Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy

Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem

Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy

Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem

Lindsey A. Sherrill (Author)

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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.

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

Product details

Published	29 Jan 2025
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	230
ISBN	9781666906035
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	4 b/w photos; 3 tables;
Dimensions	229 x 152 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Lindsey A. Sherrill

Sherrill presents her research into "goal oriented" true- crime podcasts as organization models. She employs two lenses: organizational ecology and social movement theory. Sherrill collected data by interviewing a dozen authors and hosts of true-crime podcasts, including Rabia Chaudry of Undisclosed and Steven Pacheco of Trace Evidence…. This book is best suited for researchers looking at motivation, evolutionary patterns, or legitimizing strategies within podcasts. Though it is not necessarily geared toward students of the genre, this volume may nevertheless inform those thinking about entering the true-crime podcasting universe themselves. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.

Choice Reviews
An illuminating analysis of the flourishing true crime podcast genre – the author’s infectious enthusiasm is tempered by careful ethical considerations.

Siobhán McHugh, author of The Power of Podacsting: Telling Stories Through Sound
“In this volume, Dr. Sherrill artfully retells the history of podcasts as a form of entertainment, media and journalism. In doing so, this book captures an important moment in media history and simultaneously builds organizational theory to help explain how podcasts came to be so influential in today’s media landscape.”

Matthew S. Weber, Rutgers University