Podcasting

This introductory video explores how podcasts can be used to communicate humanities research in ethical, critical, and accessible ways. It highlights the unique capacity of sound to represent diverse voices, encourage reflective listening, foster critical engagement with heritage and history, and broaden public access to scholarly knowledge.

Josephine Hoegaerts is docent in the department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki. Her interests combine history and the politics of the voice and sound. Hoegaerts has created a self-learning guide for creating podcasts, openly accessible here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/podcourse/

This introductory video is part of a video library used as teaching resource for BA Course Introduction to Helsinki Digital Humanities and Social Science at the University of Helsinki.

Learning Outcomes

After watching this video, viewers will be able to:

• Explain how podcasts can communicate humanities research through dialogue

• Become aware of the role of dialogue, sound and listening in representing different perspectives and fostering critical engagement

• Identify strategies for encouraging audiences to listen actively and reflectively

• Become aware of accessibility for podcasting