The Serial podcast and storytelling in the digital age 1. The ethics of serialized true crime : fictionality in Serial season one Erica Haugtvedt 2. Sounds authentic : the acoustic construction of Serial s storyworld Jillian Demair 3. Narrative levels theory of mind and sociopathy in true crime narrative : or how is Serial different from your average Dateline episode David Letzler 4. The Serial commodity : rhetoric recombination and indeterminacy in the digital age Ellen McCracken 5. What we know : convicting narratives in NPRs Serial Sandra Kumamoto Stanley 6. The impossible ethics of Serial : Sarah Koenig Foucault Lacan Ryan Engley 7. Serial s aspirational aesthetics and racial erasure Charli Valdez.