Empathy Machines

This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling

AvJason Loviglio,Lance Dann

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

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 ideologicalstrategy for feeling liberal as liberal democracy’s precarious balance of opposites began to fracture into hypercapitalism, atavistic ethnonationalism, and new identity politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-02-19
Mått:138 x 214 x 22 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Podcast Studies
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765111680

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Radio / podcasts inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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 the co-editor of The Routledge Companion of Radio and Podcast Studies (2022) and Radio Journal: Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (2017–present).

Recensioner i media

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: “Become Empathy Machines!”1. A Feeling Medium2. Voracious Voyagers: NPR Listens3. Feeling Playful: This American Life and Narrative Enchantment4. Feeling American: This American Life Goes to War5. Feeling Flush – Planet Money and The American Dream6. Fellow Feeling: This American Life and the Gendered Voice7. Feeling Uncomfortable: The Politics and Aesthetics of CringeConclusion: Maybe It’s a Feeling? How This American Life Long EnduredIndex