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Episodes
The Infiltrators with Alex Rivera
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our third virtual episode How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We are shocked we even remembered that since who even knows what day it is. Sa...
Comics with Cartoonists Mimi Pond and Carol Tyler
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we celebrate the launch of Henry’s new book, Comics and Stuff, with another installment of our series on comics. We have Mimi Pond, autho...
Broken Bread with Chef Roy Choi and KCET’s Juan Devis
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We hope you are hanging in there, How Do You Like it So Far? crew. We want to thank you for turning to our podcast during such a difficult time in ou...
Inside the Peabody Awards with Jeff Jones, Lorraine Ali and Marcy Carsey
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First off, we hope each and every one of you are staying safe, washing your hands, and keeping somewhat sane during the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020. ...
On Communities with Colin and Henry
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, do we have a special episode for you How Do You Like it So Far? fans! This week, Colin and Henry discuss communities and their presence in digita...
Open TV with A.J. Christian
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another new one How Do You Like it So Far? folks! Henry and Colin are joined this week by A.J. Christian, an Associate Professor of C...
Experimenting with Comics with Clifford Johnson and Dan Goldman
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got another one in store for you How Do You Like it So Far? team! This week we have another episode in our series about comics with Henry at ...
Exploring Virtual Communities with Howard Rheingold and Patricia Lange
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And we have a new one for you How Do You Like it So Far? crew! This week Henry and Colin are joined by Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought,...
Civic Imagination with Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another week, How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We have a very special episode in store for you all. This week, Henry is on the other side...
From Barbie to Ice Skates: Gendered Objects with Erica Rand
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erica Rand, professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College. She is author of: Barbie’s Queer Accessories,...
Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s to another week and another episode How Do You Like it So Far? Fans! We have got a very special guest for you this week - Scott McCloud, the...
Episode 52: Podcasting the News with Akilah Hughes
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a new decade (we’re in the 20’s folks!) and another episode of How Do You Like it So Far?! This week we have Akilah Hughes, a founding...
Season Five Teaser
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With more than 50 episodes behind us, How Do You Like it So Far is ready for a new season of the new decade – Stay tuned for our weekly releases st...
The Great Eastern with Howard A. Rodman
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 51st episode, How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We’ve got a great one in store for you for our last podcast of the season! (We know, but we’...
Memes to Movements with An Xiao Mina
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to December How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We can’t believe it ourselves, but we only have two more episodes left for the season! This w...
Fireside Chat with Youth Activists Justin Scott and Jessica Riestra
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are again How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We continue with our two-part series from the 2019 Connected Learning Summit which took place at ...
Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie Salen
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a treat in store for you this week, How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We begin a two-part series from the 2019 Connected Learning Summit w...
Women Who ROCK with Evelyn McDonnell, Shana L. Redmond and Alice Bag
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s to another week How Do You Like it So Far? crew! Henry and Colin welcome Evelyn McDonnell, an Associate Professor of Journalism at Loyola Ma...
“Legos for the Blind” with Matthew Shifrin
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
View the episode notes on our website for additional links and resources! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––...
“Radicalized” with Cory Doctorow
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
View the episode notes on our website for additional links and resources! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––...
On Woke Gaming with Kishonna L.Gray
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 43: Sex Work and Podcasting: A Conversation with Vanessa Carlisle, Siouxsie Q and Kaytlin Bailey
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s to another week and another episode How Do You Like it So Far? fans! We have a two-part series for you where Colin and Henry welcome Lauren L...
Episode 42: From Radio to Podcasting - Insight from Tina Antolini (Gravy), Scott Carrier (Home of the Brave) and Trey Kay (Us & Them)
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a special treat for you from Colin and Henry’s first ever recording from September 25, 2017! In this “throwback” episode, we...
On Ecopiety with Sarah McFarland Taylor: Is Abstaining from Using a Plastic Straw and Driving a Prius Saving Our Planet?
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
View the episode notes on our website for additional links and resources! Feel free to contact us at [email protected]. –––––––––––...
Exploring the Dark Fantastic with Ebony Thomas
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, author of the new book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games...
Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer games as a medium for self-expression in communist Czechoslovakia
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Jaroslav Švelch, author of Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium ...
Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to David Craig, Clinical Associate Professor at USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism and a Fellow at the ...
Lucha libre: performance, activism and politics
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. We are joined by Peatonito, an activist for pedestrians in...
Korean Science Fiction: imagining other worlds
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Korean science fiction, with Sang-Joon Park, publisher; Soyeon Jeong, a Science Fiction writer; Gord Sellar, also a writer, an...
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part four): Public radio and distributing content, where are we and where are we going?
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Kerri Hoffman, CEO of PRX (PRX, a distributor of public media content) and John Barth, Chief Content Editor of PRX. T...
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part three): Amber J. Phillips & Chenjerai Kumanyika on Podcasting as a vehicle for counterhistory
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amber J. Phillips (aka the High Priestess of Black Joy), podcaster and Participatory Civic Media Fellow at USC, takes the reins to interview Chenjerai...
Power and Pleasure of Podcasting (part two): Q&A session
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part 2 of our Power and Pleasure of Podcasting event at USC (episode 33), which included performances from our guests. In this episode, we hav...
The Power and Pleasure of Podcasting: a USC event
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We recently hosted an event on Power and Pleasure of Podcasting at USC, and we have the live recording to share with you . The lineup included perform...
The physical effects of media storytelling
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we experiment with format, but also with how we think about media, with our guest Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Engineering professor at a Univer...
The forgotten women of early filmmaking
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we touch on gender in film history with Professor of Film at Columbia University School of the Arts, Jane Gaines. During the current #timesu...
The politics within politics of the Oscars
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss the Academy Awards with Raffi Sarkissian, Lecturer at Christopher Newport University, Virginia. Raffi has written about the...
Taking risks: comedy as tool for social justice
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talked to Caty Borum Chatoo, Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) and Executive in Residence at the American...
Critics of color: The added value of subtleties
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our third and final installment of the need for critics of color, Eric Deggans, NPR's first full-time TV critic and author of Race Baiter: How the ...
Reimagining the ecology of cultural criticism
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we continue with the second installment of our conversation about critics of color. Colin and Henry talk to Carolina Miranda, a writer and a...
The growing hunger: why do we need more critics of color?
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today is our first of three episodes [exploring why we all need] critics of color. Colin talks to Jeff Yang, an American writer, journalist, and busin...
War of the Worlds, hoaxes and conspiracies with Nick Cull
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
To continue our thread on rumours and conspiracy theories, this week Colin discussed the 80th anniversary of the The War of the Worlds broadcast on CB...
Episode 23: Naja Nielsen and youth political participation
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why are younger people more likely to protest, and less likely to vote? This week, Henry talks with Naja Nielsen from Orb Media. They discuss how yout...
Episode 22: Wu Ming and Benjamen Walker on conspiracy theories
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked about conspiracy theories with Wu Ming, the collective, whose books inspired one the main conspiracy theorists on the internet, an...
Episode 21: Rohan Joshi from All India Bakchod on civic entertainment
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we explore the role of comedy in civic participation within the Indian context. Rohan Joshi is part of the sketch comedy group All India Bac...
Episode 20: Anushka Shah and Civic Entertainment in India
29 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. More recently, sh...
Episode 19: Star Trek and actual space with Margaret Weitekamp
22 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Henry is currently a visiting scholar at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, where he had the chance to speak about space with Margaret Weiteka...
Episode 18: Diane Winston on religion and the entertainment media
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Henry Jenkins talks to Diane Winston, professor of Communication and Journalism at USC, about religion and reality television. Are young peo...
Episode 17: Science fiction as a way of understanding and re-imagining the world
09 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our podcast returns after its summer hiatus with an episode focused on science fiction as a way of understanding and re-imagining the world. We reasse...
Episode 16: Maureen Ryan, Emily Andras and Louisa Stein on GLBT TV Representation
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Critic Maureen Ryan, showrunner Emily Andras and professor Louisa Stein discuss GLBT representation on TV and the tricky relationship between fans and...
Episode 15: Define American Film Fest with poet Yosimar Reyes and organizer Erika Andiola
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
'How do you like it so far?' producer Andrea Alarcon and Annenberg Doctoral Candidate Rogelio Alejandro Lopez take over this week's episode for a tri...
Episode 14: Hye Jin Lee and Cristina Visperas on K-pop
19 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
USC professors Hye Jin Lee and Cristina Visperas join Colin and Henry to deliver a crash course on global K-pop fandoms. ––––––––––...
Episode 13: Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Kurt Squire on Ready Player One and Game Based Learning
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
University of California, Irvine professors Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Kurt Squire discuss Ready Player One and Game Based Learning. Bios: Professor K...
Episode 12: Ann Pendleton-Jullian Talks Worldbuilding
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Pendleton-Jullian joins Henry and Colin for a wide-ranging discussion about worldbuilding, followed by a reflection from Henry and Colin. Bio: An...
Episode 11: Alex McDowell on "Ready Player One," World Building and Production Design
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alex McDowell joins Henry to discuss "Ready Player One," production design for Steven Spielberg films, and world building. Bio: Alex McDowe...
Episode 10: Nonny De La Peña on "Ready Player One," Virtual Reality and Storytelling
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh off an afternoon viewing of “Ready Player One,” Colin and Nonny De La Peña discuss virtual reality and the implications of emerging technol...
Episode 9: Nick Cull Talks Black Panther and Media's Role in Public Diplomacy
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Cull, professor of Public Diplomacy and founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program at USC, joins Colin to discuss what mainstrea...
Episode 8: Black Panther and the Evolution of African Cinema Cultures
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Manouchka Labouba, a Gabonese filmmaker and USC doctoral fellow in Cinema and Media Studies, discusses the Black Panther and how technology has change...
Episode 7: March For Our Lives and the Census
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Colin and Henry discuss current events on each of their minds, including the March For Our Lives and the U.S. Census. –––––––...
Episode 6: Define American's Julian Gomez on Black Panther and Empowering Fan Activism
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Define American's Julian Gomez joins Henry and Colin to discuss how Black Panther and other popular stories can be used to empower fan activism. After...
Episode 5: Black Panther, comics and the history of Marvel
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guests Ramzi Fawaz, assistant professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Rebecca Wanzo, associate professor of Women, Gender, and S...
Episode 4: Recap, how do you like it so far?
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Colin and I sat down to talk together about why we were making this podcast, what we hope to accomplish, how we understand the current medi...
Episode 3: William Proctor and Lisa Granshaw on Star Wars Fandom Responds to the Last Jedi
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The news media has had much to say in the past few months about the ways Star Wars fans have responded to this The Last Jedi. Much of this reporting h...
Episode 2: Jeff Gomez on The Collective Journey of the Last Jedi
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
More responses to The Last Jedi. This time, we check in with Jeff Gomez from Starlight Runner, a leading figure in the world of transmedia storytellin...
Pilot: Race and Star Wars
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So, in the first cluster of episodes, we are turning out attention onto The Last Jedi, which we are coming at from multiple angles. The first episode,...