Digital Storytelling and Sisterhood: How Podcasts Foster an Immersive Virtual Community for Black Women

This MRP explores how Black women have transferred Black oral culture to podcasts and created safe and immersive virtual spaces to share personal experiences with their audiences. While there has been much research on podcasts' resurgence over the past decade, few researchers have taken the impact of Black digital spaces into consideration. It’s necessary for Black women to have nontraditional media platforms and create a digital form of community and speak their truth in an accessible and safe space. By analyzing scholarly articles, social media and Black led podcasts, this MRP will fill the gaps of digital community studies and enrich the field of podcast research, all the while shedding light on why empowered Black women are catalysts for meaningful conversations and community formation in virtual spaces.