Reblog & Links
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A medium without a message
My podcast circles have been a-buzz with last week’s announcement from former Wondery executives about a new AI podcast venture that will generate thousands of podcasts, and thousands of fake creator avatars, for as little as $1 an episode: Inception Point AI is attempting to do just that, as the company builds a stable of Continue reading
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Summer Road Tripping
Whether it’s a short two-hour stretch to visit family or a more remote, off-grid get away, I find driving time is also some of my best podcast listening time. To help us podcast-listening road-trippers out, CBC’s Sounds Good podcast newsletter and Pod the North collaborated to curate a two-part list of podcasts recommended by Canadian… Continue reading
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Resources for Decolonizing Research
Podcasting is an oral form, a continuation of telling tales around a campfire. I came to this idea through my Classics myth background, as I contemplated how my cohost Darrin and I discussed mythology on MythTake and how “Homer” would have shared his stories of Odyssey and Iliad orally. Which naturally led me to thinking Continue reading
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Breaking News: Podcast regulation in the works for Canada?
Sometimes your research is just too timely. After reading Lewis Tennant’s article on “Podcasting and ethics: Independent podcast production in New Zealand” (Convergence, 29:4 2023) just a few days ago, I started to dig around into Canadian Broadcast Standards code of ethics. Tennant’s research points to a number of gaps in the research around podcast Continue reading
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PLN in the news!
I am thrilled that Academica Top Ten picked up the Brock News story on our Podcast Learning Network and has shared it with their subscribers across Canada (and across Twitter!). Brock announces Podcast Learning Network initiative Academica Group, Academica Top Ten, 11 Aug. 2023 Academica Top Ten is an email newsletter that picks their ten Continue reading
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Podcast Learning Network
I’m usually more comfortable writing about the news than being the news, but I’m excited to announce the launch of this new initiative for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University! The Podcast Learning Network (PLN) will bring together podcasters (and podcast-interested folks!) from across the Brock community for learning and collaboration. I will be Continue reading
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Open Podcasting
“Open podcasting is at the core of what the industry is all about. It’s what makes the medium so unique and enshitiffication-resistant. And with more and more platforms choosing to pay out big bucks to gain podcast exclusives (in other words, to close up their podcasting content), this goes against the open and free nature that makes Continue reading
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Blogging your way to better writing
[B]logging is in and of itself academic writing and academic publication. It’s not an add-on. It’s now part and parcel of the academic writing landscape. As such, it is of no less value than any other form of writing. Even though audit regimes do not count blogs – yet – this does not lessen their Continue reading
About Me
-PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities researching podcast ethics and knowledge mobilization under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro at Brock University
-Host and producer of Foreword
-Producer of Eve, Intersected
-Cohost and producer of MythTake
-MA in Classics from Brock University (2013)
-BA in Classics from McMaster University (2009)
-BA in History & Linguistics from Glendon College, York University (2003)
Podcasting and researching from the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in modern-day Canada.
Project PhDcast 