Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary
collection of academic research exploring the definition status practices and implications of
podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens. By bringing together research from
experienced and early career academics alongside audio and creative practitioners the chapters
in this volume span a range of approaches in a timely reaction to podcasting's zeitgeist
moment. In conceptualizing the podcast the contributors examine its liminal status between the
mechanics of 'old' and 'new' media and between differing production contexts in addition to
podcasting's reliance on mainstream industrial structures whilst retaining an alternative even
outsider sensibility. In the present tumult of online media discourse the contributors frame
podcasting as indicative of a 'new aural culture' emerging from an identifiable set of
industrial technological and cultural circumstances. The analyses in this collection offer a
range of interpretations which begin to open avenues for further research into a distinct
Podcast Studies.
