The Next Generation: Student Podcasters discuss their experiences

The Podcast Studies Podcast

This episode was recorded with contributions from students in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland. They have been working with New Aural Cultures Co-Editor Richard Berry on a new module in Podcasting this semester that blends theory and practice. They are now all in the final stages of producing their own podcasts for assessments; some of which may live on as independently produced shows. All of the work they are producing will be distributed as podcasts via hosting platforms.

The module has drawn students from across the school, with students from journalism, media studies, film production and media production. Some of the students are active within the University owned community radio Spark, whilst some have never made audio before. Although students have been introduced to complex narrative formats, their focus has been on how they can use interview or discussion based formats to communicate ideas to audiences. As the discussions in the episode will show this has allowed them to develop skills in audio production and to explore some of the key concepts in podcast studies in a practical way.

We recorded this episode during a workshop and then added each clip into Anchor to build the episode online to save editing time. The students have gathered in their production teams to discuss what drew them into podcasting and to talk about their own work.

In this Podcast you will hear from:

Sarah and Ellie -Hun that ain't it -https://podfollow.com/1488546429

Sam, Callum and Brad - The Cinejoust podcast - https://podfollow.com/1483228235/

Hannah and Sophie - Why would you go there? (released soon!)

If you've been working with students on courses in podcasting, please do let us know via Twitter @richardberryuk or @newaural so we can share some ideas on how to teach podcasting