Tom Streeter: “Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a habitus offers a way to make sense of the way digital novelty has become woven into the fabric of how we live.”
Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
Podcast, Jeffrey Hamburger: “Script as Image”
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Podcast, Jim Bizzocchi: “Close-Reading Media Poetics”
Close reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms, and at the same time maintain a critical distance.
Video: George Lakoff, “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical—a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood.
Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media”
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, asks how direct access to fans changes what it means to be an artist.
Podcast, Francis Steen: “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Francis Steen on coverage of the 2011 attack in Norway, that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives.
