Key Terms for podcast analysis

Some terms & phrases that I’ve pulled from our readings this semester, which you might want to consider as you build your episodes.

Creeber

Modernism (old media)

• industrial economy
• Mass media
• broadcasting
• “national”
• structuralism

Post-Modernism (new media)

• service/information economy
• narrowcasting
• “global”
• post-structuralist

Henry Jenkins

• Convergence Culture
• Convergence of old media and new media
• Participatory Culture
• Collective Intelligence
• delivery systems vs. cultural systems
• medium vs. technology or media protocols vs. technology
• one-to-many media vs. many-to-many
• shifts in patterns of media ownership
• tele-cocooning
• lowered production and distribution costs & broadened delivery channels for media vs. the alarming concentration of ownership of mainstream commercial media
• top-down corporate-driven process vs. bottom-up consumer-driven process
• changes in media consumption
• mixed signals from media producers: encouraging change vs. resisting “renegade behavior”
• extension
• synergy
• franchise
• knowledge communities
• affective economics
• transmedia storytelling
• fan culture, fanfic, fan production
• politics of participation
• participatory democracy
• spreadability vs stickiness
• fanfiction
• networked culture
• viral media

Janet Murray

• multiform narratives
• unisequential vs multisequential narrative
• interactive, immersive
• procedural, participation, spatial, encyclopedic
• liminal space for transformation
• virtual/augmented reality