{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"Sam reads your listener notes","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3027,"description":"Listeners are producers. Thank you for getting the show out.\nI reflect on my own podcast listening: helpful with insomnia, and a lifeline during tough times. Write me here\nReading a wide range of listener notes, I respond and explore \npersonal themes:\nvulnerability\nthoughts on how to engage usefully with attachment theory, to go looking for the things we don't want to say\nthe two breakdown eps from Joe and Ali\nvoyeurism: when is it okay to listen to people spilling about intense experiences\nI say it's because people pod with honesty, because they want to be seen and accepted, flaws and all, so you're helping. If it's feeding something exploitative, you'll feel it.\nThemes around speaking, activism, expression:\nthe half-informed should speak, while being honest about their level of understanding, otherwise we will only hear from the powerful and the uninformed, who are never honest about their level of understanding\nmiddle-class white women do speak up a lot, but should continue to do so\na brief history of middle-class women as key activists\nI encourage a writer who listens, to start a show, and offer support and advice to anyone curious about getting started\nNetworked communal media not subject to the algorithm\nthe communal, horizontal, networked experience of podcasts (listeners become producers, or step up to speak, in a mutually supporting way) \naudio over RSS: the last medium not to have been completely overrun by ads and algorithms\nopen nature of podcast distribution via RSS feeds, Really Simple Syndication, contrasting it with highly vertical, platform-dependent media (LOCKED SYSTEMS = serfdom)\ncommercial radio thrived on podcast-ish values before becoming a bloated ad beast\na call for community support and contribution, reinforcing the collaborative spirit of podcasting \nlisteners as producers, who contribute to the content and continuity of podcasts\nValue for Value, decentralisation: the philosophy we need for sustainable media in the age of closed...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JAtfDhLe02gUO4tZQPGVO8knrF2fc46Ed_F40DCEtk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNzU5LzE2OTEw/MjExMTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}