Nolan Higdon - The Podcaster's Dilemma

Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism

Nicholas L. Baham IIICalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA

Nolan HigdonCalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA

This edition first published 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Baham, Nicholas Louis, III, 1965- author. | Higdon, Nolan, 1983- author.

Title: The podcaster’s dilemma : decolonizing podcasters in the era of surveillance capitalism / Nicholas L. Baham III, Nolan Higdon.

Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021021050 (print) | LCCN 2021021051 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119789888 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119789901 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119789895 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Podcasting--United States--Political aspects. | Podcasting--United States--Social aspects.

Classification: LCC PN4567.7 .H55 2021 (print) | LCC PN4567.7 (ebook) | DDC 791.460973--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021050LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021051

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1 Cover

2 Title page The Podcaster’s Dilemma Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism Nicholas L. Baham IIICalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA Nolan HigdonCalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA

3 Copyright

4 Acknowledgments

5 Introduction

6 1 Meet the Hosts

7 2 Interrogation and Critique

8 3 Counter-narrative Production

9 4 Community Activism

10 5 Recolonizing Podcasts: Moving beyond the Frontiers of Instrumentarianism

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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2 Title page The Podcaster’s Dilemma Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism Nicholas L. Baham IIICalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA Nolan HigdonCalifornia State UniversityHayward, CA

3 Copyright

4 Table of Contents

5 Acknowledgments

6 Begin Reading

7 Index

8 End User License Agreement

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We are eternally grateful to the supportive, intelligent, and hardworking people who made this project possible. First and foremost, we want to thank our incredible families: Angela Dean-Baham, Nicholas L. Baham IV, and Kacey Van der Vorst, who are all avid podcast listeners: they inspired this work and contributed perspectives of their own on podcasts that we included in our review. Most of this project was completed as the COVID-19 pandemic relegated us to our homes, where we sheltered in place. As a result, the support and intellectual discourse from our families was integral to the completion of this project. That includes the gal pals: Vangl and Emma G.