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How do you like it so far?

By: Henry Jenkins Colin Maclay
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  • Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.
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Episodes
  • Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age with Meryl Alper
    Mar 15 2024
    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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Critical Media Project with Alison Trope and DJ Johnson
    Mar 8 2024
    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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Hip-Hop and the Academy, with Taj Frazier
    Dec 6 2023
    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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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    1 hr and 28 mins

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