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Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution
Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date ( Welcome to Night Vale , Radiolab , Serial , The Black Tapes , We're Alive , The Heart , The Truth , Lore , Love + Radio , My Dad Wrote a Porno , and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet Media, Audible.com, Edison Research, Libsyn and others), Podcasting documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media.
The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in “Podcasts” app, the runaway success of Serial , and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of Podcasting . Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis, production analysis, as well as audience research, it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields fandom, social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy, empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media, this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.
The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in “Podcasts” app, the runaway success of Serial , and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment, which reverberates to this day, is the focus of Podcasting . Using case studies, close analytical listening, quantitative and qualitative analysis, production analysis, as well as audience research, it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields fandom, social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy, empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media, this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.
280 pages, Paperback
Published January 10, 2019
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About the author
Martin Spinelli
22 books1 followerMartin Spinelli began a career in radio as a teenager. In his twenties as a reporter, anchor and producer in Buffalo, New York, he produced award-winning news features for National Public Radio as well as the nationally acclaimed literary series LINEbreak. In the mid-1990s he produced cutting-edge pieces heard on innovative stations around the world, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Both his benchmark radio art series Radio Radio and LINEbreak are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York while all of his radio work and writing are archived in the Martin Spinelli Collection at the University at Buffalo Library.
Martin holds degrees from the University of Sussex and Virginia Tech as well as a PhD from Buffalo. He was the founder of the Academic Radio Program at the City University of New York at Brooklyn College where he produced the AIDS-informational soap Welcome to America broadcast on Radio Africa International. His many essays about media art and history have been published in anthologies as well as journals like Postmodern Culture, Convergence and Object.
In September 2006 Martin’s life was transformed when his wife was killed and his son nearly killed by a truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Martin’s first book, the memoir After the Crash, tells the story of their recovery. He now writes inspirational stories and is a part-time lecturer in Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. But his most important and rewarding occupation is father to the most amazing boy in Britain, Lio Spinelli.
Martin holds degrees from the University of Sussex and Virginia Tech as well as a PhD from Buffalo. He was the founder of the Academic Radio Program at the City University of New York at Brooklyn College where he produced the AIDS-informational soap Welcome to America broadcast on Radio Africa International. His many essays about media art and history have been published in anthologies as well as journals like Postmodern Culture, Convergence and Object.
In September 2006 Martin’s life was transformed when his wife was killed and his son nearly killed by a truck driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Martin’s first book, the memoir After the Crash, tells the story of their recovery. He now writes inspirational stories and is a part-time lecturer in Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. But his most important and rewarding occupation is father to the most amazing boy in Britain, Lio Spinelli.
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March 24, 2019
This book could have been the game-changer in podcasting theory. I did ponder whether to award it three and four stars. The shards of analysis in this book are outstanding. I wish the entire book had been an analytical and theoretical study.
Unfortunately, the mode of research was based on interviews and textual analysis of 'famous' podcasts. While this research method did allow the emerging genres to be discussed, it not only dates the book, but prevents wider and more expansive points from being made.
This was nearly 'it.' It is certainly the best book on podcasts. There is no 'audio media revolution' here. Again 'revolution' was a mistake in and of the title. But there is some important points made in the monograph, buried under the case studies.
Unfortunately, the mode of research was based on interviews and textual analysis of 'famous' podcasts. While this research method did allow the emerging genres to be discussed, it not only dates the book, but prevents wider and more expansive points from being made.
This was nearly 'it.' It is certainly the best book on podcasts. There is no 'audio media revolution' here. Again 'revolution' was a mistake in and of the title. But there is some important points made in the monograph, buried under the case studies.
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