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Media, Culture, and Why we feel like crying so much

Mar 23, 2023

What exactly makes a meme a meme? In this episode, we introduce one approach to analyzing internet memes and the larger implications for communication, meaning-making, and cultural criticism. 

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Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and...


Mar 16, 2023

Sources we mentioned in today's episode:

  • Abidin, C. (2016). Please Subscribe! Influencers, Social Media, and the Commodification of Everyday Life. The University of Western Australia.
  • Berryman, R., and Kavka, M. (2017, June).  “‘I Guess A Lot of People See Me as a Big Sister or Friend’: The Role of Intimacy in...


Mar 2, 2023

In this episode, Grant works through Mark Deuze's 2012 work of media theory, "Media Life" which claims that "You live in media. Who you are, what you do, and what all of this means to you does not exist outside of media” 

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Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with...


Feb 23, 2023

It is common to experience something through media before experiencing it for "real." In this episode, we reflect on how media structured, informed, and archived our time as undergrads. 

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Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In...


Feb 16, 2023

Sometimes it isn't only what we say, but how we say it that reveals deeper meanings circulating through our media and interactions with each other. What can we learn about ideologies of work, labor, power, and humanity through discourse surround paid time off (PTO)?

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