Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy

Lindsey A. Sherrill

doi:10.5771/9781666906028

Summary

In this book, Lindsey A. Sherrill explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting, including the role of the ubiquitous Serial podcast in the growth of the industry. Using both demographic population analysis and interviews with podcast hosts and producers, Sherill demonstrates that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations, with diverse goals ranging from entertainment to criminal justice reform advocacy to journalistic inquiry. These competing motivations of podcast producers are explored, along with the ethical quandaries that emerge in the process of telling true crime stories. Sherrill traces true crime podcasting back to the infancy of the medium and examines the influences, innovations, and events that created the true crime podcast ecosystem, as well as its influence on real cases in the United States. Scholars of communication, sociology, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0601-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0602-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 220
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Adnan, Melinda, and Me No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Podcast Evolution and Research No access
2. True Crime Podcasts and Real-World Impacts No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Niches No access
  2. Structural Inertia No access
  3. Density Dependence No access
  4. Resource Partitioning and Speciation No access
  5. Legitimacy No access
  6. Strengths and Weakness of an Organizational Ecology Approach No access
2. 1. Classical/New Social Movement Theories/Identity Approach No access
  2. Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) No access
  3. The Political Process Model (PPM) No access
3. 1. Synthesis in Past Research No access
  2. Symmetrical Gaps No access
4. Concepts for Exploration No access
1. 1. English Language Podcasts 2005–2018 No access
  2. English Language Podcasts through April 2022 No access
  3. Population Analysis and Density No access
2. 1. Methodology and Participant Recruitment No access
  2. The Podcasters No access
3. True Crime Podcasts as Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy No access
4. Notes No access
1. Typification of True Crime Podcasts No access
2. 1. Niche, Isomorphism, and Heterogeneity No access
  2. Forms, Boundary Work, and Identity No access
3. 1. Density No access
  2. Disruption No access
  3. Inertia and Constraints No access
  4. Resources No access
  5. Relationship Networks No access
  6. Relationships and Competition No access
4. Podcasts as Maintenance Organizations No access
5. Note No access
1. Collective Identity No access
2. 1. Collective Identity as Input and Goal No access
  2. Tangible and Symbolic Action No access
3. 1. Symbolic and Environmental Political Opportunity No access
  2. Framing Processes No access
4. 1. Collective Identity No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Stakeholder Negotiation No access
  2. Legitimacy No access
  3. Co-option No access
  4. Threats and What Is “Appropriate” No access
  5. Countermovements No access
2. Evidence of Dual Orientation No access
3. 1. Theoretical Overlap in Legitimacy, Density, and Resource Mobilization No access
  2. Institutionalization and Professionalism No access
4. Maintenance, Movements, and Moving Forward No access
5. Notes No access
1. Note No access
References No access Pages 147 - 162
Appendix No access Pages 163 - 208
Index No access Pages 209 - 218
About the Author No access Pages 219 - 220