A collection of new scholarship on the development, scope, and character of true crime in twenty-first century American media, analyses stretch across film, streaming/broadcast TV, podcasts, and novels to explore the variety of ways true crime pervades modern culture.
In New Zealand independently produced podcasts fall outside of local media regulations. This study explores the ways nine independent podcast producers from New Zealand self-govern their content.
This article proposes to investigate delineations of the audience. We highlight the scales between contents, circulation, and consumption of podcasts in platformization contexts.
Call for Papers: Radio Studies @25 – celebrating Radio, Audio and Podcasting in the real/reel world A conference organised by MeCCSA Radio Studies Network and the University of Sunderland
16-19 April 2024 Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Paper, panel, and roundtable proposals are now invited for the 2024 ‘Media Industries’ conference (‘MI2024’). After the success in 2018 of the inaugural conference ‘Media…
News podcasters, predominantly male, middle-aged, and academically educated without journalistic experience, shape mass media discourse, a study across Austria, Germany, and Switzerland reveals. They emphasize education, information, and entertainment, aligning closely with their audiences’ preferences. Meanwhile, monetization strategies remain underutilized. This research illuminates news podcasters’ unique roles and values in the evolving media landscape.
Radio DocReview is seeking contributions for a special edition of RadioDoc Review on audio documentary, narrative podcasting or crafted audio in the Global South
Matěj Skalický ABSTRACT:News podcasts are an emerging media phenomenon in Czechia, and yet there has never been a proper analysis of the fundamental incentives for producing them. This study identifies three principal factors that motivate established media houses to create…
Intimacy is an important and growing concept in both media studies and podcast studies. We contend that identifying the intersection of sound and normativity in this podcast contributes to understanding the cultural work of podcasting
A study of 264 podcast listeners shows that environmental context affects a listener’s engagement with podcasts. Five contextual elements were identified: outdoors, indoors & at home, evenings, soundscape & at work, and exercise. Particularly, some listeners use podcasts to mask distracting sounds around them. This finding offers valuable insights for podcasters and researchers about object-based and personalized media.