Giving voice to the accused: Serial and the critical potential of true crime

被引：18

作者：

Buozis, Michael ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Temple Univ, Sch Media & Commun, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA

来源：

COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES | 2017年 / 14卷 / 03期

关键词：

Journalism; true crime; criminal justice; Serial; sourcing practices;

D O I：

10.1080/14791420.2017.1287410

中图分类号：

G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;

摘要：

The first season of Serial, to date the most popular podcast in the medium's decade-long history, told the story of the conviction of 18-year-old Adnan Syed in 2000 for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. At the center of Serial, producer Sarah Koenig presented Syed's voice, his take on the prosecution's evidence, and his own contemporaneous experience. This essay examines the way Serial used Syed's voice to challenge institutional truth claims from within the textual space of crime journalism. Criminal biography, as a genre affordance of true crime, offers a textual means to interrogate modes of truth production and representation.

引用

页码：254 / 270

页数：17