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Book Reviews Nicholas L. Baham III & Nolan HigdonThe Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance CapitalismWiley Blackwell, 2022, 152 pp.Written against the backdrop of a pandemic and a populistic Trump era, The Podcaster's Dilemma investigates how podcasting is used for decolonisation (to counter-narrate imperialistic discourses), while simultaneously being constrained by the big tech platforms the medium relies upon to exist.Baham and Higdon, who are podcasters themselves, understand podcasting narrowly as a digital extension of rebel community radio and the opposite of corporate legacy media. They furthermore argue that podcasting – mainly due to its lack of editors, time limits, and governmental regulations (p. 139) – has the potential “to shape public opinion and form counter-publics of resistance because, just like revolutionary radio, it transforms passive listeners into active community members” (p. 17). In that way, the authors innovatively use the analogy between rebel revolutionary radio and podcasting as a theoretical framework for addressing how podcasting – specifically so-called decolonising podcasting – benefits marginalised and suppressed groups.Decolonising podcasts refer to a specific type of podcasts which “interrogate, critique and offer counter-narratives to colonial mentalities” (p. 8); in other words, these podcasts seek decolonisation from structures created by imperialism. Through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordicom Review de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Maarit Jaakkola et al., published by Sciendo
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Nicholas L. Baham III & Nolan HigdonThe Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance CapitalismWiley Blackwell, 2022, 152 pp.Written against the backdrop of a pandemic and a populistic Trump era, The Podcaster's Dilemma investigates how podcasting is used for decolonisation (to counter-narrate imperialistic discourses), while simultaneously being constrained by the big tech platforms the medium relies upon to exist.Baham and Higdon, who are podcasters themselves, understand podcasting narrowly as a digital extension of rebel community radio and the opposite of corporate legacy media. They furthermore argue that podcasting – mainly due to its lack of editors, time limits, and governmental regulations (p. 139) – has the potential “to shape public opinion and form counter-publics of resistance because, just like revolutionary radio, it transforms passive listeners into active community members” (p. 17). In that way, the authors innovatively use the analogy between rebel revolutionary radio and podcasting as a theoretical framework for addressing how podcasting – specifically so-called decolonising podcasting – benefits marginalised and suppressed groups.Decolonising podcasts refer to a specific type of podcasts which “interrogate, critique and offer counter-narratives to colonial mentalities” (p. 8); in other words, these podcasts seek decolonisation from structures created by imperialism. Through

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Nordicom Review – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2022

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