Des médias de crise ?

Rhétorique de l’humour et de la proximité dans les Brexit Podcasts

Wincott, Abigail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-644X, Osorio Ruiz, Natalia Marcela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5077-995X and Fauré, Laurent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0553-1834 (2025) Des médias de crise ? Radiomorphoses, no volume (14). ISSN 2649-9630

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Abstract / Summary

Our contribution analyses how two popular British podcasts – Brexitcast (BBC) and Remainiacs (Podmasters) – talked about the Brexit crisis that prompted their creation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural studies and discourse analysis, we situate political podcasting within the broader cultural climate of “permacrisis” (Shariatmadari, 2022; Turnbull, 2022) and show that the key features of British journalistic podcasting can be understood as a particularly relevant response to a period marked by political turbulence. The analysis of the corpus highlights how humour, conversational proximity and emotional sharing (Lindgren, 2023; Berry, 2022) operate as media responses to the social affects of uncertainty and waiting (Carswell et al., 2019; Hall, 2022). We identify a recurrent set of discursive strategies – irony, domestic metaphors, the sharing of personal details, and the celebration of “geekiness” – which foster a sense of listener community and provide a kind of informed “emotional support,” while helping to demystify and render intelligible a complex political process. Our analysis shows that these podcasts offer a dual remedy: they both amplify the sense of ongoing crisis and simultaneously offer a coping mechanism through conversation, sociability and the provision of information. They do not however do much to develop a collective identity beyond podcast listening that might enable more profound change in response to the crisis.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.4000/15fb4
Uncontrolled Keywords:	podcasting, audio, permacrisis, political journalism
ISSN:	2649-9630
Subjects:	Communication > Journalism Film & Television > Radio & Podcast
Department:	School of Communication
Depositing User:	Abigail Wincott
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2026 16:34
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2026 16:34
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6308

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