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Description
Podcasting is a digital media format rapidly growing as a channel for science communication. Audiences are growing in size and reach every year. As a format, podcasting offers many ways to innovate. It also makes use of familiar conventions from traditional radio and story-telling. This module is a practice-based module to develop skills for creating individual podcasts and series. It also develops perspectives for thinking about podcasts within the wider contexts of science communication, science and technology studies, and entrepreneurial development. What can podcasts do? What can you do with podcasts? Themes in this module range from format variety, audience, and purpose; inclusion, editorial, and ethics; markets, development, and innovation. Students will create podcast material suitable for publication. They also will assess current practices and trends in the industry. The module also will develop skills in critical reflection and application of theory in communication sciences such as through debates around representation, voice, performance, authorship, narrative, post-truth, and topics of current interest.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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