, as the episodes present a reflection on Black media, community and accountability. This article will explore how podcasts grappled with Black media’s complicity in the tangled web of abuse, while also providing survivor-centred content. Why are podcasts important spaces to grapple with difficult conversations among Black communities? What can podcast episodes show us about survivor-centred content and accountability?
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This Special Issue, guest-edited by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Ph.D., brings together exciting new work on the growing number of podcasts focused on deconstructing gender inequality, particularly as an intersectional issue. The seven articles gathered here provide a broad and methodologically diverse perspective on some of the most exciting podcasts in this genre. Two book reviews on major books released last year conclude the issue.
{"title":"Special Issue: ‘Podcasting and Gender’","authors":"Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, J. Loviglio, M. Lindgren","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00069_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00069_2","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue, guest-edited by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Ph.D., brings together exciting new work on the growing number of podcasts focused on deconstructing gender inequality, particularly as an intersectional issue. The seven articles gathered here provide a broad and methodologically diverse perspective on some of the most exciting podcasts in this genre. Two book reviews on major books released last year conclude the issue.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82175662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study focuses on podcasts produced in Turkey that incorporate queer culture and experiences by exploring the dynamics of podcasting as an alternative broadcast medium. We examined six podcasts consisting of conversations focused on queer culture and issues, with at least ten episodes distributed. We conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with nine participants – at least one representative of each podcast. We found that the programmes, as effective alternative publicizing channels of solidarity, make personal experiences audible. Queer podcasts in Turkey demonstrate the characteristics of alternative media, being carriers of non-hegemonic discourse and representations, and their organizational forms and structures support audience participation. On the other hand, the distribution channels of the content are commercial and not independent on state or market.
{"title":"You cannot turn my voice down: Podcasts as alternative media for queers in Turkey","authors":"Fırat Tufan, Bilge Şenyüz","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00072_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00072_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on podcasts produced in Turkey that incorporate queer culture and experiences by exploring the dynamics of podcasting as an alternative broadcast medium. We examined six podcasts consisting of conversations focused on queer culture and issues, with at least ten episodes distributed. We conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with nine participants – at least one representative of each podcast. We found that the programmes, as effective alternative publicizing channels of solidarity, make personal experiences audible. Queer podcasts in Turkey demonstrate the characteristics of alternative media, being carriers of non-hegemonic discourse and representations, and their organizational forms and structures support audience participation. On the other hand, the distribution channels of the content are commercial and not independent on state or market.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89863531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022) Abingdon: Routledge, 502 pp., ISBN 978-0-36743-263-8, h/bk, £210.00
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The ‘#MeToo’ movement established the disclosure of sexual violence via social media as mainstream and offered participants space to share experiences, receive support and create a sense of community. As a response, we explore the use of podcasting as a conduit to describe embodied experiences and how non-visual media can provide a safe environment to reveal deeply personal experiences. We use the podcast The Heart (mini-series No) as a case study to highlight patriarchal power and sexual violence myths. The result is profoundly discomforting but also emancipatory – talking about sexual violence can constitute a revolutionary act given the stigma and victim blaming prevalent in western society. The Heart makes private, intimate experiences public and centres female perspectives, highlighting disparate, gendered perceptions. As ‘#MeToo’ underscored the universality of women’s experiences of male harassment, we argue that The Heart is an example of ‘quiet activism’ and public scholarship that challenges patriarchal assumptions.
{"title":"Podcasting as a feminist space for the disclosure of trauma and intimate embodied experience: The Heart as a case study of quiet activism","authors":"Evi Karathanasopoulou, H. Williams","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00071_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00071_1","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘#MeToo’ movement established the disclosure of sexual violence via social media as mainstream and offered participants space to share experiences, receive support and create a sense of community. As a response, we explore the use of podcasting as a conduit to describe embodied experiences and how non-visual media can provide a safe environment to reveal deeply personal experiences. We use the podcast The Heart (mini-series No) as a case study to highlight patriarchal power and sexual violence myths. The result is profoundly discomforting but also emancipatory – talking about sexual violence can constitute a revolutionary act given the stigma and victim blaming prevalent in western society. The Heart makes private, intimate experiences public and centres female perspectives, highlighting disparate, gendered perceptions. As ‘#MeToo’ underscored the universality of women’s experiences of male harassment, we argue that The Heart is an example of ‘quiet activism’ and public scholarship that challenges patriarchal assumptions.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82741141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the ways an intersectional feminist climate justice podcast YIKES offers possibilities for intimate counterpublics and forms of engagement that centre on caring and activist connections. Bringing together theories of intimacy, care and counterpublics together to examine the specific ways YIKES fosters affective attachment and political interest in ways that allow for open-ended and non-linear forms of communication. This article offers a close reading of an episode that explores the caring dynamics of friendship as an intimate space through which difficult topics related to climate justice, power and inclusion are opened up for discussion and sharing. I argue the podcast enacts an ethos of interpersonal care while elaborating complex conditions for social and political intimacy within broader networked publics.
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Podcasts have the potential to bridge a gap between education, the availability of information and which voices are highlighted in media. In this article I talk about the experience of building a feminist-based podcast for my students called Most Popular. The podcast was founded using the theoretical concepts of Paulo Freire, bell hooks and the principles behind feminist standpoint theory and public scholarship, giving undergraduates the opportunity to experience guest lectures from a more feminist lens. This combination of approaches demonstrates the ways podcasts can remove the limits familiar to including diverse guests in a classroom, particularly if the barriers are regional or financial. I combine these foundations with a discussion of the logistics behind starting a podcast for undergraduates.
{"title":"Podcasting as feminist pedagogy: An intersectional approach","authors":"Adrienne Trier-Bieniek","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00076_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00076_1","url":null,"abstract":"Podcasts have the potential to bridge a gap between education, the availability of information and which voices are highlighted in media. In this article I talk about the experience of building a feminist-based podcast for my students called Most Popular. The podcast was founded using the theoretical concepts of Paulo Freire, bell hooks and the principles behind feminist standpoint theory and public scholarship, giving undergraduates the opportunity to experience guest lectures from a more feminist lens. This combination of approaches demonstrates the ways podcasts can remove the limits familiar to including diverse guests in a classroom, particularly if the barriers are regional or financial. I combine these foundations with a discussion of the logistics behind starting a podcast for undergraduates.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85492032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Applying the work of affect theorists and feminist scholars to sound studies, I suggest, permits scholars to appreciate podcasting’s representation of the gendered soundscape of maternity. In this article, I analyse several recent female-hosted, NPR-influenced podcasts that give voice to the complications and contradictions of working motherhood. The podcast ZigZag vividly depicts the emotional labour of entrepreneurship, of balancing working and mothering and of doing so in a neo-liberal feminist framework. Through an in-depth study of the audio work of Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant in Note to Self and ZigZag (2018–present), I examine how these podcasts speak to contemporary challenges balancing creative media work, maternity and entrepreneurialism. Paying attention to the varied sounds of maternity offered by podcasts in this elite habitus vividly depicts the power of ‘motherwhelm’ in pandemic-era culture and complicates the community empowerment ethos assumed of podcasts.
{"title":"The sounds of motherhood: Mediating ‘motherwhelm’ in ZigZag","authors":"J. Wang","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00070_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00070_1","url":null,"abstract":"Applying the work of affect theorists and feminist scholars to sound studies, I suggest, permits scholars to appreciate podcasting’s representation of the gendered soundscape of maternity. In this article, I analyse several recent female-hosted, NPR-influenced podcasts that give voice to the complications and contradictions of working motherhood. The podcast ZigZag vividly depicts the emotional labour of entrepreneurship, of balancing working and mothering and of doing so in a neo-liberal feminist framework. Through an in-depth study of the audio work of Manoush Zomorodi and Jen Poyant in Note to Self and ZigZag (2018–present), I examine how these podcasts speak to contemporary challenges balancing creative media work, maternity and entrepreneurialism. Paying attention to the varied sounds of maternity offered by podcasts in this elite habitus vividly depicts the power of ‘motherwhelm’ in pandemic-era culture and complicates the community empowerment ethos assumed of podcasts.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87176401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Even given its focus on narrowly defined audiences, contemporary radio in the United States is commercial, and thus dependent upon a consumer goods sector that is market-driven, risk-averse and fearful of recrimination by those opposed to homosexuality or non-binary genders and government regulators. Queer listeners, unlike their straight counterparts, found in radio not mentors to guide them through adolescence and into adulthood, but the ultimately doomed task of attempting to conform to standards and rituals that did not fit them or to alternative readings of the texts found in radio’s music lyrics, disc jockey patter and commercials that constructed a world that were a better fit. In this article, I examine a varied and representative collection of podcasts and argue that the medium is uniquely positioned to deliver to queer audiences what conventional commercial radio was unwilling or unable to.
{"title":"Where radio dare not tread: Podcasts as queer audio media","authors":"B. Drushel","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00073_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00073_1","url":null,"abstract":"Even given its focus on narrowly defined audiences, contemporary radio in the United States is commercial, and thus dependent upon a consumer goods sector that is market-driven, risk-averse and fearful of recrimination by those opposed to homosexuality or non-binary genders and government regulators. Queer listeners, unlike their straight counterparts, found in radio not mentors to guide them through adolescence and into adulthood, but the ultimately doomed task of attempting to conform to standards and rituals that did not fit them or to alternative readings of the texts found in radio’s music lyrics, disc jockey patter and commercials that constructed a world that were a better fit. In this article, I examine a varied and representative collection of podcasts and argue that the medium is uniquely positioned to deliver to queer audiences what conventional commercial radio was unwilling or unable to.","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81456311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories through Sound, Siobhan Mchugh (2022) New York: Columbia University Press, 300 pp., ISBN 978-1-74223-702-2, p/bk, £28
{"title":"The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories through Sound, Siobhan Mchugh (2022)","authors":"Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu","doi":"10.1386/rjao_00077_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00077_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories through Sound, Siobhan Mchugh (2022)\u0000 New York: Columbia University Press, 300 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-74223-702-2, p/bk, £28","PeriodicalId":38660,"journal":{"name":"Radio Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83832159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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