Episodes

Just in the nick of time for the Election, Dario brings a discussion he had earlier in the year with Steve Rayson, MSc graduate from the London School of Economics. His research project was a quantitative and qualitative investigation of Political Podcasts and their potential effect on engagement and understanding of political issues. Steve spoke to a range of political podcasters including David Runciman from Talking Politics and Channel 4's Gary Gibbon. Steve and Dario cover a range of issues...

This episode features a discussion recorded at the Podcasting Poetics Conference held on October 11th-12th 2019 at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. Dario and Richard were keynote speakers at the event, alongside Lori Beckstead from Ryerson University. This conference is the first time either of us have been to a conference that only focused on Podcast Studies, and we both felt that event was a great step in expanding the field. As you will hear in the episode the speakers includ...

This episode was recorded with contributions from students in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. They have been working with New Aural Cultures Co-Editor Richard Berry on a new module in Podcasting this semester that blends theory and practice. They are now all in the final stages of producing their own podcasts for assessments; some of which may live on as independently produced shows. All of the work they are producing will be distributed as podcasts via ho...

This edition of New Aural Cultures is drawn from a podcasting workshop lead by Dr Dario Llinares at Birkbeck, University of London. Invited by Professor Catherine Grant, Dario introduced 5 PhD students to both the technical, structural and aesthetic elements of podcasting, along with the ways it can supplement or even be integrated as a key part of a researcher's methodology. The PhD students split into groups in which they produced 2 segments outlining the themes and commonalities of their work...

The founder and producer of Podnews.net, James Cridland talks to Dario about the latest industry moves that have potential implications for the future of the medium. In a series of articles on his website, James explores the BBC's decision to withdraw Podcasting Content from Google in a move the corporation claimed was about data sharing and licensing but has been widely viewed as part of a trend towards further institutional gatekeeping of podcasting content. The BBC's motivation may be more ab...

Some of the fundamental discourses around podcasting are discussed in episode 2 of New Aural Cultures. In this edition Dario speaks to three of the contributing authors to the book Podcast: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media. John Sullivan Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg college, Pennsylvania US. John's research explores links between media industries and systems of social and economic power. We talk about his chapter on the entrepreneurial discourses that are shaping podcasti...

Episode 1 of the New Aural Cultures podcast sees co-editors of 2018’s Podcasting - New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (Palgrave), Dr Dario Llinares, Dr Neil Fox and Richard Berry, provide an overview of the first academic collection to tackle the nascent media of the podcast and discuss some of the underlying issues, advances, challenges and joys of the medium and try and contextualise why it means so much to so many people and why it’s worthy of such scholarly scrutiny. Over the course of th...