This article is concerned with the labour of political listening in the mediated public sphere. It describes the productive power of listening to generate a space for “voice” and explores the labour involved in preparing the space, time, setting, mood, technologies, and techniques for listening and how that labour is variously valued and exchanged.
This article will appear in a special issue on ‘Voice and Listening as Techniques of Political Life’, edited by Fadia Dakka, Kirsten Forkert, Ed McKeon, Jill Robinson and Ian Sergeant