Effective Podcasting: The Impact of Silence
Start Date
August 2024
End Date
August 2024
Location
ALT 207
Abstract
This research seeks to examine how studying student-made podcasts can improve sound writing pedagogy in the future by tracking what sonic rhetorical devices students are using today. Silence is among the most common, and important, features of sound writing, helping to maintain both the structure and emotional core of a podcast. By better understanding the locations where silence exists and the function of that silence, we can better understand how to implement it effectively. In doing so, we are expanding current understandings of how to teach both silence and podcasting, contributing to emerging research into the subject.
Silence is innate to both life and language. As such, understanding how best to utilize silence requires an understanding of how silence exists in life and language. This presentation will open with a discussion of my own life in sound, illustrating both the vast influence of sound on meaning-making and how experience shapes our listening practices. I will explain my coding process and describe how my understanding of silence evolved from either intentional or unintentional to organizational and rhetorically meaningful. I will also dissect the rhetorical effect of absence, exemplified by the interaction between voice, music, and silence, and how meaning is constructed through audience participation facilitated by the interaction between many sonic rhetorical devices. To illustrate these ideas, I will be reproducing the feel of a podcast in real-time, creating both my own examples and citing student examples throughout, initiating audience learning through experience.
Effective Podcasting: The Impact of Silence
ALT 207
This research seeks to examine how studying student-made podcasts can improve sound writing pedagogy in the future by tracking what sonic rhetorical devices students are using today. Silence is among the most common, and important, features of sound writing, helping to maintain both the structure and emotional core of a podcast. By better understanding the locations where silence exists and the function of that silence, we can better understand how to implement it effectively. In doing so, we are expanding current understandings of how to teach both silence and podcasting, contributing to emerging research into the subject.
Silence is innate to both life and language. As such, understanding how best to utilize silence requires an understanding of how silence exists in life and language. This presentation will open with a discussion of my own life in sound, illustrating both the vast influence of sound on meaning-making and how experience shapes our listening practices. I will explain my coding process and describe how my understanding of silence evolved from either intentional or unintentional to organizational and rhetorically meaningful. I will also dissect the rhetorical effect of absence, exemplified by the interaction between voice, music, and silence, and how meaning is constructed through audience participation facilitated by the interaction between many sonic rhetorical devices. To illustrate these ideas, I will be reproducing the feel of a podcast in real-time, creating both my own examples and citing student examples throughout, initiating audience learning through experience.
