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Revolution in the Echo Chamber

Audio Drama's Past, Present and Future

Leslie McMurtry

Intellect Books, 2019

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and American radio and audio drama from 1919 to present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural, and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. In addition to the form and development of aural drama, Leslie Grace McMurtry provides an exploration of mental imagery generation in relation to its reception and production. Building on historical analysis, Revolution in the Echo Chamber provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyze how people listen to audio drama, including podcast drama, today--and how they might listen in the future.
 
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Whispers in the Echo Chamber

Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society

Edited by Jesse A. Fivecoate and Andrea Kitta

University of Wisconsin Press, 2025

Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend. The editors and contributors show that studying conspiracy theories using the tools of folkloristics is a fruitful and necessary analytical exercise. The volume’s three parts lay out folkloristic approaches to conspiracy theories; ways folkloristics can help us understand how conspiracy theories are constructed; and how the genre of conspiracy theories interacts with particular, contemporary political contexts. 

This timely volume complements studies from political science, sociology, psychology, history, and more, while also crucially calling for the field of folklore studies to engage more assertively with conspiracy theories as a genre. Focusing on modern iterations of sometimes quite ancient conspiracy motifs and themes, the editors and contributors forcibly illustrate the crucial relevance of this prevalent and influential form of folklore in today’s interconnected world.

Contributors: Matthew D. Atkinson, John Bodner, Ian Brodie, Darin DeWitt, Bill Ellis, Jesse A. Fivecoate, Sandra Grady, David Guignion, Pavan Holur, Andrea Kitta, Afsane Rezaei, Vwani Roychowdhury, Lisa M. Ruch, Shadi Shahsavari, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Jeannie Banks Thomas, Anika Wilson
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