Podcasting in the 21st Century - Jenny Joo

 I discussed different types of podcasting methods and examples during my presentation. The required readings for my topic provided a better understanding of podcasting and how it became what it is today. 

I personally found the emergence of audio blogging particularly interesting, as the middle step between blogging and podcasting, because I wasn't entirely familiar with the concept of audio-blogging prior to this course. Throughout the research, I was able to listen to various styles of audio blogs and podcast series. In my presentation, I introduced 6 different modes of storytelling, which were live storytelling, feature documentary, personal documentary, historical narrative, non-narrated story, and audio drama. These types of 'storytelling' podcasts were very popular in the early 2010s, with different crime podcasts or informative podcast series. 

However, one thing I noticed recently is that nowadays, there is an increase in the popularity of podcasting series with lighter topics and conversational dialogues between the hosts and the subject. 

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  1. Grace MurakamiApril 5, 2023 at 9:23 AM

    Hi Jenny, i really enjoyed your post! I like the mention of the 6 different modes of storytelling, as live storytelling, feature documentary, personal documentary, historical narrative, non-narrated story, and audio drama. As a consumer this is something that i never really considered in terms of storytelling methods. The same way each person prefers different genres of music or talk shows, we also now develop prefrences to podcasting. I agree that in todays society where there is so much dark news being reported, most people are looking for something light hearted in fill in their spare time, almost to distract from the bad. Thanks!

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