Best Jonathan Senchyne Podcasts (2024)

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Queering the Catalog and Public Lands as Libraries 25:42

4y ago25:42

25:42

We hear from two groups of students exploring topics in library and information studies. The first focuses on intersections of LBGTQ people, queer theory, and libraries --- especially cataloging. Another group thinks about how public lands and public libraries relate to each other as resources for the public good and human wellbeing.…

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Academic libraries now? And the misinformation landscape. 45:15

4y ago45:15

45:15

An interview with Peg Cook, interim library director at Elmhurst College, on academic libraries now, followed by a discussion of the misinformation in the online information ecosystem.

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Libraries, Empire, and Book Bans 41:26

4y ago41:26

41:26

Student discussions of the embeddedness of libraries and archives within imperial power, with emphasis on indigenous lands and knowledges. Followed by a reflection on literature for youth and Banned Books Week 2020.

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New Season! Interview with New iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker 31:29

4y ago31:29

31:29

We launch season 3 of the Eyes Cool Podcast and everything around here is new, new, new! New students, a new episode format for this season, and, today, an interview with new iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker.

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Science Fiction! 29:58

4+ y ago29:58

29:58

Some relevant links: Worlds Without End: http://www.worldswithoutend.com/ Locus Mag: https://locusmag.com/

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Fantasy! 59:42

4+ y ago59:42

59:42

Links: N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds Den of Geek - Top New Fantasy Books https://www.denofgeek.com/books/top-new-fantasy-books-2020/ World Fantasy Awards http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/ Nebula Awards https://nebulas.sfwa.org/ Hugo Awards controversy…

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Mystery! 39:34

4+ y ago39:34

39:34

Our recommendations/favs: From Mia: M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin Mystery Series Kathleen Ernst: Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None and Hercule Poirot mysteries Ashley Weaver: The Amory Ames Mysteries Amy Stewart: Kopp Sisters Mysteries Meg Cabot: Heather Wells Mysterie…

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True Crime! 46:40

4+ y ago46:40

46:40

Bibliography and Notes The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorized London by Brian McDonald Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes About the Criminal Justice System by Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner …

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Romance Novels! 54:52

4+ y ago54:52

54:52

We launch season two - which takes a series of deep dives into genres popular with adult readers - with an episode about Romance Novels! Links to resources mentioned in the episode: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/readers-advisory-ep…

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Season Two Coming Soon! 2:30

4+ y ago2:30

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Season Two of EYES COOL PODCAST is coming soon! This season we take a series of deep dives into genres that are popular with adult readers from romance to true crime and everything in between. We're embedded in a course called Reading Interests of Adults where we'll get a taste of what interests adult readers, how and why we read together, and how …

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How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy 39:31

4+ y ago39:31

39:31

In the final episode of the season, we discuss Jenny Odell's How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. How can we reclaim control over our most precious resource in the 21st-century information economy: attention? Odell theorizes withdrawal, refusal, and self determination an puts the digital attention economy within the larger context of…

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Decolonizing Museums 51:25

4+ y ago51:25

51:25

This week we discuss Amy Lonetree's 2012 book, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Lonetree, who is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, discusses how museums can shed centuries of colonial violence at the core of their collecting and display practices by centering Indigenous worldvi…

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Archiving the Unspeakable 1:03:43

4+ y ago1:03:43

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This week we discuss Michelle Caswell's Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. Then a discussion of the prod-Democracy protests in Hong Kong and how the tech industry has been involved. Closed out by a conversation about digital humanities and book history in the UW-Madison Special Collections library.…

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Cruising the Library 1:03:59

4+ y ago1:03:59

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On this week's pod we discuss Melissa Adler's Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham 2017, https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823276363/cruising-the-library/). From there, we learn about the Madison LGBTQ Archive and the Madison LGBTQ Oral History Project. Finally, a look at parent challenges of LGBTQ books in sc…

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Programmed Inequality 57:03

5y ago57:03

57:03

Misogyny in tech industries and the information professions isn't an accident. It was created and has a long history. And it comes with great costs to individual people and society at large. This week the pod's main segment is on Mar Hick's award-winning 2018 book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in…

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Behind the Screen 50:23

5y ago50:23

50:23

.A look at Sarah T. Roberts' new book Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.

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Anti-Social Media 52:38

5y ago52:38

52:38

Mark Zuckerberg went before Congress last week and tried to defend facebook's positions on privacy, truth in targeted advertising, and cryptocurrency. And this week we're reading Siva Vaidhyanathan's Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.

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The Dark Fantastic 1:02:58

5y ago1:02:58

1:02:58

When did you first feel represented by the media you read and viewed? A group of students sit down to discuss Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's new book, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Episode also features an interview with iSchool professor Rebekah Willett whose work focuses on youth and media. Rounding…

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On Being Included 48:00

5y ago48:00

48:00

Show Notes On Being Included: Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press, 2012). Sara Ahmed: The Institution as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection Solid Ground, Definition & Analysis of Institutional Racism Current Events: Mettler, K. (2019, April 14). A black college student went looking …

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The New Jim Code 54:11

5y ago54:11

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Show Notes content warning: In this episode, hosts read the content of an anti-semitic tweet in order to analyze how AI bots learn and repeat racist language. Sources Referenced in Podcast Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Polity Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/WISC/detail.action?docID…

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What's this Pod? And Black Feminist Critiques of Search and Tech. 51:46

5y ago51:46

51:46

In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool! SHOW NOTES! Audio clip sources: Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of O…

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Queering the Catalog and Public Lands as Libraries 25:42

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Academic libraries now? And the misinformation landscape. 45:15

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Libraries, Empire, and Book Bans 41:26

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New Season! Interview with New iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker 31:29

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Science Fiction! 29:58

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Fantasy! 59:42

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Mystery! 39:34

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True Crime! 46:40

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Romance Novels! 54:52

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Season Two Coming Soon! 2:30

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How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy 39:31

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Decolonizing Museums 51:25

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Archiving the Unspeakable 1:03:43

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Cruising the Library 1:03:59

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Programmed Inequality 57:03

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Behind the Screen 50:23

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Anti-Social Media 52:38

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The Dark Fantastic 1:02:58

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On Being Included 48:00

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The New Jim Code 54:11

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What's this Pod? And Black Feminist Critiques of Search and Tech. 51:46

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