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.
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.
Podcast, George Lakoff: “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”
“What we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This has deep implications for how politics is understood.”
Podcast, Johanna Drucker: “Designing Digital Humanities”
Johanna Drucker on the role of design in modeling digital humanities.
