Podcasting

Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of academic research exploring the definition, status, practices and implications of podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens.

1. Introduction: Podcast Studies or a New Sonic Society? (Dario Llinares, Neil Fox and Richard Berry) 2. 'Just Because You Play a Guitar and Are from Nashville Doesn't Mean You Are a Country Singer': The Emergence of Medium Identities in Podcasting (Richard Berry) 3. Podcast Movement: Aspirational Labour and the Formalization of Podcasting as a Culture Industry (John L. Sullivan) 4. Podcast Networks: Syndicating Production Culture (Lieven Heeremans) 5. 'I Know What a Podcast Is': Post-Serial Fiction and Podcast Media Identity (Danielle Hancock and Leslie McMurtry) 6. Invisible Evidence: Serial and the New Unknowability of Documentary (Rebecca Ora) 7. Podcasting as Liminal Praxis: Aural Mediation, Sound Writing and Identity (Dario Llinares) 8. Wild Listening: Ecology of a Science Podcast (Danielle Barrios-O'Neill) 9. The Podcast as an Intimate Bridging Medium (Lukasz Swiatek) 10. Inner Ears and Distant Worlds: Podcast Dramaturgy and the Theatre of the Mind (Farokh Soltani-Shirazi) 11. A Feminist Materialization of Amplified Voice: Queering Identity and Affect in The Heart (Stacey Copeland) 12. Comedian Hosts and the Demotic Turn (Kathleen Collins) 13. Using a Humour Podcast to Break Down Stigma around Illness (Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt and Johanna Willstedt Buchholtz) 14. Welcome to the World of Wandercast: Podcast as Playful Participatory Performance and Environmental Exploration (Robbie Wilson) 15. An Interview with Richard Herring (Neil Fox)