On this week’s show, we revisit a topic that is near and dear to us, the preservation of sound. This time around the emphasis is on podcasts. Our guest Jeremy Morris is the founder of PodcastRE (which is short for Podcast Research), a searchable, researchable archive of podcasting culture. Morris is Associate Professor, Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and that’s where PodcastRE was launched. We dig into the functionality of PodcastRE and talk about some of the reasons why scholars are interested in researching podcasts.

Show Notes:

* PodcastRE website* Jeremy Morris* Podcast #230: Library of Congress Launches Podcast Preservation Project* Podcast #253: Sound Streams: Dissecting the History of Internet Radio (episode with Andrew Bottomley that we re-aired the week of August 24, 2021)* Podcast #135: Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History (with Jennifer Hyland Wang)* Podcast #289: Celebrating Women in Sound (with Jennifer Hyland Wang and Jennifer Stoever)* Eric Hoyt directs the Media History Digital Library* PodDB* Preserve this Podcast* A few of the podcasts mentioned in this episode* How to Be a Girl* Serial* This Week in Blackness on YouTube* 99% Invisible* 3620 Podcast from doctoral students of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania* Reasonably Sound* Archive 81