Academic Podcast Entanglements

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Abstract

The research stems from my previous undergraduate project, a podcast series: Student Learning Podcast Experience (SLPE). Here, interviews were conducted with Humanities and Social Sciences faculty, staff and students asking how podcasts are used as an educational tool. Going forward, a spin-off podcast series titled, Academic Podcast Entanglements interviews scholars who amplify their research and teachings through podcasts. These academic podcasters, effectively demonstrate how podcasts as a method of knowledge mobilization can open space, break hierarchies, and shift educational pedagogies. Author 4’s Critical Podcasting Methodology (CPM) provides an entry point for the discussion of podcasting as a method query. In addition, the Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council’s defined Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) helps further associate educational podcasting nuances. For instance, the connections of (KMb)’s co-creation, co-production and transfer are considerably well-suited for answering the who or what is involved in the podcast as a method concept. Moreover, the notion of podcasts as a method involves individual or collective knowledge brokers such as academics, researchers, students, community members, organizations, etc. Thus, the research seeks guidance from Stuart Hall’s cultural representation and new media understandings to challenge podcasts as a newer modality in our cultural system (Hall, 2017). Podcasting as a method for (KMb) is most appealing to the industry because it can be understood as being part of the research process providing audiences with an account of certain phases of the research like pre-production/production/post-production, and so on. In the panel the key threads of voice, freedom and experiential learning situate academic podcasts as entanglements of methods and re-evaluates educational podcasting as a multimodal means of communicating individual/collective agency.

Authors

• Milica Hinic, McMaster University

• Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Augusta University