2021/12/16 by Prata, Nair, Avelar, Kamilla, Cordeiro Martins, Henrique
#emerging themes #podcast #research trajectory #systematic review
paper · doi:10.34629/cpublica.67
October 21st, 2004, is the date when the first Brazilian podcast, Digital Minds, was aired. In 17 years, the podcast has evolved and matured as media. Paralleled with its growth as a medium, the podcast has been the subject of research and scientific publications, and it is now a specific field of studies. Thus, the objective of this research is to understand the configuration of this scientific field from publications about podcasts. The article presents a review of the literature on the term podcast and aims to answer the questions: What is the trajectory of the podcast research? What are the emerging issues? Data collection was performed on the WoS and resulted in 669 papers that contained the term podcast between the years 2005 and 2017, establishing a period of 12 years of research. The results showed that podcasts have been often studied in association with Communication and other scientific areas, such as Education and Health, and that the topics found in the most recent literature have been social media and political participation.