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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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Police Podcasting: Ethical and Professional Considerations
I’ll be presenting my research-in-progress on police podcasting at the upcoming International Virtual Grad Symposium: Emerging Research in Podcast Studies on Sept. 23-24, 2023. Follow the link for more information about the symposium and how to attend. A podcasting project by the Toronto Police Services (TPS) hit the headlines in February 2023 when the CBC Continue reading
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Workshop: Podcasting Essentials for (New) Creators
I’m pleased to be offering another podcasting workshop on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at Brock University! Members of the Brock community are invited to RSVP for this event on ExperienceBU. In just twenty years, podcasting has moved from a niche experimental medium to a global phenomenon. There are now an estimated 3 million active podcasts with 30 million Continue reading
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Episode 01: Welcome to Project PhDcast
Welcome to the first episode of PhDcast! I’m your host and producer, Alison Innes, and this ongoing monthly podcast of indeterminate length will take you behind the scenes into my PhD research on podcasts. I’ll be using this podcast to reflect on my own podcasting experiences, to share my evolving thinking about podcasts, and to 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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Academia from the Edges
I’m honoured to be presenting at the student-organized Humanities Graduate Student Symposium at Brock University. I will be speaking on my experiences doing “academia from the edges” and sharing some of what I have learned in my decade of alt-ac work since completing my MA. Continue reading
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Workshop: Introduction to Podcasting for Researchers
Drawing on my own experience and research as both an independent podcaster and as a university-based podcaster with the Faculty of Humanities, this workshop will explore some of the unique opportunities offered by this medium. Continue reading
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Introduction
Welcome to my new podcast research website! I am a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program at Brock University, working under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro in the Department of Digital Humanities. My research examines how podcasting as a communication technology works politically, socially, and culturally with both academic and non-academic audiences. 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.
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