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Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinem...
O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...
50 min
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Ruth Palmer, "Becoming the News: How Ordinary P...
Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories – voluntarily or not – sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media...
56 min
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Lewis Raven Wallace, “The View from Somewhere: ...
Wallace traces the history of how objectivity became the gold standard in journalism, and looks at examples of people who have bucked the trend along the way...
42 min
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Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He ...
Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...
41 min
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Travis Bell et al., "CTE, Media, and the NFL: F...
In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.
56 min
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Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essay...
The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,
64 min
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M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender,...
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities?
36 min
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Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
49 min
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Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The D...
Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...
97 min
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Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Pow...
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...
46 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the R...
Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...
59 min
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Caitlin Frances Bruce, "Painting Publics: Trans...
Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities...
62 min
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Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media ...
Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...
51 min
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Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expan...
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days...
54 min
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Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
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Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Afri...
Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...
59 min
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Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Ne...
Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...
39 min
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Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the ...
Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...
64 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social M...
Can robots be our friends?
70 min
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: H...
With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us...
31 min
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Jodie Jackson, “You Are What You Read: Why Chan...
Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...
37 min
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Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stor...
Why and how is fiction important to women?
29 min
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Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federa...
Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...
34 min