Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 94
This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to d…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 636
Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democracy and how it operates in different spaces. Fores…
3 years, 3 months ago
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hund…
3 years, 3 months ago
Improvisation and Communication: A Discussion with Laura Lindenfeld
Episode 95
Listen to this interview of Laura Lindenfeld, Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. We talk about how improvisation h…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 94
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that wides…
3 years, 3 months ago
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 146
Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Criticism Amplified: New Media and the Podcast Form
Episode 107
This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Kornbluh…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Episode 153
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media incl…
3 years, 3 months ago
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
Episode 64
What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
Episode 17
The traditional folklore and animistic beliefs of the Sámi, the Indigenous nomadic peoples of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia, are under…
3 years, 3 months ago