Podcasting

<p><b>PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020</b> <p/>Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (<i>Welcome to Night Vale</i> <i>Radiolab</i> <i>Serial</i> <i>The Black Tapes</i> <i>We're Alive</i> <i>The Heart</i> <i>The Truth</i> <i>Lore</i> <i>Love + Radio</i> <i>My Dad Wrote a Porno</i> and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC Radiotopia Gimlet Media Audible.com Edison Research Libsyn and others) <i> Podcasting</i> documents a moment of revolutionary change in audio media. <p/>The fall of 2014 saw a new iOS from Apple with the first built-in Podcasts app the runaway success of <i>Serial</i> and podcasting moving out of its geeky ghetto into the cultural mainstream. The creative and cultural dynamism of this moment which reverberates to this day is the focus of <i>Podcasting</i>. Using case studies close analytical listening quantitative and qualitative analysis production analysis as well as audience research it suggests what podcasting has to contribute to a host of larger media-and-society debates in such fields as: fandom social media and audience construction; new media and journalistic ethics; intimacy empathy and media relationships; cultural commitments to narrative and storytelling; the future of new media drama; youth media and the charge of narcissism; and more. Beyond describing what is unique about podcasting among other audio media this book offers an entry into the new and evolving field of podcasting studies.</p>