Tag: podcasting

How podcasting can help us rethink higher education

Podcasts can improve access to research and offer an innovative way to assess student learning, who so said I in an article  I wrote for Times Higher Education

Podcasting in academia has the potential to be radically open.

Open because it enables those unable to attend classes the chance to sample higher education remotely, because ideas explored in conversation are often expressed in more accessible language than in articles or books and because it allows students to expand their learning, giving a public voice to the type of questions that those immersed in academia might fail to ask.

And yet podcasting in academia is, for the most part, terrible…. read more here

Online Gods: A Podcast about Digital Media in India and Beyond

Between August 2017 and June 2019 I co-hosted Online Gods: A Podcast about Digital Media in India and Beyond together with Sahana Udupa.

You can also listen on the project website , subscribe by RSS

…or via Apple Podcasts

… or Spotify

The episodes were republished by EPW, with earlier ones published by HAU (!) and most were done as an official podcaster collaborator of the AAA.

I wrote about my experience of making the podcast in the article Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method and together with Sahana in the article  Talking Media with ‘Online Gods’.

Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method

You: Can podcasts be used as a method in anthropology?

Me: Yes!

You: How? Why? To what ends? But what about (INSERT CONCERN HERE)? Oh, wow it might be able to (INSERT IDEA HERE)? Yay!

Me: Read this article for a thorough self-reflexive critique of an experiment I did as part of the For Digital Dignity project podcast Online Gods.

Also available here: Cook – 2020 – Critique of podcasting as an anthropological method