Critical Media Studies
Episodes
The Top 10 Albums of All Time! Why it doesn’t matter.
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Barry and Mike take a look at the top 10 albums of all time according to Wikipedia. As with virtually all Top 10 lists, they take iss...
Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology: The Digital Age
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all ...
Heidegger -- The Question Concerning Technology: History and Context
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike look at Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology." They attempt to provide a little context on the work with the aim identifyin...
On Fake news and Ross Douthat
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike talk about a Ross Douthat article from the New York Times as a means of engaging with fake news.
On Online Education
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss online education as a pharmakon. They argue that while the upsides to this model of learning are clear, there ...
What have we learned about Zoom?
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike return to their roots in the classroom and discuss Zoom through a pedagogical and critical media studies lens. Topics include how Zoom...
Don't Look Up
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike discuss the recent Adam McKay film Don't Look Up. They argue that the film plot and characters are a representation of Bernard Steigle...
Jaques Ellul and Bob Lefsetz - Technique in the Age of Digital Streaming
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike discuss a recent blog post by the music industry critic Bob Lefsetz regarding the failures of streaming platforms to release content en...
E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike discuss the E.M. Forester short story "The Machine Stops" and marvel at how timely it is, over 100 years after it was written. Using t...
Marshall McLuhan and Spotify
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does Marshall Mcluhan's mean by the medium is the message? What does that look like when we hold it up to something like Spotify, and what does ...
Raymond Williams - Culture, the Mass, the Mob, and Education
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike discuss sections of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society with an emphasis on how his concept of culture works in our time. We talk ab...
Response to Ted Gioia - Is Old Music Killing New Music?
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode comes on what is usually a week off because, well, we got pretty fired up about Gioia's article!Barry and Mike agree (and disagree) about...
Bernard Steigler and The Automatic Society, pt. 2
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike continue with their conversation of Bernard Steigler's Automatic Society in the second of a two part discussion.
Bernard Steigler and the Automatic Society, pt. 1
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike begin a two part discussion on Bernard Steigler and his book, The Automatic Society.
Welcome to the Critical Media Studies Podcast!
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barry and Mike introduce themselves and the show. We talk about who we are, where and how we come to Critical Media Studies, and what the show is abo...