This study examines what roles citizen news podcasts of South Korea play, based on two unique concepts—carnivalism and engaging journalism. To this end, the current study content analysed the content of 11 citizen news podcasts that are most popular in this country and conducted interviews with 10 professional journalists. The findings reveal that through the use of comedic techniques such as humour, parody, and satire, the discourse of citizen podcasts transgresses existing social and cultural hierarchies and subverts a range of authoritative discourses by mainstream media. The analysis also finds that the discourse in citizen news podcasts takes on the nature of engaging journalism, which motivates ordinary individuals who are left largely disillusioned from mainstream journalism to engage in elite-challenging political action. Professional journalists admitted that citizen news podcasts provide an opportunity to re-evaluate the journalism norms and practices of South Korea.

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公民新闻播客和引人入胜的新闻：韩国反公共领域的形成

本研究基于两个独特的概念——狂欢主义和引人入胜的新闻，研究了韩国的公民新闻播客所扮演的角色。为此，目前的研究内容分析了该国最受欢迎的11个公民新闻播客的内容，并采访了10位专业记者。研究结果表明，通过使用幽默、模仿和讽刺等喜剧技巧，公民播客的话语超越了现有的社会和文化等级，颠覆了主流媒体的一系列权威话语。分析还发现，公民新闻播客中的话语具有参与新闻的性质，这促使在很大程度上对主流新闻失去幻想的普通人参与到精英挑战的政治行动中。