Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert J. Savage, "Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 30
Robert J. Savage is a professor in the Boston College History Department and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies program…
3 years, 5 months ago
Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia: A Conversation with Annie Rauwerda
Episode 17
In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed …
3 years, 5 months ago
Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
Episode 142
Today I talked to Alan Shuback about his book Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
A love of the slapstick …
3 years, 5 months ago
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 92
The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily p…
3 years, 5 months ago
Janaki Srinivasan, "The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 85
The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India (MIT Press, 2022), written by Janaki Srinivasan and publis…
3 years, 5 months ago
Publishing Activism & Alternative Forms of Collaborative Scholarship
Episode 86
Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing altern…
3 years, 5 months ago
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 107
How do transnational Filipino families remain connected through mobile media technologies?
In (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age o…
3 years, 5 months ago
Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 200
Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different…
3 years, 5 months ago
University Presses Today: A Conversation with Charles Watkinson
Episode 147
The NBN would not exist but for the work of university presses. So every year we celebrate the efforts of our colleagues at UPs during "University Pr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 62
Adam Crowley's book Representations of Poverty in Videogames (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) argues that digital games address contemporary, middle-class …
3 years, 5 months ago