Introduction: Podcasting and Podcasts—Parameters of a New Aural Culture

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Making a podcast: Reflecting on creating a place‐based podcast

“…Podcasts are on‐demand internet radio which contribute to an increasingly diverse and targeted mediascape (Naughton, 2016). They present opportunities for “fostering of new avenues of research dissemination” (Llinares et al, 2018, p. 2) to generate new forms of public geographical understanding and encounter (Kitchin et al, 2013). Building on popular examples and our skillset, we can use the format to convey rich senses of place to different audiences.…”

“…Podcasting is a means of articulating spatial and environmental themes that contribute to what Llinares et al (2018) call a “new aural culture.” Technologies present opportunities and challenges that we need to critically reflect on to inform and progress our work. To help advance these conversations, I examine my creating a podcast to illustrate the processes, mechanisms, and ethics involved in telling a story of a river aimed at local audiences.…”

Sounds like ‘home’: The synchrony and dissonance of podcasting as boundary object

“…Podcasting's development 'from a do-it-yourself, amateur niche medium into a commercial mass medium' (Bonini 2015: 27) is well-documented in the radio studies literature (Berry 2015(Berry , 2020Cwynar 2015;Fox, Berry, and Llinares 2018;Patterson 2016;Spinelli and Dann 2019;Sullivan 2018). However, despite podcasting's mass appeal and its continuing 'formalization' (Sullivan 2018), podcasting remains a term that is highly contested by podcast producers, scholars, and those within the radio industry.…”

Qualitative approach to the formalization of a professional podcasting culture. Evolution and trends

“…In this sense, it is becoming increasingly clear that podcasting is not a mere extension of radio but rather a "new species of media" ["nueva especie mediática"] (García- Marín, 2019, p. 194) that coexists with it, exhibiting continuities and discontinuities in their production routines, ways of appealing to their audiences and their funding sources, and ways of distributing their content and shared knowledge, all of which confirms that podcasts are media products with specific features. This is due to their technological characteristics, but "The evolution of independent podcasting and expansion of podcasts beyond the radio industry, not only in the amateur scene but also in areas such as education, marketing, arts and public relations, and the consolidation of a podcasting culture (Llinares;Fox;Berry, 2018) show the progressive construction of a self-identity for podcasting" Solá, 2018, p. 67).…”