Listening In: Building a Profile of Podcast Users and Analyzing Their Political Participation

Gaming Social Capital: Exploring Civic Value in Multiplayer Video Games

“…The response rate was 34.6%, using the American Association of Public Opinion Research's response rate calculator (RR3) (AAPOR, , p. 45). This response rate falls within acceptable parameters for web‐based surveys (Chadha et al, ; Sax, Gilmartin, & Bryant, ). The second wave was collected from 15 February 2014, through 5 March 2014, yielding 1,024 valid cases in wave 2, for a retention rate of 57%.…”

Podcasting: Considering the evolution of the medium and its association with the word ‘radio’

“…As a medium, podcasting crosses radio studies, academic pedagogies (Huntsberger and Stavitsky 2007), politics (Chadha et al 2012) and more. It carries content for general entertainment and learning (Brabazon 2009).…”

Podcast ethnography

“…1. The distinction between delimiting platforms and empowering tools (the RSS-feed being the latter) was circulating in activist blog posts already in 2013 (see for instance, Carr, 2013;Fleischer, 2013).…”

“…A podcast, then, is a composition of downloadable and sequenced digital audio files available through subscription. Whereas podcasts first appeared in the early 2000s (Berry, 2016, p. 633), this particular medium has rapidly grown into a global cultural phenomenon (Chadha et al, 2012;Samuel-Azran et al, 2019). A recent international survey reports that over a third of its 75.000 respondents regularly listen to podcasts, at least once a month, on smartphones or other portable media devices (Newman et al, 2019, pp.…”