The Podcast Studies Podcast

Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares

Examining podcasting as a practice, as a technology, and as a medium through an academic lens. Produced by Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares.

  1. JAN 31

    Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 2: Jasmine Harris and Hannah McGregor

    Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025) contains 18 chapters written by scholars who podcast or use podcasting in their academic or teaching endeavours. Their insights contribute to our understanding of what the discipline of podcast studies is and can be. We asked the authors to pair up with another contributor to discuss their respective chapters, creating an opportunity to find synergies and insights through conversation. In this episode, Dr. Jasmine Harris and Dr. Hannah McGregor delve into the intersections of their respective chapters, “Rethinking Knowledge and Becoming Podcasters: Three Assignments as Pedagogical Tools to Decolonize College Classrooms” and "The Kitchen Table is Always Where We Are: Podcasting as Feminist Self-Reflexive Practice”.

    59 min
  2. Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 1: Samuel Clevenger and Martin Feld

    10/15/2025

    Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory - Author Conversations Part 1: Samuel Clevenger and Martin Feld

    The Podcast Studies Podcast hosts Lori and Dario have finally published their edited volume Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025). The book contains 18 chapters written by scholars who podcast or use podcasting in their academic or teaching endeavours. Their insights contribute to our understanding of what the discipline of podcast studies is and can be. We asked our authors to pair up with another contributor to discuss their respective chapters, creating an opportunity to find synergies and insights through conversation. In this episode, Dr. Samuel M. Clevenger and Martin Feld delve into the intersections of their respective chapters, "On Idleness and Podcasting" and "Autoethnography of an Amateur Tech Podcaster".

    42 min

  3. 03/11/2024

    Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? with Ian M. Cook

    Lori Beckstead chats with Ian M. Cook about his recent book entitled Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? We hear from some of the scholars who podcast whom Ian interviewed for the book and talk about why podcasting is an attractive way of doing and disseminating research for so many scholars.

    1h 5m
  4. Jess Shane: Towards a Third Podcasting

    12/05/2023

    Jess Shane: Towards a Third Podcasting

    For this episode, Dario spoke to freelance podcast producer Jess Shane. Jess works largely in audio documentary although you can hear her work cutting across various fields, genres and themes. Jess came to our attention due an article she wrote for RadioDoc review entitled Towards a Third Podcasting: Activist Podcasting in the Age of Social Justice Podcasting. This piqued Dario’s interest, particularly because it clearly borrows from the seminal film studies article called Towards a Third Cinema, published in 1970 by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. The article has become a benchmark of film studies literature, the defining manifesto of Third Cinema which was a revolutionary movement emerging primarily from filmmakers in Latin America but then spreading to Africa and Asia. Anti-Hollywood (first cinema) and Anti European art-house (second cinema), Third cinema is a revolutionary kind of filmmaking practice. It seeks to provoke an out and out political action and sees filmmaking as a tool for the radicalization of its audiences. Jess outlines how the Solanas and Getino piece provided inspiration for her thinking about podcasting as a call for activism, despite the very different historical, political and technological context. Before even getting into detail about Third Podcasting, Jess is incredibly interesting and candid, on the topic of audio documentary. Of profound interest to her is reflecting on the ethical ambivalences in the relationship between interviewer and interviewee. She interrogates how documentary purports to manifest objectivity when reporting an issue, an event or indeed trying to give a voice to an individual. But what is often obscured is the ulterior motive of the production/producer, a way of speaking to subjects which can be erroneous, perhaps even manipulative. Producers have their own agenda, which is about the construction of the story and making an entertaining podcast, over and above the ideal of truth or giving an interviewee a platform. Jess suggests that contributors who are often looking for a psychological closure or some form of catharsis, often down know what they are getting into. We discuss two of her audio documentaries that actually play with these production ethics by highlighting the process of production in “meta” way.   We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.   Show Notes Accounts and AccountabilityNicola, Talkback

    1h 16m

  5. 09/28/2023

    From the ICA Podcast Pre-Conference: The Podcast Space?

    The Podcast Studies Podcast returns after over a year's hiatus. In this first episode in a new season, we bring you a hybrid recorded session from the ICA pre-conference focused specifically on Podcast Studies. Lori hosts the episode and quizzes Dario on his deconstruction of "The Podcast Space". In the first chapter of the upcoming book Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory, Dario explores the way in which Podcast Studies scholars deploy the term "space" to amalgamate various different physical/conceptual assertions to define the process and implications of podcasting. Dario uses his own experience and thinking on "academic podcasting" as a reference to build a layered map of intersecting technological, creative, organisational and spatial elements, along with ephemeral outcomes of distributing and have a podcast listened to. The delegate questions also expand the scope of the session, pointing to many of the key debates that were the underpinning themes of the conference, which was a vital get together for the Podcast studies Community. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you are working within or adjacent to the field of Podcast Studies, and would like to discuss your work, or interview someone else about their work, please get in touch: Dario: d.llinares@rave.ac.uk Lori: lbeckste@torontomu.ca

    1h 1m
  6. Robert Gutsche - The J Word Podcast

    02/06/2022

    Robert Gutsche - The J Word Podcast

    Robert Gutsche, is a leading scholar in the field of Journalism Studies where he applies critical cultural theory to investigate issues of power in journalism. He is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University in the UK and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Informatics at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. As a journalist, his work appeared in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and various other regional and local news outlets in the U.S. Gutsche has led digital innovation related to multimedia journalism, including through the use of virtual reality and other immersive media in storytelling and research at Florida International University in Miami, as well as dynamic storytelling at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute, and non-profit news collaborations with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa. As host and producer of The J-Word Podcast Robert ask, from a range of perspectives, what is journalism? How can we make it better? What does "better" look like? The podcast features discussions with academics and professionals who've published recently in Journalism Practice. The focus of the conversations includes assessing the transformations of advancing digital technologies in journalism, social issues and conditions that journalists (need to) cover, and the future of the field. Articles featured in the episodes are temporarily made free access for citizens, journalists, scholars, and students. While the discussions are rooted in research, they are approached to influence practice.   Dario introduces the show by ruminating on what the recent events with regards to Joe Rogan and Spotify. What the discourse might mean podcasting in the nexus of ordinary conversation as free speech, the editorial responsibilities of institutionalised broadcasting, and how popularity and influence can contextualise those issues.

    57 min

  7. 12/17/2021

    Mack Hagood of Phantom Power: Sound Studies & Scholarly Podcasting

    Prof. Mack Hagood, author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self Control and producer of Phantom Power, joins Dario to discuss sound studies and scholarly podcasting. Phantom Power is a benchmark academic podcast in terms of acoustic form and scholarly depth. Its focus is on the sonic arts and humanities and the show utilises all the myriad affordances of sound to explore scholarship and sound art. Mack and Dario unpack the joys and labors of academic podcasting, discussing the production process and the relationship between theory and practice which leads to discussion of Mack's chapter "The Scholarly Podcast: Form and Function in Audio Academia" recently published in Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography edited by Jeremy Wade Morris and Eric Hoyt.  A transcript of this episode is available here. Mack Hagood is an Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Miami University, Ohio, where he studies digital media, sound technologies, disability, and popular music. Mack has published work on tinnitus, the use of noise-canceling headphones in air travel, the noise of fans in NFL football stadiums, indie rock in Taiwan,  the ontology of Foley and digital film sound, and the forms and functions of scholarly podcasts. Show Notes: Lori and Dario discuss Professor Steffan Garrero's 'experiment' in gaming the Apple Podcast Charts. These episodes of Phantom Power are mentioned in particular: Test Subjects with Mara Mills For Some Odd Reason with Kate Carr R. Murray Schafer: Part 1 and Part 2 Emotional Rescue Mack mentions David Hendy's radio series Noise: A Human History which he uses as a text in his sound studies class. Mack also mentions Jennifer Stoever's book The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening. Contact Us: Email: podcaststudiespodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @podstudiespod Send us a voice message: anchor.fm/podcaststudiespodcast/message

    1h 9m

  8. 12/04/2021

    Peer Review Podcasting Part 2: reflections

    How well do podcasts work as a medium for scholarly peer review? In the previous episode, Hannah McGregor and Ian M. Cook provided peer review on Lori Beckstead's draft chapter Context is King: Podcast Packaging and Paratexts. Now we're following up to discuss how well we think this method went. Dario Llinares leads us in a discussion about the affordances and limitations of doing scholarly peer review in the context of a podcast. Jess is also here with recommendations for a peer reviewed and a scholarly podcast. Be sure to listen to Peer Review Podcasting Part 1 on our podcast feed. A copy of the draft chapter under review can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRIscCkwgjFbvaZMLdfRET-XmaF48x4rxyQj7EQcdtRGXQnWOLwogODRrMbzvyJ3_64XIkcot5IMG1u/pub A transcript of this episode is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRUdekT9PzeAYBpXCBm4oX7gbXeb-0jXnsLGa46RWI4qzVGpQaam9qpJ9NReEYX14kvaHXr2ORvSeni/pub Show Notes: Hannah mentions recently undergoing peer review for Kairos, a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Hannah mentions speaking to Chris Friend on Hybrid Pedagogy's podcast Teacher of the Ear where they discussed 'ungrading'. Ian M. Cook has a book coming out soon called Scholarly Podcasting: An Insurgent, Curious Craft. Jess mentions Hannah's project, the Amplify Podcast Network, which is "a collaborative project dedicated to reimagining the sound of scholarship." She also mentions Lori's Open Peer Review Podcast which is "a demonstration of using podcasting to conduct open peer review of academic scholarship." Jess recommends Ted Rieken's audio piece published in the McGill Journal of Education entitled Mapping the Fit Between Research and Multimedia: A Podcast Exploration of the Place of Multimedia within/as Scholarship. Lori recommends also checking out the Peer Reviewer Roundtable Response to Ted Reiken's Scholarly Podcast. Jess also recommends the podcast Ologies by Alie Ward. Dario & Lori touch on Mack Hagood's chapter The Scholarly Podcast: Form and Function in Audio Academia in Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography edited by Jeremy Wade Morris and Eric Hoyt. Dario mentions the Cinematologists' episode Knowing Sounds: Podcasting as Academic Practice, and Hannah McGregor's Secret Feminist Agenda podcast as examples which explore podcasting, scholarship, and peer review.

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Examining podcasting as a practice, as a technology, and as a medium through an academic lens. Produced by Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares.

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  • Creator
    Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    57
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    © Lori Beckstead and Dario Llinares
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