Aca-Media Podcast Episode 70: Jordan Sjol on Medium Specificity

If you’re feeling sluggish from the holiday season, press play on this rich conversation between Jonathan Nichols-Pethick and Jordan Sjol to get your brain sparked and ready for a new year of smart conversations about media. The two DePauw colleagues talk about Sjol’s JCMS article, “A Diachronic, Scale-Flexible, Relational, Perspectival Operation: In Defense of (Always-Reforming) Medium Specificity” (don’t worry, they break it down word-by-word), as well as the recent feature film that Sjol co-wrote, How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Then Chris and Michael chat about how to name a department and how not to title a podcast

An Interview with Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed\u27s News Editor, Craig Silverman, has been on the trail of fake news for years. In this installment of modern_media JNP talks with Silverman, about fake news: What it is, where it comes from, the economic and political impulses for creating and sharing it, and what we can do about it. For more on Craig Silverman\u27s work, click here

Nothing drives traffic like news : A Conversation with Juli Metzger

JNP talks with Juli Metzger about the role of media literacy education, journalistic entrepreneurship, and the importance of local media at a time when our media environment has been forever altered by new and emerging technologies that threaten to throw that environment out of balance while at the same time offering new possibilities for more meaningful and impactful journalism

An Interview with Jill Frederickson, ESPN

In the latest installment of modern_media, JNP speaks with Jill Frederickson, VP of Editorial Operations at ESPN about the connection between her education and her career, and about the importance of content as ESPN navigates the shifting and expanding media landscape

“Everybody Should Be Podcasting”: A Conversation with Michael O’Connell

In this installment, JNP sits down with Michael O’Connell to talk about the role of podcasting in journalism, the changes that digital platforms have brought to the work of journalism, and the value of journalism in the digital media environment. Michael O’Connell is the host of the podcast It’s All Journalism and the author of the book Turn Up The Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (Routledge 2017). O’Connell is also the senior digital editor at Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C

Antisocial Media: A Conversation with Siva Vaidhyanathan

In this installment, JNP sits down with Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan to talk about his latest book, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. The conversation delves into questions of how Facebook positions itself as a social good while its very structure provides a platform – unprecedented in its size and scope - for the manipulation of political discourse and the widespread circulation of misinformation. Prof. Vaidhyanathan is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is the author of several other books, including The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), and he also serves as a columnist for The Guardian

Net Neutrality - Part 4: Warfare

In the final installment of our series on net neutrality, I talked by phone with Prof. Barbara Cherry of the Media School at Indiana University. Our topics of discussion ranged from primary definitions of regulatory structures, how those structures are represented in media accounts, the legal structures undergirding much of this debate, and the economic and ideological stakes of these regulatory policies. Prof. Cherry worked for many years as an attorney representing telecommunications companies, AT&T and Ameritech. She then worked for several years as senior counsel at the FCC in the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and now teaches courses on public policy, deregulation, net neutrality, communications infrastructure, law, and economics

Homicide, Homicide: The Movie in Television Finales : From Howdy Doody to Girls

TV finales fascinate us because they bring universes to an end--in the case of long-running shows, very complicated universes--exposing in the process our cultural obsessions, our \u27reading\u27 practices, our imagined identities, our fascination with television. This volume brings together the work of 63 scholars in 71 essays, each essay discussing a different television finale -- Provided by publishe

Show your work : A Conversation with Frank LoMonte

In this installment, JNP sits down with Frank LoMonte to talk about the importance of student media, the value of journalism education, and the need for transparency and the free flow of information. Frank LoMonte is the Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information: http://brechner.org/Student Press Law Center: http://www.splc.org

From Franchise to Hometown: A Conversation with ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen

In the summer of 1978, Bill Rasmussen hatched what is surely one of the most impactful innovations in the history of television: the 24-hour cable network, ESPN. As the founder and former President of the company, Rasmussen helped develop the network’s flagship program, “Sports Center.” Bill Rasmussen joins us in the studio to talk about the thinking that led to the idea for ESPN as well as his latest venture, Hometown Networks, which allows individual communities to create and maintain their own streaming service for local sports