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The Podcast as an Intimate Bridging Medium | SpringerLink

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In this chapter, Swiatek argues that the podcast can be conceived as an intimate bridging medium: a means of communication that generates a sense of intimacy among listeners who are physically separate from each other, thus enabling boundaries of knowledge and...

Abstract In this chapter, Swiatek argues that the podcast can be conceived as an intimate bridging medium: a means of communication that generates a sense of intimacy among listeners who are physically separate from each other, thus enabling boundaries of knowledge and context to be crossed. The chapter also suggests that while the technology of podcasting can be conceived in terms of its equalising potential, the digital public sphere in which it exists is unequal. Specifically, many of the hierarchies in other media systems are replicated in the realm of podcasting, which, in turn, prevents

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