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
Posted in Columns, The Podcast Review | 13 Comments »
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
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Academia, Perspectives | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 2 Comments »
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
Posted in Internet, Radio | 5 Comments »
How do forensic fandom practices work when applied to a serialized non-fiction mystery?
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Tags: fandom, paratexts, Serial, seriality
Posted in Internet, Radio | 3 Comments »
As we wait to fill the serial gaps between Serial episodes, let's explore the podcast's use of temporality.
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Tags: authorship, crime procedural, narrative, podcasts, Serial, seriality, temporality
Posted in Internet, Radio | 1 Comment »
This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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Tags: crime procedural, journalism, Serial, seriality, The Wire, This American Life
Posted in Radio, Technology | 12 Comments »