Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
Episode 173
Listen to this interview of Courtney Miller, PhD student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about her paper "Did You Miss…
2 years ago
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Episode 196
'Star Wars' is a global phenomenon that in 2022 celebrated its 45th year of transmedia storytelling, and it has never been more successful than it is…
2 years ago
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 453
What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Pres…
2 years ago
Maggie Messitt, "Newspaper" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 76
Newspaper (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Dr. Maggie Messitt is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from cens…
2 years ago
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
Episode 213
Book bans and book challenges are both on the rise. And they are increasing at unprecedented rates. But why is this happening? Dr. Christine Emeran o…
2 years ago
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Episode 133
While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up…
2 years ago
Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, "(Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 11
How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while process…
2 years ago
Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
Episode 151
Rakugo is a live performance art that has penetrated the borders of Japan and continues to gain popularity overseas. The rakugo stage once dominated …
2 years ago
Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 55
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its ki…
2 years ago
The Scientific Attitude
Episode 172
Listen to this interview of Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science (Boston University) and Senior Advisor …
2 years ago