Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media

by Dario Llinares (Editor), Neil Fox (Editor), Richard Berry (Editor)

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.

329 pages, Paperback

Published August 3, 2018

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh. My. God. What a disappointment. I cannot believe how dreadful this book is. I was so looking forward to reading it. Published in 2018 and by Palgrave Macmillan, I thought this would be great, nesting podcasting into audio cultural and aural cultures.

This is a seriously weird book. The theory deployed is either non existent or bonkers. Lyotard (!!!!!!!!!) is cited. What is ignored is complex theorizations of disintermediation, deterritorialization and digitization. What is not theorized is the consequences of globalization on neoliberalism, and neoliberalism on globalization after the Global Financial Crisis.

Edited collections can be fragmented and bitty. This is a shocker. I rarely think about how much a book cost to buy while I was reading it. This one - I did. This is an expensive book. I got nothing out of it. Nothing. I took less than two pages of notes from a 316 page book.

This is dreadful. What a disappointment.

[Filip · Rating 2 out of 5]

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