Andrew Slack, founder of The HP Alliance, an organization seeking to engage Harry Potter fans in social and political activism, discusses the origins and motivations behind the group and their current project to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur.
Podcast: WWE’s “Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross, “This One’s Gonna Be a Slobberknocker”
Jim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling.
Podcast: “Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times”
Kay Alden worked for more than 30 years on The Young and the Restless, the top-rated daytime drama that she served as head writer for from 1998 to 2006.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Summary Perspectives”
Suzanne de Castell, Fred Turner, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jose van Dijck, and Nick Montfort wrap up Media in Transition 5.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art”
What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work’s unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification?
Podcast: Sharon Mazer, “What’s Live Got To Do With It?”
Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Learning through Remixing”
Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture?
