As an advocate of new media being a legitimate form of academic enterprise, I have a question for my comrades. If we start viewing things as podcasts as academic outputs, does that mean we then engage with them like a book or article? (I.e. critically.)
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Well, and a more polished 'documentary' style podcast ought to receive the same sort of scrutiny as other public-facing work, like a pitched-to-the-layman historical book.
Personally, I think podcasts offer a great opportunity to take the invited talk / conference paper style "here is the state of my project underway" and bring that to a wider audience, esp. where there are folks who'd like to listen but can't come to a conference for cost/travel
