Early Radio (Susan Smulyan)
The early commercialization of radio with Susan Smulyan (Brown)
Race and Racialized Voices at NPR
We discuss NPR as a racialized organization.
World of YouTube
In this episode of The Annex, we sit down with Michael Siciliano of Queen’s University (Canada). Michael is currently working on a book for Columbia University Press about YouTubers, tentatively titled Creative Control: Platforms, Labor Relations, and the Aesthetics of Precarious Work. We talk about YouTube, content creation, and media. This episode is hosted by […]
Internet Mob Justice
What happens when the Internet tries to solve urgent crimes?
Valuing Public Scholarship (Marybeth Stalp)
How much should the discipline value public scholarship? What to make of public scholarship on new media?
Meet the Social Breakdown Podcast (Meiser, Patumsinchai & Bird)
We meet the gang from The Social Breakdown, a great sociology-themed, teaching-oriented podcast.
The Pressure to Go Partisan
We ask discuss recent psych findings that might suggest why there’s a pressure to go partisan when doing public scholarship.
CPAC, the Bulwark, and Political Puritanism
We discuss political fissures in conservatism, and political puritanism.
The MAGA Hat Kid
What are we to make of a conflict on the Washington Mall?
Nat Geo Takes on Race
National Geographic has a special issue on race that’s getting a lot of groans.