Library technology reports, 2017

Chapter 4 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 53, no. 2), “Podcast Literacy: Educational, Accessible, and Diverse Podcasts for Library Users” Discusses the use of podcasts in elementary and high school classrooms, including the benefits of learning via audio. It then discusses the use of podcasts in higher education, for students, professors, and researchers. Another section covers accessibility issues, with information on how the blind are using podcasts and how to make podcasts accessible for deaf or hard-of-hearing users. It concludes with a section about the future of podcasts.

Applications and Outcomes, 2011

Retrieved May, 2008

Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2016

2009

"The paper draws on the author’s research into podcasting, especially in relation to its uptake by public service radios, which may be constituting a revitalising of the public radio voice. Invoking historian, John Durham Peters discussion of the merits of dissemination and dialogue, and critical theorist Bertolt Brecht’s disappointment with “one way” broadcast radio in the 1930s, the author explores podcasting as a new form of broadcast dissemination which draws on radio’s past dreamings of “eros and democracy” (Peters 1999). The significance of this time-shifted and ever expanding distribution of voice and its acousmatic presence creating a new media 'pod-ecology' is also discussed in the context of amateur and citizen media. Reference; John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, University of Chicago Press, 1999.""

Radio in the …, 2005

What is to be made of the podcasting phenomenon? Is it, in the words of the title of a forthcoming book, "pirate radio for the masses", or is it a fad destined to remain primarily a tool of the technologically literate? This paper suggests that podcasting is a "bypass" technology, allowing individuals to bypass the entire established radio industry in the same way that bloggers functioning as "citizen journalists" can bypass the mainstream print media. Podcasting allows users to establish uncontrolled point-to-point relationships (fulfilling an early promise of radio) in the same way that bloggers can establish direct links with those who post to their sites. But in both cases -podcasting and blogging -there is potential for a "roadblock" as major commercial organizations move in. As they seek to coopt the technology in aid of their for-profit purposes, they may undermine the "free-ofcharge, power-to-the-people" ethos which still surrounds blogging and podcasting as it did in the early days of the Internet. However, the possible assimilation of these tools into corporate promotional strategies may prove to be the key to their making an impact on the masses rather than mainly amongst the technologically aware. By deploying podcasts to support their commercial objectives, relatively resource-rich corporations may move podcasting from its "on the edge", pseudo-amateur status closer to the centre of the media sphere. This may be exactly what podcasting needs if, like Rowehl, one takes the view that "Podcasting is a cultural and social revolution, not a technical one". 1

Applications and Outcomes

This chapter explores current and potential pedagogical applications of academic podcasting in K-12 and higher education language learning classrooms. In order to fulfill the purpose of the chapter, it is composed of three primary sections: (1) Where we’ve been - a review of published research on podcasting; (2) Where we are - an investigation of what current teachers and researchers are doing with podcasting in their language classes based on survey results; and (3) Where we’re going - an assessment of future trends and applications. After reading the chapter, the reader should be eager to continue to explore the applications of academic podcasting in the language classroom.

2020

"You kind of fail your way to success," observed Matt Lieber, head of podcast operations at Spotify, at this year's Audiocraft festival, an annual weekend of panels about podcasting. Normally held in Sydney, this year, thanks to COVID-19, the festival shifted online.

The purpose of the paper is to introduce podcasting as a social learning practice for teachers as well as limited English proficiency (LEP) and foreign English language (FEL) students. Podcasting provides a new medium of education that hasn't been used yet to its potential. The study demonstrates an example of how to create a podcast and how it can be used to provide new learning experiences for LEP/FEL students to extend their learning day by having authentic and meaningful tasks, which involve social interaction outside of the classroom.