Bozzi, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1506-8078 (2024) Platforming the Joe Rogan Experience: cancel culture, comedy, and infrastructure. Television and New Media. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1527-4764 (Print), 1552-8316 (Online) (doi:10.1177/15274764241277476)

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Abstract

This paper outlines a cultural critique of the Joe Rogan Experience. Framing the podcast as an adaptive cultural platform, I emphasize how it is ideologically informed by both the established infrastructure and dynamics of communicative capitalism and Joe Rogan’s ethos as a comedian. The paper discusses three ways Joe Rogan and his format negotiate their relationship with platform infrastructures. The first is Rogan’s relationship with Spotify and his interest in shaping “cancel discourses” and, subsequently, his own role as an embedded, “uncancellable” skeptic. The second is the combination of Rogan’s roast universalism and pioneering speech-a-ton format, designed to establish an infrastructure for platforming his cohort of podcasting comedians on YouTube. The third is Rogan’s relationship with platform-owner Elon Musk, whose communicative capitalist agenda has political implications. The paper establishes a theoretical connection between studies of platformisation and the under-studied cultural influence of podcasting comedians.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Joe Rogan; platformisation; infrastructure; cancel culture; comedy; social media
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2024 12:50
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47853

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