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Mapping the technical, cultural, and sonic boundaries between radio and podcasting\nABSTRACT:\nWe have, perhaps, reached a point where there is a common recognition that is podcasting is a medium in its own right. In this assessment we can note the familial link to the medium of radio, but as time passes this teenaged medium further defines itself and establishes new forms of production, distribution and consumption. This, then, starts to raise questions about how we define podcasting', not least at a juncture where platforms have begun to blur the edges of audio-media.\nThis chapter seeks to explore how podcasting might be defined, not purely technically but through its cultures, politics, economics and aesthetics. These are terms that can be mapped and used to explore how podcasting exhibits characteristics that can be used to reveal patterns about form and origin. The emergence of platforms adds new questions and challenges to the technological definitions of podcasting, but these transformations in themselves pose political questions as they represent a shift from the amateur roots of the medium. I would describe this as the ‘people argument’, where a medium is defined not by how it is delivered but by who makes it (or at least who could make it). In his work on convergence culture, Henry Jenkins argues that media are about cultural practices, rather than the delivery systems; in podcasting this suggests that there is also an ‘aesthetic argument’, where podcasts are defined by how they sound, despite the common ground they might share with radio in terms of genre or format.\nThis chapter seeks to explore these arguments and suggest that there are parallels to our experience of defining radio and radio studies.\nThe Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies\nEditors: Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio\nPublished June 2022\nPages 399-407\n\u000f\nLet’s be clear at the start. A podcast is not a synonym for a radio programme, and whilst podcasting is an activity of the radio industry, it is not merely an extension of it. When it comes to understanding podcasting as a medium, we are still coming to terms with how it presents itself and how podcasts might relate to the media we grew up with. 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It is important to say that as a radio advocate, I am by no means dismissing radio studies as a means to review or understand podcasts, as although I will assert the usefulness of a ‘podcast studies’ (Berry, 2018, Lindgren, 2018), my doing so is by no means a rejection of radio scholarship in helping us to map out the boundaries and characteristics of the podcast space. Indeed, this chapter draws from the field and asserts that although there are inherent differences, a clear familial line is present\u0003\u0013CITATION Lli18 \\t  \\l 2057 \u0014 (Llinares, et al., 2018)\u0015\u0004\nIn developing a framework, I refer to three broad arguments: technical, socio-cultural, and sonic. 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