Jason Loviglio with Aaron Henkin: EMPATHY MACHINES

How does radio create feeling, and feeling influence politics?

Join us for a conversation with Jason Loviglio, author of Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling.

The first book-length treatment of This American Life, Empathy Machines identifies the public radio program as a central cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a “liberal feeling” central to podcast storytelling and the neoliberal era in which it developed. It revitalized the public radio traditions of investigative journalism and sonically inventive audio production, and ushered in appointment listening, a key innovation and disruption in the emerging chaotic attention economy of the 21st century.

Join us on the patio on July 21st to hear more and think more deeply about the program you may have encountered throughout your life.

Aaron Henkin, who has created and produced original radio programs and podcasts for WYPR, will join Jason Loviglio in conversation.