[Commlist] CFP: Podcasting's Listening Publics

May I draw your attention to the following call for papers: 
http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/podcastpublics/


  CfP: Podcasting’s Listening Publics – Participations: Journal of
  Audience and Reception Studies

<http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/podcastpublics/2020/04/14/cfp-podcastings-listening-publics-participations-journal-of-audience-and-reception-studies/>


*Co-editors*: Dario Llinares (Brighton), Alyn Euritt (Leipzig), Anne 
Korfmacher (Köln)

“Listening is essential to the engagement with most of our media, albeit 
that the act of listening which is embedded in the word ‘audience’ is 
rarely acknowledged. It is a no less curious absence in theories of the 
public sphere, where the objective of political agency is often 
characterized as being to find a voice – which surely implies finding a 
public that will listen, and that has a will to listen” (Lacey viii).

As podcasting moves through its adolescence, a period of flux in which 
reformations of the technological and industrial organisation are having 
fundamental effects on the next phase of its evolution, the ways in 
which it encourages listening and reception practices are also 
undergoing fundamental development. The nature of this development 
depends on the communities, listening publics, and audiences the 
podcasts serve and/or participate in. As Spinelli and Dann have noted 
about podcasting, it always implies a relationship between creators and 
listeners but “while individual listening might be the moment in which a 
podcast ‘happens’ in some sense, it is possible, and indeed necessary, 
to consider larger formations of podcast /audiences/” (13). For Spinelli 
and Dann, podcast audiences are “much more ‘knowable’ than the radio 
audience, and the interaction (particularly in fandom) [is] more 
intense” (13-14). Who are these developing and changing “knowable” 
podcast audiences and how do they interact with podcasting? What do they 
listen to, how do they listen and why? Are audiences really knowable in 
the way Dann and Spinelli suggest and what might this tell us about 
audio communication practices in the digital age?

In order to understand the complexity, diversity and listening 
engagements of podcasting’s audiences, this themed section aims to 
expand the interdisciplinary range of contemporary podcasting studies by 
including work in literary studies, fan studies, gender studies and 
disability studies, as well as submissions that critically engage with 
race. We also explicitly encourage research on podcasts outside the US 
and Britain.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

–           Podcast reception and connectivity in times of crisis

–           How podcast listeners find new content, including the 
development of taste cultures, content aggregation networks, and 
platform-specific algorithmic recommendations

–           Podcast participation and “prosumer” medial engagement (cf. 
Alvin Toffler, /The Third Wave/)

–           The development of genres, forms, and narrative practices 
within podcasting that encourage specific types of listening practices 
and audiences

–           Podcast fans and fan podcasts, podcasting and fandom audiences

–           Podcasts within niche culture, podcasting and marginalisation

–           Podcasts and community-building practices

–           Communal vs. private, on-demand listening

–           The rise of right-wing politics podcasts and their listenership

–           The role of voice (both politically and aesthetically) in 
podcasting reception

–           How podcasters imagine their listenership and cater their 
content to specific listening publics

–           Marketing discourses of attention and engagement

–           Cultural values associated with (podcast) listening

Please submit a 300-word abstract and short author bio in an email with 
the subject “Participations Themed Section Podcasting Publics_Euritt, 
Korfmacher, Llinares” to (alyn.euritt /at/ fulbrightmail.org). For more 
information about /Participations/ as well as submission guidelines, 
visit their website at www.participations.org 
<http://www.participations.org/>. Unfortunately, we are not in a 
position to provide extensive copy editing services. If you are in need 
of such services, please arrange for them before submission of your draft.

**

*Deadlines:*

Abstracts Due: June 30th, 2020

Decisions to Authors: July 10th, 2020

Full Submissions: September 30th, 2020


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