Since its early stages as a medium reserved for tech-savvy users, various technological innovations have made podcasting increasingly accessible and widespread. Podcast studies have now become an established field, documenting and interrogating the potentialities of this medium, at the crossroads of various disciplines: media and cultural studies, sound studies, aesthetics, sociology, journalism studies, education, etc. Indeed, this issue of the journal InMedia aims at interrogating the formal, aesthetic, and narrative dimensions of podcasting. Narrative podcasts (fictional and nonfictional), require extensive editing, pre- and postproduction, as opposed to the relative – if only apparent – spontaneity of conversational podcasts. Finally, this issue is also interested in a more hands-on approach, where the “art of podcasting” is also understood as a craft.

Source: The Guardian February 04, 2026 19:29 UTC