Our Research
Learn more about our research endeavors
The Community Podcast Initiative looks to expand podcasting knowledge and practice through community engagement, knowledge mobilization, media coverage, and academic publication.
Our publications
Clark, B. (2022). Journalism’s Racial Reckoning: The News Media’s Pivot to Diversity and Inclusion. New York: Routledge.
Wilcox, M. (2022) The New Journalist’s Guide to Freelancing: Building Your Career in the New Media Landscape. Broadview Press.
Pyska, G., Tanner, E. & Ward, E. (2022, February 17). Pushing past the empty rhetoric: The Canadian Mountain Podcast and its approach to land acknowledgments. J-Source. https://j-source.ca/pushing-past-the-empty-rhetoric-the-canadian-mountain-podcast-and-its-approach-to-land-acknowledgments/
Clark, B., & Mclean, A. (2020). “Revenge of the Nerds: How Public Radio Dominated Podcasting and Transformed Listening to Audio”. In Radio’s Second Century. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. DOI: 10.36019/9780813598505-015
Clark, B., Finch, D. (2018). Broadcast Media You: Your Guide to a Career in Broadcast Media. Calgary: FDR Publishers.
Current research
Assigned Listenings as a Classroom Tool (PI: Meg Wilcox): As we work toward building a more inclusive university that encourages and makes use of different ways of knowing, educators are looking to expand their classroom resources beyond the traditional textbooks or journal articles.
Since Winter 2017, Prof. Wilcox has developed and offered a podcasting course that uses podcast episodes as weekly assigned listenings in place of weekly readings — while the students have responded positively to the assignments in formal and informal class feedback, she’s looking to explore the impact of assigned listenings more formally. In this study, Prof. Wilcox hopes to determine whether or not assigned listenings increase student participation, as well as investigating students’ perceived educational benefits and challenges with freely-accessible podcast listenings as opposed to assigned readings.
This SoTL-focused project will assess the effectiveness of assigned listenings via data on student assignment submissions as well as student surveys and focus groups. Data collection for this study begins Fall 2022.
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The Community Podcast Initiative develops, produces and promotes podcasting by fostering innovative audio storytelling as a way to amplify underrepresented voices.
Recent Episodes
- Understanding Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chic-Choc Mountains August 14, 2023
- Podcast: Restoring the Klinse-Za Caribou and Maintaining Wildlife Balance July 5, 2023
- “Molten Heads — we love you!” June 30, 2023
- “Talking about death does not kill you” June 30, 2023