Rate and review: Exploring listener motivations for engagement with music podcasts

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Radio Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1386/rjao_00053_1

C. Hamilton, Simon Barber

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Podcasts have become an important part of music reception practices, providing new ways of engaging with reviews and recommendations, artist interviews and popular music histories. This article presents a replicable working methodology that can be applied to study the data associated with podcasts of any genre. In our analysis, we explore approximately 16,000 listener reviews of the Top 50 podcasts in the Apple (UK) music chart in order to discover what it is about music podcasts that draws listeners to regularly engage with their favourite shows. This method, based on unsupervised machine learning algorithms, automates data-scraping for podcast reviews and ratings. We describe and critically reflect on this process in order to understand not only how listeners describe their range of motivations for engagement with music podcasts, but also the limitations of this approach in a media and cultural studies context.

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评价和评论:探索听众参与音乐播客的动机

播客已经成为音乐接受实践的重要组成部分，提供了参与评论和推荐，艺术家访谈和流行音乐史的新方式。本文提出了一种可复制的工作方法，可用于研究与任何类型的播客相关的数据。在我们的分析中，我们研究了苹果(英国)音乐排行榜前50名播客的大约16,000个听众评论，以发现音乐播客吸引听众定期参与他们最喜欢的节目的原因。这种方法基于无监督机器学习算法，可以自动收集播客评论和评级的数据。我们描述并批判性地反思这一过程，不仅是为了了解听众如何描述他们参与音乐播客的动机范围，也是为了了解这种方法在媒体和文化研究背景下的局限性。

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Radio Journal Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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1.50

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期刊介绍： Radio Journal publishes critical analyses of radio and sound media across a variety of platforms, from broadcast to podcast and all in between. Articles focus on both historical and contemporary issues in sound-based journalism and media studies. We look for work that explores the production, circulation and reception of radio and creative soundwork, and encourage a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives. Radio Journal welcomes scholarship from early career researchers as well as internationally renowned scholars. It also publishes reviews of recent publications in the field of radio and sound studies. Radio Journal is edited from the US and Australia and has an international scope. It is a refereed publication; all research articles undergo rigorous double-blind peer review. The editors will review other contributions. The process normally takes three months to complete.