Neil Verma discusses how Serial host Sarah Koenig's obsession was the real protagonist of the podcast's first season, and how the new second season differs narratively and tonally because she tells the story without becoming a character in it.
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Tags: Bowe Bergdahl, Mark Boal, podcast, podcasting, radio, Sarah Koenig, Serial, Taliban, This American Life
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Mark Lashley notes the rise of fan podcasts within the comedy community by discussing Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman's U Talkin' U2 To Me, and the ways in which performances of fandom are complicated by the hosts' celebrity and industry connections.
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Tags: Adam Scott, fandom, Kumail Nanjiani, podcast, podcasting, Scott Aukerman, The X-Files Files, U Talkin' U2 To Me?, U2, WTF With Marc Maron
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Jason Loviglio reports from the Podcast Movement 2015 industry conference, providing a state-of-the-industry rundown that includes the divide between professional radio broadcaster "Pro-casters" and amateur "Podcasters" and the shared discourse of podcasting-as-rebirth.
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Tags: 99% Invisible, Entrepreneur on Fire, John Lee Dumas, Lea Thau, Marc Maron, media industries, Nikki Silva, Podcast Movement, Podcasters Paradise, podcasting, PodClear, PRX, public radio, Radio Ambulante, radio studies, Radiotopia, Roman Mars, Smart Passive Money, The Kitchen Sisters, The Moth
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Brian Fauteux inaugurates our "The Podcast Review" series with an analysis of The Only Music Podcast, a music podcast from Gothenburg, Sweden that offers a refreshing take on the music industries by critically engaging with bi-weekly topics.
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Tags: Bjork, Has It Leaked, iTunes, Jamie xx, KEXP, media industries, Mojib, music industries, music licensing, NPR, podcast, podcasting, popular music, radio, Robyn, Telegram Studios, The Only Music Podcast, Tidal, Tula
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Neil Verma explores the different uses of collective listening in public events and in the classroom, reflecting on a recent experience teaching podcast studies to undergraduates.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Cast Party, collective listening, Kate Lacey, Love + Radio, media studies, Michel Chion, Nancy Updike, pedagogy, podagogy, podcasting, podcasts, radio ballads, Radio Love Fest, radio studies, Radiolab, Serial, The Ballad of John Axon, The Truth, Third Coast International Audio Festival, This American Life
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The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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Tags: Andy Daly, Chris Hardwick, comedy, Comedy Bang Bang, comedy television, Marc Maron, Nerdist, Paul F. Tompkins, Pete Holmes, podcast, podcasting, television, The Joe Rogan Experience, TV, WTF With Marc Maron
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Alex Russo previews the radio oriented papers, workshops, and presentations at this week's upcoming Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Montreal.
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Tags: podcasting, radio, radio studies, SCMS, SCMS Radio Studies Scholarly Interest Group, Serial, sound studies
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As podcasters experiment with advertising, they face issues of authenticity and sincerity that strikingly resemble those of the “golden age” of radio.
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Tags: 99% Invisible, advertising, audience, authenticity, integrated advertising, Invisibilia, Men in Blazers, podcasting, product endorsements, radio, ReplyAll, Serial, StartUp, WTF With Marc Maron
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As Serial concludes, what does its successes and shortcomings teach us about the possibilities of podcasting?
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Tags: crime procedural, podcasting, Serial, seriality
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As various groups rethink drama's place in the "new golden age" of radio, podcasts by The Truth, a group responsible for some of the most interesting dramatic audio in recent memory, are producing a new sense of audioposition.
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Tags: American Public Media, Audioposition, Jonathan Mitchell, Media Convergence, Mercury Theater on the Air, musique concrete, Orson Welles, podcasting, Radio Drama, Radio Plays, soundscape, Studio 360, The Magnet Theater, The Truth, This American Life
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In the final installment of this series on podcaster Bob Frantz and his venture Boneyard Industries, the frustration that comes with advertising and getting local listeners on board is explored.
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Tags: Bob Frantz, bob's boneyard, Boneyard Industries, Dork Trek, Get Mommy a Drink, local media, local podcasts, local radio, mike and bob show, podcast, podcasting, podcasts, Torres Vs. Zombies
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Upon being released after his home station embraced a format change, radio personality Adam Carolla responded by creating a "network" of podcasts he could use to sell advertisers listeners in aggregate. Bob Frantz quickly looked to this strategy as a way to continue an over-the-mic career after the death of a ten-year radio career...
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Tags: Adam Carolla, Arbitron, Bob Frantz, bob's boneyard, Dork Trek, Get Mommy a Drink, local podcasting, mike and bob show, podcasting, podcasts, Sarah LeClaire-Heisler, Star Trek, Star Trek The Next Generation, Stephanie Frantz, The Mike and Bob Show, Torres Vs. Zombies, Zombies
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Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Tags: Arbitron, Bob Frantz, bob's boneyard, hampton roads, internet, Kickstarter, local media, local radio, new media, podcast, podcasting, radio, Star Trek, The Mike and Bob Show, virginia beach, YouTube
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 1]
And this is what still remains exciting about podcasting: the format has prompted a reconsideration of what we can expect from radio.
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Tags: format, podcasting, podcasts, radio, Web. 2.0
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