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Christian Studies
February 26, 2021
@ Worship
Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds
Teresa Berger
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Digital dualism, or a sharp division between online and offline activity as "virtual" or "real" has long been a feature of liturgical studies and discussions around worship gatherings for theorists and …
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National Security
February 26, 2021
Reset
Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Ronald J. Deibert
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Ronald Deibert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of The Citizen Lab, a public interest research organization that uncovers privacy and human …
Asian Review of Books
February 25, 2021
Bombay Hustle
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Debashree Mukherjee
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1935, the writer Baburao Patel writes the following about Bombay’s film industry: “In India, with financing conditions still precarious, the professional film distributor thrives. . . . He comes …
Scholarly Communication
February 24, 2021
Writing in Disciplines
A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Shyam Sharma
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …
Critical Theory
February 24, 2021
Penguin Books and Political Change
Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988
Dean Blackburn
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988 (Manchester UP, 2020), Dean Blackburn, a Lecturer in Modern …
Science
February 22, 2021
Viral BS
Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
Seema Yasmin
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Can your zip code predict when you will die? Should you space out childhood vaccines? Does talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend …
National Security
February 18, 2021
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spy’s arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me …
Economics
February 18, 2021
The Spotify Play
How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
Hosted by Tim Jones
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but …
History
February 16, 2021
Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Hannah Marcus, Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about her new monograph, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science …
Gender Studies
February 15, 2021
MeToo
How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Hosted by Jana Byars
We are joined today by Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in the writers’ heaven that is Iowa City …
Communications
February 12, 2021
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring
The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia
Nathaniel Greenberg
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Scripting Japan
Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
Wesley C. Robertson
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
Critical Theory
January 29, 2021
Access All Areas
The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond
Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can we create a more equal media industry? In Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Marcus Ryder and Sir Lenny Henry, both founder members of …
Indian Religions
January 26, 2021
Digital Hinduism
Xenia Zeiler
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. Xenia Zeiler's book …
Sociology
January 21, 2021
Digital Nomads
In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy
Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, however …
Anthropology
January 20, 2021
Channeling Moroccanness
Language and the Media of Sociality
Becky L. Schulthies
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social …
Intellectual History
January 19, 2021
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge
British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832
Louisiane Ferlier and Benedicte Miyamoto
Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the …
Academic Life
January 7, 2021
On Writing Well for Trade
A Conversation with author and scholar Donna Freitas
Donna Freitas
Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Popular Culture
January 5, 2021
Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media
Jennifer Burek Pierce
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Nerdfighteria started over a decade ago by brothers Hank and John Green who decided to provide literary themed programming on their website and YouTube channel. With almost three million members …
Film
December 29, 2020
American Blockbuster
Movies, Technology, and Wonder
Charles R. Acland
Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder (Duke …
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