Audio Paper

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper. What happens when research is communicated through sound rather than text? This book introduces the audio paper, an emerging academic publication format that presents scholarly research as an audio production. Drawing on the authors’ pioneering work and insights from researchers who have developed audio papers over the past decade, it traces the format’s evolution and growing impact. Linking the audio paper to traditions of radio production, electroacoustic music and contemporary podcasting, the book situates this novel format within a broader history of auditory culture. Through analyses of published works, it reveals how sound can generate knowledge, shape scholarly argument and engage audiences in new ways. Provocative and forward-looking, the book argues that the audio paper has the potential to transform academic publishing and enable new forms of research through sound.