New Aural Cultures Podcast

I spoke to Galen Beebe who is a contributing editor at Bello Collective. Bello Collective is a website that is dedicated to writing about podcasting that focuses on criticism. Made up of a diverse team of writers, curators, podcasters and fans who are all passionate about the power of audio, they publishes analysis of specific podcasts, innovations in technology and journalism, and highlight shows that are worth listening to. It’s really a great hub for discourse about podcasts that goes beyond the well-worn hobby horses of monetisation and audience expansion. Galen comes from a literature background which is why we get on a trip about writing in relation to podcasting, along with talking about the website and the newsletter which anyone who listens to this show should subscribe to. We also cover topics such as production values of podcasting during the pandemic, journalistic ethics in podcasting, podcasting's relationship to legacy media (what’s new and old about it), helping academics turn research into pod

Alyssa Chafee is the co-producer and host of the Vagina Museum podcast which explores, in a playful yet in-depth tone, the cultural history and symbolism of what is still remains a taboo subject. Alyssa talks to Dario about her MA thesis in science podcasting audiences, he work with the Vagina Museum, and the idea and development of the podcast. Also under discussion is the podcast as a tool of education and awareness raising, how to challenge myths around taboo subjects, and the value of humour and storytelling to make an educational space accessible and inclusive. The Vagina Museum itself opened in 2019 in Camden London and but, unfortunately like so many cultural venues, has had to close because of the pandemic (donations are most welcome). It's aims are to raise awareness of gynaecological health, give people confidence to talk about gynaecological issues, erase body stigmas, act as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community, challenge heteronormative and cisnorma

Ella Watts is a freelance audio producer and consultant who possesses both an in-depth expertise and infectious love for audio drama. Her production credits include The Orphans, Evelyn's Roots, The Unseen Hour and she has also worked for the BBC in various capacities and across different context including BBC Sounds and BBC Studios. In November 2018 she was commissioned by Jason Phipps and the team at BBC Sounds to research the drama podcast industry. This research covered a brief overview of the industry's recent history, its current state, and my speculation on its future. In this broad conversation, Ella talks to Dario about range of topics related to podcasting, audio production and the audio industry including: production practices during the pandemic; BBC Sounds and the consolidation of podcasting into the broadcast landscape; podcasting as a developing industry and commercial business; the digital age as a media aristocracy; the art and theory behind audio drama; audio drama, fandom and non-normat

Guest host Lori Beckstead interviews Dan Misener, head of Audience Development at the branded podcasting agency Pacific Content, and host/producer of the delightful podcast Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote As Kids. Dan explains what branded podcasts are and the various considerations relating to connecting to podcast audiences, such as understanding 'podcast neighbourhoods', recognizing that a potential listener will see your podcast before they're able to listen to it, and that radio (and podcasting) is all about people talking to people about people. Episode notes: Guest host Lori Beckstead is an Associate Professor of Sound Media at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada where she teaches podcasting, radio broadcasting, and other courses related to sound studies and audio production. Lori was a guest on a previous episode of New Aural Cultures, talking about using podcasting as a form of peer review, and about her research examining podcasting as a medium. Dan Miser's insightful writing about podc

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Nine: October 2020 – Dec 2020 The start of my last year of funding: I had planned for a couple of months of reflection and writing up time after completing the first round of practical work. However, a change in life circumstances and the ever-evolving response to the global pandemic means it’s time to adapt and change again, which leads me to think about the constant need to adapt during a PhD. Research leads to ne

Shownotes Welcome to the new season of New Aural Cultures Podcast. In this first episode of 2021, Dario Llinares speaks to PhD candidate from Monash University (Melbourne) Daniel Bacchieri about his fantastic project Streetmusicmap radio. The project combines a comprehensive archive of global street musicians organised through a digital map linking to and instagram page of footage from artists performing from all over the world. Allied to this is the podcast StreetMusicMap Radio (http://streetmusicmelbourne.com/podcast-episodes/) features an eclectic mix of musicians, primarily from Melbourne, discussing their creative practice, the life of a street musician and questions around performance, the urban experience, economics and the effect of the pandemic on street music.  Dario's opening remarks looks back on a tumultuous few weeks and months, along with looking forwards to the future of the New Aural Cultures podcast, the form the show will take and potential collaborations. He also comments upon recent

Podcasting as a form that is utilised by students in educational contexts has, of course, been an important strand of the medium's development and a key focus of academic analysis. Recently, there are increasing examples of MA and PhD students utilising podcasting as a form of practice-led research. Our own partnership with Jerry Padfield and his PhD casting is a key example of that. But on this episode Dario talks to another student podcaster Olivia Trono, whose project My Master's Thesis: It's a podcast (about Podcasts) completed at Ryerson University is a benchmark example of this 'genre' of podcasts. Dario talks to Olivia about the origin of the project, the ideas she had around investing the show with the academic rigour required of a Masters thesis, how she came up  audio cues for quotations and referencing, her own performance and use of her voice, using a playful tone in a academic context and of course, her thought on podcast studies and the future of medium. // LINKS // Olivia on Twitter Dario

In light of the momentous and quite frankly exhausting week leading up to the election of Joe Biden as 46th president of the United States, Dario catches up with an old podcasting friend, writer journalist and true sage of the American political system Denis Campbell. Denis produced The Three Muckrakers podcast on which Dario was one of those three along with Wales based Journalist Phil Parry; a show that looked across the main political stories from both a UK/US perspective. In this chat, Dario and Denis muse on the impact of Trump's term in office and the future of Trumpism, coverage and attitudes to the US elections around the world, the role of the media in political discourse, Biden's challenges and the potential direction his administration could take, along with many other things. Denis also discusses the difficulties of podcasting about politics and the general polarised tribalism of our current culture. He also trails a new podcast he is producing entitled Into the Fire which is about individuals ove

SHOW NOTES This week’s podcast features an interview with Andrew Bottomley, assistant professor of media studies at the State University of New York-Oneonta.  His research is concerned with the social and cultural dimensions of communication technologies, in particular, the internet and broadcast radio, podcasting, recorded music, and other sound media. He is particularly interested in the history of new and emerging media, especially during moments of technological convergence and transference when so-called “old” and “new” media collide. We spend the hour talking about his new book entitled Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence (University of Michigan Press, 2020). For more information on the book, click here. // LINKS // Andrew Bottomley: https://www.andrewjohnbottomley.com/ Email: andrew.bottomley@oneonta.edu Twitter: @abottomley Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newauralcultures/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newauralcultures/message

In this episode Richard Berry does a long-distance interview with Siobhan McHugh, an Associate Professor of Journalism from the University of Woollongong in Australia. She will be familiar name to anyone working in podcast studies and to any avid listener of narrative documentary podcasts. Siobhan is an active and prolific scholar, a podcast producer and consultant, and the founder of the Radio Doc Review, a pioneering academic journal (https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/). In this interview we explore some of the themes she addresses in her work around the affective power of sound and voice in immersive audio storytelling, drawing on examples of her work; notably her collaborations with The Age newspaper on Phoebe’s Fall, Wrong Skin, and the Last Voyage of the Pong Su. Previously, we have explored the role of podcasting in research and methodologies for peer review in audio work. In this episodes Siobhan discusses the role of ‘Non-Traditional Research Output’ (NTRO) in the Australian system, which has allowed her to

SHOW NOTES This week’s podcast features several podcast scholars reporting on their recent research regarding podcast formalization and platformization. The panel is moderated by John Sullivan from Muhlenberg College. This panel was originally intended to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Dublin, Ireland, but was transitioned to an online conference after the global pandemic. In keeping with the spirit of the topic, we decided to release our panel discussion in the form of a podcast. The panel of researchers presenting their work in this episode include: Tiziano Bonini, University of Siena, Italy Dario Llinares University of Brighton, UK Richard Berry University of Sunderland, UK Patricia Aufderheide American University, USA John L. Sullivan, Muhlenberg College, USA Interact with us! We invite your participation in this panel. If you have any thoughts, reflections, questions, or reactions to any of the presentations or topics discussed in th

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Eight: July 2020 – September 2020 As the second year of the PhD draws to a close the practice part of my Practice-based PhD is in full swing. I talk about how the practice is going and some of the themes which my PhD deals with. I talk to Kim Fox, Professor of Practice at the American University in Cairo and leading podcast academic. We talk about developments in podcasting, podcasting studies and the podacademics,

After a summer break, we are back with a new season of shows for podcast lovers, producers, critics, and academics. And we begin with a bang. Dr Dario Llinares hosts a wide-ranging conversation with one of the foremost academic podcaster working today: Dr Hannah McGregor - Assistant Professor of publishing at Simon Fraser University. On the programme, Hannah discusses her expansive podcast output including Witch, Please, Secret Feminist Agenda and The SpokenWeb Podcast in terms of their development, themes, and aesthetics. Alongside this Hannah explores how podcasts can and should be defined in academic terms, whether they are the focus of media analysis, utilised as a research method, expand the dissemination of research beyond the ivory tower, open avenues for diverse voices in academia, or are deployed as tools of peer review. Hannah is at the forefront of discourses regarding how podcasting can be a challenge to traditional academic structures and this conversation is a must for anyone interested in podca

Dario met Lori Beckstead when they both delivered keynote lectures at the Podcasting Poetics Conference in Mainz, Germany last year (and a lifetime ago). They immediately shared an interest in exploring the potential of podcasting within an academic context. In this episode, they explore this topic in detail by differentiating between podcasting as an object of study and podcasting as a tool for academic research. The context of this is a project that Lori is undertaking which explores the potential for podcasting to be utilised for academic peer review in a way that is more developmentally useful to the research process. In a trial session held last week, Dario acted as the peer reviewer to Lori's research on what she calls the 'genetic codes' of podcasting. They reflect on that session as well as discussing many of the key issues that pervade current thinking on sound communication. Dario and Lori are joined by her research assistants Valentina Passos Gastaldo and Anna Ashitey who give their insights into s

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Seven: April 2020 – Jun 2020 I pass the PhD candidature process at almost the same time that the Coronavirus pandemic forces a lockdown in the UK. Where do I go from here...? I also talk about the role of networking for the (introvert) PhD student and how this led to me being asked onto the Radio Studies Network Steering Group. I talk to Rute Correia, PhD student at the University of Lisbon, community radio practiti

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Six: January 2020 - March 2020 I present some of my work at the MeCCSA 2020 conference in Brighton. The “Confirmation of Route” process looms dangerously close, so I explain what that is and how it can be helpful. Sometimes called the PhD upgrade or Candidature Exam at other institutions it marks a point where your research so far is assessed to worthy of PhD status (or not!) I talk to Dr Sherezade Garcia Rangel, ac

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Five: October 2019 - December 2019 In PhD Land, I return refreshed from a summer break and determined to get things moving. However things don’t get moving. To quote Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." A PhD is a massive self-directed project; you set your own deadlines and must adjust when they are either unachievable or have to change. I talk to Dr Rob Watson, com

A little over a week after the big podcasting news that Joe Rogan is moving to Spotify for a reported $100 million, Dario Llinares, Richard Berry and John Sullivan sat down for a remote discussion on the implications of the deal. The episode covers the economics of the move in terms of Spotify's continuing strategies for gaining not only market share from Apple, but determining the podcasting ecosystem. What does this mean for Rogan's extensive and vociferous fanbase, many of whom are attracted by his libertarian politics? Will they follow him to the subscriber model? Is Spotify going to expand as a video platform as Rogan is as much a Youtube presence as he is a podcaster.  Addressing James Cridland's Medium blog the question of how to define podcasting also raises its head and John counters James' argument that this move might not be that important in the grand scheme of podcasting's evolution. John, Richard and Dario also discuss the timing of the move and podcasting's current status in a media l

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Four: July 2019 - September 2019 The end of my first year as a PhD student. I present at the Falmouth University Research Summer Symposium and experience the dreaded PhD burnout. I'll talk about the need for good mental health as a postgraduate student. In conversation, I talk to Ivor Richards, senior technician at Falmouth University School of Journalism. Ivor has many years of experience as a sound engineer and te

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting. Quarter Three: April 2019 - June 2019 PhD: After safely progressing the Application for Registration (AfR) submission and the symposium presentation I start to put PhD plans together, and things start to turn into more defined projects. I talk a little about the process of putting together a literature/practice review. I talk to Dr Neil Fox, one half of the Cinematologists podcast, a part of New Aural Cultures podcast resea