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- Title
Decoding the Message: Verisimilar Textuality, Paratexts, and Reception Context.
- Authors
Killmeier, Matthew
- Abstract
This article examines "The Message," a 2015 audio drama science fiction podcast with a verisimilar narrative that led some listeners to interpret it as nonfiction. It argues the podcast's use of nonfiction genre conventions, web paratexts, and its reception context contributed to such misinterpretations. It situates "The Message" in context with "The War of the Worlds" and a contemporaneous audio text that similarly duped listeners, and explores listener discourses about the podcast on Reddit.
- Subjects
PARATEXT; SCIENCE fiction; RADIO audiences; REDDIT (Web resource); WAR of the Worlds (Radio program)
- Publication
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 1, p207
- ISSN
1937-6529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/19376529.2022.2095639