Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling
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The first booklength treatment of This American Life, Empathy Machines contextualizes the influential show within the history of radio, looking back to radio's golden era and the parasocial connections that it encouraged, as well as the formation of NPR in the 1960s and the “Great Society Liberalism” that guided its programming and approach to the audience.
Empathy Machines identifies This American Life as a central cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a “liberal feeling” c...
Empathy Machines identifies This American Life as a central cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a “liberal feeling” c...






















