Kelli Boling

Kelli Boling

Kelli Boling appears on this site as first author of the 2018 Journal of Radio and Audio Media survey of the true crime audio audience.

Who they are

The work of Kelli Boling reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Morbid Curiosity.

Key papers

Boling, K. S., & Hull, K. (2018). Undisclosed information, Serial is my favorite murder: Examining motivations in the true crime podcast audience. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 25(1), 92-108. What it reports: An online survey of 308 listeners to true crime audio shows. Entertainment, convenience and boredom were prominent motives, and social interaction, escape and voyeurism mattered more to women.

Key ideas

Morbid Curiosity: A motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena, measured as a stable and normally occurring trait.

Sources

  1. Boling, K. S., & Hull, K. (2018). Undisclosed information, Serial is my favorite murder: Examining motivations in the true crime podcast audience. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 25(1), 92-108.