Diversifying the Space of Podcasting: Access, Identity, and Reflective Practices

As the podcast studies field continues to gain momentum both within academia and in practice, scholars have been mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. This edited volume highlights the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create, amplifying the unique and understudied perspectives and voices of podcasting. Through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore the various cultural, racial, and identity-based markers undergirding the richness of the platform and argue that by understanding diverse content and content creators, we enrich the field of podcast studies as a whole. Scholars of media, communication, cultural, podcast, and critical race studies – among others – will find this book to be particularly useful.

Tegan R. Bratcher is lecturer at the University of Maryland in College Park and senior researcher at the Geena Davis Institute .

Leandra H. Hernández is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at University of Utah, USA.

She is a queer critical/feminist health communication and media studies scholar with applied praxis contributions to teaching, research, and service. She is also the co-editor of numerous edited volumes and has been published in journals such as Health Communication, Communication Education, and Women's Studies in Communication.

Amy R. May is Professor of Communication and Department Chair at University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha', USA. Her current scholarship focuses on how power may be used in digital media to silence marginalized and disenfranchised populations, excluding them from conversations regarding climate change, environmental science, and scientific discourse. Dr. May's research has been published in Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Women & Language, and Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Victoria McDermott is Assistant Professor, Director of the Communication Graduate Program, and Foundational Communication Course Direction at University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha'. Her research explores the communication of power in traditionally masculine environments and has been published in the Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Public Relations Review, and Communication Education. She has been first editor of Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner, Women of the Wild, and Women Educators' Experiences During COVID-19.

Alexis Romero Walker is assistant professor at Manhattanville University and senior researcher at the Geena Davis Institute.