- Title
- Lend me your ears: the rise of the history podcast in Australia
- Creator
- Cuffe, Honae H.
- Relation
- History Australia Vol. 16, Issue 3, p. 553-569
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2019.1636676
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Podcasts – digital audio programs available online and on demand for listeners to download to a computer or personal audio device – have recently become something of a global phenomenon. The portability and intimacy of audio, coupled with the vast range of topics on offer, has seen podcasting offer storytelling to twenty-first-century audiences. The history discipline is well suited to the creative, long-form storytelling podcasts that are currently so popular, and history is well represented in the current podcast wave. However, history podcasts, like all popular history iterations before them, face criticisms of presenting histories that are popular with audiences but trivialise the historical research process. With this in mind, this article reviews some of the most popular history podcasts currently available in Australia, interrogating not only their entertainment value but also the sources being used, questions asked and historical knowledge subsequently created. Contrary to concerns about trivialising the historical process, this review finds that the value of podcasting is its ability to centre the role of the historian, the research method and to invite the listener into this process.
- Subject
- podcasting; digital humanities; audio history; public scholarship; history feature
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1412402
- Identifier
- uon:36480
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-6986
- Language
- eng
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