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1501
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...
63 min
1502
Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: In...
Dyson is not only analyzing the tropes and themes of these series, but he is braiding them together with broader disciplinary frameworks and concepts from political science...
42 min
1503
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...
46 min
1504
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
1505
H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make Americ...
Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...
58 min
1506
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Mo...
Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..
68 min
1507
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Ha...
Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...
58 min
1508
Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Me...
Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...
63 min
1509
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...
51 min
1510
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Co...
Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one...
65 min
1511
Timothy J. Shaffer, "A Crisis of Civility? Poli...
There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics...
37 min
1512
Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Int...
Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...
60 min
1513
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Med...
Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...
33 min
1514
Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal ...
Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...
111 min
1515
Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGil...
Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....
66 min
1516
Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A ...
What does Friends mean to us now?
39 min
1517
R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of Peop...
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...
37 min
1518
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
1519
Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, ...
Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...
61 min
1520
Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argen...
Using letters written by Argentine citizens to the Perón couple between 1946 and 1955, Guy offers a nuanced approach to understand charisma...
54 min
1521
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1522
Roland Elliot Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet An...
Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..
44 min
1523
Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democ...
When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind?
39 min
1524
David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the F...
The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...
33 min
1525
Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago...
Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...
52 min