Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 153
With significant evolutions in digital technologies and media distribution in the past two decades, the business of storytelling through screens has …
1 year, 6 months ago
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
Episode 148
Why has trust in the news media declined? How can we combat biased reporting and the spread of misinformation? And how do these challenges compare to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 388
We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was…
1 year, 6 months ago
Radiophilia
Episode 57
Today’s guest is Carolyn Birdsall, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. If you’re a scholar of sound or radio, you likely k…
1 year, 6 months ago
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 185
Uncle Sam is watching, whether you like it or not. And the surveillance program the United States is building has as its foundation immigrants who ha…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Episode 95
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 231
Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2571
Data and privacy have emerged as critical issues in our digitally interconnected era, profoundly influencing individual rights, societal norms, and d…
1 year, 6 months ago
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Episode 180
Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
Episode 244
Drs. Messina and Gill talked about cognitive offloading in our digital age—how smartphones, AI, and other technologies are reshaping our mental habit…
1 year, 6 months ago