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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contes...
Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...
48 min
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Travis Vogan, "ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of...
Vogan traces the cultural impact of ABC Sports rise in the 1950s until its demise in the 1990s....
54 min
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Ani Maitra, "Identity, Mediation, and the Cunni...
The politics of identity have played center stage in many political debates in the last few years, and is often seen somewhat pejoratively as an epiphenomenal manifestation of the dynamics of capitalism....
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Shyam Sharma, "Writing Support for Internationa...
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Social Media, Grassroots Activism and Disinform...
Sinpeng and Tapsell explore some of the more recent controversies surrounding social media use in Southeast Asia....
20 min
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Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets:...
Contois argues that the figure of The Dude was invented (or perhaps only capitalized on) by marketing and advertising firms to combat “gender contamination” and sell what may be perceived as “feminine” foods to men...
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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino ...
Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...
47 min
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Conspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Eve...
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump...
41 min
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Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
45 min
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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of Peop...
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump...
41 min
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Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Fr...
DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...
63 min
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The Work and Value of University Presses
What do university presses do? And how do they contributed to public discourse?
50 min
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John Durham Peters, "Promiscuous Knowledge: Inf...
Cmiel and Peters provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google...
56 min
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Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Wr...
Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about...
95 min
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Victor Pickard, "Democracy Without Journalism?:...
The mainstream American news media are not really free at all, but have been pressed into service over more than a century to generate profits for a few rich owners bent on selling eyeballs and ears to advertisers...
48 min
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation ...
Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...
60 min
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William Germano, "Getting it Published: A Guide...
You've written a book. Now what? William German explains...
81 min
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Francesca Sobande, "The Digital Lives of Black ...
Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...
31 min
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Rory Sutherland, "Alchemy: the Dark Art and Cur...
What are the limitations of relying on logic as an upfront filter in pursuing ideas?
35 min
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Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin Am...
What is the relationship between race, technology and sound?
52 min
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Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joer...
Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher...
65 min
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Fernando Domínguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologie...
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading?
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Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincer...
Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...
59 min
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Ravinder Kaur, "Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dr...
It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?
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EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Pr...
What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate?
48 min