Podcasting scholarship is still in its nascent stages. The use of podcasting as a tool for scholarly and intellectual inquiry is a relatively new idea, to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output. Podcast or Perish maps out not simply a rationale for the deployment of podcasting as an outlet for open peer review, but also explores some real-world workflows for such a practice. At the forefront of merging these exciting fields, Lori Beckstead, Ian M. Cook, and Hannah McGregor have taken a novel approach to expanding the boundaries of scholarly knowledge by considering podcasting as a focal point for intellectual discussion, engagement, and exploration. By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship, and the transformative potential of new modes of knowledge production, Podcast or Perish is the call to action academia needs, by asking how podcasting might change the very ways we think about scholarly work.
Podcasting scholarship is still in its nascent stages. The use of podcasting as a tool for scholarly and intellectual inquiry is a relatively new idea, to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output. Podcast or Perish maps out not simply a rationale for the deployment of podcasting as an outlet for open peer review, but also explores some real-world workflows for such a practice. At the forefront of merging these exciting fields, Lori Beckstead, Ian M. Cook, and Hannah McGregor have taken a novel approach to expanding the boundaries of scholarly knowledge by considering podcasting as a focal point for intellectual discussion, engagement, and exploration. By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship, and the transformative potential of new modes of knowledge production, Podcast or Perish is the call to action academia needs, by asking how podcasting might change the very ways we think about scholarly work.
Introduction: Can Podcasting Save Academia?
1. Unsound Peer Review: A Brief History
2. Why Sound? Affordances and Challenges in Scholarly Audio
3. What can Podcasting bring to Practices of Peer Review?
4. Beyond Peer Review?
Conclusion: Finding New Forms of Knowledge Creation and
Dissemination
Bibliography
Index
A call to action for the scholarly community - introducing the merger of podcasting and peer review to encourage academics to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output.
Lori Beckstead is a podcaster and Associate Professor in
the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada,
who loves dad jokes, footnotes, and bandying about the word
‘neoliberalism’.
Ian M. Cook is an anthropologist from a magical place where
giant gingers are produced. He works for OLIve - the Open Learning
Initiative in Hungary, which provides adult education for people
who have experienced displacement.
Hannah McGregor is a podcaster, writer, and Associate
Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She
always has an automated email reply on, even when she’s not on
holiday.
This is a unique, innovative, and thorough treatment of the
contested subject of peer review and nontraditional scholarly
output. The authors deconstruct, critique, and reimagine peer
review in general while examining the potential of (and in many
cases actual instances of) podcasting peer review as a medium and
as a meta forum for reimagining this process. This forward
thinking, optimistic, and solution-oriented volume presents a solid
case for legitimizing podcasts as scholarly output. As a reader,
one feels to be in the room with these authors, as they would want
us to – that is, in fact, their central point.
*Kathleen Collins, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York, USA*
Provocative, playful and pointed in its analysis of the production
and evaluation of scholarly knowledge, this book is informed by a
deep understanding of podcasting and the audio medium. It
illuminates how podcasting, with its focus on voice, conversation
and participation, can greatly advance the accessibility of
scholarly knowledge. The book will help academics frustrated by the
limitations of print-based peer review understand – and experiment
with - the alluring power of podcasting in teaching, learning and
research contexts.
*Siobhan McHugh, multi-awardwinning podcast studies
scholar/practitioner and author of The Power of Podcasting: Telling
Stories Through Sound (2022), Australia*
Podcast or Perish succinctly and clearly highlights the
possibilities that scholarly podcasting offers researchers and
learners of all kinds. This timely book is uniquely suited to our
present moment of rapid change and uncertainty in higher education.
Academics have the tools to revise (and resubmit) the standards of
peer review and in this refreshing and engaging book the podcast is
presented as a means for not only rethinking our work, but also for
carving out an auditory space for scholarly discourse in an era of
transformation.
*Brian Fauteux, Associate professor popular music and media
studies, University of Alberta, Canada*
Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st
Century by authors Lori Beckstead, Ian Cook, and Hannah McGregor is
an enjoyable, slightly rebellious read going straight for the
fleshy throat of traditional academia—lovingly, of course, and with
the best of intentions.
*H-Net Reviews*
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