Media And The End Of The World

Adam and Ralph are back in action to discuss how smart home technology and the Internet of Things is being leveraged for domestic abuse–the subject of a recent New York Times piece. Not surprisingly, Ralph discusses a new horror movie and what it means to not be snobby towards the horror genre. Show Notes Digital […]

Keegan Long-Wheeler joins Adam to discuss a recent medical emergency that left him detached from media for the past two months. Show Notes Chronicling My Brain Surgery (Keeganslw.com) Feeling Blessed And Loved, Even With Residual Tumor In My Head (Keeganslw.com) Keegan’s Game Jam (Johnastewart.org)

Adam and Ralph wrap up Season One of Media and the End of the World. We’ll be taking a brief hiatus and promise to be back soon. Thanks to everyone who supported our show this season! Show Notes My Podcasting Workflow with Amazon S3 and PowerPress (adamcroom.com) Childish Gambino – This is America (Official Video) […]

Today’s guest is Tracey Anarella, an award winning documentary filmmaker.  She directed, shot, edited and produced her first film “Jesse and The Fountain of Youth” in 2013.  Her first feature length documentary, “Not Black Enough,” stars Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard University and Provost Claude Steele of University of California, Berkeley, actress Vanessa Williams and Grammy […]

As podcasts become a bigger part of popular culture, what do our pop podcasts look like and how are they different from other mediums? Per usual, Adam and Ralph jump around the news they’ve been reading so refer to the Show Notes below for links to articles. Show Notes Pulp Nonfiction: Podcasts Go Mass-Market (New […]

We chat about the Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony to the U.S. Senate as well as the recently viral Sinclair Broadcast Group promotional message incident. Then we are joined by Elle Schneider, a filmmaker from New York City with over a decade of professional experience and dozens of credits behind the camera as a […]

We discuss our thoughts and some of the conflicting opinions on design thinking. It wouldn’t be a true episode though if we didn’t first veer into other directions as well. This episode includes some more talk about conspiracy theories as it relates to the Sutherland Springs church shooting and the JFK assassination. Show Notes Quincy […]

No guests on the podcast this week so we banter about a few thoughts we’ve had over the last week. Topics include conspiracy theories, crisis actors, crayfish, and Wikipedia.

In 1997, Mark Singer, the New Yorker staff writer, wrote a profile of a “rich kid turned real-estate showboat.” In 2016, he published the book “Trump and Me” which brings in additional stories from the numerous hours he spent with Donald Trump writing the profile. Today, Singer sits down with us to discuss the book as well as […]

Ralph interviews Joe Langford and J.P. Olsen. Langford is an Emmy nominated editor for the award winning series VICE, and J.P. Olsen is at HBO as a production executive overseeing day-to-day editorial, promotional marketing and social media operations for HBO’s VICE documentary series and VICE NEWS TONIGHT.

We bounce around the topics of Edward Snowden, owning physical and digital music, a new Knight Foundation report on trust, media, and democracy, FOMO on Netflix, Celebrity Big Brother Show Notes Pale Fire (A Poem in Four Cantos) Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube) Edward Snowden Interview with Katie Couric (YouTube) American […]

We discuss Yondr, a company that provides signal blocking bags at events, the Larry Nassar sentencing, and The Greatest Showman’s surprise box office success. Show Notes The Astonishing Success of The Greatest Showman (The Altantic) Listen to ‘The Daily’: Tonya Harding Speaks Out (New York Times) This Startup Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the […]

We discuss the changes Facebook plans to make to its newsfeed algorithm and what that means for media entities, what if push notifications for 1968, the Tide Pod consumption craze, and books we are currently reading. Show Notes 50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968 (New York Times) Intercepted Podcast – […]

We are joined by Chris Gilliard, Professor of English at Macomb Community College. His scholarship concentrates on privacy, institutional tech policy, digital redlining, and the re-inventions of discriminatory practices through data mining and algorithmic decision-making, especially as these apply to college students. He is currently developing a project that looks at how popular misunderstandings of mathematical […]

We discuss the “Fire and Fury” of Michael Wolff’s latest book along with Steve Bannon’s fall from Breitbart grace. We also recap the Golden Globes and (spoiler alert) end up giving an endorsement to Oprah 2020.

Mike Caulfield, head of the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project and director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver, joins us today to talk about engaging students in media literacy. He recently published the open Creative Commons licensed textbook “Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers.” Show Notes Refactoring media literacy for the […]

Eleven and the gang from Hawkins, Indiana are back. Adam and Ralph are joined once again by Yvette Walker to discuss the Netflix series Stranger Things 2.

Christian Keathley, Professor in the Film and Media Culture Department at Middlebury College, joins us today to discuss cinephilia and media consumption habits in Vermont. Show Notes Book: Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (Amazon)

Adam and Ralph discuss the upcoming FCC vote on Net Neutrality, Maggie Haberman’s story on Trump’s relationship with media consumption, and the Golden Globe nominees. Ralph also introduces Adam to Complaint Choirs. Show Notes New York Public Libraries: the proposal to kill net neutrality is ‘appalling’ (The Verge) Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation (New […]

Adam and Ralph are joined once again by Yvette Walker and transported to 19th Century Ontario to discuss the Netflix mini-series Alias Grace. Show Notes Alias Grace: How a teenager’s letter to Margaret Atwood finally got the TV series made (Independent)