Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 231
Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video.…
1 year, 2 months ago
Connor Jackson, "Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 44
Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising (Routledge, 2024) explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-dep…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gabe 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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago