IPod BroadcastPodcast Now you can find Podcasts on all Smartphones Increasingly popular form of entertainment and information distribution As of 2016 21 of Americans age 12 or older say they have listened to a podcast in the past month reflecting steady incremental growth since 2013 ID: 584111
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What is a Podcast?
IPod + Broadcast=Podcast
Now, you can find Podcasts on
all Smartphones
Increasingly popular form of entertainment and information distribution. As of 2016, 21% of Americans age 12 or older say they have listened to a podcast in the past month, reflecting steady incremental growth since 2013 – when this share was 12%.
Podcasts exist on a variety of subjects including pop culture, world news, politics, even fantasy football.
Anyone can create and distribute a podcast.Slide3
Serial Season 1
Serial
is a podcast exploring a suspenseful story over multiple episodes, as long as it takes to tell the story. First released on October 3, 2014, it is a spinoff of National Public Radio’s program,
This American Life
. Episodes of variable length were available weekly. It ranked number one on iTunes, and remained there for several weeks. Sarah Koenig created and hosted the series which ran until January 2015.Slide4
Serial Season 1
Season
One investigates a 1999 Baltimore murder of 18 yr. old
Hae
Min Lee and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed.
Koenig has said, Serial is “about basics:
love
and death and justice and truth. All
these
big, big things.” She also has noted, “this is not an original idea. Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard. But trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as Dickens.”Slide5
Serial Season 1
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGBFpc0yA4Slide6
Why Study Serial?
Using
Serial
as our primary text, we will develop:
listening skills
critical thinking skills
critical reading skills
speaking skills
rhetorical skills
We will also apply our prior knowledge of the following: characteristics of fiction, literary non-fiction, and non-fiction irony direct and indirect characterization mood
elements of an argumentSlide7
Why Study Serial?
The Daily Californian
described the podcast as “gripping,” the story as “thrilling,” and applauded the series for giving “listeners a unique opportunity to humanize the players
.”
Slate
’s review pointed out that in
Serial
“Someone in the show is not telling the truth about something very sinister. That’s the narrative tension that makes
Serial
not only compelling but also unlike anything I can remember watching or reading before.”The Guardian characterized it as a “new genre of audio storytelling.”Serial by producers of This American Life, is the most popular podcast in the history of the form, averaging over 1.5 million listeners an episode.According to the Wall Street Journal, “Serial is the top podcast in the U.S., Canada, the U.K.