Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution
PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020

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 as: 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.

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Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution
PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020

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 as: 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.

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Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution

Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution

by Martin Spinelli, Lance Dann
Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution

Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution

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PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020

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 as: 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501328688
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/10/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.26(w) x 9.05(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Martin Spinelli is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK. An American abroad, he is a bestselling nonfiction author, the writer of numerous articles and essays on media history, art and semantics, and an award-winning radio producer. His 2006 series Radio Radio is taught in media classes around the world and is archived in major museums and collections in Europe and America.

Lance Dann is Senior Lecturer in Audio and Digital Media Production in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton in Hastings, UK. He is a multiple Radio Academy Award-winning producer, academic and sound designer. He is a former associate member of The Wooster Group, Commissioner of Programming at Resonance 104.4FM (London), a regular contributor to BBC radio, and creator of the transmedia drama The Flickerman.

Table of Contents

Interviewees viii

Foreword Professor David Bendy x

Acknowledgments xii

1 Introduction: The Audio Media Revolution 1

2 Splatters of Shit: Story, Science, and Digital Speech on Radiolab 17

3 You Are Not Alone: Podcast Communities, Audiences, and Welcome to Night Vale 43

4 In Bed with Radiotopians: Podcast Intimacy, Empathy, and Narrative 69

5 Don't Look Back: The New Possibilities of Podcast Drama 99

6 A Utopian Moment: Podium.me, Diversity, and Youth Podcasting 125

7 Blood Culture: Gaming the Podcast System 149

8 The Truth about Serial: It's Not Really about a Murder 175

9 The Lucky Strike: Success, Value, and Independence in the Golden Age of Podcasting 199

Afterword 227

References 230

Index 244

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