Serial and the Fiction of Objectivity
What is the actual mission of the Serial Podcast? And has the show gotten better or worse at fulfilling this mission in Season 2?
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Overthinking Podcasts
Overthinking It has produced weekly podcasts for over seven years, but rarely do we subject the podcast form itself to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t deserve. In celebration of the 400th episode of the Overthinking It podcast, the 200th episode of the TFT Podcast, and the finale of the Downton Abbey TV Recaps, we wrote a week’s worth of articles looking closely at some of our favorite podcasts (including our own). Here is the complete collection of our analyses of podcasts as popular culture, which is an ideal companion to your weekly podcast listening.
Pop Music Podcasts as an Interdisciplinary Research Program
There are lots of great podcasts about pop music, but are they even part of the same conversation?
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Cerberus Headless: The Inevitable Future of Podcasts
The culture is generating millions of hours of podcasts per year, but are even the best of the medium doomed to fade away forever?
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