26 research outputs found
Using a Humour Podcast to Break Down Stigma Around Illness
This chapter concerns how the Sickboy podcast series uses comedy to present discussions around illness. The chapter discusses podcasts as social media at the intersections of the public and private sphere. The article uses elements from the circuit of culture - production, text, readings and lived cultures to shed light on the phenomenon of humour podcast. The ideas of production are analysed through the lens of collaborative media. Content is looked through elements of seriality, structure, mechanics of comedy and construction of normalcy. The readings of the podcast are tackled through the lens of affordances
Using a Humour Podcast to Break Down Stigma Around Illness
This chapter concerns how the Sickboy podcast series uses comedy to present discussions around illness. The chapter discusses podcasts as social media at the intersections of the public and private sphere. The article uses elements from the circuit of culture - production, text, readings and lived cultures to shed light on the phenomenon of humour podcast. The ideas of production are analysed through the lens of collaborative media. Content is looked through elements of seriality, structure, mechanics of comedy and construction of normalcy. The readings of the podcast are tackled through the lens of affordances