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Mr Maxwell Modell
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Overview
Maxwell Modell is a PhD student at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture studying the journalistic potential of news podcasts.
Maxwell’s research focuses on the interplay between journalism and politics, with a specific focus on the way news media is reimagining itself in response to digital technologies and narratives of declining trust in journalism.
As a member of the Podcast PhDs research network, Maxwell co-organised the Emerging Research in Podcast Studies 2022 International Virtual Symposium. An online conference bringing together scholars grappling with the very idea of podcasting and its implications for our culture and society.
Maxwell works under the supervision of Dr Inaki Garcia-Blanco and Professor Stephen Cushion. He is funded by the ESRC on the Journalism and Democracy pathway.
Publication
2024
Articles
Research
Journal Articles
Modell, M. 2024. From the political to the personal: Constructing politicians’ biographies in the Nick Robinson podcast ‘Political Thinking’. Journalism 0(0), pp. 1-19.
Conference presentations
Broadcast Talk Seminar 2024 - "News chatcasts: norms and practices"
Broadcast Talk Seminar 2023 - "The Specter of Impartiality: meta-commentary on the role of impartiality in UK news podcasts."
The Future of Journalism Conference 2023 - "'This is what the news should sound like': The Discursive Construct of News Podcasts as an Innovative Genre by Practitioners"
Emerging Research in Podcast Studies 2023 - "Close Analytic Listening: Defining an approach for the textual analysis of podcasts as interactionally co-constructed media texts"
Broadcast Talk Seminar 2022 - "Redefining the Political interview: Actively avoiding adversarialism and managing audience expectations on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson"
Emerging Research in Podcast Studies 2022 - "The Epistemologies of News Podcasts: The constant negotiation between truth-seeking and storytelling"
Other
Modell, M. 2024. US election shows how podcasts are shaping politics – and what the risks are. The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/us-election-shows-how-podcasts-are-shaping-politics-and-what-the-risks-are-243325