Defining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communication
Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Recorded on 11/12/2024
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 406
In the second episode of this four-part series, podcaster and academic Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead, Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, explore how scholarly podcasting can challenge the traditional principles of academic research. To start, our guests share the ways podcast studies fits within media studies and outline why academics choose podcasting to discuss their scholarship. Underscoring the conversational and “human” characteristics of the medium, they explain how a podcast works in conversation with the guests, research, and audience, encouraging a concise and accessible approach to scholarly communication. Further, Lori and Dario share that while institutions have begun to understand and appreciate the scholarly potential and rigor of podcasting, the medium’s emphasis on fostering ongoing dialogues opposes traditional research’s focus on citations and output.
About the guests:
Dario Llinares
Academic and Podcaster
Dario Llinares is an academic and podcaster whose research has focused on a range of cinema- and media-related themes. He has published on the status and practice of cinema-going in the digital age, the aesthetics of postmodern film, representations of masculinity in prison cinema, and podcasting as a media technology. He is the co-founder and co-host of the podcasts The Cinematologists and The Podcast Studies Podcast and co-editor of Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (2018).
Lori Beckstead
Associate Professor, RTA School of Media
Toronto Metropolitan University
Lori Beckstead is an Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. She is coauthor of Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century (2024) and co-host/co-producer of The Podcast Studies Podcast.
Enjoy the conversation? Listen to the rest of the series:
- Podcasting in Academia: A critical look at its potential and discussing a new book, Podcast Studies
- Academic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiences
- The Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communication
Check out our previous series with Wilfrid Laurier University Press:
– Exploring Ecologies in Practice and Environmental Humanities
– Outlining the “Big, Big Tent” of Comics Studies
– The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
– Creative Disruption in Scholarship
– Performing Female Blackness
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