Podcast Analysis

For my analysis I listened to an episode of NPR: Pop culture podcast; this podcast was originally released on May 10, 2009 and had four separate segments, two of which dealt with Star Trek. The first segment was from the point of view of a critic who seemed intent on convincing all listeners that Star Trek is indeed going to be pleasing to new and old viewers. This is interesting as the second segment turned out to also be about Star Trek but done by a reporter and is about how older fans of the original star trek feel alienated by the commercials using phrases such as 'this is not your father's star trek'. I think this is interesting in that it sort of contradicts the argument of the critic in the first segment, which shows that NPR is not necessarily averse to showing differing opinions. The third segment is a review of a stage show called 'lucha vavoom' which has lucha libre wrestlers and burlesque dancers. The fourth was about viral advertising and its impact in the recession. The interesting thing that I especially noticed was how they weaved in sound bites from the movies or from people that they interviewed. I felt like that required them to give a lot more context to the listener as opposed to if we were viewing it because we are missing the visual component. It strangely reminded me of integrating quotes in a paper.