Season 2

July 23, 2021

Ep33 In conversation with Dr. Gina Baleria (creator of News in Contex…

Bias in the news is a hot topic and is the focus of News in Context, a weekly podcast discussing the issues that impact how information is delivered, how we consume it, and how that affects our interactions with each other. In this episode, Prof. Lori Beckstead talks to creator and host of News in …

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June 11, 2021

Podcasting's transforming infrastructure.

Dario is joined in this episode by two of the leading lights of Podcast Studies to discuss some of the major changes in podcasting infrastructure and their implications. Apple’s decision to add a mechanism for paid subscripti...

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May 28, 2021

Emerging Research in Podcast Studies

The role of early career researchers is absolutely fundamental to the emergence and future development of “Podcast Studies”. And today I’m delighted to be joined by two such scholars whose own research is expanding the horizo...

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May 10, 2021

Podcasting and politics with Steve Richards

In this episode, it was my pleasure to discuss politics, podcasting and the media more broadly with one of the top political commentators in the country Steve Richards. Steve is the host of Rock and Roll politics, a podcast t...

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April 9, 2021

In conversation with podcast and radio producer Matty Staudt

In this episode, Dario talks to a producer and host with his finger on the pulse of the American podcasting landscape, Matty Staudt. Matty has been obsessed with audio broadcasting since childhood, listening to seminal shows ...

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March 26, 2021

SpokenWeb podcast: Cylinder talks (w/ Stacey Copeland and Jason Camlo…

In this episode, New Aural Cultures is delighted to be collaborating with the SpokenWeb podcast. Produced by a collective of researchers who are dedicated to the discovery and preservation of sonic artefacts that have capture...

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March 5, 2021

The Vagina Museum Podcast (w/host and co-producer Alyssa Chafee)

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 h...

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Nov. 20, 2020

In conversation with student podcaster Olivia Trono

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 M...

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Nov. 8, 2020

Election Talk with writer, journalist and broadcaster Denis Campbell

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 th...

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Oct. 30, 2020

In conversation with Prof. Andrew Bottomley (guest hosted by Prof. Jo…

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 ...

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Oct. 15, 2020

Podcasting: Formalization and its Discontents (AoIR 2020 Podcasting P…

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 pa...

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Oct. 1, 2020

In conversation with Dr Hannah McGregor

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 academ...

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June 2, 2020

Roganomics

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 d...

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May 28, 2020

New Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 4: Summertime Blues. Ivor Rich…

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 wellbei...

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May 21, 2020

New Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 3: Surviving AfR - moving forw…

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 wellbei...

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May 14, 2020

New Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 2: Application for Registratio…

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 wellbei...

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May 7, 2020

New Aural Cultures presents PhDCasting 1: What's a PhD? Helen Moore f…

PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. PhD student Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice...

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May 6, 2020

Ep13 Intro to New Series w/ PhD student Jerry Padfield

After a bit of a hiatus, New Aural Cultures is back with a new series written, produced and presented by PhD student Jerry Padfield. Jerry is based down in Falmouth, Cornwall and is half-way through a PhD by practice which fo...

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Jan. 16, 2020

MeCCSA 2020 Podcasting Panel

For our first episode of the new year, we bring you a podcast panel recorded at the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference held recently at the University of Brighton. The panel features Dr Dario Lli...

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Sept. 13, 2019

In conversation with Joseph Fridman

New Aural Cultures returns with this fascinating in-depth discussion with the science communicator and podcast producer (among many other things) Joseph Fridman . Joseph very generously took a brief break from his role as exe...

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