Podcasters and their listeners

Affects and forms of identity engagement

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.68

Keywords:

podcasts, affects, identity engagements, cultural studies, discursive formations

Abstract

In this article, we bring together disputes over the phenomenon of podcasts, especially those related to identity engagements, as a way of understanding the phenomenon and the various interests and institutions related to it. As a theoretical-methodological approach, we invested in the concept of affects, as understood by Lawrence Grossberg. Our proposal analyzes discursive formations as attempts to see clues of identity engagements related to affects around podcasters, their listeners and their practices. The disputes over podcasts, producers and listeners operate in a succession of contrasts, in a game of approximation and distance with technological aspects, institutional practices of broadcasting, the internet and the history of the podcast itself. The analytical results show the complex network of relationships that constitute podcasts as a cultural form.

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Author Biography

  • Paula Janay, Federal University of Bahia

    PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Communication and Contemporary Culture at the Federal University of Bahia, with a sandwich PhD at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Her research focuses on the temporal and spatial relationships related to the phenomenon of podcasts, approached from a cultural studies perspective. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Contemporary Culture, with the dissertation Historicities, Technicalities, and Sensibilities of Brazilian Podcasts. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication, with a specialization in Journalism, from the School of Communication at the Federal University of Bahia.

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Published

2021-12-15

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Section

SPECIAL ISSUE: The New Territories of the Podcast

How to Cite

Podcasters and their listeners: Affects and forms of identity engagement. (2021). Comunicação Pública, 16(31). https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.68