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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 12/02/2026

Ph.D. candidate Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social spoke with @sethabramovitch.bsky.social for a @thr.com article on the persuasive role of podcasts as a mass medium and recent shifts: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Happy to chat about this study, feel free to email me sdemets@uw.edu :)

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

So sorry Maddy, this is so angering. Hoping that our lab will recognize your impact and importance and you will get to continue doing superb research at UW 💛

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Key Points: 2) Political podcasts in the US are highly polarized. Moderate shows do help link this system together. 3) Conservative and male voices are most common in this space. Men comprise the large majority of guests and hosts in this network.

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"Podcasts in the Periphery", written with @emmaspiro.bsky.social, is forthcoming in Social Networks. Our preprint is now available on SocArVix! osf.io/preprints/os... Key Points: 1) Guests who repeatedly appear on top political podcasts appear on increasingly famous shows.

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Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

See my article arguing that the affordances of the podcasting medium and the lax content moderation of platforms like Spotify and Apple help to shift the podcast ecosystem right. www.techpolicy.press/-tracing-the...

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Tracing the Anti-Establishment Shift Among Podcasts and the Role of Platforms | TechPolicy.Press

Sydney DeMets writes that podcasts, once associated with high-brow shows like “Radiolab,” are now a stronghold for the reactionary right.

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