Best Latinx Digital Media Podcasts (2024)

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Raven Maragh-Lloyd on Black Networked Resistance 19:52

3M ago19:52

19:52

How can communities creatively adapt and reshape online practices to forge resilient digital publics? In episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies scholar Raven Maragh-Lloyd about the historical contours of Black digital resistance. The Ideas on Fire team was honored to work with Raven on her new book Black Net…

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Natalie Zervou on Dance in the Age of Austerity 25:22

5M ago25:22

25:22

The relationship between dance and politics has long been a complex one. In moments of national and international crisis, artists are often at the center of resistance movements, and the embodied knowledges honed by dancers, choreographers, and performers can become key survival techniques for diverse communities. In episode 161 of Imagine Otherwis…

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Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda on Mujeres de Maiz 23:24

5M ago23:24

23:24

In episode 160 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda—three legendary feminist artists, activists, and scholars from the genre-defying, transnational feminist of color collective Mujeres de Maiz. Amber, Felicia, and Nadia are also editors of a new book called Mujeres de Maiz en Mo…

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Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism 26:14

7M ago26:14

26:14

How has the Silicon Valley form of technocapitalism shaped geographies around the world? In episode 159 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author, University of Washington geography professor, and housing justice activist Erin McElroy about the global reach of technocapitalism. Erin is the author of the new Duke Uni…

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the Visual Politics of Border Tunnels 23:40

11M ago23:40

23:40

How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence? To help us think through how these tunnels are represented and often overrepresented in US media, in episode 158 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about his …

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Tamara Kneese on Death in the Digital Platform Age 21:27

12M ago21:27

21:27

In episode 157 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar and Ideas on Fire author Tamara Kneese about the complex relationship between Big Tech and mortality, specifically how digital media platforms mediate our experiences of death. Tamara is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab, and her new…

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Nicosia Shakes on Black Women's Activist Theater 26:32

1y ago26:32

26:32

In episode 156 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and artist Nicosia Shakes, whose creative and scholarly work celebrates the intertwining of political activism and performance across the African diaspora. Nicosia's play Afiba and Her Daughters, which offers an intergenerational narrative of Jamaican herstory, premiered a…

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Meryl Alper on Autistic Kids’ Digital Media 23:26

1y ago23:26

23:26

In episode 155 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews disability media studies scholar Meryl Alper. Meryl is the author of 3 books about how kids with disabilities use digital technologies, including her most recent book, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age. Kids Across the Spectrums is out now from MI…

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Kristie Soares on Joy in Latinx Media 16:13

1y ago16:13

16:13

In episode 154 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews performance artist and gender studies scholar Kristie Soares about the political power of pleasure, laughter, and joy in Latinx media. Kristie’s new book Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latin Media has chapters about gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New …

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Cynthia Franklin on Narrative and Activist Politics 22:29

1y ago22:29

22:29

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews literature professor Cynthia Franklin about the politics of life writing. Cynthia’s new book Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea traces the complex ways activists, artists, cultural producers, and scholars engage genres like memoir and autobiography to resist racial capi…

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Magdalena Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales on The Latinx Guide to Graduate School 24:08

1+ y ago24:08

24:08

In episode 152 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews education scholars and leaders Magdalena L. Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales about their new book The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. Magdalena and Genevieve teamed up to write this guide after many years of advising Latinx graduate students struggling to navigate the hidden…

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Katie Walkiewicz on Indigenous and Black Freedom 19:00

1+ y ago19:00

19:00

In episode 151 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Indigenous studies and literature professor Katie Walkiewicz about states’ rights and the role this concept has played in US settler colonialism, enslavement, and dispossession as well as in radical projects seeking to create alternative political structures. Katie Walkiewicz is a…

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86 - Edgar Gómez-Cruz and empowering latinidad in academia 47:08

1+ y ago47:08

47:08

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Edgar Gómez-Cruz (The University of Texas at Austin). Among different topics, they talk about how to empower Latinidad in academia. This is episode eighty-five of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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85 - Laura Isabel Serna and navigating transitions across multiple academic fields 41:42

1+ y ago41:42

41:42

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Laura Isabel Serna (University of Southern California). Among different topics, they talk about how to navigate transitions across multiple academic fields. This is episode eighty-five of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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84 - Cristina Mislán and the strength of a historical perspective 45:29

1+ y ago45:29

45:29

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Cristina Mislán (University of Missouri). Among different topics, they talk about the strength of developing a historical perspective in the field of communication and media studies. This is episode eighty-four of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern Univers…

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83 - Karrieann Soto Vega and building networks of solidarity in academia 39:53

1+ y ago39:53

39:53

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Karrieann Soto Vega (University of Kentucky). Among different topics, they talk about how to build networks of solidarity in academia. This is episode eighty-three of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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82 - Daniel Trielli and the power of simplicity to navigate cultural differences 49:45

1+ y ago49:45

49:45

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Daniel Trielli (Loyola University, Chicago). Among different topics, they talk about the power of simplicity to navigate cultural differences. This is episode eighty-two of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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81 - Monica De La Torre and broadening disciplinary frameworks 42:50

1+ y ago42:50

42:50

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Monica De La Torre (Arizona State University). Among different topics, they talk about how to broaden disciplinary frameworks in the study of media and communication phenomena. This is episode eighty-one of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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80 - Jorge Peña and building your academic identity 51:28

1+ y ago51:28

51:28

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Jorge Peña (University of California, Davis). Among different topics, they talk about how to build an academic identity. This is episode eighty of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.By Latinx Digital Media

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79 - Pablo Miño and exploring the value of translation 37:06

1+ y ago37:06

37:06

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Pablo Miño (Boston University). Among different topics, they talk about expanding the value of translation in a field of study dominated by anglophone communication. This is episode seventy-nine of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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78 - Diego Gómez-Zará and integrating technical with social sciences methodologies 46:22

1+ y ago46:22

46:22

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Diego Gómez-Zará (University of Notre Dame). Among different topics, they talk about how media and communication scholarship can integrate technical and social methodologies. This is episode seventy-eight of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb on Haptic Blackness 17:36

1+ y ago17:36

17:36

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Black visual studies scholar Jasmine Nichole Cobb about haptic blackness and the cultural politics of Black hair in US visual culture. Jasmine is a professor of African and African American studies and of art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. Her recent book New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black…

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77 - Juan Llamas-Rodriguez and fostering South-to-South research in communication 44:45

1+ y ago44:45

44:45

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania). Among different topics, they talk about fostering South-to-South comparisons in a scholarly field dominated by research in and about the Global North. This is episode seventy-seven of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media a…

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76 - Paola Ricaurte Quijano and decolonizing academia 36:22

1+ y ago36:22

36:22

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Paola Ricaurte Quijano (Tecnológico de Monterrey). Among different topics, they talk about decolonizing technology in scholarship about media, communication, and digital culture. This is episode seventy-six of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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Mairead Sullivan on Lesbian Feminist World-building 28:01

1+ y ago28:01

28:01

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews women’s and gender studies professor Mairead Sullivan about the histories and futures of lesbian feminism. Mairead is the author of the new book Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer, which offers a love letter to lesbian feminist world building while also refuting the weaponization of lesbian i…

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75 - Iván Chaar López and putting Latinx studies at the center 50:46

1+ y ago50:46

50:46

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Iván Chaar López (The University of Texas at Austin). Among different topics, they talk about what the scholarship on digital culture would consist of if we put Latinx studies at the center. This is episode seventy-five of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwester…

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74 - Lucía Magis-Weinberg and the power of interdisciplinarity 35:29

1+ y ago35:29

35:29

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Lucía Magis-Weinberg (University of Washington). Among different topics, they talk about the power of interdisciplinarity in communication studies. This is episode seventy-four of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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Josen Masangkay Diaz on Postcolonial Configurations 16:59

1+ y ago16:59

16:59

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews ethnic studies and women and gender studies professor Josen Masangkay Diaz about US–Philippine relations during the Cold War and how that history shapes Filipino America today. In their conversation, Josen and Cathy explore the role of race, nation, and gender during the Cold War, particularly how they were renegotia…

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73 - Paul Alonso and connecting scholarly, journalistic, and creative writing 50:16

2y ago50:16

50:16

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Paul Alonso (Georgia Institute of Technology). Among different topics, they talk about how different modes of writing integrate into the professional experience. This is episode seventy-three of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University.…

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Erin Durban on the Sexual Politics of Empire 25:37

2y ago25:37

25:37

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews anthropologist Erin Durban about the past and present relationship between the United States and Haiti as it shapes the lives of queer and trans Haitians. In their conversation, Erin and Cathy talk about the history of US occupation and imperialism in Haiti and how it shapes the work international LGBTQ organizations…

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72 - Isabel Pavez and challenging the centrality of urban settings in the field of communication 37:44

2y ago37:44

37:44

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Isabel Pavez (Universidad de los Andes, Chile). Among different topics, they talk about how the centrality of urban settings can be challenged in the field of communication and media studies. This is episode seventy-two of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwester…

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71 - Raquel Moreira and pushing the boundaries of transnational scholarship 36:40

2y ago36:40

36:40

Host Pablo Boczkowski interviews Prof. Raquel Moreira (Southwestern University). Among different topics, they talk about how the field of communication and media studies can push the boundaries toward more transnational scholarship. This is episode seventy-one of El Café Latinx, a podcast produced by the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwest…

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Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Anticolonial Solidarity Tourism 17:58

2y ago17:58

17:58

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist studies and ethnic studies professor Jennifer Lynn Kelly about her new book Invited to Witness. In their conversation, Cathy and Jennifer talk about the temporality and pace of doing ethnographic research for this book while also navigating state visa politics, job search demands, and family commitments can …

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