The Future of Academic Podcasting: Establishing its importance and uses in scholarly communication
Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Recorded on 11/26/2024
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 408
In the final episode of this four-part series, Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares, coeditors of the forthcoming Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, look ahead to the future of scholarly podcasting. First, Lori underscores podcasting’s ability to center marginalized voices by spotlighting lived experiences and demonstrating oral communication as a legitimate form of scholarship. Further, Dario parses through the benefits of creating podcasts to study the medium itself, much like the way media studies scholars create video essays about their research.
Next, Lori explains how librarians can help establish podcasts in traditional scholarly communication channels by preserving academic podcasts in institutional repositories. Our guests also recommend a list of scholarly podcasts including The Amplify Network, Her Media Diary, and Dario’s own The Cinematologists. Last, Lori and Dario postulate about the potential impacts of Google’s NotebookLM, a generative AI tool that creates extremely realistic-sounding podcast episodes from user-submitted prompts.
Podcasts Mentioned in the Episode:
- The Allusionist
- The Amplify Network
- The Cinematologists
- Ear Hustle
- Her Media Diary
- The J Word: A Podcast by Journalism Practice
- Phantom Power
- Podcast or Perish
- The Podcast Studies Podcast
- Somatic Podcast
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
- Defining Podcast Studies: Challenging the traditional principles of scholarly communication
- Academic Podcasting in Action: Pedagogical practices and appeal to general audiences
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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