Ph.D. candidate Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social spoke with @sethabramovitch.bsky.social for a @thr.com article on the persuasive role of podcasts as a mass medium and recent shifts: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Happy to chat about this study, feel free to email me sdemets@uw.edu :)

So sorry Maddy, this is so angering. Hoping that our lab will recognize your impact and importance and you will get to continue doing superb research at UW 💛

Podcasts in the periphery: Tracing guest trajectories in political podcasts Social networks structure the flow of political information that is critical for civic participation and individual decision making, simultaneously op…

My paper exploring polarization and guest trajectories among political podcasts is out now.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Key Points: 2) Political podcasts in the US are highly polarized. Moderate shows do help link this system together.

3) Conservative and male voices are most common in this space. Men comprise the large majority of guests and hosts in this network.

"Podcasts in the Periphery", written with @emmaspiro.bsky.social, is forthcoming in Social Networks. Our preprint is now available on SocArVix! osf.io/preprints/os...

Key Points: 1) Guests who repeatedly appear on top political podcasts appear on increasingly famous shows.

Tracing the Anti-Establishment Shift Among Podcasts and the Role of Platforms | TechPolicy.Press Sydney DeMets writes that podcasts, once associated with high-brow shows like “Radiolab,” are now a stronghold for the reactionary right.

See my article arguing that the affordances of the podcasting medium and the lax content moderation of platforms like Spotify and Apple help to shift the podcast ecosystem right.

www.techpolicy.press/-tracing-the...