All Episodes
How do you like it so far? — 164 episodes
Baseball and Reality TV: Karen Tongson and Adrian De Leon
AE Stevenson and Brooklyne Gipson on Digital Black Feminism, Sinners, and One Battle After Another
Hollywood Actresses, the Oscars, and Wuthering Heights with Izzy from Be Kind Rewind
Frames of Fandom with Robert Kozinets
Global Streaming Services and Cultural Power Relations: Bertha Chin & Swapnil Rai
Ethan Zuckerman
San Diego Comic-Con Histories and Educational Outreach with Mathew Klickstein and Emily Schindler
Anime Cons and Comic-Con Activations with Melanie Kohnen & Billy Austin Tringali
Global Asian Cinema, Asian American Movies, and Film Festivals with Brian Hu
Latina Girlhoods, Baby Boomer Boyhoods, and Children's Media with Diana Leon-Boys
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik & Ioana Literat - Not Your Parents’ Politics
Abigail De Kosnik and Jinyi Li on how fandom helps connect us in troubling times
Pop Culture's Political Tie-ins with Jonathan Taplin
Political Engagement in the Digital Age with Elizabeth Losh
The Secret Life of Data with Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert
David Wolinsky and Samantha Close on What We Learned from #Gamergate
Gaming, Live Streaming, eSports and Beyond, with T.L. Taylor
Inside American Wrestling with Charlie Jenkins
Tasha Oren on the Evolution of Food TV
Creativity and Play with Barry Kudrowitz
Indigenous Futurisms with Grace Dillon
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious with Caty Borum
Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age with Meryl Alper
Critical Media Project with Alison Trope and DJ Johnson
Hip-Hop and the Academy, with Taj Frazier
A Harry Potter Fandom Journey with Jackson Bird
Silent Cinema’s Nasty Women with Maggie Hennefeld
Minisode: Deep Dive into Forrest Gump with Rick Carter
Minisode: Comparing YouTube & TikTok
A Philosophy of Production Design with Rick Carter
Platforms and Participatory Music Creation, with Alexandria Arrieta and Christopher Cayari
Co-Created Media and Collective Wisdom with Kat Cizek and William Uricchio
New Media and Politics with Whitney Phillips and Sulafa Zidani
Minisode: Future of Online Communities
Transforming Media Pedagogies with Paul Mihailidis, Sangita Shresthova, Megan Fromm
Minisode: Meanwhile in France... Minitel
Zeki Müren Hotline with Beyza Boyacıoğlu & Jeff Soyk
Counterhistories and Countermemories of TV with Lynn Spigel
Parenting and media technology with Sonia Livingstone & Lynn Schofield Clark
BBSs and Early Internet Communities with Author Kevin Driscoll
Museum Curation with Jacqueline Stewart and Tyree Boyd-Pates
Audience is part of IP, with Diana Williams
A closer look at the banning of Maus, with Hillary Chute
Context around the Censorship of Comics with Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler
Bringing Storytelling to Academia through Afrofuturism with Stephanie Toliver
Participatory Civic Media with Cathy Cohen and Jen Humke
Curious Conversations Across the Divide with Mónica Guzmán
Josie Duffy Rice: Defund the Police
Reimagining Criminal Justice with Josie Duffy Rice
Disney Theme Parks with Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa
How the Arts Can Save Education with Erica Halverson
Lori Kido Lopez on Micro Media Innovations in Hmong American Communities
Sherry Turkle on Empathy and the Narratives That Shape Our Lives
Race & Fandom, with andré carrington, Abigail De Kosnik, and Rukmini Pande
Te Rita Papesch and Sharon Mazer on the Living Tradition of Kapa Haka
What's Making Us Sappy Episode 21: Ioana Mischie and Howard Blumenthal
Ioana Mischie and Howard Blumenthal on the Future of Education
What's Making You Sappy Episode 20: S.B. Divya and Jonathon Keats
Speculative Art & Fiction with SB Divya and Jonathon Keats
What's Making You Sappy Episode 20: Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn
Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on Solarpunk
What's Making You Sappy Episode 19: Julian Brave Noisecat and Candis Callison
Indigenous Voices for Environmental Justice with Candis Callison & Julian Brave NoiseCat
What's Making You Sappy Episode 18: Pop Culture Collaborative
Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke on the Intersection of Art and Activism
What's Making You Sappy Episode 17: Warren Hedges
Warren Hedges on the Fantasy Roots of the Capital Insurrection
What's Making You Sappy Episode 16: James Paul Gee
What is a Human with James Paul Gee
What's Making You Sappy Episode 15: Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser
Hope for New Online Public Spaces with Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser
What's Making You Sappy Episode 14: Parmesh Shahani
Exploring Queeristan with Parmesh Shahani
What's Making You Sappy Episode 13: Dexter Thomas
What's Making You Sappy Episode 12: Zoë Corwin and Neftalie Williams
What's Making You Sappy Episode 11: Reanne Estrada and Benjamin Stokes
What's Making You Sappy Episode 10: Mike Monello and Qiana Whitted
What's Making You Sappy Episode 9: Crystal Echo Hawk
What's Making You Sappy Episode 8: Varun Soni
What's Making You Sappy Episode 7: Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
What's Making You Sappy Episode 6: Sue Ding
What's Making You Sappy Episode 5: Janae Phillips and Shawn Taylor
What's Making You Sappy Episode 4: Suzanne Scott and Susan Kresnicka
From Hip Hop to TikTok with Dexter Thomas
What's Making You Sappy Episode 3: Damian E. Duffy, John Jennings, and Shelley Streeby
Skateboarding Subculture Surprises with Zoë Corwin and Neftalie Williams
What's Making You Sappy Episode 2: William O. Gardner
What's Making You Sappy Episode 1: Clifford Johnson & Dan Goldman
Play as a Precursor to Participation, with Reanne Estrada and Benjamin Stokes
Horror, Social Change, and Experimentation with Michael Monello and Qiana Whitted
Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo Hawk
Religion, Sports and Popular Culture Are The Same / Seeking Sanctuary During the Apocalypse with Varun Soni
The Undocumented Document Themselves with Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
How the Baby-Sitters Club Changed Asian-American Culture with Sue Ding
The Power of Fan activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn Taylor
The Business of Fandom with Susan Kresnicka and Suzanne Scott
Pandemic, Pedagogy, and Politics
The Legacy of Octavia E. Butler with Damian Duffy, John Jennings and Shelley Streeby
Design Fiction and the Pandemic with Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tešanović
Japanese Science Fiction with William O. Gardner
The Infiltrators with Alex Rivera
Comics with Cartoonists Mimi Pond and Carol Tyler
Broken Bread with Chef Roy Choi and KCET’s Juan Devis
Inside the Peabody Awards with Jeff Jones, Lorraine Ali and Marcy Carsey
On Communities with Colin and Henry
Open TV with A.J. Christian
Experimenting with Comics with Clifford Johnson and Dan Goldman
Exploring Virtual Communities with Howard Rheingold and Patricia Lange
Civic Imagination with Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova
From Barbie to Ice Skates: Gendered Objects with Erica Rand
Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
Episode 52: Podcasting the News with Akilah Hughes
Season Five Teaser
The Great Eastern with Howard A. Rodman
Memes to Movements with An Xiao Mina
Fireside Chat with Youth Activists Justin Scott and Jessica Riestra
Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie Salen
Women Who ROCK with Evelyn McDonnell, Shana L. Redmond and Alice Bag
“Legos for the Blind” with Matthew Shifrin
“Radicalized” with Cory Doctorow
On Woke Gaming with Kishonna L.Gray
Episode 43: Sex Work and Podcasting: A Conversation with Vanessa Carlisle, Siouxsie Q and Kaytlin Bailey
Episode 42: From Radio to Podcasting - Insight from Tina Antolini (Gravy), Scott Carrier (Home of the Brave) and Trey Kay (Us & Them)
On Ecopiety with Sarah McFarland Taylor: Is Abstaining from Using a Plastic Straw and Driving a Prius Saving Our Planet?
Exploring the Dark Fantastic with Ebony Thomas
Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer games as a medium for self-expression in communist Czechoslovakia
Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
Lucha libre: performance, activism and politics
Korean Science Fiction: imagining other worlds
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part four): Public radio and distributing content, where are we and where are we going?
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part three): Amber J. Phillips & Chenjerai Kumanyika on Podcasting as a vehicle for counterhistory
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part two): Q&A session
The Power and Pleasure of Podcasting: a USC event
The physical effects of media storytelling
The forgotten women of early filmmaking
The politics within politics of the Oscars
Taking risks: comedy as tool for social justice
Critics of color: The added value of subtleties
Reimagining the ecology of cultural criticism
The growing hunger: why do we need more critics of color?
War of the Worlds, hoaxes and conspiracies with Nick Cull
Episode 23: Naja Nielsen and youth political participation
Episode 22: Wu Ming and Benjamen Walker on conspiracy theories
Episode 21: Rohan Joshi from All India Bakchod on civic entertainment
Episode 20: Anushka Shah and Civic Entertainment in India
Episode 19: Star Trek and actual space with Margaret Weitekamp
Episode 18: Diane Winston on religion and the entertainment media
Episode 17: Science fiction as a way of understanding and re-imagining the world
Episode 16: Maureen Ryan, Emily Andras and Louisa Stein on GLBT TV Representation
Episode 15: Define American Film Fest with poet Yosimar Reyes and organizer Erika Andiola
Episode 14: Hye Jin Lee and Cristina Visperas on K-pop
Episode 13: Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Kurt Squire on Ready Player One and Game Based Learning
Episode 12: Ann Pendleton-Jullian Talks Worldbuilding
Episode 11: Alex McDowell on "Ready Player One," World Building and Production Design
Episode 10: Nonny De La Peña on "Ready Player One," Virtual Reality and Storytelling
Episode 9: Nick Cull Talks Black Panther and Media's Role in Public Diplomacy
Episode 8: Black Panther and the Evolution of African Cinema Cultures
Episode 7: March For Our Lives and the Census
Episode 6: Define American's Julian Gomez on Black Panther and Empowering Fan Activism
Episode 5: Black Panther, comics and the history of Marvel
Episode 4: Recap, how do you like it so far?
Episode 3: William Proctor and Lisa Granshaw on Star Wars Fandom Responds to the Last Jedi
Episode 2: Jeff Gomez on The Collective Journey of the Last Jedi
Pilot: Race and Star Wars