ABSTRACT
The creative, transformative, and generous practice of scholarly podcasting helps create the conditions for scholars to follow their curiosity. And some forms of good scholarly podcasts can feel like listening to parts of such a conversation, only with someone who has spent a lot of time researching something and with a potential audience hanging in the background. Listening can be engaged, however, in a different way than through note-taking in libraries. It can be an active, yet relaxing form of listening as it is free from distractions that digital reading is resplendent with, with listeners seemingly happy to have deep, complex explorations into topics for many hours at a time. One of the biggest criticisms regarding the possibility of having a voice present in a podcast is that it stops anonymity, which some say is vital for the peer review.
