Introduction: Can Podcasting Save Academia?
1. Unsound Peer Review: A Brief History
2. Why Sound? Affordances and Challenges in Scholarly Audio
3. What can Podcasting bring to Practices of Peer Review?
4. Beyond Peer Review?
Conclusion: Finding New Forms of Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
Bibliography
Index

Lori Beckstead is a podcaster and Associate Professor in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, who loves dad jokes, footnotes, and bandying about the word 'neoliberalism'.

Podcasting scholarship is still in its nascent stages. The use of podcasting as a tool for scholarly and intellectual inquiry is a relatively new idea, to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output. Podcast or Perish maps out not simply a rationale for the deployment of podcasting as an outlet for open peer review, but also explores some real-world workflows for such a practice.
At the forefront of merging these exciting fields, Lori Beckstead, Ian M. Cook, and Hannah McGregor have taken a novel approach to expanding the boundaries of scholarly knowledge by considering podcasting as a focal point for intellectual discussion, engagement, and exploration. By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship, and the transformative potential of new modes of knowledge production, Podcast or Perish is the call to action academia needs, by asking how podcasting might change the very ways we think about scholarly work.