Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTimothy P. A. Cooper, "Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 301
Lahore's Hall Road is the largest electronics market in Pakistan. Once the center of film and media piracy in South Asia, it now specializes in smart…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 79
Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster encl…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Rise of English
Episode 17
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, which has just been reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press, with a new pref…
1 year, 11 months ago
Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 135
Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (U California Press, 2024) explores the creative range of Black digital use…
1 year, 11 months ago
Image as Form in a Transpositional Grammar
Episode 174
Listen to Episode No.10 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. T…
1 year, 11 months ago
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 237
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) provides a critical and nuanced analysis of the relations…
1 year, 11 months ago
Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 528
Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel (Cornell UP, 2023) uses the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu …
1 year, 11 months ago
City of Voices
Episode 2
This episode we have a single longform interview with a media scholar of note–The New School’s Shannon Mattern. We have teamed up with Mediapolis, a …
1 year, 11 months ago
Alyxandra Vesey, "Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 238
Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women in …
2 years ago
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 134
We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever p…
2 years ago