Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 11
In The Other Side of Empathy (Duke UP, 2023), Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on techn…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 346
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a ma…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 391
From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 10
Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1340
British Hong Kong was a historical anomaly in the Cold War. It experienced no "hot war" or organized movement for independence, and yet it was a key …
2 years, 9 months ago
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Episode 400
In Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), Penelope Ingram examines t…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
Episode 99
Translation is a mysterious process that combines the elements of writing – rhythm and voice, meaning, structure and nuance – with the challenge of p…
2 years, 9 months ago
Usha Raman and Sumana Kasturi, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)
Episode 301
Children are considered to be a group of special interest by media scholars and advocates, especially because they are seen as a vulnerable group who…
2 years, 9 months ago
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Episode 160
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witc…
2 years, 9 months ago
Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
Episode 161
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon is an extensively researched book chronicling the first half-century of interactive fiction…
2 years, 9 months ago