This fall, I’ll be teaching my Global Media Cultures course online for the first time because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At UTD, we’re required to offer an option for students to take the course asynchronously, so I devised a way to substitute for what would be the lecture + context portions of the class into a more accessible format for the students. During the summer I worked on creating audio recordings of conversations with the authors of the readings we’d be covering in class.
In the process, I decided to turn these recorded conversations into a podcast series that others could use in their teaching, particularly those adapting online courses with little or no advance notice.
All the authors graciously agreed to have their participation edited to 45-minute episodes and shared in a public forum. Below is the list of guests and the articles we discussed. If you are teaching any of these and would benefit from having the podcast earlier than its official release, please send me an email, but note that episodes will not be ready until after Labor Day.
Twelve scholars in global media studies participated in this project. Our conversations cover the main contributions of their article, broader context related to the subject matter, and any connections between it and other relevant events or media. The geographical focus of the articles discussed spans the globe and covers television, music, memes, films, animation, and digital platforms.
The Global Media Cultures Podcast will soon live in its own website, where new episodes will be uploaded every week. Feel free to share widely to anyone you think may be interested.
Podcast Guests in Alphabetical Order
- Lorena Alvarado (University of California, Merced)
Never late: Unwelcome Desires and Diasporas in Chavela Vargas’ Last Works - Bianka Ballina (Mount Holyoke College)
Juan of the Dead: Anxious Consumption and Zombie Cinema in Cuba - Laurena Bernabo (University of Georgia)
Progressive Television, Translation, and Globalization: The Case of Glee in Latin America - Michelle Cho (University of Toronto)
Genre, Translation, Transnational Cinema - Karrmen Crey (Simon Fraser University)
Screen Text and Institutional Context: Indigenous Film Production and Academic Research Institutions - Camilo Diaz Pino (West Chester University)
Weaponizing Collective Energy: DragonBall Z in the Anti-neoliberal Chilean Protest Movement - Jason Farman (University of Maryland, College Park)
Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography - Laura Imaoka (University of Texas at Dallas)
Rain with a Chance of Radiation: Forecasting Local and Global Risk after Fukushima - Ronak Kapadia (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sonic Contagions: Bird Flu, Bandung, and the Queer Cartographies of MIA - Aswin Punathambekar (University of Virginia) and Sriram Mohan (University of Michigan)
A Sound Bridge: Listening for the Political in a Digital Age - Eszter Zimanyi (University of Southern California)
Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies
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