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In this episode, Professor and chair of the Communication Studies division at American University's School of Communication, Aram Sinnreich, and Jesse Gilbert, an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual art, sound and software design, join us to explore the presence of data in our life and the future of data. The conversation starts with personal experiences at rallies and the challenges of digital activism. The guests reflect on their long-standing collaboration, which began in high school and led to their recent book, The Secret Life of Data.Key themes include data privacy, the ethical implications of technology, and the influence of corporations on our digital lives.  We examine the limitations of AI, the psychological impact of surveillance, and the need for technology to reflect societal values. This episode offers concise insights on building a more equitable tech future.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Aram SinnreichJesse GilbertThe Algorithmic Mirror: Reflecting data's role in modern life“The Carrier Wave Principle” – International Journal of CommunicationHealth Care Reform Initiative · Clinton Digital LibraryGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Dexcom Continuous Glucose MonitoringFoucauldian discourse analysisJohn Henry (folklore)What Did Cambridge Analytica Do During The 2016 Election?Watch Black Mirror on Netflix; IMDbSteve MannThe Truman Show on IMDbDonna Haraway Archives - EERA Blog ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode, David Wollinsky, author of The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer Internet, and Sam Close, Assistant Professor at DePaul University College of Communication, join us to unpack systemic challenges in the video game industry. From gender and racial discrimination to toxic workplace culture, they highlight the need for moral courage, ethical decision-making, and structural changes to foster a more inclusive and equitable environment.The discussion revisits key moments like Gamergate, a flashpoint that exposed deep-seated harassment, and explores movements like the "girls game movement" that sought to empower women in gaming. Despite progress through women-led initiatives and increased awareness, the industry continues to grapple with significant barriers to inclusion and diversity.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations on Gamergate, the Aftermath, and the Quest for a Safer InternetGamergate - WikipediaGamergate | Summary, Facts, & Zoe Quinn | BritannicaWhat Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'Purple MoonWhat makes a AAA game a AAA game?Party Like It's 1995: The Rise and Fall of the Girl GameThe ‘Girl Games' of the '90s Were Fun and FeministThe Three Theories of Criminal JusticeConclave on IMDb, official trailerWatch the uncensored moment Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, drops F-bombMetacriticBooks Mentioned:Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. EvansFrom Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, edited by Justine Cassell and Henry JenkinsGames Mentioned:Hunt The WumpusPlay the original Super Mario Bros Game OnlineList of LucasArts gamesPlay Monkey Island Collection on SteamThe official home for The Legend of Zelda - HomeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official SiteSierra - King's Quest,Sierra - King's QuestPong GameHome of the Cyberpunk 2077 universe — games, anime & morebaldursgate3.gameDOOM EternalCandy CrushPlay Tetris | Free Online GameMaxis Studios – Official Electronic Arts SitesDiscover The Last of UsNever Alone ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode, professors Colin and Henry, along with T.L. Taylor, Director of the MIT Game Lab, explore the rise of game studies as an academic field. Taylor shares her journey from studying virtual worlds in the 90s to becoming an expert in live streaming and eSports, shedding light on gaming's cultural impact and academic challenges.They delve into the interactive relationship between game designers and players, examining how games reflect socio-technical systems. The conversation also touches on eSports, its growth into a major profession, and the influence of game developers and venture capital.The episode wraps up with a discussion on the broader concept of play, including theme parks and the desire for "re-enchantment" in everyday life, highlighting the intersection of games, play, and self-expression.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Games MentionedEverquestWorld of Warcraft I Love BeesThe BeastImportant Concepts in GamesMulti-User Dungeons (MUDs)Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs)MinmaxerT.L. Taylor publicationsWatch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live StreamingRaising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer GamingPlay Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game CultureGames Matter (Knight Foundation)Other Research MentionedPew research on gaming, 2017Nancy Baym and Jean Burgess, Twitter: A Biography (hashtags as a user-generated intervention)Alice Marwick (networked harassment)Eric von Hippel (innovation)Jane McGonigal, Why I Love Bees: A Case Study in Collective IntelligenceChris Weaver, ‘Elder Scrolls 6': How the Series Became a Hit With Elderly GamersJean BeaudrillardBruno BettelheimOther MentionsTwitchTwitch Top Streamers 2024GamergateWorld Cyber GamesUSC EsportsUC Irvine EsportsSherry Turkle, also see Episode 89: Sherry Turkle on Empathy and the Narratives That Shape Our Lives, and her book Life on the ScreenCory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; also check out our previous Episode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory DoctorowCheck out our previous Episode 92: Disney Theme Parks with Rebecca Williams and Lauren SowaThis Is What U.S. Presidents Would Look Like With Mullets, According to AI (Newsweek)  ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode, we chat with Charlie Jenkins, whose lifelong passion for wrestling sparked a remarkable journey into writing. He started writing fan fiction around the age of five, dictating stories for his father to type on the computer. In high school he became an active player and game master in e-wrestling, an online roleplaying game that allowed fans to write their own pro wrestling characters and storylines, and now Charlie has crafted a unique voice in wrestling literature. His novel American Wrestling 1989 fills a niche in wrestling-related fiction, weaving together the complex narratives of individuals in the industry and capturing the vibrant essence of 1980s wrestling beyond traditional sports stories.We explore the emergence of wrestling fiction as a genre, influenced by the mainstream success of wrestling personalities and Charlie's own experiences working with a small wrestling franchise. The conversation examines how American wrestling shapes cultural narratives and its global representation, alongside the transformative role of WWE and Vince McMahon in the industry's evolution. Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Charlie Jenkins' book: American Wrestling, 1989 buy on Amazon, AudibleClips featured in the episode:The UndertakerDusty RhodesSasha Banks & Bianca BelairZeb Colter and Jack Swagger address Glenn BeckWrestlers MentionedThe Undertaker and his instagramHulk HoganDwayne Johnson and his instagramJohn CenaDave BautistaRick FlairDusty RhodesYokozunaBret HartMick FoleyGorgeous GeorgeAnthony BowensSonya Deville Shayna Baszler Toni StormNyla RoseSonny KissBecky LynchJake HagerCreature From the Black Lagoon (movie)Pee-wee HermanWWF Superstars of WrestlingYoung Rock  (watch on NBC)Heels (watch on Netflix)GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling - watch on Netflix)Masters of the Universe (watch on Netflix)Cirque du SoleilThe WWE and AEWLucha VaVoom de La LizWayne CowanVince McMahonMcMahon FamilyRingmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, by Abraham Riesman ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the evolution of food television, from the early days of simple, instructional shows to today's diverse and dynamic culinary landscape. We'll explore how icons like Betty Crocker shaped early cooking programs, empowering women in the kitchen, and how trailblazers like Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, and Guy Fieri pushed boundaries—changing not just how we cook, but how we see race and gender in food media.We'll also journey into the origins of Iron Chef, its impact on Asian identity, and how it became a global cultural phenomenon. Plus, we'll reflect on the genre's transition to streaming, where shows like Chef's Table have brought a more artistic, inclusive approach to the culinary world. And as food competition shows shift from cutthroat to kind, what does the future hold for food media?Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Books by Tasha Oren: Food TV ; Global Asian American Popular CulturesJoyce ChenEddie WangDavid Chang The Evolution of Television FormatsMasterChef Junior: Watch on HuluProject Runway: Watch on Netflix, IMDbSurvivor: Watch on CBSJulia ChildJulia Child's The French Chef by Dana PolanThe French Chef with Julia ChildSmithsonian Air and Space Museum ; Julia Child clipEmeril Lagasse ; Emeril Live clipIron Chef ; Netflix TrailerWall Street (1987 film)Hillary Clinton and the Return of the (Unbaked) Cookies - New York TimesHillary Clinton explains "Bake cookies" remark April 1992 - DailymotionBetty Crocker - history; Betty Crocker on the radioGuy Fieri Food Network Curtis Aiken Mind of a Chef: Watch on Youtube, IMDbChef's Table trailer; Watch on Netflix, IMDbJeff Yang's new book, The Golden ScreenWilliam Shatner Hell's Kitchen: Watch on FOX, IMDbGordon Ramsay on Hot OnesBaking Impossible trailerThe Great British Bake OffBong Appetit: Trailer; Watch on Youtube, IDMbVanessa Lavorato & Miguel Trinidad (Bong Appetit) - The SmokeboxCooking with CannabisBake Squad trailerThe Bear trailer: Watch on Hulu, IMDbSimply Sara (YouTube)Check out our previous Episode 61: Broken Bread with Chef Roy Choi and KCET's Juan Devis ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

In this episode, we dive into the fascinating journey of Barry, a visionary who started as an aspiring theme park ride designer and evolved into a groundbreaking toy creator and educator. We explore how divergent and convergent thinking shape creativity, and how toys serve as more than just playthings – they're tools for limitless imagination. From Lego's transformation to society's expectations on toy use, we challenge the restrictions imposed on children's creative freedom. Discover how kids naturally hybridize toys like Barbies and action figures, and why the industry's focus on specialization might be stifling their innovation. We also examine the role of franchising in shaping toy creativity, and dive into the often-overlooked world of industrial design, pondering how media could elevate its visibility. And yes, we even touch on poop technology! Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:x.com/kudrowitzdesign.umn.edu/directory/barry-m-kudrowitzSparking Creativity: How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and DesignMIT East Campus: Building Tradition with an East Campus Roller CoasterDavid Robert WallaceNerf Super SoakerComparative Media Studies Degree Programs MITIncongruity theory of humorJake The Dog Adventure Time Handmade Plush Toys (12 inches)The Lego MovieHarry Potter™ Toys and Gifts | Official LEGO® Shop USRocket RacoonTinkererBurn NoticeSherlock Holmes (2009 film)Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking: Finding Balance [2024] • AsanaTorrance Tests of Creative ThinkingPretend Play Toys and Play SetsHome | Official LEGO® Shop USThe LEGO Movie (theme)Toy Story | Official Disney SiteWeird Barbie – Barbie The MovieSoakiesThe 'Unitasker' Kitchen Gadgets Alton Brown Loves To LoatheWill It Waffle?Top 20 toysWhat is Incremental Innovation?FurbyTamagotchiMrBeast Lab CollectionFlamin' HotAirTetrisPlay Tetris | Free Online GameBlackBerryProject RunwayRuPaul's Drag RaceRuPaul's Drag Race (@rupaulsdragrace) • Instagram photos and videosJunkyard WarsScattergoriesThe History of Poop Is Really the History of TechnologyHow your poop can help train AI Erik EriksonErikson's Stages of DevelopmentSquatty PottyToilets of the World - Harvard Book StorePooping Rainbow Soft Serve Unicornsquattypotty.com/products/dookie-plush-unicorn?srsltid=AfmBO…DQkqDude WipesThis Shark Tank winner has a $1 billion plan to replace toilet paperShark Tank Success: Dude Wipes Flush The CompetitionTUSHY - The Modern & Sustainable Bidet CompanyThe best bidets of 2024, tested by editors | CNN UnderscoredPRISTINE Toilet Paper Spray: As Seen on Shark Tank, the More Natural Alternative to Flushable Wet Wipes & Personal Cleansing Wipes, Spray Toilet Paper to Create Flushable Wipe, Original 4ozToilet Paper Sprays | Biodegradable Flushable Wipes | Pristine SpraysWatch The Great American Baking Show (2023) Online for Free | The Roku Channel | RokuThe Great American Baking Show (@thegreatamericanbakingshow) • Instagram photos and videosGreat British Bake Off - HomepageWatch The Great British Bake OffCheck out our previous episode with Jackson BirdTransmission podcast 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Libraryhttps://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 use of science fiction by indigenous peoples around the world. Similar to the concept of Afrofuturism, Dillon is best known for coining the term Indigenous Futurisms, which is a movement consisting of art, literature and other forms of media which express Indigenous perspectives of the past, present and future in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres. Dillon is the editor of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, which is the first anthology of Indigenous science fiction short stories, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2012. Previously, Dillon has edited Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest, which was published in 2003 by Oregon State University Press. This is an anthology of science fiction from writers living in the Pacific Northwest, and features works from authors such as Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, and Molly Gloss. She also coedited The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms with Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. Here, we discuss with Grace her origins into science fiction and the mentorships she received from the distinguished feminist science fiction writer, Ursula K. LaGuin. We define the concept of Indigenous Futurisms and its origins, taking time to understand the representation of the future and of tradition and what indigenous scientists have taught us about environmental sustainability. She also discusses the genre in other media, including film, television, and graphic novels, all of which are experiencing the growth of native contributions in recent years.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:In the article that inspired the episode, friend of the podcast Jeff Yang wrote about indigenous responses to James Cameron's Avatar:Opinion: The awkward truth about the new ‘Avatar' is far bigger than its bottom line | CNNGrace Dillon BooksWalking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigeneous Science FictionThe Routledge Handbook on Co-FuturismsHer Mentor:Ursula K. LaGuinThe DispossessedFuturisms and other Science Fiction Subgenres:Indigenous FuturismsAfrofuturismAfrican FuturismsGulf FuturismsIsraeli FuturismsAsian FuturismLatinx FuturismNative Time SlipsAlternate HistoriesSplatterpunkSlipstreamRoots of Afrofuturism:Mark Dery; Flame WarsSamuel R. DelaneyTricia RoseAlondra NelsonNnedi OkoraforIndigenous cultures and policies:UNDRIPTwo SpiritLost generationsMi'kmaq LanguageCrystal Echo HawkNative Science and Scientists:Gregory CajeteHigh context vs low context scienceRobin Wall Kimmerer; Braiding SweetgrassGlobal WeirdnessSpiral to the StarsKyle WhyteIndigenous MobilitiesAnthropoceneLiterary Works (including Graphic Novels):Moon of the Crusted SnowLouise Erdich; Future Home of the Living GodClaire G. Colman; Terra NulliusSherman AlexieMoonshot: The Indigenous Comics CollectionFilm and Television:Reservation DogsMolly of DenaliTaika WaititiNight RaidersJeff BarnabyFile Under MiscellaneousResident Alien;  “Radio Harry”Helen Haig BrownThe CaveWayne Blair; ClevermanAlien races on Star TrekRichard DreyfussFurther Resources suggested by Grace Dillon:Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire by Gregory Cajete (2015)Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (2020)Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez (2022)We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (2017)Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities by Michaela Stith (2021)Daniel H. Wilson – Robopocalypse; RobogenesisRebecca RoanhorseAntlers – Directed by Scott Cooper (2021)Check out these previous episodes:Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkEpisode 83: Indigenous Voices for Environmental Justice with Candis Callison & Julian Brave NoiseCat ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 practice as an educator, we go on to talk about how comedy can allow us to approach territory where we feel uncomfortable and provide a forum to share the diversity of our lived experiences. Drawing on Caty's experiences working with comedy writers and comedians, we explore what's necessary to create comedy that engages audiences around societal issues and helps move social change. Of course, we couldn't resist sampling some of Caty's favorite clips along the way, which are linked below.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Caty Borum - Center for Media and Social ImpactThe Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power (2023, NYU Press)Author Caty Borum discusses how comedy will fuel the future of social change (WAMU)A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice (2020, Univ of California Press)Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change (2020, Oxford University Press)Yes, And...Laughter LabSome of the videos we talked about:Inside Amy Schumer - Season 4, Episode 3: "Guy-gles"Georgia Tech - Freshman Convocation - Epic Welcome SpeechLife's a F***ing Fantasy for Santos - A Randy Rainbow ParodyYou're Welcome America: Episode 3 Mental HealthAin't Your Mama's Heat Wave | Official Trailer | Think 100% FILMSThe Hammer - Comedian Corey ForresterThe Marvelous Mrs. MaiselReservation DogsAlso, see the ongoing list of Guest Hosts for The Daily Show (and watch episodes) HEREAnd check out our previous episodes:Taking risks: Comedy as Tool for Social Justice, with Caty BorumPlay as a Precursor to Participation, with Reanne Estrada and Benjamin Stokes ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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, she studies  the social, cultural, and health implications of communication technologies, with a focus on disability, digital media, and children and families' technology use. Her books include Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT Press, 2014) and Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017), which was awarded a 2018 PROSE Award Honorable Mention from the Association of American Publishers and the 2018 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award from the American Sociological Association. Her latest book, Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023), explores the media and technology practices of young people on the autism spectrum, as well as what it means to be “social” in a socially mediated world.She also drew on her professional experience in educational children's media as a researcher, strategist, and consultant with Sesame Workshop, PBS KIDS, Nickelodeon, and Disney. In this conversation, we explore basic concepts such as “spectrum” and “neurodiversity” and what they mean for parents living with autistic children. We learn more about the methodologies she uses to learn more about families living with autism and how she incorporates the perspective of the children themselves in her research. We consider the role of schools and parents in helping to create a world where such students thrive. Above all, we dig deeper into their relationship with media, ranging from the ways media creates sensory experiences to the importance of games, from adaptive technology to fandom. We also consider how autistic people get represented across a range of media properties. And we close with the issue of what she would change about the world if she had magic powers.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Meryl AlperMeryl Alper  interviewed on Imagine Otherwise podcast Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital AgeGiving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and InequalityDigital Youth with Disabilities T is for TransmediaDebates about spectrum NeurodiversityFandom and NeurodiversityIndividuals with Disabilities Education ActOther ResearchersBruno BettelheimSue Fletcher-Watson Steve Silverman – Neurotribes Kathryn Ringland Marshall McLuhan Media MentionedAutcraftRoblox Big Bang TheoryCommunityAtypicalThe Good DoctorRain ManSia – MusicHeartbreak High – Chloe Hadden“Loop”The Good FightExtraordinary Attorney WooWonderWarrior CatsPBS KidsHero Elementary ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity. The website includes around 700 pieces of media and wraparound pedagogical resources that focus on seeing across difference, in order to surface questions that can then be addressed in the open. It can be used independently, and is also aligned with the Common Core for use in schools. Throughout this episode we'll listen to media examples with Alison & DJ to discuss how CMP works and how it can be used.Alison and DJ begin by telling us about their own media backgrounds, and how they reconcile their own positionality in these issues of identity when teaching and bring that conversation into the classroom, so it can become a shared space of engagement for all. After digging into some of the areas of identity currently tackled by CMP, we discuss how students and educators have engaged with it, both by using the resources as well as creating their own media, and through their latest curricular project, the fully-online Critical Makers Lab.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Alison TropeDJ JohnsonCritical Media ProjectCritical Makers LabCMP DIY Activities:I am, but I'm not...Making ChangeMapping My World + CommunityIdentity CollageApplying the Common Core - Critical Media ProjectAlison & DJ's childhood TV favorites:Wonder Woman (TV Series 1975–1979) - IMDbCharlie's Angels (TV Series 1976–1981) - IMDbCHiPs (TV Series 1977–1983) - IMDbBattle of the Planets (TV Series 1978–1980) - IMDbVideos we watched and discussed, as they appear with discussion questions on the CMP site:Zootopia - Press Conference SceneChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED TalkRise (dinner table)I'm Trans, But I'm NotShips at a DistanceAlso mentioned:educator, author, and media literacy advocate Renee HobbsW.E.B Du Bois's 1890s infographics 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 Internet and Hip-Hop and the Metaverse on PBS. Reflecting on his roots and early influences, he takes us through his journey from New Jersey to China to academia, having produced both books and multimedia along the way.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Robeson Taj FrazierIDEA: Institute for Diversity & Empowerment @ AnnenbergBooks:The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical ImaginationKAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben CaldwellFilm/TV:IT'S YOURS documentaryHip-Hop and the Metaverse | PBSEarly influences:Mr T. as B.A. Baracus on the A-TeamGI JoeJemAugust Wilson's The Piano Lesson with Charles S. DuttonWatermelon ManAmerican Culture in China (1990s):Mariah Carey / YanniW.E.B. DuBoisPaul RobesonDiscmanDarlie toothpasteMarguerite de BourgoingThe Misadventures of AWKWARD Black Girl (Issa Rae)Tricia RoseLupe FiascoRobloxBen Caldwell / KAOS Network:Project Blowed, a workshop space utilized by:The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship, Doja Cat, Kendrick LamarLeimert Phone Company projectMIT Radiation Laboratory history / videoWelcome to MetaSecond LifeShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 his identity has faded away and why, as well as how he feels about his memoir four years later and what he's working on now.Here are some of the references from this episode for those who want to dig a little deeper:Jackson BirdSorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) (Simon & Schuster)Jackson Bird - YouTubeCool Stuff Ride Home podcastFirst Draft Theater newsletterThe Infinite Wrench — The New York Neo-FuturistsHenry's writing about the Harry Potter Alliance:"Cultural acupuncture": Fan activism and the Harry Potter AllianceWizard RockFandom Forward > (formerly The Harry Potter Alliance)Jackson Bird: ‘Harry Potter' Helped Me Come Out as Trans, But J.K. Rowling Disappointed Me (NY Times Opinion)The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcastJudy Blume clarifies J.K. Rowling remarks: ‘I wholly support the trans community' (The Hill)Michigan Womyn's Music FestivalFlorida Anti-Trans LegislationRick Riordan on Trans Youth and LGBTQ CharactersHarry Potter TV SeriesFan Petition Against “platforming” Rowling‘Grapevine': An original podcast from NBC News Studios - a story about fringe religious movements trying to remake the American education system based on their biblical valuesVelshi Banned Book Club on Apple PodcastsPottermore Moving Trans History Forward ConferenceAmazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices - The New York TimesEpisode 101: BBSs and Early Internet Communities with Author Kevin DriscollEpisode  69: The Power of Fan Activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn TaylorBy Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (NYU Press)Scholastic criticized for optional diverse book section - ABC NewsScholastic Backtracks on Isolating Works on Race and Gender at Book Fair - The New York TimesShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin, and the How Do You Like It So Far? team! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music & Additional Audio:HBO Harry Potter Series announcement videoThe Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcastShania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 silent cinema and the global landscape of festivals, supporters and restoration projects, as well as her own journey of scholarship in the field that led to her collaborating on this important project. All this interest seems long overdue considering the fantastically experimental and entertaining material, which is raucous, varied and vast, often making radical social commentary that still resonates today. Maggie vividly describes several highlights in this comprehensive collection, and the women who were behind and in front of the camera. In addition to assembling, restoring and annotating the films, the team also engaged over 45 mostly female composers to write and perform both traditional and avant-garde scores for each film, and she talks extensively about that process. We also discuss the erasure of this material from the silent film canon, and women from comedy (among many other fields) in general, and how these films both give us a new understanding of comedy in this era, even as they inform our on-going struggles with sexism and racism today, by showing us images of women that are simultaneously empowering and troubling. All films are contextualized with expert commentary, allowing them to be used in classrooms or otherwise as jumping-off points for deeper conversation. Finally, Maggie shares some thoughts from the book she's currently working on about the notion of “hysterical laughter” and its supposed danger to women.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Cinema's First Nasty WomenDVD Booklet InsertMaggie Hennefeld's other publications:Death from Laughter, Female Hysteria and Early CinemaSpecters of Slapstick and Silent Film ComediennesOther Curators of the set:Laura Horak – Girls Will Be BoysElif Rongen-Kaynakçi – EYE filmmuseumHenry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville AestheticCharlotte GreenwoodFanny BriceLupe VélezWinnie LightnerAli WongSarah SilvermanWanda SykesJames Agee – “Comedy's Greatest Era”Charlie Chaplin in Mable's Strange PredicamentSilent Film CultureWomen and the Silent ScreenNitratevilleSilent LondonEdward Everett HortonSteve Massa and Ben Model – silent comedy Watch PartySilent Film FestivalsPordenone Film FestivalBologna Film FestivalSan Francisco Silent Film FestivalEl Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México Hippodrome film festivalTrump – “Nasty Women”Film ScholarsArigon StarrLiza BlackShelley Stamp Female Filmmakers, Producers, and ComediansAlice Guy-BlachéBertha RegustusDorothy ArznerFay TincherIda LupinoLéontineLois WeberMabel NormandMinnie Devereaux – “Fatty and Minnie He-Haw”Sarah DuhamelTexas GuinanSilent Film MusicDana Reason – ScoreDreamland FacesGonca Feride VarolGuenter BuchwaldJosé María Serralde RuizMeg MorleyNeil BrandSteven HorneTerri Lyne CarringtonNasty Women team on Nitrateville RadioOur previous Episode 30: The forgotten women of early filmmakingHistory of the Tom BoyNancy WalkerPeg Bracken – The I Hate to Housekeep Book / I Hate to Cook BookDaisiesThe UnknownArrest Warrant – Ukranian silent cinemaWhat's Up Doc?Undercrank Productions (silent film restoration)Online screenings from the Bologna and Pordenone film festivalsZiegfeld FolliesHal Roach StudiosShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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Bonus content not released as part of Episode 108 - hear the original episode here: https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/?p=1307 

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-nominated project, The Fablemans, and recounts numerous other experiences on some of the most memorable movies over the past 40 years, as he elaborates on his approach to the role of the Production Designer, and how his understanding of cinema as an art form has evolved over the years.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Rick Carter's exhibit at El Segundo's ESMoASome of the projects Rick has worked on:The Fabelmans (2022)Amazing Stories (TV Series 1985–1987)Back to the Future (1985), Part II (1989), Part III (1990)Forrest Gump (1994)Avatar (2009)Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)complete IMDB creditsOther movies and moviemakers mentioned:Steven SpielbergRobert ZemeckisJames CameronJ.J. AbramsLeni RiefenstahlJohn FordBlow-Up (1966)The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)Mogambo (1953)The Wizard of Oz (1939)The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)Gunga Din (1939)The Thief of Bagdad (1940)McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)Rio Bravo (1959)Minority Report (2002)Charlie Chaplin's “The Tramp” characterThe Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964For more on world-building check out these episodes:Episode 11: Alex McDowell on world-building, production design, and Ready Player OneEpisode 12: Ann Pendleton-Jullian on world-building, architecture, and wicked problemsShare 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:John Williams - The Fabelmans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)The Wizard of Oz: Complete Soundtrack by Harold Arlen and E.Y. HarburgJohn Williams ~ Amazing Stories“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 amateur artists, these platforms have spawned not just viral sensations, but also new fandoms, new genres, and new paths to composition, technical mastery, and community. Where use of commercial music on these platforms was initially a concern for the industry, it has now become a metric used by the industry to gauge success. Join us for a deep dive into music on these platforms as we consider, what is the real goal behind this content creation – an specific artistic product, or the surrounding process and engagement? You may find yourself a new playlist!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Articles by Alexandria Arrieta:‘This audio has potential': Platform Lip-sync on TikTok (Journal of Popular Music Studies)Splice and the platformization of hip hop production: Navigating the online music platform for royalty-free samples (Journal Global Hip Hop Studies)Christopher Cayari's YouTube Documentaries of his researchLil Nas X “Old Town Road” sparked conversations about racial gatekeeping in country music, as well as viralityTikTok creators fundStacey Ryan open verse challenge Please Don't Text Me When You're DrunkDavid Wesley Virtual ChoirYochai Benkler - Intellectual PropertyMusical.ly (precursor to TikTok)Intense labor required to be successful on these platform - artists' complaints about being pushed to create “viral” TikTok content by their labelsLensa AI art app, copyright ethics questionsHistory of NapsterRob Drew - Karaoke NightsFor more on collaborative co-creation, check out Episode 107: Co-Created Media and Collective Wisdom with Kat Cizek and William UricchioShare 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:Ally Arrieta, Fairweather FriendLil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, Old Town RoadStacey Ryan, Please Don't Text Me When You're DrunkDavid Wesley Virtual Choir, Nothing But the Blood“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 of its cross-media study: remarkable community and applying humanity to work. Then we talk about the diversity of co-creation, and our guests' definitions of some key terms, including the difference between co-creation and collaboration. Looking at the deep roots of these practices from long before the modern notion of single-authorship, Kat & William's book lifts up alternatives for dealing with today's “wicked problems.” It also dispels the concept of a fixed narrative for an open one, making way for participatory culture. Through examples like MIT Co-Creation Studio's Worlding initiative, AI, and Art/Science experimentation, we talk about decentralized decision-making, the ownership/authorship of co-creation, and re-think existing models of co-creation between arts and science. Finally, our guests are careful not to present co-creation as a panacea, and that accompanying strategies are necessary to make it productive.Katerina Cizek is an Emmy-winning documentary director working across many media platforms: digital media, broadcasting (radio and television), print, and live presentations/installations. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution and has itself become part of the movement. As a filmmaker-in-residence, she has helped redefine the National Film Board of Canada as one of the world's leading digital content hubs for a community-based and globally recognized documentary.William Uricchio revisits the histories of old media when they were new; explores interactive and participatory documentary; writes about the past and future of television; thinks about algorithms and archives; and researches narrative in immersive and interactive settings. He is Professor of Comparative Media Studies, founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He was also Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has held visiting professorships at the Freie Universität Berlin, Stockholm University, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg), China University of Science and Technology, and in Denmark where he was DREAM professor. He has received Guggenheim, Humboldt, and Fulbright fellowships, the Berlin Prize, and the Mercator Prize. His publications include Reframing Culture; We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens; Media Cultures; Many More Lives of the Batman; Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media Within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms, and hundreds of essays and book chapters, including a visual "white paper" on the documentary impulse (momentsofinnovation.mit.edu). He is currently leading a two-year research initiative on augmentation and public spaces with partners in Montreal and Amsterdam.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Collective WisdomNational Film Board of Canada - HighriseGeorge StoneyColin mentioned “Bear 42,” but meant Bear 71 (and apologizes for failing memory). Here's a short article on that film and the newer VR version of the original screen-based film.Henry on Archive of Our OwnJ.R.R. Tolkien on SubcreationWaves of Buffalo and other MIT Co-Creation Studio Worlding projectsISeeChange collective climate change studyStephanie Dinkins, AI artistGina Czarnicki Artwork - HeirloomGoogle Smart City Experiment in TorontoGoncharov: The Fake Martin Scorsese Film the Internet Brought to LifeCheck out our previous episode with Mike MonelloShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 show how terms can be conflated and the consequences that result. Our guests talk about their recent research focuses: Sulafa has been looking at multilingual memes in the global south for an upcoming book, and Whitney's early work on subcultures has led her to study mainstream political discourse. This leads to a rich discussion about current political discourse over new media platforms in the US and across the globe. Finally, Whitney and Sulafa each offer their strategies for media literacy in this interconnected media ecosystem. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Whitney PhillipsYou Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media LandscapeThe Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism OnlineThis Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream CultureSulafa Zidanichapter in: Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A CasebookHow to Conduct Internet Meme ResearchGlobal Meme Elites: How Meme Creators Navigate Transnational Politics on the Multilingual Internet (forthcoming)Global Meme ProjectThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsROFLConShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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/

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 transformative media pedagogies and their mutual and crucial experiences at the Salzburg Academy which inspired them to write the book. Last but not least, we specifically talked about three sections in the book: care, imagination, and agency, and their importance for transformative media pedagogies, commenting on how to build those transformative experiences into teachers' specific teaching contexts.Paul Mihailidis's research explores the nexus of media literacies, community activism and engagement in civic life. He is the Founding Graduate Program Director of the newly launched MA in Civic Media: Art and Practice, a 12-month applied masters program that pairs students with organizational partners to solve problems at scale, and Faculty Chair and Director of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, a program that annually gathers scholars and students from around the world to investigate media and global citizenship. His most recent books, Civic Media Literacies (Routledge), Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (w/ Eric Gordon, MIT Press) and Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen: Youth, Engagement and Participation in Digital Culture (Peter Lang) explore the ways in which citizens use media to meaningful participate in civic life in the digital age.  Sangita Shresthova is a writer, thinker, speaker, researcher, and doer.  She is an expert in online learning, media literacies, popular culture, cross-cultural performance, digital media, and civic engagement. Megan Fromm is an affiliated faculty member in Emerson College and got her PhD in the University of Maryland. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Transformative Media PedagogiesMax ReinhardtMargaret Mead on Original Salzburg Academy on American CivilizationSpreadable Spectacle in Digital Culture: Civic Expression, Fake News, and the Role of Media Literacies in “Post-Fact” SocietySalzburg Academy on Media & Global ChangeStudent Press Law CenterPaolo Freire: Pedagogy of the OppressedShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Kevin talks about what was happening in the 80s in France with Minitel

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 profound influence on Turkish society and on the Turkish people. We begin discussing how he became so popular with such a wide audience, then Beyza and Jeff talk about their own experiences with Zeki Müren, and what led them to create the interactive documentary Zeki Müren Hotline. After that, we compare the pop culture background while Zeki was performing with the current Turkish pop culture environment, and also discuss how Zeki kept the balance of pushing boundaries and also being conservative, how he used some survival behaviors, and what made him a national hero. Finally, our guests Beyza and Jeff share some stories from the Zeki Müren Hotline. Beyza Boyacıoğlu is an award-winning documentarian and film editor from Istanbul, currently based in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, IDFA, Anthology Film Archives, RIDM, MoMA PS1, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Venice Biennial, Creative Time Summit, Barbican Centre, UnionDocs, Maysles Cinema, Morelia International Film Festival, !f Istanbul and many others.She created the interactive documentary Zeki Müren Hotline at the MIT Open Documentary Lab with Jeff Soyk.Jeff Soyk is an award-winning media artist with experience in storytelling, direction, UX design, UI design, front-end development, animation, and film/video. His credits include co-director and UI & UX designer on Zeki Müren Hotline (2022 Webby Award Honoree: NetArt, 2017 !f Istanbul exhibit, 2017 RIDM exhibit, 2016 IDFA DocLab nominee), co-creative director and UI & UX designer on PBS Frontline's Inheritance (2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award winner, 2016 Peabody-Facebook Award winner), and art director, UI/UX designer and architect on Hollow (2014 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee, 2013 Peabody Award winner).A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Zeki Müren HotlineZeki Müren Hotline Kickstarter (w/ background info)The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular MusicTurkey as Major Television Exporter"Letter of Sorrow"MIT Open Documentary LabShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 people pose with computers and TV sets. From there, she went on a journey of scouring thrift stores, vintage shops, and Ebay for more examples of these home photos of people posing with their televisions. According to her, these photos are not just evidence of conspicuous consumption but rather a myriad of other things: a backdrop of self-presentation, an erotic stage, a portal object, etc. These snapshots combine the snapshot camera and the television, two dominant technologies of middle and working class life during the mid-twentieth century, and expose a new counterhistory or countermemory of television that is more diverse and inclusive than we are used to seeing. To view these photos or upload your own examples, visit Lynn's website, tvalbum.com. Selected photos are also available on this episode's webpage.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!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 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 children-parent relationship and bond the family together. We then discuss the relationship between screen time and young people's mental health, pointing out that the problem lies somewhere else instead of timing itself and we should consider other contexts like personal life when it comes to young people's mental health. Also, regarding issues like “policing” and children's rights, the key is the balance, and how parents use technology to create a wholesome societal environment are discussed. Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communication at London School of Economics and Political Science. Much of Sonia's research focuses on children's rights in the digital age. Sonia has published 20 books on media audiences, especially on children and young people's risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age  (New York University Press, with Julian Sefton-Green) (view here). Her new book is Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives (Oxford University Press), with Alicia Blum-Ross (view here). Lynn Schofield Clark is a media critic and researcher focused on media studies and film studies. She is a prize-winning author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news. The book received the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the 2018 James Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research  Clark's book regarding parenting in the digital age is titled The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2012). Clark's main contributions are in the areas of family media studies, media rich youth participatory action research and the mediatization (media) of world religions.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Parenting in the Age of ScreenParental mediation theory for the digital ageThe parent app: Understanding families in the digital ageYoung People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media EnvironmentGradations in digital inclusion: Children, young people and the digital divideShare 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 (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 grassroots perspective, offering up true stories and examples of how everyday people developed communities online. He outlines how BBSs, from the late 1970s to the 1980s, develop from a space for computer club members to share information to a place where marginalized groups, for example gay men, could gather online. Using BBS lists that were either regional or interest-oriented, Driscoll has been able to uncover the various communities and practices of early online interactions that laid the groundwork for contemporary online social groups and platforms.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Kevin Driscoll BioBook, The Modem WorldFred Turner's Research on The WellHoward Rheingold's Research on The WellByte Magazine Vol. 3 number 11 featuring Christensen and Suess Article on CBBSsKristen Haring's Work on Postwar Ham Radio CultureSusan Douglas' Work on Ham Radio CultureCharlton McIlwain's Work on AfroNetRelevant Background Information: WIRED Article on The WellMinitelQuartz Article on Stacy Horne and EchoMIT  Project Athena Internet as Third SpaceSherry Turkle Amy BruckmanCheck out our previous episodes with Howard Rheingold and Sherry TurkleShare 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 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q

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 colonialist rhetoric when spaces are improperly curated. Museums can not only present history through materials, but also have the power to represent the present materials. We then discuss how museums can be spaces of change through seeing not only more presentation of anti-colonial materials, but also seeing those materials represented through an anti-colonial gaze. The guests stress the importance of having more African American curators in order to not only tell the history of a people, but of the community as well.Jacqueline Stewart is film scholar, archivist, curator and a Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, Director of Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago. She is also the Chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She also serves as an appointee to the National Film Preservation Board and hosts Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.Stewart is also the author of Migrating to the Movies Cinema and Black Urban Modernity and William Greaves Filmaking as Mission, and is an editor of L.A. Rebellion Creating a New Black Cinema.Tyree Boyd-Pates is a historian, speaker,  and museum curator at the Autry Museum of the American West as the Associate Curator of Western History. He previously held the position of History Curator and Public Program Manager at the California African American Museum. He began his career as a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. He has curated shows for notable institutions such as the Smithsonian, the LA Philharmonic, The Getty, and more. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:“Where Are the Jews?”Black Films at TCMBlack Cinema at the Academy Museum“Oscars So White”Iris BarryLewis JacobOscar MicheauxAnna May Wong ; Academy Series Academy Museum PodcastMaking  film history more inclusiveRacism in AnimationGene AutryCommunity CurationShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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. Starting with a clear and holistic definition of IP as being a story world with multiple points of entry for an audience, Diana sees this as a way to honor rich content by developing the ABC's – Audience, Business, Creative – in tandem with specific media formats, thus building authentic engagement with the audience from the start, rather than marketing to them after a product is developed. We look at how entertainment revenue models have changed with streaming, and how business is struggling to change to fit that reality. Talking through one of her current projects, a PC game called Political Arena developed with pundit Eliot Nelson, we get a closer look at some of the strategies that guide this venture, and also the changing role of entertainment as a source of education. Without having the primary goal to educate, entertainment increasingly, if unwittingly, fills that gap, but does that make it a responsibility? While audience demand may still be dragging the legacy entertainment industry kicking and screaming toward changes in representation, that is the tide, and Diana is betting that building entertainment around audience truth is the way to develop solid and loyal fan relationships that will in turn feed into better content.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Diana's company, Kinetic Energy EntertainmentMore about the Peabody Interactive BoardAnd the inaugural Winners for Digital and Interactive Storytelling, which were announced on 3/24/2022Some of the press coverage of Political Arena game:Washington PostNPRWashingtonianMarketWatchMicThe Times UKCheddarSteam page, including the "attack ad" trailer for the gamePolitical Arena creator and HuffPost columnist Eliot Nelson (book, The Beltway Bible)Science and Entertainment ExchangeControversy over whether to recast T'Challa (Black Panther) in the MCUFor more on games-based learning, see:Kurt SquireJames Paul GeeZoe CorwinKatie Salen TakinbasFor more about building out story worlds, check out our previous episodes with Nonny de La Peña, Alex McDowell, and Ann Pendleton-JulianWe've also done several episodes about Transmedia StorytellingFor more on games-based learning, listen to our episode with Kurt Squire and Katie Salen Tekinbas.… and for more discussion of Fast & Furious fandom, check out our previous episode with Sue Ding!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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 in the Underground Comics movement, which led to the elevation of the graphic novel. Then we move on to looking at why the book has been banned by the McMinn County, TN education board and situating those reasons within a larger context, including issues of otherizing Jewish histories and complicated parent/child relationships. She also uses examples from Maus to explain the power of comics as a teaching tool, and a way of processing trauma.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Our previous episode on the broader context of recent comics censorship, with critic Jeet Heer & Jeff Trexler of the CBLDFMausMetaMausOriginal publication of Maus in 1972 Funny Aminals anthologyBinky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (Justin Green, who passed away just before we released this episode)History of Raw magazine, Art Spiegelman & Françoise MoulyZap Comix, Robert CrumbMcMinn, TN Education board censorship of MausOther Holocaust narratives taught in schools (and banned):Night and Fog (1956 film)Banning Anne Frank – A Case of CensorshipSpiegelman and Sendak Collab Strip about kids reading MausSpiegelman's Support for Children Comics:Toon Books ImprintLittle Lit anthology seriesGender Queer, Maia KobabeHillary's forthcoming book of essays about Maus, Maus NowOur previous episode with comics theorist Scott McCloudHillary's recommendation: Joe SaccoOur previous episode with Carol Tyler & Mimi Pond and the emergence of female-centered underground comicsIn the Shadow of No Towers (Henry's own writing on No Towers can be found here)Reprinting classic comics – Sunday Press Fantagraphics(NSFW or kids!) Wally Wood's “Disneyland Memorial Orgy”Will EisnerClassics Illustrated comicsLibrarians and ComicsShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 reasoning of censorship, policing, gatekeeping of comics – from early newspaper strips, to the first magazine books sold to kids in drug stores, the Senate investigation and self-censorship code of the 50s, and on to the Underground comics movement for adults and the independent comics of the 80s. Recently, we've seen the same concerns arise anew as equal protection laws have brought things that were once considered private into the public sphere, and the pandemic brought the classroom and its educational use of graphic novels into the home. We point out the changes that have led teachers and librarians to “switch sides” in this argument and become proponents of comics as literature, and talk about the role comics can play in engaging readers of all ages, as well as helping to express the full diversity of American culture. We end with some thoughts about how individuals can respond to the challenges comics are once again coming under and support their role in this dialogue.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Jeet Heer, columns in The Nation, The New Republicbooks: Arguing Comics, A Comic Studies Reader, The Superhero Reader, In Love with ArtJeff Trexler, Interim Director, Comic Book Legal Defense FundMcMinn, TN Education board censorship of Maus; Jeet's writing immediately afterLeander, TX school district banning of graphic novel versions of The Handmaid's Tale & The LotteryEarly newspaper comics: Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt & JeffComics for older youth:Duck Comics, Carl BarksCrime Does Not Pay, Charles BiroEC Horror comics, William GainesFor more about the history of horror comics, see Episode 74: Horror, Social Change, andExperimentation with Michael Monello and Qiana WhittedFrederic Wertham and Moral Panic around Horror and Crime ComicsFrederick Wertham speechThe Comics CodeUnderground Comics and the origins of the CBLDF:Friendly Franks comics shopDennis Kitchen, comics publisherZap Comix, Robert CrumbRaw, Art Spiegelman & Françoise MoulyFilm, Comic Book ConfidentialIndependent comics of the 80s aimed at adults:WatchmenThe Dark KnightThe new wave of graphic novels aimed at youth again:Bone, Jeff SmithTOON Books, Françoise MoulyMangaBooks By Raina TelgemeierOther critically-acclaimed yet controversial graphic novels:Gender Queer, Maia KobabePersepolis, Marjane SatrapiFun Home, Alison BechdelEarly proponent of comics for children Josette FrankAnd today: Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table of the American Library AssociationHenry's book Comics and StuffShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 teaching middle-school age black girls how to write science fiction. Her now published dissertation combines the stories written by those girls with theory and methodology to outline how Stephanie centers Black girls in her academic research. In this conversation they discuss how Stephanie's leading style during the workshop was informed by the girls' own interests and their storytelling instincts rather than the typical teacher-student model. As a group they engaged with afrofuturist stories from Black authors like Octavia Butler, Sherri L. Smith, Tracie Baptiste, and Nnedi Okorafor and used those stories to inform their own work. In detailing her own process, she explores with the hosts how academia should encourage storytelling, especially for scholars of color, rather than enforcing that they write in a more standard voice and tone. As a professor she encourages educators to use young adult literature to bridge the gap between learning and storytelling and more information about that can be found on her blog readingblackfutures.com. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Documentary on the DEEP Center's Block by Block Program: Block by Block's Guide to Resilience 21-22USC Annenberg's Civic Media FellowshipHenry's Civic Imagination ProjectOn Spiritual Strivings, Cynthia Dillard's Book that inspired Toliver's teaching methodsStephanie's Blog Post Defining AfrofuturismAfrofuturism Defined Elsewhere:Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present | UCLAA Beginner's Guide To Afrofuturism: 7 Titles To Watch And Read (Essence)How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend | WIREDAfrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It's Lit! (PBS)Afrofuturist Texts Mentioned in the Episode: Orleans by Sherri L. Smith Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler The Jumbies by Tracie Baptiste Octavia's Brood edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha “Sera” by Nicola Yoon from Because You Love to Hate Me edited by Amerie For more visit Stephanie's blog here: https://readingblackfutures.com/black-girl-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-boy-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-sffh-anthologies/Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary”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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 influencing media institutions, respectively. These projects are supported by Humke through the MacArthur Foundation. We discuss the work introduced by the guests as they focus on engaging youth of color, predominantly Black youth in how they are represented and the way they represent themselves within digital media. Participatory civic media allow marginalized groups who have not had a voice in media, particularly in the political sphere, to now have one. We then consider the danger in focusing on voice more than power. More and more people may find their voice through a growing democratic digital media landscape, but that does not mean they are sharing in the power. How do we enact a power shift to give an equal playing field to all voices?A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Cathy Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is also the creator of The Black Youth Project and the GenForward Survey.Cohen is the author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. She is also a co-editor of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader.Jen Humke is the Senior Program Officer for the Journalism and Media program at the MacArthur Foundation. Her grantmaking work focuses on participatory civic media. 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.Henry Jenkins, What Is Civic Media?Black Youth ProjectgenForward SurveyCivic Imagination ProjectAtlas of the Civic ImaginationCivic Media FellowshipDanielle Allen on ReconciliationFrom Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital AgeRobin Kelly, Freedom DreamsAlissa Richardson: Bearing Witness While Black: African-Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest JournalismMegan StielstraColor of ChangeDefine AmericanDarnell MooreNicholas Negroponte – Being DigitalCrystal Echo HawkReservation DogsIlluminative Podcast  Illuminative Netflix programConnie Yowelldanah boydMimi ItoDigital Media and LearningYouth and Participatory PoliticsJoe KahneMarch for Our LivesQ-AnonConfronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture (Fifteen Years Later) Podcasting  Origin StoriesBBC's Noise: A Human History, “Radio Everywhere” (14:37)FDR fireside chat 1 (12:57)Norman Corwin (56:28)Edward R. MurrowPodcast and DiscordRadio Free GeorgiaEar HustleNancyHow to Be a Girl; Peabody AwardPlus, check out these earlier earlier episodes:Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkEpisode 22: Benjamen Walker and Wu MingEpisode 81: Warren Hedges on the Fantasy Roots of the Capital InsurrectionEpisode 48: Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie SalenEpisode 82: Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke on the Intersection of Art and ActivismEpisode 69: The Power of Fan activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn TaylorMusic:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 life experiences brought her to Braver Angels as a person interested in conversation without judgment. As a daughter of Mexican immigrants who considered themselves Republicans and a journalist, Mónica understands political party differences on a personal and professional level. In the episode she describes her journey to Braver Angels and details how the organization creates spaces, through workshops, where citizens across party lines can have difficult conversations. As she and Henry explore divides within family structure she notes how family ties put more at stake in these political conversations but how that can be extremely powerful even though it is uncomfortable. Trust and listening are more important than people may think when trying to have these conversations and Braver Angels helps people develop those skills. The end of the episode also addresses some of the controversy the organization has had recently surrounding the conservative opinions related to the January 6th Capitol attack and Henry and Colin discuss how Braver Angels transparently discussed their podcasting practices in relation to misinformation and conspiracies. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Mónica GuzmánBook: I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided TimesBraver AngelsMónica's earlier journalism for The Evergrey (Seattle)Interview with The Daily Kos (“you don't have to talk to a Nazi tomorrow”)Braver Angels' list of roles we play in family conversations about politicsUSC Norman Lear Center research on media consumption among liberals, moderates and conservativesJonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservativesAnd more about his book, The Righteous MindBraver Angels podcast and controversy:Depolarization in the Age of Misinformation | Jonathan Rauch with David Blankenhorn & Ciaran O'Connor (our clip starts around min 7)A Conservative Perspective on January 6th & the 2020 Election | Peter Wood with Ciaran O'Connor (our clip starts around min 17:00)Braver Angels national debate to open up the larger question—"Should we draw lines?"—to hundreds of people. President David Blankenhorn chimes in toward the end of the videoBraver Angels Podcast host Ciaran O'Connor's op-ed in the Deseret News with more of the product of Braver Angels' reflection on what happened, and also YouTube's roleMónica's own reflection on the issue in an interview with the American Press Institute asking "what might journalism learn from 'bridging'?."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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

For more with Josie Duffy Rice, listen to Episode 93!

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 system was and how she continues to work to humanize issues of criminal justice reform and abolition through her work as a writer and podcast host on What a Day. We discuss how fictional narratives, like the myriad police procedurals on television, inform much of our common understanding (and mis-understanding) of the issues, and wonder what abolition media might look like, and how it can play a central role in the real work of transitioning our culture toward one where we don't need police and prisons.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Josie Duffy Rice, Twitter, InstagramWhat a Day podcastVanity Fair article, The Abolition MovementThe AppealJosie's earlier work on Daily Kos60 Minutes story about Glenn Ford, wrongly convicted to Death RowProsecutor Marty Stroud's public apologyDavid Foster Wallace - This is WaterProgressive policing imagined on The WireHarvard Law School's class on The WireBecoming Abolitionists by Derecka PurnellAbolitionist Mariame KabaConflict on Star TrekEpisode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkThis episode features clips from:Friends: Season 7 Episode 11 "The One with all the Cheesecakes" and Season 6 Episode 9 "The One Where Ross Gets High."Law & Order SVU: Season 15 Episode 7 "Dissonant Voices"The Wire: Season 3 Episode 4 "Hamsterdam"Scandal: Season 4 Episode 14Share 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 being a childless adult at Disney has been unjustly stigmatized. Even with strict rules and regulations, Disney theme parks offer spaces of play for adults who have very little safe spaces to play outside the parks. We also discuss the Disneyfication of adult source material and how that further translates into the transmedia brand universe that is specific to Disney theme parks. Disney theme parks have been spaces of ritual and transformation for both children and adults. As Disney continues to consume our fantasies with its continual purchases of franchises such as Star Wars and Marvel, how do children and adults alike contend with the rapidly expanding trans media universes that come together within the Disney theme parks while the outside world contends with its own racist, sexist, and culturally insensitive past and present.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:About Lauren SowaAbout Rebecca Williams; Faculty PageBooks:A Fan Studies PrimerTheme Park Fandom: Spatial Transmedia, Materiality and Participatory CulturesPost-Object FandomEverybody HurtsTorchwood DeclassifiedHow to Properly Dress at Disneyland's Galaxy's EdgeWhat is DisneyBounding?Disney Bounding Fan documentaryJanet Wasko, Disney ProjectHenry Jenkins, Transmedia Storytelling 101Splash Mountain revampYou Must Remember This on Splash MountainBrides for Sale on Pirates of the Caribbean rideRevisions to Jungle CruiseLauren Sowa on Disney Princesses as Feminist IconsMickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Culture – critical documentary on Disney cultureSparks ProgramThe Official Album of Disneyland/Walt Disney World ride theme musicWalt Disney's Tour of DisneylandDisneyland - Lands - Wonderful World of Color - Walt DisneyThe Disneyland Story (Disneyland Episode #1): October 27th, 1954Share 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 presented back to them in the form of a professionalized vaudeville show on the Whoopensocker podcast and YouTube channel. We discuss how these methods confront some of the failings of traditional learning environments and assessments in the classroom today, as well as honor the importance of The Arts in education in a way that seems absent from most STEAM programs.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:More about Erica Halverson, past and present projects: https://www.ericahalverson.com/Book: How the Arts Can Save EducationThe Whoopensocker ProjectWhoopensocker PodcastWhoopensocker YouTubeWhat the heck is a Whoopensocker?Playmakers Laboratory, ChicagoBossypants by Tina Fey (see: “the rules of improv and how they can change your life”)Henry's blog series on his open-laptop exam:The QuestionKnowledge CommunityWhat Happened Part One Part TwoOpen Laptop Activities Part One  Part TwoBaking ImpossiblePortlandia: Put a Bird On It!Making It with Amy Poehler & Nick OffermanCarole King - Really RosieKids' pop culture references:Giannis Antetokounmpo | Milwaukee BucksFortniteDabbingFive Nights At Freddy'sJohn CenaSeymour PapertMitch ResnickComputer ClubhouseShirley Brice HeathConstructionism - constructivist theory of learningSix, the musicalSputnik CrisisMargaret Mead - A Creative Life for Your ChildrenAmy Ogata – Designing the Creative ChildShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 place in the U.S. and how their unique media ecologies serve their needs. We also consider the many innovations in format, genre, and technology that have developed where traditional media outlets would not be viable for this relatively small population with a largely oral culture, notably the use of teleconference lines that serve effectively as 24-hour radio stations. With a mix of participatory and broadcast media thriving outside of a commercial revenue model, there is a lot to consider about the future of the mass-market media landscape.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Lopez's books:Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural CitizenshipMicro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the DiasporaJon Oliver segment about misinformation in diasporic media#hoomchim Hmong LGBTQ podcastWhat is ClubhouseShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 both start by sharing some recent optimism that Sherry has about technology, and some recent pessimism that Henry has about technology. Sherry expresses concerns about people's apathy about the increasing intrusion of technology in our lives, and how that could potentially lead to the erosion of our rights. Sherry reflects back on the process of memoir writing and questioning her own assumptions earlier in life. She shares a story about being asked to make dinner for Steve Jobs instead of being invited to a meeting with him, and how reflecting on that was a humbling experience. Ultimately, Sherry ends with posing a question about not only how we can see empathy as a pathway into politics, but how we can expand the definition of empathy and apply that to our own lives. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Sherry Turkle's new memoir, The Empathy DiariesFalling for Science, one of the books she edited of her students' writingHenry's blog interview with Sherry TurkleSherry Turkle's TED talkThe Cult of the Amateur by Andrew KeenHenry and his son on the ASMR communityHannah Arendt on TotalitarianismTrump's statement that republicans shouldn't vote in 2022 and 2024 electionsDepaysementFiction that shaped Sherry's childhood:Nancy Drew - The Secret of the Old ClockJane Austen - Pride & PrejudiceMy Fair Lady stage musicalCurrent TV she's enjoying:Succession (Influence of King Lear)DickinsonNina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday LifeHenry's memoir piece about comics and mourning can be found in Turkle's Evocative Objects book  Allissa Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #JournalismHenry Jenkins's Farewell to MITJohn Perry Barlow, “Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace”Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”Atlas of the Civic ImaginationShare 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/dylanemmeSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 has been addressed (or not) in fandoms and fan studies, digging into recent fandom controversies over race, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the legacy of fandom's roots in America. We ask how Squid Games can be the most popular series on Netflix, even as we are seeing an unprecidented wave of anti-Asian hate crimes or why fandom has tended to ignore some of the characters of color who have emerged through popular entertainment franchises. Ultimately, how can we look beyond the competing narratives of “fandom will save us” vs. “toxic fandom” for more nuanced ways to understand and deal with societal biases through fandoms?A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:andré m. carrington - Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science FictionAbigail De Kosnik - Associate Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and NationRukmini Pande - Associate Professor, Literary Studies and Writing, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the MarginsOriginal Star Trek series – origins of fandomStar Wars Last Jedi trolling - Kelly Marie Tran, Krystina Arielle, John BoyegaTolkien fandom dust-upEarly Sherlock Holmes fan clubsStar Trek, Blake's 7 60s-70sEarly internet fandom – usenet, geo cities, yahoo groupsLive JournalFan Pressure to integrate:Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone RebootAva duVernay's A Wrinkle in TimeDisney's live action version The Little MermaidThe Flash – pushback on casting Iris as BlackNetflix announces Squid Game is bigger than BridgertonWendy Chun – High-Tech orientalismConcept of “ships”/"shipping"Bong Joon-ho, Steven YeunBruce Lee (actor) vs. Kato in the Green Hornet (character)Simu Liu (actor) vs. Shang-Chi (character)Korean media wave: BTS, ParasiteFan fiction and diversity/inclusionSorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)Tenoch Huerta as Namor (Black Panther character)Oscar IsaacTony LeungLead Users and Democratizing Innovation book by Eric Von HippleRobert KozinetsReview of #Republic (and the value of deliberating enclaves) by David WeinbergerMichael Saler - a public sphere of the imaginationEpisode #79: Hope for New Online Public Spaces with Talia Stroud and Eli PariserShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 everyday life of the community but also undergoing constant change as performers adjust to the increased global visibility of their performances. Mazer describes the national Kapa Haka gatherings, which attract thousands of attendees and are nationally televised, as “a theatrical event incorporated into an Olympic competition encased in a ritual frame.” Papesch is the consummate insider, the matron of a family of Haka performers, whose influence stretches back to the 1970s, whereas Mazer offers the perspective of an informed outsider who has been observing the performances for more than twenty years. Together, they model bicultural conversation as they teach us how to read Kapa Haka’s place in the cultural politics of New Zealand. A full transcript of this conversation will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Co-authored writing by Te Rita Papesch & Sharon Mazer:Breaking the Stage: From Te Matatini to Footprints/TapuwaeBut can it be Art? Kapa Haka as a contemporary indigenous performance practiceMaori Performance/Cultural Performance: Stages of PowhiriMore about Te Rita PapeschWaka Huia profile: Part One; Part TwoPerformance: Nga RoimataŌtairongo (audio portrait of Te Rita by artist Maree Sheehan)Tainui Waka Kapa Haka Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018Selected writing:Creating a Modern Māori Identity Through Kapa Haka (2015 PhD Thesis)Te Rita Papesch: case study of an exemplary learner of Māori as an additional languageMore about Sharon MazerSelected writing:Performing Māori: Kapa Haka on the Stage and on the GroundPerformance: Ethnographer/Tourist/CannibalProfessional Wrestling: Sport and SpectacleKapa HakaNational Kapa Haka FestivalRules of CompetitionMaori Television – Kapa Haka commentary; Te Kapa Haka o Te Whānau-ā-ApanuiTe Whare Wananga o Waikato at the NZ Polynesian Festival, 1981All-Blacks and HakaHobbes and Shaw – Haka Haka tourist showsGame of Thrones HakaBeyonce does HakaDiana Taylor – The Archive and the Repertoire Konstantin Stanislovsky – “As If”Haka in support of Black Lives MatterMaori Protest MovementsMore Maori culture:Maori Powhiri (welcome)Ta Moko – Maori tattooRaranga – Maori WeavingMaori Musical InstrumentsMaori ReligionMaori WeaponsShare 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 & Audio clips:Te Whare Wananga o Waikato (1981)Kapahaka Roopu Te Haona KahaTe Whānau a Apanui whakaeke- Te Matatini - 2015 - Entrance (Game of Thrones)“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 fiction. You'll love em!

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 place children as the arbiters of new types of governments and cities, and Blumenthal was heavily influenced by his time on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? to interview children around the world for his series, Kids on Earth in the 21st Century. The two note general differences amongst different populations of children; areas with greater civic education from an earlier age tend to be more involved in social issues such as immigration reform and class, whereas those without that background might be more distanced. For the most part, though, both Mischie and Blumenthal agree that children are more willing to respect different perspectives and compromise than adults. They’re also full of simple yet potentially innovative ideas; they note concepts such as multi-level traffic systems and cities built for people, animals, and vegetation that have come up in their conversations with students. They argue that the best way to formulate these ideas is through the power of play, a method the current education system suppresses by institutionalizing and protecting teaching, not learning. Together, the two guests posit a better education system that brings together people of different disciples, producing ideas that are imaginative, co-creative, and tangible. It is also important to draw from the most successful elements of all methods of schooling while also incorporating self-education. Most importantly, however, we must give children a stronger platform, which would look like eliminating some rules and providing them rights in school that parallel those of adults. In other words, education must allow children to tell their stories.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Some of Mischie’s works:Government of ChildrenTangible UtopiasWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, which Blumenthal developedOMNIVERSITY, a VR university founded by MischieArt Linkletter – Kids Say the Darnedest ThingsLinda Ellerbee – Nick NewsShare 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:School’s Out by Alice Cooper“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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!

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 their audiences to participate with them in optimistic speculation about the future, and how they try to overcome resistance to that journey through entertainment and playfulness. In questioning why we tend to look for definitive answers and discount our own subjective experiences, they lead us to home in on the commonalities between creativity or “the artistic mindset” and the scientific method, which are often presented as opposing each other. And recalling our previous episode with James Paul Gee, if we are able to let go of the assumption of human exceptionalism—for example considering time in terms of the cycle of a river, or the life of a tree—we are able to gain new perspectives on our humanity.A Full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:SB Divya’s work:MachinehoodContingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible SituationsRuntimeJonathan Keats’ work:Thought ExperimentsPornography for PlantsStrange Skies - Travel documentaries for plantsDIY Universe KitThe Century CameraThe Millennium CameraFables: The Book of the UnknownWork with the Earth Law CenterFlux ExchangeBlack Mirror (Netflix)Stanley MilgramCaesium Standard (for the atomic clock)What Is a Human? By James Paul GeeEpisode #80: James Paul GeeHenry’s course: Science Fiction as Media TheoryBuckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship EarthEpisode 84: Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on SolarpunkEpisode 83: Indigenous Voices for Environmental Justice with Candis Callison & Julian Brave NoiseCatShare 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:Koyaanisqatsi - reverse ( ISTAQSINAAYOK ) (from the original by Philip Glass)“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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.

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, and the future. They discuss the immense potential of storytelling in defining an achievable vision for a more sustainable world through a version of science fiction that offers a balance of realism and imagination. In fact, this imagination, Ulibarri and Finn argue, is one of our greatest tools; because issues such as climate change and various sociopolitical concepts have many solutions, applied imagination can help us explore the wide variety of potential solutions as an alternative to fatalism or denial. They also touch upon the unique optimism of solarpunk, particularly in how proposing a better future through the lens of fiction has the ability to excite and invigorate readers towards enacting change. They note that people’s innate desire to feel good means that we must create a new language for debating the immense changes coming our way. This kind of optimism might be niche now, but Solarpunk literature and culture models alternatives and recruits people who actively work to achieve them. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Some of Ullibarri’s works:Glass and GardensBiketopiaAdventures in Zookeeping Organizations, programs, and foundations mentioned:World Weaver Press (Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief) Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University (Finn is Director) Projects include:Future Tense, a collaboration between ASU, New America, and Slate magazine Luna CityThe Weight of LightCities of LightThe Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ WorkshopResearch Institute for Humanity and NatureThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)Media mentioned:Solarpunk Chobani commercialAuthors mentioned:Jeff VanderMeerMarian Womack, author of The SwimmersNeal Stephenson, author of “Innovation Starvation”Margaret AtwoodKim Stanley Robinson, author of ”The Coronavirus and Our Future”Raymond WilliamsFrancesco VersoFor more on Solarpunk:Imaginary Worlds Podcast: “Solarpunk the Future”Trajectory of “Punk” artistic movements:Punk RockCyberpunkSteampunkCheck these past episodes we referenced:Episode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory DoctorowEpisode 64: Japanese Science Fiction with William O. GardnerEpisode 65: Design Fiction and the Pandemic with Bruce Sterling and Jasmina TešanovićEpisode 66: The Legacy of Octavia E. Butler with Damian E. Duffy, John Jennings, and Shelley StreebyEpisode 36: Korean Science Fiction: Imagining other worldsShare 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:Sieudiver: Solarpunk City“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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.

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 Indigenous voices in the present, particularly in approaching their stories through narratives that already exist such as marriage equality and climate change. There are, however, key differences between Indigenous perspectives on climate change and climate change as it is often presented in scientific and political spheres; Callison and Noisecat raise the concept of Indigenous knowledge to describe the largely historical and relational outlook on climate that Indigenous people have. They suggest that Indigenous people need to be included in the climate conversation but on their own terms, in ways that fully acknowledge and respect the deep history and context with which they live. This, of course, also requires that mainstream media shift their perspective on Indigenous populations, which, as it stands, mostly fits them into a victim-hero mold that fails to connect individual problems to larger Indigenous concerns. As journalists better understand the power they wield in shaping the media and our perceptions of the world, Callison and Noisecat argue that it’s important to bring Indigenous people into the present and future, respecting them not as simply victims or heroes, but as nuanced and human as any other community.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Apocalypse Then and Now – Julian Brave Noisecat’s piece in the Columbia Journalism ReviewMore of Julian’s writingCandis Callison’s books:How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of FactsReckoning: Journalism's Limits and PossibilitiesSome of the Indigenous voices invoked in this episode:Cowboy SmithxSheila Watt-CloutierPatricia CochranRobin Wall KimmererGhost Dance of the Lakota SiouxInternational Indigenous Research ConferenceJenni Monet, Pueblo of LagunaDebra A. HaalandGrace DillonCatherine Porter’s article on the InuitNAJA’s calls for an apology of the aboveProblematic NYT reporting on Deb Haaland Cabinet nominationIndigenous organizations and publications:NAJA – Native American Journalists’ AssociationIndian Country TodayAPTN (Canada)mediaINDIGENA podcastThreshold Podcast – not an Indigenous production, but a sustained journalistic engagement with native communitiesAlso check out Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkShare 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:Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL (Official Video)“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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 have the immortal works of Cicely Tyson, who left this world to ever appreciate her presence earlier this year.

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 experiences but also drive harmful stereotypes of populations, such as the anti-Islamic rhetoric post-9/11 that informed media depictions and created swirls in the ocean. They posit that it’s our work to not only reform existing narrative oceans but to also craft new ones that are more inclusive. For example, the narrative ocean surrounding Black women’s leadership, whether that’s at home or in politics, inspires more people to engage with the power they always had; by doing so, the U.S. is able to evolve into a stronger, more democratic nation. This is not accomplished by the work of just one Black woman character but a movement to better portray them across all media; thus, intentional storytelling is key to reforming our narrative oceans. Evans and Van Slyke also delve into the creation of the PCC as a space of deep learning and to build a field working at the intersection of pop culture and social justice. They touch on the American desire for belonging and how, structurally, there are factors that already determine who does or does not. While movements such as Black Lives Matter challenge conventional ideas of belonging, it is also important to engage with the idea of pluralism and cultural fluidity: a commitment to actively move out of the familiar to forge bonds with people different from us and to do so from a place of accountability. Ultimately, the questions they aim to answer involve both art and activism: How can artists immerse themselves in social justice analysis in relation to the stories they tell? How do you engage with social justice in an emotional way? Right now, Evans, Van Slyke, and the PCC advise that the answer lies in staying open-minded and inspired for the future!A full transcript of this conversation will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Grants and spaces for artists in entertainment:HarnessStoryline PartnersYes, And Laughter LabBecoming America fundStarfish AcceleratorResearchThink Tank for Inclusion and EquityMass audience activation and innovationNational Domestic Workers AllianceRoma, which the NDWA was invested in promotingWhite Paper on Fan Activism24 and the Bush Administration Homeland struggles with Muslim RepresentationAmerican Muslim Response to RamyMs. Marvel as Muslim SuperheroCheck out these previous episodes with guests who were funded by Pop Culture Collaborative:Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkEpisode 69: The Power of Fan activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn TaylorEpisode 28: Taking risks: comedy as tool for social justice with Caty Borum ChattooShare 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/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––