Title: Using Podcast Interviews as a Source of Qualitative Investigation
Subject Classification:  Research, Education, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: GP, JN, JF
BISAC Classification: SOC024000, EDU037000, SOC019000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 10 Oct 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-589-1
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-590-7

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Description

This book is focused on how research related to a successful podcast around life in academia, Lost in Citations, has developed, and explores the activity of podcasting as a method of data collection and analysis. Though the podcast has become established as a legitimate and popular form of entertainment and information, it is little-understood as a genuine scholarly research tool.

Long-form discussions, recorded-as-live interviews are a form of ‘grounded’ approach to collecting data. An interview of this kind cannot set out with a complete set of questions. Questions that yield interesting paths of investigation generally only happen emergently, in the moment. If one only wanted to know the stated thesis of the paper, one could merely re-read it. The author explores a profound and novel way to understand the subject, the writer, and the contents of the work.

This book is a companion to the author’s previous work, Podcasting: Giving a Voice to the Words (Ethics Press, 2025). The key audience is scholars interested in alternative methods of data collection, in a time of near unlimited data without adequate scaffolding. Young researchers may listen to podcasts for entertainment, but may not think of them as sources of valuable academic information. This book is intended to help readers understand methods that could help them bring information to the attention of others quickly yet accurately in a time of potential information overload.

Biography

Author(s):  Christopher G. Haswell is an Associate Professor at Kyushu University in Japan. His interests include language research and teaching methodologies related to English as a Lingua Franca.

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