Best Henry Jenkins And Colin Maclay Podcasts (2024)

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Indigenous Futurisms with Grace Dillon 56:48

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Grace L. Dillon is an American academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, at Portland State University. She received her PhD in literary studies with an emphasis in sixteenth-century literature, and her recent research regards Science fiction studies, especially the…

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The Revolution Will Be Hilarious with Caty Borum 1:13:46

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Caty Borum, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Provost Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University, joins us again to discuss her new book, The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power. Starting with what Caty finds funny and how she uses comedy as part of her p…

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Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age with Meryl Alper 1:16:50

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In addition to being Henry’s former dissertation advisee, Meryl Alper is am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies (College of Arts, Media, and Design) and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Bouvé College of Health Sciences) at Northeastern University. At Northeastern,…

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Critical Media Project with Alison Trope and DJ Johnson 1:07:15

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This week we’re joined by USC Faculty colleagues Alison Trope, Clinical Professor of Communication, and DJ Johnson, Associate Professor of Practice, Cinematic Arts. Together they direct the Critical Media Project (CMP), a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empat…

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Hip-Hop and the Academy, with Taj Frazier 1:27:46

8M ago1:27:46

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Robeson Taj Frazier is an associate professor of communication and director of IDEA (the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg), as well as the author of The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination and KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell, and producer of IT'S YOURS: A Story About Hip-Hop and the Int…

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A Harry Potter Fandom Journey with Jackson Bird 1:18:27

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As a former volunteer and later employee of Fandom Forward (what was then called The Harry Potter Alliance) and a transgender man, Jackson Bird’s feelings about Harry Potter have certainly evolved, especially given the extremely divisive statements JK Rowling has made about the transgender community. He shares how what was once an important part of…

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Silent Cinema’s Nasty Women with Maggie Hennefeld 1:30:37

1+ y ago1:30:37

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Our guest today is Maggie Hennefeld, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who has co-curated a dvd set of the medium’s early female comedians titled Cinema’s First Nasty Women. Maggie talks us through the current resurgence in interest in sil…

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Minisode: Deep Dive into Forrest Gump with Rick Carter 19:02

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Listen to the original episode HERE. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dy…

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Minisode: Comparing YouTube & TikTok 10:56

1+ y ago10:56

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Bonus content not released as part of Episode 108 - hear the original episode here: https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/?p=1307 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett a…

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A Philosophy of Production Design with Rick Carter 1:06:23

1+ y ago1:06:23

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We’re thrilled to be joined by Academy-Award winning Production Designer Rick Carter, who has four decades of experience working on Hollywood productions, including with his own personal “Mt. Rushmore” of blockbuster directors: Stephen Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron and J.J. Abrams. Carter walks us through how he tackled his latest Oscar…

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Platforms and Participatory Music Creation, with Alexandria Arrieta and Christopher Cayari 1:11:47

1+ y ago1:11:47

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We’re joined by Alexandria Arrieta, doctoral candidate at USC Annenberg and Christopher Cayari, associate professor of music education at Purdue University, about how music creators are using platforms like YouTube and TikTok to not just share performances but actually create content and hone their craft. By providing a distribution outlet for amat…

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Co-Created Media and Collective Wisdom with Kat Cizek and William Uricchio 1:04:14

1+ y ago1:04:14

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We begin to talk about the story between MIT’s Open Doc Lab and our guests’ book Collective Wisdom with Kat’s experiences working for the National Film Board of Canada and how this provided a precious chance for her to dig into collective wisdom. William Uricchio brings in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and two major characteristics o…

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New Media and Politics with Whitney Phillips and Sulafa Zidani 1:22:16

1+ y ago1:22:16

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We start by digging into each of our guests’ definitions of “meme” (in contrast to Richard Dawkins), zeroing in on the agency of the meming process, how it connects with politics, and the need to be responsive to the way popular culture and the participating communities are using and defining these terms. Whitney offers “trolling” as an example to …

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Minisode: Future of Online Communities 10:09

1+ y ago10:09

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Kevin discusses possible futures of the internet and online communities. Be sure to check out the original episode at https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/episode-101-kevin-driscoll/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofa…

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Transforming Media Pedagogies with Paul Mihailidis, Sangita Shresthova, Megan Fromm 1:09:52

1+ y ago1:09:52

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This week, we have Paul Mihailidis, Sangita Shresthova and Megan Fromm talking about their insights, stories, and theories in their book Transformative Media Pedagogies. We start with the three authors’ inspirations for their book, and then our guests share their definition of transformation, before discussing more detailed contexts for transformat…

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Minisode: Meanwhile in France... Minitel 8:26

2y ago8:26

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Kevin talks about what was happening in the 80s in France with Minitel –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dyl…

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Zeki Müren Hotline with Beyza Boyacıoğlu & Jeff Soyk 1:11:02

2y ago1:11:02

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As one of the most influential musicians in Turkish history and the first modern pop star of Turkey, Zeki Müren gained huge popularity beginning in the 1950s across all different communities in Turkey, in spite of his groundbreaking behaviors like cross-dressing, and can be seen as an LGBTQ+ trailblazer. Even now, Zeki Müren continues to have a pro…

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Counterhistories and Countermemories of TV with Lynn Spigel 59:35

2y ago59:35

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In this episode, Lynn Spigel, Chair of Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, and our hosts discuss her research and new book, TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life, on snapshot technology and TV history. While working on a research grant for smart houses, Lynn began researching the ways in which everyday…

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Parenting and media technology with Sonia Livingstone & Lynn Schofield Clark 1:11:18

2y ago1:11:18

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A lot of parents nowadays are concerned about their children spending too much time on screens. We begin by discussing how screen time is inevitable in this post-pandemic era and that screen time itself might not be the problem. Lynn shares her own parenting experiences to state that parents also can use screen time and technology to build a good c…

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BBSs and Early Internet Communities with Author Kevin Driscoll 1:10:07

2y ago1:10:07

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Kevin Driscoll, author and associate professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, discusses the history of BBSs, or bulletin board systems, and how they have been overlooked as part of the history of the internet. Developing out of his early experiences with local online communities, Kevin approaches the history of the internet from a gras…

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Museum Curation with Jacqueline Stewart and Tyree Boyd-Pates 58:45

2+ y ago58:45

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This week we are joined by archivist Jacqueline Stewart and historian Tyree Boyd-Pates to discuss the power of museum curation. The role of the museum curator is critical to the way that museums are experienced. We begin by discussing museums as “safe spaces for dangerous ideas” – in other words, how museums can be harbingers of racist and colonial…

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Audience is part of IP, with Diana Williams 52:46

2+ y ago52:46

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Our guest this week is Diana Williams, who, after 30 years in the entertainment media industry working on premier content like the Star Wars Marvel Cinematic universes, has founded a new company, Kinetic Energy Entertainment, focused on partnering with creatives to build new intellectual property (IP) for today’s rapidly changing media landscape. S…

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A closer look at the banning of Maus, with Hillary Chute 1:08:23

2+ y ago1:08:23

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This week we are further diving into the recent banning of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a school board in TN by speaking with comics scholar Hillary Chute, Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and associate editor of MetaMaus. She discusses the history of the original publication of Maus and Spiegelman’s roots …

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Context around the Censorship of Comics with Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler 1:12:08

2+ y ago1:12:08

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This week Henry and Colin are joined by writer and comics critic Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, to discuss the broader context for the censorship of graphic novels in schools. Jumping off from the recent censorship of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a TN school board, we review the long history and reaso…

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Bringing Storytelling to Academia through Afrofuturism with Stephanie Toliver 1:00:59

2+ y ago1:00:59

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In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong sci-fi nerd chats with Henry and Colin about her experience writing her hybrid PhD dissertation. As part of her PhD, Stephanie got the opportunity to work with the DEEP Center’s Block to Block Program teachi…

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Participatory Civic Media with Cathy Cohen and Jen Humke 1:26:02

2+ y ago1:26:02

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This week Henry and Colin are joined by Cathy Cohen, a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago and Jen Humke, a senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation to discuss Participatory Civic Media. Cohen discusses her work with The Black Youth Project and GenForward, projects that are focused on building independent institutions and…

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Curious Conversations Across the Divide with Mónica Guzmán 1:07:53

2+ y ago1:07:53

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Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels which is a cross-partisan nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging America's widening political divide. Mónica’s background in journalism and her own lif…

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Josie Duffy Rice: Defund the Police 8:44

2+ y ago8:44

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For more with Josie Duffy Rice, listen to Episode 93! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://…

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Reimagining Criminal Justice with Josie Duffy Rice 46:27

2+ y ago46:27

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This week Henry and Colin catch up with AnnLab Civic Media Fellow Josie Duffy Rice to talk about the stories we hear and tell about our criminal justice system, and how we can reframe them to focus on people, not punishment. Josie recalls how her early experiences as a journalist covering public prosecutors quickly made her realize how opaque the s…

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Disney Theme Parks with Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa 1:11:09

2+ y ago1:11:09

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Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa discuss Disney theme park fandom from Disneyland California to Disney theme parks across the globe. Williams and Sowa share their history with Disney films and how that love has translated into their love for the theme parks as adults. We then dive further into the theme park as a space of play for adults and why be…

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How the Arts Can Save Education with Erica Halverson 59:48

2+ y ago59:48

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This week we’re joined by a whoopensocker of a guest - Erica Halverson. After telling us all what a “whoopensocker” is, she brings us up to speed on her education intervention of the same name, where teaching artists employ the rules of improv to encourage kids to express themselves and engage in collaborative storytelling. Those stories are then p…

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Lori Kido Lopez on Micro Media Innovations in Hmong American Communities 56:23

2+ y ago56:23

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This week Henry & Colin are joined by Lori Kido Lopez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss her new book, Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora. Lopez shares some background on this little-known ethnic community’s p…

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Sherry Turkle on Empathy and the Narratives That Shape Our Lives 1:30:21

2+ y ago1:30:21

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This week, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author, joins Henry & Colin to discuss her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Sherry and Henry talk about their shared experiences of teaching arts & humanities at MIT. Since Sherry’s work is usually interpreted as a critique of technology and Henry’s work is interpreted as a support of technology, they bot…

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Race & Fandom, with andré carrington, Abigail De Kosnik, and Rukmini Pande 1:27:01

2+ y ago1:27:01

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This week, Henry & Colin are joined by three fan studies scholars, andré m. carrington,author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction; Abigail De Kosnik, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation; and Rukmini Pande author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the Margins. We talk about how race ha…

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Te Rita Papesch and Sharon Mazer on the Living Tradition of Kapa Haka 1:38:30

3+ y ago1:38:30

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This week, we are joined by Te Rita Papesch, a legendary figure in the Maori tradition of Kapa Haka, and Sharon Mazer, her friend and an American performance studies researcher. Together, they converse about Kapa Haka as a manifestation of the historic relations between the Maori people and their “Kiwi” colonizers, one which is embedded in the ever…

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What's Making Us Sappy Episode 21: Ioana Mischie and Howard Blumenthal 7:26

3+ y ago7:26

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This week's media recommendations come from Ioana Mischie, a transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal, a television and new media creative, to talk about how children can shape the future of education and our world. Their recommendations span everything from jazz to emerging futuristic fictio…

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Ioana Mischie and Howard Blumenthal on the Future of Education 1:13:52

3+ y ago1:13:52

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This week we invited Ioana Mischie, a futurist and transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal, a television and new media creative, to discuss the future of education and the role of children in shaping the field. Mischie’s work includes Government of Children and Tangible Utopias, which both p…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 20: S.B. Divya and Jonathon Keats 4:48

3+ y ago4:48

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This week's media recommendations come from scientist turned author S.B. Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. Their list includes everything from 1960s architecture collectives to a weekly science fiction podcast! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do YouLike …

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Speculative Art & Fiction with SB Divya and Jonathon Keats 1:16:28

3+ y ago1:16:28

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This week's conversation with scientist turned author SB Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats continues our series on climate futures by beginning with the notion of a thought experiment, and how that is manifested in both Divya’s fiction and Jonathon’s art projects. They discuss the tools each of them uses to invite…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 20: Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn 4:06

3+ y ago4:06

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This week's media recommendations come from two writers/scholars of the Solarpunk movement: Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia, and Ed Finn, the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University. ––––––––––––––––––––––––…

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Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on Solarpunk 1:12:08

3+ y ago1:12:08

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This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia, and Ed Finn, the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University, to talk about how solarpunk can shape our understanding of climate change, social issues,…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 19: Julian Brave Noisecat and Candis Callison 3:22

3+ y ago3:22

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This week's media recommendations come from Julian Brave Noisecat and Candis Callison, leading Indigenous journalist and scholar, who share with us podcasts and books that highlight their voices -- and fantasy basketball. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do YouLike It So Far? account! You c…

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Indigenous Voices for Environmental Justice with Candis Callison & Julian Brave NoiseCat 1:09:01

3+ y ago1:09:01

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Candis Callison, an environmental journalist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, and Julian Brave Noisecat, a Senior Media Fellow at the NDN Collective, join us today to talk about the role of Indigenous people in achieving environmental justice. They discuss methods that will better accommodate the inclusion of Indigenou…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 18: Pop Culture Collaborative 3:35

3+ y ago3:35

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You'd bet that the Pop Culture Collaborative would have good pop culture recommendations! And you're not wrong -- today's media recs come from Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke, who touch on the big and bright sit-coms like The Office, Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and how we might revisit them in the light of last year. Also, we ha…

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Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke on the Intersection of Art and Activism 1:06:37

3+ y ago1:06:37

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Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke, co-founders of the Pop Culture Collaborative, join us today to talk about the meaning of a pluralistic society, pop culture for social change, and the intersection between the arts and social activism spheres. They delve into the notion of narrative oceans, how they can be used to unify people’s experie…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 17: Warren Hedges 2:58

3+ y ago2:58

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This week's media recommendations are all about fantasy, a realm that our last guest Warren Hedges is very, very fond of: From the African fantasy of Marlon James' "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" to a Skyrim Mod called "3DNPC." ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do YouLike It So Far? account! You c…

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Warren Hedges on the Fantasy Roots of the Capital Insurrection 1:03:02

3+ y ago1:03:02

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This week’s guest, Warren Hedges, teaches a course at the Southern Oregon University on how speculative genres such as science fiction and fantasy help us imagine more inclusive cultures, societies, and worlds. He shared some thoughts on Facebook about Jacob Chansley, the so-called “Q Shaman” who participated in the January 6 insurrection in the U.…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 16: James Paul Gee 1:25

3+ y ago1:25

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Is it a bird? Is it a rhopalocera? Is it a flying bipedal anthropoid? It's all three! Naturally, today's media recommendations come from the delightful James Paul Gee, who gave us some insights about all three of those animals last week. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do YouLike It So Far…

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What is a Human with James Paul Gee 1:11:01

3+ y ago1:11:01

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This week we host James Paul Gee, recently retired Arizona State University professor and researcher in a plethora of topics including psycholinguistics and discourse analysis. As we talk about his latest book, What Is a Human? Language, Mind, and Culture, Gee casually uplifts our fundamental understanding of what it means to be, well, human and ho…

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What's Making You Sappy Episode 15: Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser 3:01

3+ y ago3:01

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This week, a pleasantly unexpected list of media recommendations comes from guests of our latest episode, Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser of Civic Signals, an organization dedicated to reimagine digital environments to be better public spaces, much like how humanity has strived to build healthy, flourishing civic spaces in the real world for millennia…

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