Black Podcasts and Digital Community Building
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Presented by Kim Fox at the AEJMC 2019 conference in Toronto. The topic explores the bases for how black podcasters develop a sense of community.
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- 1. Blackpodcastsand digital community building By Kim Fox, American University in Cairo
- 3. PODCASTING IN GENERAL YOUR LOGO Teaching Interview / talking heads pods Storytelling / narrative Photo credit: Darrow Montgomery
- 4. PODCASTING IN GENERAL YOUR LOGO Researching More research on podcasting • 13% of Af Am 12+ listen to podcasts, behind Whites: 57% and Hispanics: 15% • SOURCE: Edison Research’s Infinite Dial #PodcastConsumer 2019 ReportPhoto credit: Darrow Montgomery
- 5. PODCASTING IN GENERAL YOUR LOGO Understanding Cultural phenomenon Currently not enough research for this medium Photo credit: Darrow Montgomery
- 6. SOME BLACK RADIO HISTORY “THEALLNEGROHOUR” Programming on WSBC in Chicago WERD ”The first radio station owned and programmed by African Americans.” WDIA “In Memphis, Tennessee, became the first to employ an all-Black on-air announcing staff.” 1929 1949 1949 SOURCE: African American Registry SOURCE: Urban Radio Nation SOURCE: Black Detour
- 7. — BLACKPODCASTERS ON TWITTER This Week in Blackness (TWiB) The Black Guy Who Tips NPR’s Tell Me More
- 8. SOMERESEARCHONBLACKDIALOGUEINTHEDIGITALSPACE ANDRÉBROCK 2012 “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation” SARAHFLORINI 2019 article “Enclaving and cultural resonance in Black Game of Thrones fandom” SHANEPAULNEIL 2013 “Black Podcasts Bring the Barbershop to the Internet,” ANDRÉBROCK,LYNETTEKVASNY andKAYLAHALES 2010 “Cultural Appropriations of Technical Capital: Black women, weblogs, and the digital divide” SARAHFLORINI 2015 “The Podcast “Chitlin' Circuit”: Black Podcasters, Alternative Media, and Audio Enclaves”
- 9. SOMERESEARCHONBLACKDIALOGUEINTHEDIGITALSPACE “Twitter and podcasting constitute two core elements of the Dem Thrones fandom, and these technologies are deployed in a manner that allows the fan practice to be both enclaved and culturally specific.” 2019 article “Enclaving and cultural resonance in Black Game of Thrones fandom” SARAHFLORINI
- 10. SOMERESEARCHONBLACKDIALOGUEINTHEDIGITALSPACE “Elsewhere I have argued that the talk radio–style audio of many independent Black podcasts allows for performative elements that invoke Black social spaces like barbershops and beauty shops, churches, and family gatherings (2015). Thus, these podcasts are able to recreate the sonic milieu of enclaved Black sociality.” 2019 article “Enclaving and cultural resonance in Black Game of Thrones fandom” SARAHFLORINI
- 12. ACURRICULUMFORBLACKNESS: PODCASTSASDISCURSIVECULTURALGUIDES Thisresearch: provides a critical interpretation. utilized Fernback’s Symbolic Interactionist approach to online social relations. builds on Florini’s (2017) examination of the extension of Black community …
- 13. ACURRICULUMFORBLACKNESS: PODCASTSASDISCURSIVECULTURALGUIDES Several key Black podcasts have not capitalized on community building through social media to the extent that they could. FINDINGS
- 14. ACURRICULUMFORBLACKNESS: PODCASTSASDISCURSIVECULTURALGUIDES Our three case studies suggest a major milestone in the history of audio media bringing about a higher level of intellectual discourse on the Black community. FINDINGS
- 15. ACURRICULUMFORBLACKNESS: PODCASTSASDISCURSIVECULTURALGUIDES Curriculum for Blackness ISN'T totally reliant on social media = a GOOD thing. FINDINGS
- 16. ACURRICULUMFORBLACKNESS: PODCASTSASDISCURSIVECULTURALGUIDES It respects rather than denigrates the uniqueness of the medium--its profound intimacy, relative lack of trolls, and capacity to communicate the depth of the Black experience. FINDINGS