In this episode, professors Colin and Henry, along with T.L. Taylor, Director of the MIT Game Lab, explore the rise…
In this episode, we chat with Charlie Jenkins, whose lifelong passion for wrestling sparked a remarkable journey into writing. He…
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the evolution of food television, from the early days of simple,…
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating journey of Barry, a visionary who started as an aspiring theme park…
Grace L. Dillon is an American academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in…
Caty Borum, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Provost Associate Professor in the School of…
In addition to being Henry’s former dissertation advisee, Meryl Alper is am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication…
This week we’re joined by USC Faculty colleagues Alison Trope, Clinical Professor of Communication, and DJ Johnson, Associate Professor of…
Robeson Taj Frazier is an associate professor of communication and director of IDEA (the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at…
As a former volunteer and later employee of Fandom Forward (what was then called The Harry Potter Alliance) and a…
Our guest today is Maggie Hennefeld, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the…
We’re thrilled to be joined by Academy-Award winning Production Designer Rick Carter, who has four decades of experience working on…
We’re joined by Alexandria Arrieta, doctoral candidate at USC Annenberg and Christopher Cayari, associate professor of music education at Purdue…
We begin to talk about the story between MIT’s Open Doc Lab and our guests’ book Collective Wisdom with Kat’s…
We start by digging into each of our guests’ definitions of “meme” (in contrast to Richard Dawkins), zeroing in on…
This week, we have Paul Mihailidis,Sangita Shresthova and Megan Fromm talking about their insights, stories, and theories in their book…
As one of the most influential musicians in Turkish history and the first modern pop star of Turkey, Zeki Müren…
In this episode, Lynn Spigel, Chair of Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, and our hosts…
A lot of parents nowadays are concerned about their children spending too much time on screens. We begin by discussing…
Kevin Driscoll, author and associate professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, discusses the history of BBSs, or bulletin…
This week we are joined by archivist Jacqueline Stewart and historian Tyree Boyd-Pates to discuss the power of museum curation.…
Our guest this week is Diana Williams, who, after 30 years in the entertainment media industry working on premier content…
This week we are further diving into the recent banning of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a school board in TN…
This week Henry and Colin are joined by writer and comics critic Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of…
In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong…
This week Henry and Colin are joined by Cathy Cohen, a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago and Jen…
Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided…
This week Henry and Colin catch up with AnnLab Civic Media Fellow Josie Duffy Rice to talk about the stories…
Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa discuss Disney theme park fandom from Disneyland California to Disney theme parks across the globe.…
This week we’re joined by a whoopensocker of a guest – Erica Halverson. After telling us all what a “whoopensocker”…
This week Henry & Colin are joined by Lori Kido Lopez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of…
This week, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author, joins Henry & Colin to discuss her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries.…
This week, Henry & Colin are joined by three fan studies scholars, andré m. carrington,author of Speculative Blackness: The Future…
This week, we are joined by Te Rita Papesch, a legendary figure in the Maori tradition of Kapa Haka, and…
This week we invited Ioana Mischie, a futurist and transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and…
This week’s conversation with scientist turned author SB Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats continues our series…
This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include…
Candis Callison, an environmental journalist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, and Julian Brave Noisecat, a Senior…
Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke, co-founders of the Pop Culture Collaborative, join us today to talk about the…
This week’s guest, Warren Hedges, teaches a course at the University of Southern Oregon on how speculative genres such as…
This week we host James Paul Gee, recently retired Arizona State University professor and researcher in a plethora of topics…
This week we’re joined by Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at…
This week we welcome Parmesh Shahani, founder of the Godrej India Culture Lab and author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love…
This week we welcome Japanese Hip Hop scholar and reporter for Vice News, Dexter Thomas, and we talk a little…
This week we’re joined by two USC colleagues, Zoë Corwin of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Annenberg’s Neftalie…
Most of us probably aren’t making an effort to hang out in public spaces lately, much less seeing them as…
Settle in for an extra-spooky Halloween episode! We’re joined by Michael Monello, one of the creators of The Blair Witch…
We’re joined by Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and CEO of IllumiNative, a research-driven initiative created and led by Natives that…
If you like religion, sports or popular culture, this episode is for you, dear listener… and if you think you’re…
This week, from deep in the San Fernando Valley, we’re joined by filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo. A passionate storyteller from…
This week, we offer an episode which starts with The Baby-Sitters Club, ends with The Fast and the Furious, and…
This week, we offer the second of an ongoing series of episodes focused on fandom and fandom studies. Last week,…
Welcome back to How Do You Like It So Far?, listeners! Today, we’re bringing you a time capsule of an…
This week we welcome Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, author of the new book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from…
Our guest this week is Jaroslav Švelch, author of Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia…
In this episode we talk to David Craig, Clinical Associate Professor at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism and…
In this episode we discuss lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. We are joined by Peatónito, an…
This week we talk about Korean science fiction, with Sang-Joon Park, publisher; Soyeon Jeong, a Science Fiction writer; Gord Sellar,…
Amber J. Phillips (aka the High Priestess of Black Joy), podcaster and Participatory Civic Media Fellow at USC, takes the…
This is part 2 of our Power and Pleasure of Podcasting event at USC (see episode 32 for part 1,…
We recently hosted an event on The Power and Pleasure of Podcasting at USC, and we have the live recording…
This week we experiment with format, but also with how we think about media, with our guest Shrikanth S. Narayanan,…
This week we touch on gender in film history with Professor of Film at Columbia University School of the Arts,…
In this episode we discuss the Oscars with Raffi Sarkissian, Lecturer at Christopher Newport University, Virginia. Raffi has written about…
In this episode we talked to Caty Borum Chatoo (Twitter: CatyBC), Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact…
In our third and final installment of the need for critics of color, Eric Deggans, NPR’s first full-time TV…
