“Do lugar da ouvinte, nasceu a podcaster”

experiências, competências e atuações de mulheres na podosfera

Abstract

This article is the result of an ongoing research and reflects about the professional trajectories of women in the podosphere. We seek to understand the motivations of these women who work as producers and hosts of podcast channels and programs, their perceptions of professional skills, as well as the learning process that makes them able to perform their activities as podcasters. The methodology involves ethnographic research with long interviews with five women active in the production of podcasts in Brazil. We observed that they develop diversified practices when facing a possible career in the podosphere. In their speeches emerges the contrast between the amateur and the professional podcaster, where amateurism is considered a state of relaxation, a hobby, and does not indicate a paid activity.