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Instructors: Dr. Patrick Gill
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.521
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
4,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Requirements / organisational issues:
When the podcast emerged at the start of the 21st century, its future was wide
open: no one seemed to be entirely sure where it would be headed in terms of
content, audiences or funding. In fact, the only point of agreement in 2004, when
the term “podcast” was coined, seemed to be the note of optimism commentators
struck when discussing this new medium. More than a decade later, engagement
with the podcast has still barely permeated the academic mainstream, with
publications on the topic tending to deal with pedagogical uses of or hands-on
advice on podcasts and podcasting rather than with the form itself. Any critical
debate of the podcast, its aesthetics, its relation to other media, its financing
models and their impact on concrete specimens, etc. is rarely to be found.
Looking back at more than a decade of podcasting, we will avail ourselves
of the opportunity to historicise this young medium by asking what developments
the podcast has undergone and in what directions it is headed.
Contents:
When the podcast emerged at the start of the 21st century, its future was wide
open: no one seemed to be entirely sure where it would be headed in terms of
content, audiences or funding. In fact, the only point of agreement in 2004, when
the term “podcast” was coined, seemed to be the note of optimism commentators
struck when discussing this new medium. More than a decade later, engagement
with the podcast has still barely permeated the academic mainstream, with
publications on the topic tending to deal with pedagogical uses of or hands-on
advice on podcasts and podcasting rather than with the form itself. Any critical
debate of the podcast, its aesthetics, its relation to other media, its financing
models and their impact on concrete specimens, etc. are rarely to be found.
Looking back at more than a decade of podcasting, our symposium will avail itself
of the opportunity to historicise this young medium by asking what developments
the podcast has undergone and in what directions it is headed.
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