Podcasting : new aural cultures and digital media. edited by Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry

__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. By bringing together research from experienced and early career academics alongside audio and creative practitioners, the chapters in this volume span a range of approaches in a timely reaction to podcasting’s zeitgeist moment. In conceptualizing the podcast, the contributors examine its liminal status between the mechanics of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media and between differing production contexts, in addition to podcasting’s reliance on mainstream industrial structures whilst retaining an alternative, even outsider, sensibility. In the present tumult of online media discourse, the contributors frame podcasting as indicative of a ‘new aural culture’ emerging from an identifiable set of industrial, technological and cultural circumstances. The analyses in this collection offer a range of interpretations which begin to open avenues for further research into a distinct Podcast Studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Podcasting and Podcasts—Parameters of a New Aural Culture (Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry)....Pages 1-13 ‘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)....Pages 15-33 Podcast Movement: Aspirational Labour and the Formalisation of Podcasting as a Cultural Industry (John L. Sullivan)....Pages 35-56 Podcast Networks: Syndicating Production Culture (Lieven Heeremans)....Pages 57-79 ‘I Know What a Podcast Is’: Post-Serial Fiction and Podcast Media Identity (Danielle Hancock, Leslie McMurtry)....Pages 81-105 Invisible Evidence: Serial and the New Unknowability of Documentary (Rebecca Ora)....Pages 107-122 Podcasting as Liminal Praxis: Aural Mediation, Sound Writing and Identity (Dario Llinares)....Pages 123-145 Wild Listening: Ecology of a Science Podcast (Danielle Barrios-O’Neill)....Pages 147-172 The Podcast as an Intimate Bridging Medium (Lukasz Swiatek)....Pages 173-187 Inner Ears and Distant Worlds: Podcast Dramaturgy and the Theatre of the Mind (Farokh Soltani)....Pages 189-208 A Feminist Materialisation of Amplified Voice: Queering Identity and Affect in The Heart (Stacey Copeland)....Pages 209-225 Comedian Hosts and the Demotic Turn (Kathleen Collins)....Pages 227-250 Using a Humour Podcast to Break Down Stigma Around Illness (Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Johanna Willstedt Buchholtz)....Pages 251-271 Welcome to the World of Wandercast: Podcast as Participatory Performance and Environmental Exploration (Robbie Z. Wilson)....Pages 273-298 An Interview with Richard Herring (Neil Fox)....Pages 299-308 Back Matter ....Pages 309-316 "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. By bringing together research from experienced and early career academics alongside audio and creative practitioners, the chapters in this volume span a range of approaches in a timely reaction to podcasting's zeitgeist moment. In conceptualizing the podcast, the contributors examine its liminal status between the mechanics of 'old' and 'new' media and between differing production contexts, in addition to podcasting's reliance on mainstream industrial structures whilst retaining an alternative, even outsider, sensibility. In the present tumult of online media discourse, the contributors frame podcasting as indicative of a 'new aural culture' emerging from an identifiable set of industrial, technological and cultural circumstances. The analyses in this collection offer a range of interpretations which begin to open avenues for further research into a distinct Podcast Studies." -- Provided by publisher