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ABSTRACT
This article introduces the method of podcast ethnography. The method encompasses three general stages: to explore a podcast from a particular social field, to engage with it through careful, ethnographic reflexivity and to examine the podcast by developing typologies and themes expedient for analysis. Podcast ethnography is beneficial due to its spatial and temporal flexibility; observing a podcast universe can be performed on the move and in parallel with other tasks. This advantage enables a much-needed breathing space for researchers inquiring vehement milieus, such as white radical nationalism. The article uses an example from this precise milieu in Sweden – the podcast Motgift [Antidote] – to illustrate and flesh out the potentials and challenges of applying the method’s three stages. In so doing, the article argues for inclusion of podcast ethnography into the extended family of ethnographic methods.
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Notes
1. The distinction between delimiting platforms and empowering tools (the RSS-feed being the latter) was circulating in activist blog posts already in 2013 (see for instance, Carr, Citation2013; Fleischer, Citation2013).
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Markus Lundström
Markus Lundström is a social movement scholar currently focused on anarchism and fascism.
Tomas Poletti Lundström
Tomas Poletti Lundström specialises on the negotiation of religion within Swedish radical nationalism.