Recent posts

Did anyone check out this article in the Guardian last week? "Farewell to the iPod, the device that ushered in too much choice," by Rebecca Nicholson

It is a brief article, but it mourns the passing of the iPod and its relationship to music and music habits. There is a melancholy to the tone in that the iPod and the decline of the music industry might be linked. 

It is sad news in that I am to report that Yelena Kalinsky will be leaving H-Net and H-Podcast in the coming weeks. Yelena and I started H-Podcast years ago in an attempt the elevate the academic dialog of podcasts and podcasting when there seemed to be no one in the academy embracing that important conversation. Yelena and I imagined that digital space at H-Net which included a Podcast Reviews Program which we have been able to realize.

Call for Editors

H-Podcast is currently recruiting a few new editors to add to its existing editorial team. We welcome folks who have a scholarly, pedagogical, or applied interest in podcast and podcasting to join our editorial team.

We are looking for editors interested in:

Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of overdue conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates. 

WITNESS TO YESTERDAY

Modern human rights are born out of dark times, struggles, waves. They are a beacon of encouragement to the world. To the Righthouse takes you to a place where we discuss human rights, moving from scepticism to hope, from utopia to empathy, riding (sound) waves but also signalling where the light is.