[Commlist] CFP - ComunicaçãoPública | The New Territories of the Podcast

Call for papers for Comunicação Pública no. 31 (December 2021)
Special Issue: The New Territories of the Podcast
Editors: Ana Isabel Reis (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto) 
& Fábio Ribeiro (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro)
Contacts: (aisabelreis /at/ gmail.com); (fabior /at/ utad.pt)
Languages: Portuguese; English; Spanish
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 July 2021
No Article Processing Charges (APC) are required

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the Podcast 
consumption, a trend that seems to be no longer exclusively 
international. In Portugal this trend was seen in the first quarter of 
2020, during the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Aimed at both 
large audiences and hyperspecialized niches, the Podcast has not only 
been used by the media, but also by actors of the most different areas: 
from politics to public relations, from teaching to organizational 
communication, from culture to sports. The issue “The New Territories of 
the Podcast” aims to explore this multifaceted character of the Podcast. 
The Podcast has emerged outside the traditional media, and it has been 
asserting itself and growing out of this context as well. The 
predecessor of the Podcast, the audioblog, appeared in 2001 (Gallego, 
2010), but it was only in 2004 that the word first appeared in an 
article about downloading audio files on the Internet, published in The 
Guardian. Berry (2006) defines the Podcast as an audio content created 
in .mp3 format, which can be subscribed to, received, downloaded and 
listened to on various devices.

Studies on the Podcast have been generic and mainly focused on its 
connection with the radio. This issue of Comunicação Pública is not 
intended to reveal the influence of the pandemic context on the 
emergence of the Podcast. Essentially, its purpose is to examine the new 
sociability relationships that the Podcast has allowed, to analyze its 
formats and financing models, to measure the growing interest of the 
media in promoting their own Podcasts, and even to explore less usual 
territories such as organizational communication, political or civic 
activity. In this sense, this issue aims to contribute to the scientific 
knowledge about the Podcast in media studies and in other areas in which 
it has been developing, also taking into account its audiences. Articles 
may refer to the following topics:
•	Podcast and journalism
•	Podcast in organizational communication
•	Podcast and political communication
•	Podcast and Radio
•	Podcast and audiences
•	Podcast and teaching
•	Podcast and funding models
•	Podcast production strategies
•	Podcast and activism
•	Podcast and entertainment

KEY DATES
Deadline for Submissions: 15 July 2021
Deadline for Notification of Acceptance: 15 October 2021
Deadline for submitting the final version of accepted paper: 1 November 2021
Publication date: 15 December 2021

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