Best birkbeck Podcasts (2024)

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Media, Technology & Culture 06 (3rd Edition): Infrastructural Technologies 35:48

6d ago35:48

35:48

We have already discussed the importance of paying attention to how media technologies are powerful when they are ordinary and relatively invisible. When they work like ‘appliances’ in daily life. This was the key message of McLuhan’s ‘medium theory’ as well as theories of media domestication. These perspectives tend to imagine media technologies i…

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Media, Technology & Culture 05 (3rd Edition): Computational Technologies 31:59

22d ago31:59

31:59

Most people know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex. And yet, we often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. We believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. Sometimes there are worries about this subsequent situation; or nostalgia for how things …

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Media, Technology & Culture 04 (3rd Edition): Live Technologies 30:35

30d ago30:35

30:35

It is often said that media technologies provide us with a window on the world, beyond our own experience. A window not only connecting us to distant or past worlds, beyond our immediate reach, but also to worlds we feel can join into, and share simultaneously. One term for describing how media afford this latter window on the world is ‘liveness’. …

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Media, Technology & Culture 03 (3rd Edition): Domesticated Technologies 29:37

1M ago29:37

29:37

By now, you will have noticed we are not spending much if any time trying to understand media technologies in isolation. Instead, we have been and will keep putting media technologies into the settings on which they depend as well as help shape. One prominent academic concept for scholars seeking to understand media technologies in such settings is…

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Media, Technology and Culture 02 (3rd Edition): Located Technologies 34:35

1M ago34:35

34:35

A conventional narrative in many historical accounts about the arrival of new media technologies is that media technologies have oftentimes made possible forms of communication in which physical co-presence is less and less necessary. Early media technologies like print allowed for unprecedented communication across distance, albeit with a time lag…

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Media, Technology and Culture 01 (3rd Edition): Cultural Technologies 33:05

2M ago33:05

33:05

Technological talk is everywhere nowadays. All manner of novel developments, good or ill, are associated with the supposed impact of technology. But when we invoke the term ‘technology’, whether in relation to media or in general, just what do we mean anyway? Do technologies drive human history? Or are technologies just tools, extending deeper soci…

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Publicly Sited Update: New 3rd Edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast 2:28

2M ago2:28

2:28

In this short update, I'm announcing the new third edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast series coming out tomorrow. This is not a sequel of all new topics, but it is a complete re-recording with new elements and tweaks to go along with the new academic term. It also includes two refocused episodes: one on located technologies, and t…

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The Mediated City 09 (Re-release): Platform Urbanism 33:18

1+ y ago33:18

33:18

If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing a…

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The Mediated City 08 (Re-release): Networked Location 32:17

1+ y ago32:17

32:17

It’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but their predicted duration, based on for instance real-…

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The Mediated City 07: Urban Brandscapes 32:13

1+ y ago32:13

32:13

As you move about myriad city spaces, you will probably recognise the regularity and intensity with which you are being exposed to a whole plethora of brands. Perhaps most noticeable will be all manner of advertising display. Ads plastered across roadside billboards or building walls, integrated into street furniture, consuming an entire section of…

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The Mediated City 06: Street Arts 28:26

1+ y ago28:26

28:26

Arriving into a large city by train, metro or subway, it's very likely that the concrete or brick sidings you see out the window are covered in graffiti. As you make your way off the train, into the streets you might see all manner of stylised inscriptions and names, written in black permanent marker on buildings and street furniture; or murals pai…

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The Mediated City 05 (Re-release): Media Architectures 29:50

2y ago29:50

29:50

If you live in a city which is changing rapidly, construction sites might begin to seem like processes of erasing, copying and pasting, remixing or remediating the city. And it also may be that the new buildings being put in place have more and more forms of media or communication, such as illumination or interactive screens, built directly into th…

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The Mediated City 04 (Re-release): Urban Soundtracks 27:46

2y ago27:46

27:46

There is an old adage about cinema: that it may seem a principally visual medium; but in fact, its soundtrack and sound design are just as important. So it is with our more general encounter with the city. While it may seem that we are surrounded and even overwhelmed by an assemblage of visual inputs, our experience of the city is multi-sensory. An…

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The Mediated City 03 (Re-release): Suburban Screens 29:48

2y ago29:48

29:48

One way or another, you most likely watch television in some form. You might use a device explicitly called a ‘television’, sited in a room in which televisions tend to be, such as a lounge or family room. Or perhaps you use a remediated version of television: via a device such as a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop or even projector. And the content …

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The Mediated City 02 (Re-release): Print Urbanism 30:45

2y ago30:45

30:45

If you’ve ridden public transport over a number of years, you might think printed material is declining. You may have once been surrounded by people immersed in newspapers and books, but more and more people seem to be cradling smart phones, tablets or laptops. Playing video games, watching downloaded on-demand programmes, listening to music, using…

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The Mediated City 01 (Re-release): Surfaces, Depths, Fragments, Publics 31:13

2y ago31:13

31:13

When you move through the city, you move through mediation. This is because what we call media and what we call the city (or the urban) are in a nexus: they are intimately connected. On the one hand, the practices, the rhythms and the motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and desires in relation to media technologies, forms and …

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The Mediated City 09: Platform Urbanism 33:18

2+ y ago33:18

33:18

If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing a…

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The Mediated City 08: Networked Location 32:17

2+ y ago32:17

32:17

It’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but their predicted duration, based on for instance real-…

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The Mediated City: Observing the Digital Picket 3:28

2+ y ago3:28

3:28

This is a short message to listeners of The Mediated City podcast series. UK listeners, and certainly my students, will know that the University and College Union (UCU) is currently taking industrial action. This action centres on two disputes. The first is focused on pensions: a typical member of the USS pension scheme is set to suffer a dramatic …

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The Mediated City 05: Media Architectures 29:50

3y ago29:50

29:50

If you live in a city which is changing rapidly, construction sites might begin to seem like processes of erasing, copying and pasting, remixing or remediating the city. And it also may be that the new buildings being put in place have more and more forms of media or communication, such as illumination or interactive screens, built directly into th…

1
The Mediated City 04: Urban Soundtracks 27:46

3y ago27:46

27:46

There is an old adage about cinema: that it may seem a principally visual medium; but in fact, its soundtrack and sound design are just as important. So it is with our more general encounter with the city. While it may seem that we are surrounded and even overwhelmed by an assemblage of visual inputs, our experience of the city is multi-sensory. An…

1
The Mediated City 03: Suburban Screens 29:48

3y ago29:48

29:48

One way or another, you most likely watch television in some form. You might use a device explicitly called a ‘television’, sited in a room in which televisions tend to be, such as a lounge or family room. Or perhaps you use a remediated version of television: via a device such as a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop or even projector. And the content …

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The Mediated City 02: Print Urbanism 30:45

3y ago30:45

30:45

If you’ve ridden public transport over a number of years, you might think printed material is declining. You may have once been surrounded by people immersed in newspapers and books, but more and more people seem to be cradling smart phones, tablets or laptops. Playing video games, watching downloaded on-demand programmes, listening to music, using…

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The Mediated City 01: Surfaces, Depths, Fragments, Publics 31:13

3y ago31:13

31:13

When you move through the city, you move through mediation. This is because what we call media and what we call the city (or the urban) are in a nexus: they are intimately connected. On the one hand, the practices, the rhythms and the motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and desires in relation to media technologies, forms and …

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Media, Technology and Culture 10 (2nd Edition): Extractive Technologies 28:16

3y ago28:16

28:16

Policymakers, politicians, activists, businesspeople and even ordinary people are more and more sceptical of digital platforms like Facebook (or shall we say, Meta). This scepticism is not just about the murky decision-making power of algorithms. It’s also that there is increasing awareness about the operation of digital platforms as private entiti…

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Media, Technology and Culture 09 (2nd Edition): Algorithmic Technologies 29:14

3y ago29:14

29:14

There is now widespread awareness of, suspicion about, and even opposition to 'algorithms'. As widespread as the multiplicity of situations and domains in which these mysterious entities seem to be making more and more decisions: around welfare payments; university places; travel routes; and police patrol routes. Algorithms are also pervasive in me…

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Media, Technology and Culture 08 (2nd Edition): Participatory Technologies 28:17

3y ago28:17

28:17

One of the more celebrated aspects of contemporary media is that it seems so much more participatory. In principle, at least, anyone can for example establish a Twitter or a YouTube account, and share their experiences or views with minimal censorious intervention. Some have explained this apparently more participatory media culture with reference …

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Media, Technology & Culture 07 (2nd Edition): Embodied Technologies 32:51

3y ago32:51

32:51

Media technologies today seem to be everywhere. Assisting us in – or invading – each and every corner of our daily existence. We have already discussed how this ubiquity is embedded into a huge range of physical infrastructures; environments where media technologies surround us. And yet, we also increasingly carry media around with us, in our pocke…

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Media, Technology & Culture 06 (2nd Edition): Infrastructural Technologies 34:57

3y ago34:57

34:57

We have already discussed the importance of paying attention to how media technologies are powerful when they are ordinary and relatively invisible. When they work like ‘appliances’ in daily life. This was the key message of McLuhan’s ‘medium theory’ as well as theories of media domestication. These perspectives are limited, however, in that they t…

1
Media, Technology & Culture 05 (2nd Edition): Computational Technologies 28:49

3y ago28:49

28:49

Most people know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex. And yet, we often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. We believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. Sometimes there are worries about this subsequent situation; or nostalgia for how things …

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Media, Technology & Culture 04 (2nd Edition): Live Technologies 27:14

3y ago27:14

27:14

It is often said that media technologies provide us with a ‘window on the world’ beyond our own experience. A window not only connecting us to a distant world, beyond our immediate reach, but also to one which we can join into, and share simultaneously. One term for describing how media afford this window on the world is ‘liveness’. The most obviou…

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Media, Technology & Culture 03 (2nd Edition): Domesticated Technologies 25:43

3y ago25:43

25:43

By now, you will have noticed we are not spending much if any time trying to understand media technologies in isolation. Instead, we have been and will keep putting media technologies into the settings on which they depend as well as help shape. One prominent academic concept for scholars seeking to understand media technologies in such settings is…

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Media, Technology & Culture 02 (2nd Edition): Communication Technologies 25:58

3y ago25:58

25:58

The terms media and communications are often offered as a couplet, or even used interchangeably. But communication is a broad idea with a very long history, and the arrival of media technologies are usually seen to make possible a special form of communication, in which physical co-presence was unnecessary. The printing press, for example, is often…

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Media, Technology & Culture 01 (2nd Edition): Cultural Technologies 25:25

3y ago25:25

25:25

Technological talk is everywhere nowadays. All manner of novel developments, good or ill, are associated with the supposed impact of technology. But when we invoke the term ‘technology’, whether in relation to media or in general, just what do we mean anyway? Do technologies drive human history? Or are technologies just tools, extending deeper soci…

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Publicly Sited Update: New Podcast on The Mediated City; plus Media, Technology and Culture 2nd Edition 2:28

3y ago2:28

2:28

In this short update, I'm announcing a new series, The Mediated City, out in January 2022. Also, there's a second edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast series coming out tomorrow. This is not a sequel of all new topics, nor a complete remake of the first series. It's a more modest set of minor tweaks to go along with the new academic…

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Media, Technology and Culture 09: Algorithmic Technologies 27:14

3+ y ago27:14

27:14

There is now widespread awareness of, suspicion about, and even opposition to 'algorithms'. As widespread as the multiplicity of situations and domains in which these mysterious entities seem to be making more and more decisions: around welfare payments; university places; travel routes; and police patrol routes. Algorithms are also pervasive in me…

1
Media, Technology and Culture 08: Participatory Technologies 27:26

3+ y ago27:26

27:26

One of the more celebrated aspects of contemporary media is that it seems so much more participatory. In principle, at least, anyone can for example establish a Twitter or a YouTube account, and share their experiences or views with minimal censorious intervention. Some have explained this apparently more participatory media culture with reference …

1
Media, Technology and Culture 07: Embodied Technologies 29:52

3+ y ago29:52

29:52

Media technologies today seem to be everywhere. Assisting us in – or invading – each and every corner of our daily existence. We have already discussed how this ubiquity is embedded into a huge range of physical infrastructures; environments where media technologies surround us. And yet, we also increasingly carry media around with us, in our pocke…

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Media, Technology & Culture 06: Infrastructural Technologies 33:14

3+ y ago33:14

33:14

We have already discussed the importance of paying attention to how media technologies are powerful when they are ordinary and relatively invisible. When they work like ‘appliances’ in daily life. This was the key message of McLuhan’s ‘medium theory’ as well as theories of media domestication. These perspectives are limited, however, in that they t…

1
Media, Technology & Culture 05: Computational Technologies 27:44

4y ago27:44

27:44

Worries about media technologies often stem from their association with change, change that may be perceived as positive or negative. Even though we tend know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex, we also often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. To believe that there was a situation before this …

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Media, Technology& Culture 04: Live Technologies 26:44

4y ago26:44

26:44

It is often said that media technologies provide us with a ‘window on the world’ beyond our own experience. A window not only connecting us to a distant world, beyond our immediate reach, but also to one which we can join into, and share simultaneously. One term for describing how media afford this window on the world is ‘liveness’. The most obviou…

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Media, Technology & Culture 03: Domesticated Technologies 24:18

4y ago24:18

24:18

By now, you will have noticed we are not spending much if any time trying to understand media technologies in isolation. Instead, we have been and will keep putting media technologies into the settings on which they depend as well as help shape. One prominent academic concept for scholars seeking to understand media technologies in such settings is…

1
Media, Technology & Culture 02: Communication Technologies 25:02

4y ago25:02

25:02

The terms media and communications are often offered as a couplet, or even used interchangeably. But communication is a broad idea with a very long history, and the arrival of media technologies are usually seen to make possible a special form of communication, in which physical co-presence was unnecessary. The printing press, for example, is often…

1
Media, Technology & Culture 01: Cultural Technologies 23:48

4y ago23:48

23:48

Technological talk is everywhere nowadays. All manner of novel developments, good or ill, are associated with the supposed impact of technology. But when we invoke the term ‘technology’, whether in relation to media or in general, just what do we mean anyway? Do technologies drive human history? Or are technologies just tools, extending deeper soci…

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S2 E5: Ole Spanish & Franchising with Maria Torres Giron 25:38

4y ago25:38

25:38

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In a new ser…

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S2 E4: Back to Basics: Vital Educators & Moving Forward with Ahmad Saqib 37:47

4y ago37:47

37:47

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In a new ser…

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S3 E2: Seyed Mohammad Ahlesaadat - Law and Training Contract Applications 22:04

4y ago22:04

22:04

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In our new s…

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S3 E1: Tosin Odelusi - Marketing Internships 22:49

4y ago22:49

22:49

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. We will be sharing our conversations with industry leaders, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni to offer you an invaluable platform for industry knowledge and career support, from relevant and relatable sources.In our new s…

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Ability Programme Series Episode 5 - Haidee Elise Mulgrew; Recent MBA And Founder 23:24

4+ y ago23:24

23:24

My guest is Haidee Elise Mulgrew recent graduate from the innovative Birkbeck & Central St Martins MBA and Founder of the Professional Dyslexic Talent Network. Haidee shares how her creativity and passion for design has influenced her career trajectory to date and champions how important it is that employers fully realise the potential of dyslexic …

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Ability Programme Podcast: Episode 4- Adam Tobias Co-Founder Inventum Group 28:09

4+ y ago28:09

28:09

Welcome to the #FuturesPodcast, a podcast series created by the Birkbeck Futures team, here at Birkbeck, University of London. In the Ability Programme Series we will be sharing our conversations with industry professionals, hiring managers and Birkbeck Alumni around disability and careers.For this episode, we welcome Adam Tobias Co-Founder of Inve…

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