TY - JOUR
T1 - Muderinos and Media Effects
T2 - How the My Favorite Murder Podcast and its Social Media Community May Promote Well-being in Audiences with Mental Illness
AU - Pavelko, Rachelle L.
AU - Myrick, Jessica Gall
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Broadcast Education Association.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - Since the inception of the My Favorite Murder podcast in January 2016, cohosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have built an empowered fanbase that tunes in weekly to hear a true-crime/comedy mashup. The present study analyzed what draws MFM listeners with a mental illness diagnosis to the podcast and how they utilize related social media platforms to connect with others by employing both a uses and gratifications paradigm and concepts from the audience involvement literature. An online survey of users of the MFM Facebook group (N = 541) was conducted and the results are discussed.
AB - Since the inception of the My Favorite Murder podcast in January 2016, cohosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have built an empowered fanbase that tunes in weekly to hear a true-crime/comedy mashup. The present study analyzed what draws MFM listeners with a mental illness diagnosis to the podcast and how they utilize related social media platforms to connect with others by employing both a uses and gratifications paradigm and concepts from the audience involvement literature. An online survey of users of the MFM Facebook group (N = 541) was conducted and the results are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/19376529.2019.1638925
DO - 10.1080/19376529.2019.1638925
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076434927
SN - 1937-6529
VL - 27
SP - 151
EP - 169
JO - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
JF - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
IS - 1
ER -
