Description
Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of modern podcasting as a tool for decolonization
In The Podcaster''s Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism, Drs. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham III connect contemporary podcasting to the broader history of the use of radio technology in the service of anti-colonial struggle and revolution. By organizing the book's analysis of decolonization through podcasting via three distinct activitiesinterrogation and critique, counter-narrative, and call to actionthe authors create a lens through which they analyze and evaluate the decolonizing potential of new podcasts.
The book also critiques the threat to the decolonizing efforts of some modern podcasts by the growing phenomena of surveillance capitalism and the emerging podcast oligopoly. The Podcaster''s Dilemma reveals both potential and challenges in the podcasting space as podcasters struggle to put forward insightful new narratives funded by
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 Meet the Hosts 15
2 Interrogation and Critique 42
3 Counter-narrative Production 80
4 Community Activism 110
5 Recolonizing Podcasts: Moving beyond the Frontiers of Instrumentarianism 131
Index 147
