Chapter 1 Introduction: Podcasting and Podcasts—Parameters of a New Aural Culture

Chapter 2 ‘Just Because You Play a Guitar and Are from Nashville Doesn’t Mean You Are a Country Singer’: The Emergence of Medium Identities in Podcasting

Chapter 3 Podcast Movement: Aspirational Labour and the Formalisation of Podcasting as a Cultural Industry

Chapter 4 Podcast Networks: Syndicating Production Culture

Chapter 5 ‘I Know What a Podcast Is’: Post-Serial Fiction and Podcast Media Identity

Chapter 6 Invisible Evidence: Serial and the New Unknowability of Documentary

Chapter 7 Podcasting as Liminal Praxis: Aural Mediation, Sound Writing and Identity

Chapter 8 Wild Listening: Ecology of a Science Podcast

Chapter 9 The Podcast as an Intimate Bridging Medium

Chapter 10 Inner Ears and Distant Worlds: Podcast Dramaturgy and the Theatre of the Mind

Chapter 11 A Feminist Materialisation of Amplified Voice: Queering Identity and Affect in The Heart

Chapter 12 Comedian Hosts and the Demotic Turn

Chapter 13 Using a Humour Podcast to Break Down Stigma Around Illness

Chapter 14 Welcome to the World of Wandercast: Podcast as Participatory Performance and Environmental Exploration

Chapter 15 An Interview with Richard Herring