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We have done our best in this text to provide direct citations to the content we reference. However, one of the issues we noticed is that many of the podcasts are accessible on webpages that are updated daily and weekly with new podcasts, and this may cause the podcast we referenced to be buried on another page. Furthermore, it means that we cannot directly link to a particular episode, but to an entire library. Where possible, we have tried to provide direct citation content or sources for our quotations. However, the messy and haphazard nature of podcasting, where the user-friendly ability to post and remove content is privileged over scholarly referencing, did present some difficulties that readers are sure to recognize.

Readers may have some difficulty with the language as well. For example, rather than discussing podcasting as “alternative” media and mass media as “mainstream,” we refer to the mass media as corporate media, in order to highlight the fact that they are funded by corporations and their messaging reflects the interests of corporatism. The present book is not the space to investigate this concept. That work has been accomplished by organizations such as Project Censored and in monographs such as Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media and Nolan Higdon’s The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education. We encourage readers who are interested in the influence of corporate funding on media content to explore the suggested titles and organizations. Similarly, we refer to “decolonial” podcasts. This is a term by which we describe the podcasters who are using the podcasting space to interrogate, critique, and offer counter-narratives to colonial mentalities – which include ones from corporatism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, Islamophobia, and ableism (among the more prominent categories).