The Listening Project as caring public talk

Richardson, KP ORCID: 0000-0002-3805-5803 (2018) The Listening Project as caring public talk. Discourse, Context and Media, 26. pp. 144-152.

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Abstract

Media discourse scholars have recently been giving much attention to the “belligerent” turn in contemporary nonfiction broadcasting, and this has been treated as the novelty against a tradition of sociability and formalities designed to keep tempers under control. This new belligerence is “synthetic”, a matter of organised performance professionally designed and managed to accomplish a diverse range of communicative goals, rather than emotional leakage and failures of anger management. Against this trend, The Listening Project (UK Radio 4, 2012-present) is interesting as a national radio series which is remarkably caring in its ethos, despite being a relatively new “public participation” format rather than professional or expert performance. This account show that the sincere “niceness” of the series is also “synthetic”, as an accomplishment of the broadcasters and the participants together.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2018 06:12
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:28
DOI:	10.1016/j.dcm.2018.08.001
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025195