Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 32
Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World (Verso, 2024) by Marijiam Did asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead …
1 year, 3 months ago
Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
Episode 603
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imager…
1 year, 3 months ago
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 24
How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm?
With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Understanding Disinformation
Episode 251
How do we discern what is factual from what isn’t? In this episode, Dr. Colleen Sinclair joins us to discuss the functions of disinformation, and to …
1 year, 3 months ago
Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 HZ
Episode 42
Today we talk to Dallas Taylor, host of the most popular sound podcast on the planet, Twenty Thousand Hertz. I like to think our show sounds pretty g…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
Episode 89
Peoples and Things host, Lee Vinsel, is joined by guest host and Peoples & Things producer, Joe Forte, Media Projects Manager with Virginia Tech Publ…
1 year, 3 months ago
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 20
Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Multilingual Crisis Communication
Episode 42
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan Universit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
Episode 41
If you walk into David Cecchetto‘s classroom, you might find people wearing audio devices that simulate hearing with a thousand-foot wide head. Or ga…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 264
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, se…
1 year, 3 months ago