Jenkins has written his dissertation on podcasting, a growing industry with an ever-widening field of influence. He began to think deeply about who was presenting these podcasts, how their personal lenses and experiences shaped the information they relayed, and how it could connect new people to ideas and issues that were previously unfamiliar to them.
“Podcasts are a great tool, but that’s not just the media itself, it’s about the community that comes around it, or the history and the culture and education that happens through it as a practice,” Jenkins says.
