Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNick Couldry, “The Value of Voice” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 14
The Value of Voice is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social …
4 years, 10 months ago
John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 71
What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller …
4 years, 10 months ago
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 68
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Frank Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roa…
4 years, 10 months ago
Knitting and Politics in the Age of Trump: A Discussion with Carrie Battan
Episode 9
Today we are talking to a New Yorker staff writer Carrie Battan about her piece from March of this year "How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Crafting…
4 years, 10 months ago
Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Episode 133
Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of soc…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
Episode 57
In First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2021), Ken Ellingwood takes readers back to the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, "Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 122
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández's book Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores the current human rights …
4 years, 10 months ago
Joshua P. Darr et al., "Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 56
The connection between local news and political polarization is a hot topic that scholars in political science, journalism, and other fields have exp…
4 years, 11 months ago
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 122
In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town …
4 years, 11 months ago
Amanda Ripley, "High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Episode 49
What’s the greatest crisis facing America today? — Racism and hate crimes, exploding government debt, climate change, or the mess at the border?
It ma…
4 years, 11 months ago