Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025) 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 the authors to pair up with another contributor to discuss their respective chapters, creating…
The 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…
Lori 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.
For 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,…
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…
Robert 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…
Prof. 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…
How 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…
Host 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…
We'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…
