The Podcast Studies Podcast

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 and radio's symbiotic relationship, and the future of audio technology and its impact on media specificity. We are also taken around the podcast neighborhood by Jess Schmidt. Her recommendations this week are The Lolita Podcast from iHeart Radio and hosted by writer-comedian Jamie Loftus (My Year in Mensa) that uses the misunderstanding and infamy around Nabakov's classic as a jumping-off point for discussions of false media narratives. Also recommended is Blank Check, a film podcast that reviews successful directors' complete filmographies, getting to the point where they were given free rein to pursue a passion project. Lori also discusses a recent talk she gave at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research as part of a research seminar on Podcasting, Discoverability, and Listener engagement. You can listen to the full seminar here. Terry also recommends The Skewer a Charlie Brooker-esque satirical comedy show with great sound production, and The Offensive, a Mockumentary series like The Office or The Thick of It in tone, but focusing on a fictional premier league football team.

PhDCasting 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 Covid) A 6-month extension to my PhD funding is confirmed due to the impact of Coronavirus. I am completing the final part of the practice in my PhD and thoughts are turning to writing the Thesis and what comes after the whole PhD itself. For me, the conversational part of this podcast has become more important than my personalised introductions.  I talk to Falmouth University-based researcher Dr Abigail Wincott about her research in spatial audio and binaural recording, her Past Sounds podcast, which explores historical soundscapes and academic life in general. Links Past Sounds: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/past-sounds/id1563455180 Abigail’s website: https://abigailwincott.wordpress.com/ Abigail on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abigailwincott

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, the role of the journalist in news, control of media content, economic considerations of podcast journalism, and much more. Dario introduces the episode with some reflections on the end of the academic year, continuing research and life generally, offers a few Podcast Studies recommendations, and outlines so news about a 'rebranding' of New Aural Cultures and that is coming for the new academic year. Shownotes Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography - editing by Jeremy Wade Morris and Eric Hoyt Phantom Power Podcast Lounge Ruminator Podcast SpokenWeb Shortcuts: Alone Together If you want to contribute to New Aural Cultures or have any feedback on the show contact Dario at: d.llinares@brighton.ac.uk Gina's research on using digital storytelling to counteract othering and foster inclusivity: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10668926.2019.1689207 https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/12579t79b Writing and Reporting the News for the 21st Century: the Speed at Which We Travel -  https://titles.cognella.com/writing-and-reporting-the-news-for-the-21st-century-9781516526789

The 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 in the context of Canadian podcasting. They discuss their research along withing the broad context of the emerging discipline podcast studies and introduce two short recordings from contributors to the symposium who also summarise their work. These contributors are Martin Feld, Freja Sørine Adler Berg, Waqar Ahmed, Tegan Bratcher, and Nele Heise. If you would like access to the panel presentations please email Alyn Euritt and mention you heard the New Aural Cultures episode on the symposium and she will give you access. You would like to appear on New Aural Cultures to discuss your Podcasting or Sound-Based research please email Dario Llinares: d.llinares@brighton.ac.uk.

PhDCasting 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 and possible funding extensions. In common with most of the academic world at this time I’m snowed under with work. In a period of reflection I decided to interview myself about my experiences during the PhD and the point at where I am in my practice. Follow me @jerrypadfield on Twitter

In 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; becoming a pioneer at Stitcher as their first  Director of Content.  Matty has been a consultant for top companies like Cisco, Sirius/XM, and The Federal Reserve Bank, creating branded content podcasts, coaching hosts and producers, and formulating dynamic podcast strategies since 2011. He’s hosted several podcasts including his "Access Podcast" (a cousin of New Aural Cultures it seems), interviewing some of the best podcasters in the industry.  As a professor at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Matty launched one of the nation’s first university-level podcasting departments in 2012. In 2017, Matty encapsulated the radio/podcast convergence when he joined iHeartRadio as the radio industry’s first Vice President of Podcast Programming.  As president of Jam Street Media, founded in 2020, he has helped launch a slate of new titles including Big Swing Podcast a podcast hosted by Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling and longtime sports fan Cooper Surles with pro athlete guests, talking about sports, pop culture, business, and everything in between. It’s where athletes go to talk about sports, Deep Dive with Vanessa Mdee a talk show hosted by the International pop star and personality, featuring inspirational guests, personal stories, and poetry, and Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco features the true stories as told by the real Donnie Brasco, Joe Pistone, about his time with the mob. Sometimes the real story is better than the movie. Don't forget to check out our partner, the SpokenWeb Podcast. They have a brilliant new episode out this month entitled: Listening Ethically to the Spoken Word. Matty Staudt on Twitter. Dario Llinares on Twitter New Aural on Twitter. If you like the show please share on your social networks. If you have an idea for a programme you would like to distribute through New Aural Cultures please email: d.llinares@brighton.ac.uk

I 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 which is why we get on a trip about writing in relation to podcasting, along with talking about the website and the newsletter which anyone who listens to this show should subscribe to. We also cover topics such as production values of podcasting during the pandemic, journalistic ethics in podcasting, podcasting's relationship to legacy media (what’s new and old about it), helping academics turn research into podcasts, podcasting as ekphrastic writing and difficulties of writing about podcasting in general, what should podcast criticism do in terms of the focus on form and content, and engaging the labour of difficult art. In my opening remarks I think about the interrelationship between writing and speaking, between audio and text, and how the nomeclature we use to talk about podcasting can reflect the complex layers of technologies and practices that make defining a definitive criteria of the medium, so difficult. Shownotes Bello Collective Website and newsletter sign-up Galen Beebe on Twitter Ministry of Ideas Podcast Recent episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Detterent Tone - written and produced by Galen Beebe Galen is the second person to recommend In Strange Woods Click here to listen to New Aural Cultures wherever you get your podcasts

Ella 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 Dario about a range of topics related to podcasting, audio production and the audio industry including: production practices during the pandemic; BBC Sounds and the consolidation of podcasting into the broadcast landscape; podcasting as a developing industry and commercial business; the digital age as a media aristocracy; the art and theory behind audio drama; audio drama, fandom and non-normative audiences. * In this episode Ella stated that John Dryden of The Cipher Podcast is a straight white Londoner in his 20s. In fact, John identifies as queer, Jewish, from the US and in his late 30s. Apologies from both Ella and Dario for this mistake. Shownotes Ella's website Ella mentions the book - Revolution of the Echo-Chamber by Leslie McMurtry Podcasts referenced NB Have you heard George’s Podcast After Murmurs The Cipher Welcome to Night Vale The Thrilling Adventure Hour  Cabin Pressure The Bright Sessions Sayer The Magnus Archives In Strange Woods Midst Primordial Deep