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Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy

Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem
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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.
Lindsey A. Sherrill is assistant professor of business communication at the University of North Alabama.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Adnan, Melinda, and Me Chapter 2: True Crime, Podcasting, and the Serial Effect Chapter 3: Understanding Organizational Growth and Social Movements Chapter 4: Understanding the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem Chapter 5: Ecology and Podcasts as Maintenance Organizations Chapter 6: True Crime Podcasts and Social Movement Approaches Chapter 7: Podcasts as Legitimated Hybrid Organizations Chapter 8: Still Obsessed: Lessons from the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem References Appendix: True Crime Podcasts 2005-2022 About the Author
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