{"id":12352,"date":"2022-08-30T19:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2022-08-31T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:09:12","slug":"from-audience-to-host-how-robust-is-storytelling-influencing-more-people-changing-their-roles-during-they-listen-to-a-podcast%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/from-audience-to-host-how-robust-is-storytelling-influencing-more-people-changing-their-roles-during-they-listen-to-a-podcast%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"From audience to host: how robust is storytelling influencing more people changing their roles during they listen to a podcast?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An increasing number of girls create the new podcasts after they encouraged by an influential feminist podcast. What led listeners to resonate and discover a new way to express themselves?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Making podcasts was one of MT’s favourite activities while she lives alone in Spain to study her doctor degree. She and her friend Xiaoyi created the podcast Universal Residents<\/a> two years ago. She never thought that their recording of conversation could have 10,000 followers and lead the new wave of Chinese feminism podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never imagined that there would be so many girls listening to our podcast and expressing their feelings with us. Even though some audiences create new podcasts, I can\u2019t think of the power of our storytelling through podcasts that are so powerful, \u201d MT said in her newest podcast episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast content is around feminism. MT and Xiaoyi are not directly telling others what feminism is. They are telling their own stories to let the audience think about how to live their life in the man\u2019s world. Through the dialogues, the two hosts discuss the society and family pressure faced by women. After the discussion, both they and the audience have the inspiration of how to become the heart’s true desire and pursue the life they really want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would think that the feminism podcast host like MT must be very talented or been born into a family with a good educational background. But after hearing the podcast, I realised that there are many normal people like that. They are not very geniuses, not born in a rich family. They are normal like you and me. But they have feminism thinking to support themselves and make their life changes. \u201dsaid Emy, created her podcast with her friend Echo by the influence and inspiration from the feminism podcasts such as Universal Resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These ordinary women\u2019s stories can give me more power, I feel that there will be a kind of power that I can do it also. <\/p>Emy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Emy\u2019s new podcast is called \u201cOut of Place<\/a>\u201d. The content is about female and girl\u2019s career life. Now the program has 5620 followers. Many audiences like the program and after listening they want to communicate their comment. So Emy and Echo created a listeners\u2019 group to let the listeners discuss their feelings with each other much more directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the things I appreciate about the Universal Resident\u2019s content is that two hosts are brave enough to integrate feminism into everyday conversations that are relevant to the audience,\u201d said Ruiqi Wang, a journalism postgraduate student from Chinese Northwest Xi\u2019an, one of the Universal Resident audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the Universal Residents\u2019 episodes were canceled because it\u2019s not easy to discuss feminism topics publicly in the podcast in China. The main reason is that feminism is a sensitive topic in the Chinese internet environment. The podcast platform would check the episodes\u2019 content all the time. If the feminism topic is continuing talking, they would delete the episode and ask the host to edit the content and then publish it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this doesn\u2019t let MT and Xiaoyi give up recording their thinking about feminism. At the same time, they encouraged their audiences many times in their episodes that it\u2019s very worth for girls should speak voice publicly and bravely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sound of one podcast is limited. Like Universal Resident shares a lot of perspectives and experiences from the two hosts, but their cognition and perspective are limited,\u201d said Fishy Zhu, who created the podcast called \u201cWomen Chat Room<\/a>\u201d about communication knowledge, and she wanted to speak her voices after listening to the feminism podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking about things that are within the knowledge I learn in my podcast. Maybe these are two hosts of Universal Resident I haven’t known. For example, my podcast\u2019s content is something about communication subject. Some listeners have expertise in law or art. If they create podcasts, they can talk about the knowledge from their major. After this, the voices of girls are more diverse. So, the process to encourage storytelling is very necessary and meaningful,\u201d said Zhu.<\/p>\n\n\n

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