Jan 26, 2023
Stories about military personnel or armed conflict are everywhere in our entertainment media from video games to Top Gun to Masterchef. How do media shape the ways we interpret the armed forces?
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Jan 19, 2023
How do we come to interpret behavior as "healthy" or "unhealthy"? In this episode, we unpack how our material and media environment impact how we think about our bodies.
Jan 12, 2023
Documenting weddings through photos and videos is media practice we might take for granted. In this episode, we look deeply into media practices related to weddings to uncover insight into Guy Debord's idea of "spectacle"
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Many of us think of entertainment as automatically related to consumption. This is a wide-ranging episode with a lot of ideas about what we mean by culture.
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Does your algorithm "get" you? Here we unpack TikTok as the messy and rich media environment that it is.