Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJulien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 28
A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers.
Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game,…
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Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 246
Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital te…
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Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
Episode 131
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we’re joined by Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder for a thought-provoking discussion on the state of free sp…
1 year, 6 months ago
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
Episode 36
Jonathan Sterne is one of the most influential scholars working on sound and listening. His 2003 book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Re…
1 year, 6 months ago
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
Episode 27
“You’re in our world now.” This bold tagline led Sony’s 1999 ad blitz for EverQuest (Boss Fight Books, 2024), the year’s most anticipated massively m…
1 year, 6 months ago
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 144
Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current st…
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Reem Hilu, "The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 143
The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared…
1 year, 6 months ago
Voices Part 2: The Sound of My Voice
Episode 35
In part two of our three-part series “Voices,” we feature an exciting new voice in the world of sound studies, Stacey Copeland.
In part one last mont…
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Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 224
Victoria Sturtevant's It’s All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2024) is about how chang…
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Scott Anthony, "The Story of British Propaganda Film" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 223
'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the 'War on Terror' and beyond, The Story o…
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