"Man gör underhållning och tjänar pengar på en tragedi" : En kvalitativ studie om true crime-podcasts framställning av mord

Sammanfattning: True crime has rapidly become a large part of the podcast empire. Content based on tragic events has great demand in the form of entertainment. People are able to listen to in-depth dramatizations of how murder victims were killed and private information about murderers, victims and relatives. The large amount of material and the easy accessibility to it have been criticized for lack of ethics and morals. Unethical for victims, relatives and perpetrators, industries make money from people’s trauma.  The purpose of this study is to compare commercial and public service podcasts ways of narrating true crime-cases from an ethical point of view. The murder of Lisa Holm, 2015, and the murder of Lotta Rudholm, 2016, are both well known criminal cases in Sweden. Four podcasts on each case were collected for a qualitative critical discourse analysis. Initially, an overall analysis was performed on each episode where the central content and structure was summarized. Furthermore, additional aspects were implemented for an in-depth analysis. Finally, a comparative critical discourse analysis of the material was performed based on its publisher, public service and commercial. The results show that there is a difference in the portrayal of real crimes when comparing public service driven and commercially driven podcasts. Notably when studying language use and tools to dramatize a murder.