Podcast or Perish

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.

• Introduction: Can Podcasting Save Academia? 1. Unsound Peer Review: A Brief History2. Why Sound? Affordances and Challenges in Scholarly Audio3. What can Podcasting bring to Practices of Peer Review?4. Beyond Peer Review?Conclusion: Finding New Forms of Knowledge Creation and Dissemination BibliographyIndex