Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College
I am Professor of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, USA. I earned my M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. My research explores the political economy of media institutions, specifically podcasting. I am currently writing a book on the impacts of platformization on the podcasting ecosystem. I am also the author of Media Audiences, 2nd edition (Sage, 2019). The book can be found here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/media-audiences/book258868
Apple threatens to upend podcasting's free, open architecture
May 16, 2021 12:16 pm UTC| Technology
Back in 2005, an ebullient Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs announced the integration of podcasting into Version 4.9 of its desktop iTunes software, calling podcasting TiVo for radio. Sixteen years later, during its April 20,...
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