Keynote

What do we know about people who listen to podcasts? In this talk, I'll discuss lessons learned from my time as a research intern with Mozilla's podcast and voice initiatives. Combining quantitative surveys of podcast listeners and qualitative interviews with podcast enthusiasts, I'll consider how podcast listeners aren't a homogenous population. Some of the topics I'll touch on include: how podcast listeners discover new content, how the the listening practices of podcast newcomers and seasoned podcast listeners differ, and how people "listen" to video content on platforms that weren't created specifically for listening.

About the speaker

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is working on a PhD in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores how voice interaction, sonification, and narrative support people as they learn to listen to data. During her time as a PhD student, she has completed internships with Yahoo, Mozilla, and Spotify. Previously, she was a data journalist at Inside Energy, a public media collaboration, where she used data to demystify energy topics. She loves using animation, visualization, podcasting and other creative ways to tell complex stories in approachable ways.