The Podcast Studies Podcast

Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 2: Jasmine Harris and Hannah McGregor

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 an opportunity to find synergies and insights through conversation. In this episode, Dr. Jasmine Harris and Dr. Hannah McGregor delve into the intersections of their respective chapters, “Rethinking Knowledge and Becoming Podcasters: Three Assignments as Pedagogical Tools to Decolonize College Classrooms” and "The Kitchen Table is Always Where We Are: Podcasting as Feminist Self-Reflexive Practice”.

Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 1: Samuel Clevenger and Martin Feld

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 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 respective chapters, "On Idleness and Podcasting" and "Autoethnography of an Amateur Tech Podcaster".

Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? with Ian M. Cook

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.

Jess Shane: Towards a Third Podcasting

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, 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 Third Cinema which was a revolutionary movement emerging primarily from filmmakers in Latin America but then spreading to Africa and Asia. Anti-Hollywood (first cinema) and Anti European art-house (second cinema), Third cinema is a revolutionary kind of filmmaking practice. It seeks to provoke an out and out political action and sees filmmaking as a tool for the radicalization of its audiences. Jess outlines how the Solanas and Getino piece provided inspiration for her thinking about podcasting as a call for activism, despite the very different historical, political and technological context. Before even getting into detail about Third Podcasting, Jess is incredibly interesting and candid, on the topic of audio documentary. Of profound interest to her is reflecting on the ethical ambivalences in the relationship between interviewer and interviewee. She interrogates how documentary purports to manifest objectivity when reporting an issue, an event or indeed trying to give a voice to an individual. But what is often obscured is the ulterior motive of the production/producer, a way of speaking to subjects which can be erroneous, perhaps even manipulative. Producers have their own agenda, which is about the construction of the story and making an entertaining podcast, over and above the ideal of truth or giving an interviewee a platform. Jess suggests that contributors who are often looking for a psychological closure or some form of catharsis, often down know what they are getting into. We discuss two of her audio documentaries that actually play with these production ethics by highlighting the process of production in “meta” way.   We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.   Show Notes Accounts and AccountabilityNicola, Talkback

From 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" as a reference to build a layered map of intersecting technological, creative, organisational and spatial elements, along with ephemeral outcomes of distributing and have a podcast listened to. The delegate questions also expand the scope of the session, pointing to many of the key debates that were the underpinning themes of the conference, which was a vital get together for the Podcast studies Community. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you are working within or adjacent to the field of Podcast Studies, and would like to discuss your work, or interview someone else about their work, please get in touch: Dario: d.llinares@rave.ac.uk Lori: lbeckste@torontomu.ca