Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohn V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Episode 79
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Interne…
1 year, 10 months ago
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 38
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociological p…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bessie N. Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop, "Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 378
Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 202…
1 year, 10 months ago
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 99
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing …
1 year, 10 months ago
Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)
Episode 66
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heurist…
1 year, 10 months ago
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 192
In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship betw…
1 year, 10 months ago
Stephen Pinfield, "Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 65
Often assumed to be a self-evident good, Open Access has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustice…
1 year, 10 months ago
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Episode 227
Schuyler Bailar didn’t set out to be an activist, but his very public transition to the Harvard men’s swim team put him in the spotlight. His choice …
1 year, 10 months ago
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 62
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediae…
1 year, 10 months ago
Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 78
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat …
1 year, 10 months ago