In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the podcast community thrives with stories ranging from tech, culture and music to Middle East affairs, hosted by a diverse group of expatriates and local Emiratis. This study investigates the burgeoning podcast landscape in UAE, examining content creators’ motivations, challenges and opportunities in this emerging media space.
While centred on the medium of audio, podcasts are often a multimedia concern and one that has become hugely popular in recent years, though relatively little is known about the perspectives of podcast creators and their visions of innovation
The article analyzes the online persona of Australian comedy podcast, Ja’miezing by Chris Lilley, examining its unique features and practices. This study aims to understand the complex interaction between the podcast’s intertextual and intercommunicative aspects, including producers, hosts, characters, platforms, and audience. It underlines the need for further research into podcast personas as distinctive form of non-human online persona.
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.
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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.
The most issue of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM) includes 2 new articles on podcasting.
This article examinest wo podcasts, Black Coffee and S/Confini, authored by Italian second-generation migrants. It tackles the question to what extent Black Coffee and S/Confini can be understood as part of a bigger phenomenon of an online presence of migrants and second-generation migrants
This paper analyses a transmedia universe featuring a web series revolving around interpersonal relations and gender issues, which was then expanded using a musical podcast and a live concert
This article illustrates how news podcasts are playing a productive role in animating democracy in Australia