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The Podcast Studies PodcastPodcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 1: Samuel Clevenger and Martin FeldThe Podcast Studies Podcast hosts Lori and Dario have finally published their edited volume Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025). The book contains 18 chapters written by scholars who podcast or use podcasting in their academic or teaching endeavours. Their insights contribute to our understanding of what the discipline of podcast studies is and can be. We asked our authors to pair up with another contributor to discuss their respective chapters, creating an opportunity to find synergies and insights through conversation. In this episode, Dr. Samuel M. Clevenger and Martin Feld delve into the intersections of their...
2025-10-1541 min
The Authority FileThe Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communicationIn the final episode of this four-part series, Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares, coeditors of the forthcoming Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, look ahead to the future of scholarly podcasting. First, Lori underscores podcasting’s ability to center marginalized voices by spotlighting lived experiences and demonstrating oral communication as a legitimate form of scholarship. Further, Dario parses through the benefits of creating podcasts to study the medium itself, much like the way media studies scholars create video essays about their research.
Next, Lori explains how librarians can help establish podcasts in traditional scholarly communication channels by preserving aca...
2024-11-2622 minThe Authority FileThe Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communicationIn the final episode of this four-part series, Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares, coeditors of the forthcoming Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, look ahead to the future of scholarly podcasting. First, Lori underscores podcasting’s ability to center marginalized voices by spotlighting lived experiences and demonstrating oral communication as a legitimate form of scholarship. Further, Dario parses through the benefits of creating podcasts to study the medium itself, much like the way media studies scholars create video essays about their research.
Next, Lori explains how librarians can help establish podcasts in traditional scholarly communication channels by preserving aca...
2024-11-2622 min
New Books in Sound StudiesHow Our Sonic Sausage Gets MadeThis episode, we take you behind the scenes of Phantom Power. Producer/host Mack Hagood was invited by Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead to be a guest on their show, The Podcast Studies Podcast. As you may or may not know, there are a lot of academics out there not only making podcast themselves but also studying podcasts and podcasting as a genre and an industry–and Dario and Lori are in that camp. Their podcast is a tremendous resource for those who want to understand this emerging academic field.In the interview, Dario prompted Mack to go pret...
2024-11-251h 04The Authority FileAcademic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiencesIn the third episode of this four-part series, our guests, the coeditors of Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, discuss academic podcasting in action, talking through pedagogical practices and podcasting’s appeal to general audiences. First, Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, highlights Oliver McGarr’s three key ways podcasts can be used in the classroom: substitutional, supplementary, and creative. Next, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares explains why podcasting is so effective at communicating with the public, spotlighting characteristics such as emotionality and open-source distribution. Last, Lori and Dario chat a...
2024-11-1917 minThe Authority FileAcademic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiencesIn the third episode of this four-part series, our guests, the coeditors of Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, discuss academic podcasting in action, talking through pedagogical practices and podcasting’s appeal to general audiences. First, Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, highlights Oliver McGarr’s three key ways podcasts can be used in the classroom: substitutional, supplementary, and creative. Next, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares explains why podcasting is so effective at communicating with the public, spotlighting characteristics such as emotionality and open-source distribution. Last, Lori and Dario chat a...
2024-11-1917 minThe Authority FileDefining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communicationIn the second episode of this four-part series, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, explore how scholarly podcasting can challenge the traditional principles of academic research. To start, our guests share the ways podcast studies fits within media studies and outline why academics choose podcasting to discuss their scholarship. Underscoring the conversational and “human” characteristics of the medium, they explain how a podcast works in conversation with the guests, research, and audience, encouraging a concise and accessible approach to scholarly communication. Further, Lori...
2024-11-1222 minThe Authority FileDefining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communicationIn the second episode of this four-part series, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, explore how scholarly podcasting can challenge the traditional principles of academic research. To start, our guests share the ways podcast studies fits within media studies and outline why academics choose podcasting to discuss their scholarship. Underscoring the conversational and “human” characteristics of the medium, they explain how a podcast works in conversation with the guests, research, and audience, encouraging a concise and accessible approach to scholarly communication. Further, Lori...
2024-11-1222 minThe Authority FilePodcasting in Academia: A critical look at its potential and discussing a new book, Podcast StudiesThe Authority File is no stranger to discussing podcasts. Despite the Spider-Man meme of it all, podcasting works as an effective tool to talk through the medium’s pedagogical, cultural, and academic applications. Our guests for November’s series—podcast hosts and producers themselves—are familiar with this hall of mirrors, dropping by to discuss their forthcoming edited collection, Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory.
This month, we chat with Dario Llinares, Associate Professor of Film and Media at Ravensbourne University, London, and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolita...
2024-11-0519 minThe Authority FilePodcasting in Academia: A critical look at its potential and discussing a new book, Podcast StudiesThe Authority File is no stranger to discussing podcasts. Despite the Spider-Man meme of it all, podcasting works as an effective tool to talk through the medium’s pedagogical, cultural, and academic applications. Our guests for November’s series—podcast hosts and producers themselves—are familiar with this hall of mirrors, dropping by to discuss their forthcoming edited collection, Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory.
This month, we chat with Dario Llinares, Associate Professor of Film and Media at Ravensbourne University, London, and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolita...
2024-11-0519 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastScholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? with Ian M. CookLori Beckstead chats with Ian M. Cook about his recent book entitled Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? We hear from some of the scholars who podcast whom Ian interviewed for the book and talk about why podcasting is an attractive way of doing and disseminating research for so many scholars.
2024-03-111h 04
The Podcast Studies PodcastJess Shane: Towards a Third PodcastingFor this episode, Dario spoke to freelance podcast producer Jess Shane. Jess works largely in audio documentary although you can hear her work cutting across various fields, genres and themes. Jess came to our attention due an article she wrote for RadioDoc review entitled Towards a Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting in the Age of Social Justice Podcasting. This piqued Dario’s interest, particularly because it clearly borrows from the seminal film studies article called Towards a Third Cinema, published in 1970 by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. The article has become a benchmark of film studies literature, the defining manifesto of...
2023-12-051h 15The Podcast Studies PodcastFrom the ICA Podcast Pre-Conference: The Podcast Space?The Podcast Studies Podcast returns after over a year's hiatus. In this first episode in a new season, we bring you a hybrid recorded session from the ICA pre-conference focused specifically on Podcast Studies. Lori hosts the episode and quizzes Dario on his deconstruction of "The Podcast Space". In the first chapter of the upcoming book Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, Dario explores the way in which Podcast Studies scholars deploy the term "space" to amalgamate various different physical/conceptual assertions to define the process and implications of podcasting. Dario uses his own experience and thinking on "academic podcasting"...
2023-09-281h 00
Amplified: Reimagining the Sound of ScholarshipPodcast or Perish with Ian Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregorAmplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with podcast scholars Ian M Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregor to unpack the key provocations, or what the authors term the key 'f**keries,' of their forthcoming book- Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century. We discuss their hot takes on collaborative writing, alternative forms of peer review, and why the trio claims scholarly podcasting is currently 'unsound.' Full episode transcript a...
2023-04-2531 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastRobert Gutsche - The J Word PodcastRobert Gutsche, is a leading scholar in the field of Journalism Studies where he applies critical cultural theory to investigate issues of power in journalism. He is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University in the UK and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Informatics at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. As a journalist, his work appeared in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and various other regional and local news outlets in the U.S. Gutsche has led digital innovation related to multimedia journalism, including through the use of virtual...
2022-02-0657 min
Phantom PowerThe Making of Phantom Power: Academic Podcasting, Sonic Scholarship, and Audio Storytelling w/ Mack Hagood, Dario Llinares, and Lori Beckstead
This episode, we take you behind the scenes of Phantom Power. Producer/host Mack Hagood was invited by Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead to be a guest on their show, The Podcast Studies Podcast. As you may or may not know, there are a lot of academics out there not only making podcast themselves but also studying podcasts and podcasting as a genre and an industry–and Dario and Lori are in that camp. Their podcast is a tremendous resource for those who want to understand this emerging academic field.
In the interview, Dario prompted Ma...
2022-01-111h 03
The Podcast Studies PodcastMack Hagood of Phantom Power: Sound Studies & Scholarly PodcastingProf. Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self Control and producer of Phantom Power, joins Dario to discuss sound studies and scholarly podcasting. Phantom Power is a benchmark academic podcast in terms of acoustic form and scholarly depth. Its focus is on the sonic arts and humanities and the show utilises all the myriad affordances of sound to explore scholarship and sound art. Mack and Dario unpack the joys and labors of academic podcasting, discussing the production process and the relationship between theory and practice which leads to discussion of Mack's chapter "The Scholarly Podcast: Form and F...
2021-12-171h 08
The Podcast Studies PodcastPeer Review Podcasting Part 2: reflectionsHow well do podcasts work as a medium for scholarly peer review? In the previous episode, Hannah McGregor and Ian M. Cook provided peer review on Lori Beckstead's draft chapter Context is King: Podcast Packaging and Paratexts. Now we're following up to discuss how well we think this method went. Dario Llinares leads us in a discussion about the affordances and limitations of doing scholarly peer review in the context of a podcast. Jess is also here with recommendations for a peer reviewed and a scholarly podcast.
Be sure to listen to Peer Review Podcasting Part 1 on...
2021-12-041h 01The Podcast Studies PodcastPeer Review Podcasting Part 1: a real-time peer review of scholarly workHost Lori Beckstead submits her draft chapter Context is King: Podcast Packaging and Paratexts for a real-time peer review on this podcast. Peer reviewers Hannah McGregor and Ian M. Cook give their impressions and suggestions, unpacking Lori's theoretical framework looking at the various media surrounding the podcast audio through the lens of Gerard Genette's paratext theory. We've recorded this episode as an experiment to see whether it's feasible to conduct peer review of a written manuscript in the real-time, audio-based forum of a podcast. Be prepared to laugh along the way and hear our unexpected debate when Ian asks, "W...
2021-12-0457 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastCross-Disciplinary Student Collaboration: Podcasting about CriminologyWe're excited to share a podcast submitted to us by Robin Davies, Professor of Media Studies at Vancouver Island University. Originally broadcast as a radio program on CHLY FM in Nanaimo, British Columbia, it features a series of short podcasts that were created as a cross-disciplinary assignment between Criminology students taught by Professor Lauren Mayes and Media Studies students taught by Professor Davies. Discussing diverse topics from the over-incarceration of Indigenous Peoples to the stigma surrounding drug users, these short podcasts are interspersed with reflections and feedback from the students who created them. The students tell us how the...
2021-11-191h 13
The Podcast Studies PodcastTerry Lee (Fantastic Noise)In this episode, Dario talks to Terry Lee. Terry is Senior Tutor in Radio & Audio at the University of Bedfordshire and is also responsible for the award-winning Radio LaB 97.1FM. He has had a long career in independent and commercial radio including managing Norwich's Future radio. In 2018, he started Fantastic Noise a podcast primarily aimed at students studying radio, and featuring the experienced voices of radio professionals and experts. Along with talking about the formation and production of Fantastic Noise, the conversation covers how students of radio approach and understand the use of sound in the digital age, podcast...
2021-11-041h 07
The Podcast Studies PodcastGenerative PodcastsHow about a podcast that creates itself? Or an episode that changes each time you newly download it? Generative podcasts, created with programming, AI, and dynamic insertion technologies are not yet commonplace, but could they be? Lori speaks to Jeff Emtman and Martin Zaltz Austwick, creators of Neutrinowatch, about how and why they created this generative podcast and how it disrupts expectations of how listeners 'use' podcasts as well as how podcast platforms serve them up. And our friendly neighbourhood podcast recommendation engine Jess joins Dario and Lori to discuss two other examples of generative podcasts: Welcome to Night...
2021-10-141h 21
The Podcast Studies PodcastPodcast Studies Presents PhDCasting 11: Extension. Dr Abigail Wincott, spatial audio, past soundsPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Eleven: Apr 2021 – Jun 2021 (Quarters are now out of sync due to impact of...
2021-09-2349 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Orality in the African Mediascape, with Dr. Reginold RoystonWelcome to the first episode of the new season of The Podcast Studies Podcast (formerly New Aural Cultures). We are absolutely delighted to have Dr. Reginold Royston on the show, whose article Podcasts and New Orality in the African Mediascape is the focus of the discussion.
A transcript of this episode is available.
Dr. Royston is a media anthropologist and digital humanities researcher, jointly appointed in the School of Information (formerly SLIS) and the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses on the political economy of information, race/class/g...
2021-09-161h 21
Lounge Ruminator67. Podcasting on Podcasting with Dr. Dario Llinares
I’m joined by Dario to talk about his background in film research (and now audio), along with the art of academic podcasting and why the podcast as a medium has a propensity to talk about itself.
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2021-09-0934 min
The SpokenWeb PodcastThe Podcast Studies Podcast: Podcasting in the Media MilieuIn this episode from The Podcast Studies Podcast, formerly known as the “New Aural Cultures” Podcast, co-hosts Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead come on the SpokenWeb Podcast to take us back to key moments of their past episodes. They introduce three segments from past episodes that engage with podcasting in relation to media forms and cultural contexts. You will hear a segment from an interview with academic Ella Waldmann on S-Town as a literary form; Galen Beebe from the Bello Collective website discussing ethics, social justice, and podcasting’s media heritage; and Dan Misener on the misunderstood notion of podcas...
2021-09-0653 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastEp33 In conversation with Dr. Gina Baleria (creator of News in Context podcast)Bias in the news is a hot topic and is the focus of News in Context, a weekly podcast focused on discussing the issues that impact how information is delivered, how we consume it, and how that affects our interactions with each other. In this episode, Prof. Lori Beckstead talks to creator and host of News in Context Dr. Gina Baleria. A former broadcast and digital journalist, Gina now teaches journalism, media writing,
& digital content creation and delivery at Sonoma State University. In this wide-ranging conversation, issues covering include: Navigating information in the Digital Age, Audio journalistic forms...
2021-07-2359 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastPodcasting's transforming infrastructure.Dario is joined in this episode by two of the leading lights of Podcast Studies to discuss some of the major changes in podcasting infrastructure and their implications. Apple’s decision to add a mechanism for paid subscriptions to its podcasting architecture is a move that is arguably as significant as when the iTunes first specified podcasting in its audio listening directory. In a recent article in The Conversation co-written by John Sullivan (Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College), Kim Fox (Professor of Practice in Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Cairo) & Richard Berry (Senior Lecturer in Ra...
2021-06-1149 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastEmerging Research in Podcast StudiesThe role of early career researchers is absolutely fundamental to the emergence and future development of “Podcast Studies”. And today I’m delighted to be joined by two such scholars whose own research is expanding the horizons of how podcasting is being theorized and analysed, AND, who are providing organisation, leadership & support for other ECRs in podcasting. This is particularly in light of their recent organisation of an International Graduate Symposium on Emerging in Podcast Studies. Dario talk's Alyn Euritt whose research uses discourse analysis to expressions of Intimacy in podcasting, and Jeff Donison whose work focuses on marginalized voices...
2021-05-281h 17
The Podcast Studies PodcastPodcasting and politics with Steve RichardsIn this episode, it was my pleasure to discuss politics, podcasting and the media more broadly with one of the top political commentators in the country Steve Richards. Steve is the host of Rock and Roll politics, a podcast that showcases his talent for the single voice monologue and we discuss this format, Steve's personal inspiration - the historian and broadcaster A.J.P. Taylor - and how it differs from dialogue and panel formats in production and delivery. We analyse the audience for Rock and Roll politics and the possibility of building a community, when podcasting is generally...
2021-05-1056 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 10: Reflection. Jerry Padfield, Falmouth UniversityPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Ten: Jan 2021 – Mar 2021
A period of extreme business, Covid delays an...
2021-05-0626 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastPodcasting as Literary Form with PhD Student Ella WaldmannToday Dario talks to PhD student studying at the University of Paris, Ella Waldmann, about her recently published article From Storytelling to Story Listening: How the Hit Podcast S-Town Reconfigured the Production and Reception of Narrative Non-Fiction. We discuss the literary aesthetics and structures of the show, the storytelling devices used to shape an experience that explicitly calls to the novel as modernist form. We speculate on whether this is an example of podcasting attempted to assert a cultural credibility and how this is further imbued through discussion of the shows production and reception, with a marketing discourse that...
2021-04-301h 07
The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with podcast and radio producer Matty StaudtIn this episode, Dario talks to a producer and host with his finger on the pulse of the American podcasting landscape, Matty Staudt. Matty has been obsessed with audio broadcasting since childhood, listening to seminal shows such as Bob and Ray's morning show and Dr Demento. Moving into radio at the first opportunity Matty quickly became an an on-air host, morning show lead and executive producer at stations as WJFK in Washington DC, WNEW in New York City, Alice Radio (KLLC) and Live 105 (KITS) in San Francisco. In 2007, Matty redirected his radio career toward the new world of podcasting...
2021-04-0942 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastSpokenWeb podcast: Cylinder talks (w/ Stacey Copeland and Jason Camlot)In this episode, New Aural Cultures is delighted to be collaborating with the SpokenWeb podcast. Produced by a collective of researchers who are dedicated to the discovery and preservation of sonic artefacts that have captured literary events of the past, SpokenWeb is both a vital resource for the analysis of the spoken word history in Canada and beyond, and a vital intervention into the present and future of literary performance, communication and knowledge exchange from critical and pedagogical perspectives. The podcast is hosted and produced by previous New Aural Cultures guests Hannah MacGregor and Stacey Copeland respectively.
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2021-03-261h 19The Podcast Studies PodcastBello Collective contributing editor Galen BeebeI spoke to Galen Beebe who is a contributing editor at Bello Collective. Bello Collective is a website that is dedicated to writing about podcasting that focuses on criticism. Made up of a diverse team of writers, curators, podcasters and fans who are all passionate about the power of audio, they publishes analysis of specific podcasts, innovations in technology and journalism, and highlight shows that are worth listening to. It’s really a great hub for discourse about podcasts that goes beyond the well-worn hobby horses of monetisation and audience expansion.
Galen comes from a literature background wh...
2021-03-1952 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastThe Vagina Museum Podcast (w/host and co-producer Alyssa Chafee)Alyssa Chafee is the co-producer and host of the Vagina Museum podcast which explores, in a playful yet in-depth tone, the cultural history and symbolism of what is still remains a taboo subject. Alyssa talks to Dario about her MA thesis in science podcasting audiences, he work with the Vagina Museum, and the idea and development of the podcast. Also under discussion is the podcast as a tool of education and awareness raising, how to challenge myths around taboo subjects, and the value of humour and storytelling to make an educational space accessible and inclusive.
The Vagina...
2021-03-0553 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastAudio Drama with Producer Ella WattsElla Watts is a freelance audio producer and consultant who possesses both in-depth expertise and infectious love for audio drama. Her production credits include The Orphans, Evelyn's Roots, The Unseen Hour and she has also worked for the BBC in various capacities and across different contexts including BBC Sounds and BBC Studios. In November 2018 she was commissioned by Jason Phipps and the team at BBC Sounds to research the drama podcast industry. This research covered a brief overview of the industry's recent history, its current state, and my speculation on its future. In this broad conversation, Ella talks to D...
2021-02-181h 18
The Podcast Studies PodcastBranded Podcasts and Audience Connection with Dan Misener (in conversation with Lori Beckstead)Guest host Lori Beckstead interviews Dan Misener, head of Audience Development at the branded podcasting agency Pacific Content, and host/producer of the delightful podcast Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote As Kids. Dan explains what branded podcasts are and the various considerations relating to connecting to podcast audiences, such as understanding 'podcast neighbourhoods', recognizing that a potential listener will see your podcast before they're able to listen to it, and that radio (and podcasting) is all about people talking to people about people.
Episode notes:
Guest host Lori Beckstead is an Associate Professor of So...
2021-02-0544 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 9: Adaptation. Josephine Coleman, Brunel University, MeCCSA Radio Studies NetworkPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Nine: October 2020 – Dec 2020
The start of my last year of fu...
2021-01-2841 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastStreetmusicmap radio with Daniel BacchieriShownotes
Welcome to the new season of New Aural Cultures Podcast. In this first episode of 2021, Dario Llinares speaks to PhD candidate from Monash University (Melbourne) Daniel Bacchieri about his fantastic project Streetmusicmap radio. The project combines a comprehensive archive of global street musicians organised through a digital map linking to and instagram page of footage from artists performing from all over the world. Allied to this is the podcast StreetMusicMap Radio (http://streetmusicmelbourne.com/podcast-episodes/) features an eclectic mix of musicians, primarily from Melbourne, discussing their creative practice, the life of a street musician and questions...
2021-01-221h 04
The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with student podcaster Olivia TronoPodcasting as a form that is utilised by students in educational contexts has, of course, been an important strand of the medium's development and a key focus of academic analysis. Recently, there are increasing examples of MA and PhD students utilising podcasting as a form of practice-led research. Our own partnership with Jerry Padfield and his PhD casting is a key example of that. But on this episode Dario talks to another student podcaster Olivia Trono, whose project My Master's Thesis: It's a podcast (about Podcasts) completed at Ryerson University is a benchmark example of this 'genre' of podcasts...
2020-11-201h 16The Podcast Studies PodcastElection Talk with writer, journalist and broadcaster Denis CampbellIn light of the momentous and quite frankly exhausting week leading up to the election of Joe Biden as 46th president of the United States, Dario catches up with an old podcasting friend, writer journalist and true sage of the American political system Denis Campbell. Denis produced The Three Muckrakers podcast on which Dario was one of those three along with Wales based Journalist Phil Parry; a show that looked across the main political stories from both a UK/US perspective. In this chat, Dario and Denis muse on the impact of Trump's term in office and the future...
2020-11-081h 04The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Prof. Andrew Bottomley (guest hosted by Prof. John Sullivan)SHOW NOTES
This week’s podcast features an interview with Andrew Bottomley, assistant professor of media studies at the State University of New York-Oneonta. His research is concerned with the social and cultural dimensions of communication technologies, in particular, the internet and broadcast radio, podcasting, recorded music, and other sound media. He is particularly interested in the history of new and emerging media, especially during moments of technological convergence and transference when so-called “old” and “new” media collide. We spend the hour talking about his new book entitled Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence (University of Michigan...
2020-10-301h 08The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Associate Professor Siobhan McHughIn this episode Richard Berry does a long-distance interview with Siobhan McHugh, an Associate Professor of Journalism from the University of Woollongong in Australia. She will be familiar name to anyone working in podcast studies and to any avid listener of narrative documentary podcasts. Siobhan is an active and prolific scholar, a podcast producer and consultant, and the founder of the Radio Doc Review, a pioneering academic journal (https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/).
In this interview we explore some of the themes she addresses in her work around the affective power of sound and voice in...
2020-10-231h 07The Podcast Studies PodcastPodcasting: Formalization and its Discontents (AoIR 2020 Podcasting Panel)SHOW NOTES
This week’s podcast features several podcast scholars reporting on their recent research regarding podcast formalization and platformization. The panel is moderated by John Sullivan from Muhlenberg College. This panel was originally intended to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Dublin, Ireland, but was transitioned to an online conference after the global pandemic. In keeping with the spirit of the topic, we decided to release our panel discussion in the form of a podcast. The panel of researchers presenting their work in this episode include:
Tiziano Bo...
2020-10-151h 23
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 8: Practice. Kim Fox, The Podcast ProfessorPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Eight: July 2020 – September 2020
As the second year of the PhD dr...
2020-10-0751 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Dr Hannah McGregorAfter a summer break, we are back with a new season of shows for podcast lovers, producers, critics, and academics. And we begin with a bang. Dr Dario Llinares hosts a wide-ranging conversation with one of the foremost academic podcaster working today: Dr Hannah McGregor - Assistant Professor of publishing at Simon Fraser University. On the programme, Hannah discusses her expansive podcast output including Witch, Please, Secret Feminist Agenda and The SpokenWeb Podcast in terms of their development, themes, and aesthetics. Alongside this Hannah explores how podcasts can and should be defined in academic terms, whether they are the...
2020-10-011h 27The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Professor Lori BecksteadDario met Lori Beckstead when they both delivered keynote lectures at the Podcasting Poetics Conference in Mainz, Germany last year (and a lifetime ago). They immediately shared an interest in exploring the potential of podcasting within an academic context. In this episode, they explore this topic in detail by differentiating between podcasting as an object of study and podcasting as a tool for academic research. The context of this is a project that Lori is undertaking which explores the potential for podcasting to be utilised for academic peer review in a way that is more developmentally useful to the...
2020-07-181h 05
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 7: COVID Confirmation. Rute Correia, community radio and open source researcherPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Seven: April 2020 – Jun 2020
I pass the PhD candidature process at al...
2020-07-021h 13
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 6: Confirmation of Route Here We Come. Dr Sherezade Garcia Rangel, On the Hill PodcastPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Six: January 2020 - March 2020
I present some of my work...
2020-06-1147 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 5: Pushing Water Uphill. Dr Rob Watson, Decentered MediaPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Five: October 2019 - December 2019
In PhD Land, I return refreshed...
2020-06-041h 11
The Podcast Studies PodcastRoganomicsA little over a week after the big podcasting news that Joe Rogan is moving to Spotify for a reported $100 million, Dario Llinares, Richard Berry and John Sullivan sat down for a remote discussion on the implications of the deal. The episode covers the economics of the move in terms of Spotify's continuing strategies for gaining not only market share from Apple, but determining the podcasting ecosystem. What does this mean for Rogan's extensive and vociferous fanbase, many of whom are attracted by his libertarian politics? Will they follow him to the subscriber model? Is Spotify going to expand a...
2020-06-0248 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 4: Summertime Blues. Ivor Richards, British Broadcast Audio, Falmouth UniversityPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Four: July 2019 - September 2019
The end of my first year...
2020-05-2832 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 3: Surviving AfR - moving forward. Dr Neil Fox of Cinematologists, New Aural CulturesPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Three: April 2019 - June 2019
PhD: After safely progressing the Application...
2020-05-211h 11
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 2: Application for Registration. Illustrator/Researcher Johanna RoehrPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter Two: January 2019 - March 2019
PhD progress continues with monthly workshops...
2020-05-1446 min
The Podcast Studies PodcastNew Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 1: What's a PhD? Helen Moore from Client Culture Arts Magazine, PlymouthPhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. PhD student Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.
Quarter One: September 2018-December 2018
In the first episode I...
2020-05-0758 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastEp13 Intro to New Series w/ PhD student Jerry PadfieldAfter a bit of a hiatus, New Aural Cultures is back with a new series written, produced and presented by PhD student Jerry Padfield. Jerry is based down in Falmouth, Cornwall and is half-way through a PhD by practice which focuses on community radio and access. However, during the development of his project, he has begun to use podcasting as a research tool. Also, the podcast series acts an at kind of auto-ethnography for charting the process and progress of his PhD by practice. In this episode, Jerry gives an introductory overview to the series talking with Dario Llinares a...
2020-05-0633 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastMeCCSA 2020 Podcasting PanelFor our first episode of the new year, we bring you a podcast panel recorded at the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference held recently at the University of Brighton. The panel features Dr Dario Llinares, Dr Neil Fox and Dr Martin Spinelli each giving 20minute papers and then answering questions from those in attendance. The papers were all works in progress to a certain degree and though on different topics cross-over and common themes were still found and addressed in the q&a at the end. The titles of the papers and contact details if you want...
2020-01-161h 32The Podcast Studies PodcastResearching Political Podcasts with Steve RaysonJust in the nick of time for the Election, Dario brings a discussion he had earlier in the year with Steve Rayson, MSc graduate from the London School of Economics. His research project was a quantitative and qualitative investigation of Political Podcasts and their potential effect on engagement and understanding of political issues. Steve spoke to a range of political podcasters including David Runciman from Talking Politics and Channel 4's Gary Gibbon.
Steve and Dario cover a range of issues included some of the problems with political journalism in the internet age, objectivity versus subjectivity, the reflexivity...
2019-12-1154 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastPodcasting Poetics ConferenceThis episode features a discussion recorded at the Podcasting Poetics Conference held on October 11th-12th 2019 at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany.
Dario and Richard were keynote speakers at the event, alongside Lori Beckstead from Ryerson University. This conference is the first time either of us have been to a conference that only focused on Podcast Studies, and we both felt that event was a great step in expanding the field. As you will hear in the episode the speakers included PhD students, academics who have already published on podcasting, as well as academics drawing on wo...
2019-12-031h 03The Podcast Studies PodcastThe Next Generation: Student Podcasters discuss their experiencesThis episode was recorded with contributions from students in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. They have been working with New Aural Cultures Co-Editor Richard Berry on a new module in Podcasting this semester that blends theory and practice. They are now all in the final stages of producing their own podcasts for assessments; some of which may live on as independently produced shows. All of the work they are producing will be distributed as podcasts via hosting platforms.
The module has drawn students from across the school, with students from journalism, me...
2019-11-2639 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Ben HornerMusicianship, sound design, composing, live performance, podcasting and PhD research are all a part of the rich creative make-up of Ben Horner, our guest on this week's show. His wide-ranging output plays with the complexities of meaning that can be evoked through sound as language and material phenomena. After completing a BA (Hons) in Creative Music Technology (Canterbury Christ Church University) and an MA in Digital Media (Goldsmiths University of London), he is in the final stages of a PhD by practice analysing podcast feature documentary. Here he talks to Dario about research, his own development as a podcaster...
2019-10-041h 24The Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Joseph FridmanNew Aural Cultures returns with this fascinating in-depth discussion with the science communicator and podcast producer (among many other things) Joseph Fridman. Joseph very generously took a brief break from his role as executive director of the upcoming Sound Education Conference taking place in Boston, MA from the 9-12th of October to talk about a range of themes particularly science communication and journalism, and the possibilities that podcasting provides in such areas. Joseph also outlines the aims of the conference and give an incredibly astute insight into the many strands of sound-based practice and education.
Two ot...
2019-09-1359 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastAuthentic Voices, Physical SoundsThis edition of New Aural Cultures is drawn from a podcasting workshop lead by Dr Dario Llinares at Birkbeck, University of London. Invited by Professor Catherine Grant, Dario introduced 5 PhD students to both the technical, structural and aesthetic elements of podcasting, along with the ways it can supplement or even be integrated as a key part of a researcher's methodology. The PhD students split into groups in which they produced 2 segments outlining the themes and commonalities of their work. What results is an incredibly fruitful discussion that touch on areas such as the voice, authenticity, embodiedness, mediation of the s...
2019-06-2059 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastIn conversation with Dr Martin SpinelliHot on the heels of the publication of our own Podcasting book came another foundational text in the development of Podcast Studies. Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution was written by Dr Martin Spinelli and Dr Lance Dann and is accompanied by a podcast entitled For Your Ears Only. In a wide-ranging conversation Dario talks to Martin Spinelli about the development of the book, it's role in the expanding field of Podcast studies, and the similarities and difference to our work Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media.
Martin and Dario also onto discuss the interview methodology and th...
2019-05-161h 05The Podcast Studies PodcastVoices, confessions and performances.In this our 4th episode of New Aural Cultures, Richard Berry has been talking to 3 more authors about their work. Whilst each of authors arrives at podcasting from different routes there are themes that cut across each of their interviews that are central to some of the debates in podcast studies.
In this episode Stacey Copeland talks about her work in feminist media and radio studies, and in particular the work of podcaster Kaitlin Prest in The Heart (if you haven’t already binged through The Heart we suggest that you add it to your list). Stacey is...
2019-05-061h 09The Podcast Studies PodcastJames Cridland from Podnews.net discusses BBC Sounds and Google.The founder and producer of Podnews.net, James Cridland talks to Dario about the latest industry moves that have potential implications for the future of the medium. In a series of articles on his website, James explores the BBC's decision to withdraw Podcasting Content from Google in a move the corporation claimed was about data sharing and licensing but has been widely viewed as part of a trend towards further institutional gatekeeping of podcasting content. The BBC's motivation may be more about control of branding, but with Spotify's capture of Gimlet and Anchor the hosting and production site, along...
2019-04-0139 minThe Podcast Studies PodcastEntrepreneurism, syndication and intimacy.Some of the fundamental discourses around podcasting are discussed in episode 2 of New Aural Cultures. In this edition Dario speaks to three of the contributing authors to the book Podcast: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media. John Sullivan Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg college, Pennsylvania US. John's research explores links between media industries and systems of social and economic power. We talk about his chapter on the entrepreneurial discourses that are shaping podcasting particularly out the podcast movement conference in the USA. Lieven Heeremans is a Masters Student in Media and Performance studies at Utrecht university and a o...
2019-03-281h 28The Podcast Studies PodcastIntroducing New Aural CulturesEpisode 1 of the New Aural Cultures podcast sees co-editors of 2018’s Podcasting - New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (Palgrave), Dr Dario Llinares, Dr Neil Fox and Richard Berry, provide an overview of the first academic collection to tackle the nascent media of the podcast and discuss some of the underlying issues, advances, challenges and joys of the medium and try and contextualise why it means so much to so many people and why it’s worthy of such scholarly scrutiny.
Over the course of the hour the three editors discuss how the book captu...
2019-03-1559 min