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Ben Litterer

@blitt.bsky.social

PhD student interested in computational approaches to language, politics, and media Iowa | Michigan

Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

What about the audio aspect of podcasts? We provide speaker turn information, along with audio features that capture this information, such as pitch, allowing future research to consider elements like emotion, humor, or sarcasm

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Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How does the podcast ecosystem react to major events? As a case study, we consider collective attention in the podcast ecosystem following the murder of George Floyd in 2020...

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Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How do the creators of podcast content exchange ideas and form communities? We find that the Business, Sports, and News categories form communities through shared guests, whereas other large categories such as Religion and Society do not

A network figure where podcasts are connected by edges if they have hosted the same guest. Color is assigned based on self-ascribed podcast category labels. Layout is determined with the force-directed Yifan-Hu algorithm. Podcasts in the same category appear closer.

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Ben Litterer @blitt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Podcasts have categories, but how similar are podcasts within categories in terms of what they talk about? In our content analysis, we find it's mixed! Some topics belong to distinct categories—but other topics like "racial justice" or "spirituality" cut across many categories!

A figure where podcast episodes are projected such that distance indicates topical similarity. Color is assigned based on the self-ascribed podcast category label.

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