Jason Loviglio

Empathy Machines (MP3-Download)

This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling Ungekürzte Lesung. 696 Min.
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Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length treatment of This American Life,Empathy Machines contextualizes the influential show within the history of radio, looking back to radio's golden era and the para-social connections that it encouraged, as well as the formation of NPR in the 1960s and the "Great Society Liberalism" that guided its programming and approach to the audience. Empathy Machines identifies This American Life as a central cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a "liberal feeling" central to podcast storytelling and the neoliberal era in which it developed. This American Life revitalized the public radio traditions of investigative journalism and sonically inventive audio production. An early adopter of podcasting as a time-shifted delivery mechanism for its broadcast content, the program also ushered in appointment listening, a key innovation and disruption in the emerging chaotic attention economy of the 21st century. Empathy Machines centers This American Life as a model for prioritizing empathy as an affective and ideological strategy for feeling liberal as liberal democracy's precarious balance of opposites began to fracture into hypercapitalism, atavistic ethnonationalism, and new identity politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216388357
• Artikelnr.: 75741286

Autorenporträt

Jason Loviglio is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. He is the founding chair of the Media and Communication Studies Department at UMBC, and he is co-editor of The Routledge Companion of Radio and Podcast Studies (2022) and Radio Journal: Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (2017-present).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Become Empathy Machines!"
1. A Feeling Medium
2. Voracious Voyagers: NPR Listens
3. Feeling Playful: This American Life and Narrative Enchantment
4. Feeling American: This American Life Goes to War
5. Feeling Flush - Planet Money and The American Dream
6. Fellow Feeling: This American Life and the Gendered Voice
7. Feeling Uncomfortable: The Politics and Aesthetics of Cringe
Conclusion: Maybe It's a Feeling? How This American Life Long Endured
Index

Rezensionen

This book is an astonishing piece of scholarship – ambitious, erudite, insightful, and brilliantly readable. Jason Loviglio has surely produced the definitive study of This American Life; but more than that, his overarching analysis of how affect plays out across a century of public radio and transmedia shows should make Empathy Machines a standard reference work for anyone interested in the power of media in politics and everyday life.