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1576
Controversial Ideas and “No Platforming” with J...
An interview with Jeff McMahan
31 min
1577
Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemp...
Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...
55 min
1578
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1579
Richa Kaul Padte, "Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Porno...
Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles...
40 min
1580
Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Mu...
Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is hard to ignore...
52 min
1581
Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and...
What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?
48 min
1582
Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatis...
Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...
21 min
1583
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race,...
If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme...
58 min
1584
James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegrap...
It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...
47 min
1585
Thomas F. Gieryn, "Truth-Spots: How Places Make...
During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots...
61 min
1586
Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and ...
In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....
67 min
1587
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Cu...
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?
34 min
1588
Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rheto...
In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,
58 min
1589
Kendall Phillips, "A Place of Darkness: The Rhe...
Phillips explores the emergence of the horror film genre before it was horror and a post-Civil War national American identity...
53 min
1590
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computi...
Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...
37 min
1591
Margaret Peacock, "Innocent Weapons: The Soviet...
Margaret Peacock analyzes the various ways in which images of children were put to use, in Soviet and American Cold War propaganda...
61 min
1592
Jieun Baek, "North Korea's Hidden Revolution: H...
Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....
60 min
1593
Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story...
The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...
45 min
1594
Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: ...
How has the council estate been represented on stage?
40 min
1595
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina ...
An interview with Regina Rini
33 min
1596
Volker Berghahn, "Journalists between Hitler an...
What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal?
67 min
1597
Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, "The Accelera...
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to the next generation...
49 min
1598
Joe Street, "Dirty Harry’s America: Clint Eastw...
When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...
63 min
1599
Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Art...
How has European culture changed since the 1960s?
34 min
1600
Pamela E. Klassen, "The Story of Radio Mind: A ...
At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance...
49 min