Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Episode 213
In Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (Dey Street Books, 2025), Gabe Henry presents a brief and humorous 500-year h…
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Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Episode 208
In 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted our Bizarre Times (2025, University of Kansas Press) journalist Ross Benes examines l…
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Cosmic Visions in Sound
Episode 56
Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we…
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Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 50
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Routled…
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Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 152
Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) break…
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Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Lauren Gawne, about cross-cultural variation in gesture use.
In this episode, Brynn and Lauren discuss a paper that Lauren…
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Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 151
Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review (Routledge, 2024) ex…
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Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 524
How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (U California Press, 202…
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Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 149
The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings…
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Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experi…
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