Amplified: Reimagining the Sound of Scholarship

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we sit down with Charisse L'Pree and Bob Thompson, co-creators of the podcast Critical and Curious, to discuss their love of pop trash media, and its importance in the academy.

Transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bios:

Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay, Ph.D., examines how media affects identity, attitudes and behaviors, and how we use different media to express ourselves and connect with others. Prof. L’Pree has authored two books: "20th Century Media and the American Psyche: A Strange Love" (Routledge, 2021) bridges media theory, psychology and interpersonal communication to describe how our relationships with media emulate the relationships we develop with friends and romantic partners through their ability to replicate intimacy, regularity and reciprocity. "Diversity and Satire: Laughing at Processes of Marginalization" (Wiley, 2023) is the first textbook to explore diversity by demonstrating how satirical content can advance the discussion and change attitudes.

Robert J. Thompson is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at Newhouse School of Public Communications. Thompson is the general editor of the Television and Popular Culture series published by Syracuse University Press. He is the former president of the National Popular Culture Association and lectures across the country on the subject of television and popular culture. In 1991 and 1992, he was awarded the Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communication Theory by the International Radio & Television Society.

Links and Resources:

Critical and Curious

Breaking Bad- Ozymandias

Newhouse School of Public Communications

Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw

Tuesdays with Bleier

The Wayans Bros

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin, co-creators of the podcast Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Guide to Religion. We hear about their friendship, their entry into podcasting, and their approaches toward anti-racist religious studies work.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bios:

Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst is a scholar of religion, race and radicalization, and history. She is currently working on Imperial Pandemics, an academic monograph that thinks about religion and race as global phenomena. She is an associate professor of Religion and director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont. She has been recognized as an award-winning teacher whose courses are about the history of religion, Islamic practice and history, race and imperialism, and South Asian traditions. She is the author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion.

Dr. Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American religions. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). Her next book is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. She is the founder and co-director of the Bardo Institute for Religion and Public Policy, and the media and tech consultant on the Crossroads Project.

Together they are working on Religion Isn't Done with You, a book drawing upon Keeping It 101.

Links and Resources:

Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Guide to Religion

The Feminist Killjoy Manifesto by Sarah Ahmed

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with Age Studies scholar Dr. Sally Chivers to discuss her podcast, Wrinkle Radio. We discuss making a podcast for the first time, seeing the waveform of your best friend's laughter, and the intersectional ways Age Studies interacts with so many elements of life and scholarship.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bio:

Dr. Sally Chivers is Full Professor of Gender & Social Justice and English at Trent University, where she is a Founding Executive Member and Past Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society and recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Research Award.

A prolific and sought-after speaker and collaborator, Dr. Chivers writes, speaks, and makes short films about the social and cultural politics of health, aging, and disability. Her monthly podcast Wrinkle Radio fights ageism one story at a time. She has published two books that draw on film and literary analysis to emphasize connections between aging and disability in the public imagination. Her two co-edited collections show that cultural representations influence how we think about aging, long-term care, and disability, and vice versa. 

Links and Resources:

Wrinkle Radio

Trent Center for Aging & Society

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with podcast scholars Ian M Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregor to unpack the key provocations, or what the authors term the key 'f**keries,' of their forthcoming book- Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century. We discuss their hot takes on collaborative writing, alternative forms of peer review, and why the trio claims scholarly podcasting is currently 'unsound.' 

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bios:

Ian M. Cook is Editor and Chief at Allegra Lab. He is an anthropologist whose work focus includes urban India, scholarly podcasting, open education, and environmental (in)justice. His most recent book is 'Scholarly Podcasting: What, Why, How' (Routledge, 2023). More info can be found at: www.drianmcook.net

Lori Beckstead is an Associate Professor in the RTA School of Media and Director of the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University where she teaches courses in podcasting, radio and sound studies. She is the on-again, off-again co-producer and co-host of The Podcast Studies Podcast along with Dario Llinares.

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and magazines as middlebrow media. She is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world, and the creator of the peer-reviewed podcast Secret Feminist Agenda (WLUP). She is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug 2018), and the co-director of Amplify Podcast Network.

Links and Resources:

Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century (Forthcoming) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/podcast-or-perish-9781501385209

'Scholarly Podcasting: What, Why, How' (Routledge, 2023) - https://www.routledge.com/Scholarly-Podcasting-Why-What-How/Cook/p/book/9780367439446

Podcast Studies - The Podacademics Networks - https://podcaststudies.org

Open Peer Review Podcast - https://oprpodcast.ca

ICA Podcast Studies Pre-Conference (May 2023) - https://podcastprecon23.pubpub.org

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we're featuring BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly in conversation with Editor Paige Raibmon and Soundworks Editor Jenni Shine. Bc Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes regional scholarly work in print, audio, and multimedia formats. Together we reflect on how BC Studies became a space for alternative forms of scholarship, and the ways in which the journal continues to push the boundaries of what it means to publish alongside questions of decoloniality, regional-based work, and of course, sound-based scholarship.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest Bios:

Paige Raibmon is the the editor of BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly. A Professor in the Department of History at University of British Columbia (UBC), their research engages a range of questions united by my preoccupation with Indigenous peoples’ endurance and resurgence in the face of settler colonialism’s historical workings and on-going implications.

Jenni Schine is the SoundWorks Associate Editor of the BC Studies Journal, As a sound artist, Jenni's hope is to make art that is ecologically accountable and builds relationships in a reciprocal manner. A big fan of public engagement, she has extended her work into art installations, film, radio, and soundscape compositions. Jenni grew up in the traditional territories of the  xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where she currently lives.

Links and Resources:

BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly

SFU Sonic Research Studio

BC Studies Podcast Submission Guidelines

Droumeva, M. (2017). The Coffee-Office: Urban Soundscapes for Creative Productivity. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 195, 119–127. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i195.189054

Smolicki, J. (2021). Intertidal Room: A Soundwalk through Timescapes of Vancouver’s Coastline. BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 210, 101–106. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi210.194008

Secret Feminist Agenda Peer Review

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, I'm joined by Robert Cassanello, associate professor of History at the University of Central Florida. More importantly for our context here, he is an early advocate for the peer review of podcasts as scholarship, and the co-founder of H-Podcast, part of the online humanities and social sciences forum H-Net. Together we unpack the development of Robert's early podcast pursuits and where he hopes to see the academic podcast community headed next.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest Bio

Robert Cassanello is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is a social historian interested in public history. His book To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville won the 2014 Harry Moore Award by the Florida Historical Society. He has also produced numerous media projects such as the films, The Committee, Filthy Dreamers and Marching Forward with Dr. Lisa Mills. The films have screened at numerous state, national and international film festivals and their films have won several awards including a Suncoast Emmy© and College TV Emmy©. Additionally he produced the podcasts RICHES of Central Florida, A History of Central Florida Podcast, Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast, and The Florida Constitutions Podcast. He has won the Dunn Internet Broadcasting Award with the Florida Historical Society for his work in podcasting. Dr. Cassanello also was a featured voice on the weekly public radio program Florida Frontiers produced by the Florida Historical Society between 2013 and 2016.

Links and Resources

H-Podcast on H-Net - https://networks.h-net.org/h-podcast

A History of Central Florida Podcast - https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/

Radio Doc Review Journal - https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we’re joined by Dr. Jacob Smith, professor of Sound Arts at Northwestern University and author of Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (2021). Together Jacob and I talk about tricky work of multimodal scholarship in practice from embracing the slowness of working with sound to thinking about audio right from the start of your project ideation.

Find the episode transcript and more at https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/

Guest bio: Jacob Smith is co-founder and director of the Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries, and professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. He is the author of Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media (University of California Press 2008); Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures (University of California Press 2011); The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance (University of California Press 2012); Eco-Sonic Media (University of California Press, 2015); and two experimental audiobooks: ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene (University of Michigan Press 2019) and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (University of Michigan Press, 2021). He writes and teaches about the cultural history of media, with a focus on sound and the relationship between media and the environment.

Works Referenced:

Smith, J. (2021). Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. Michigan University Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11714652

Smith, J. (2019). ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene. Michigan University Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.10120795

Sterne, J. (2019). “Multimodal Scholarship in World Soundscape Project Composition: Toward a Different Media-Theoretical Legacy (Or: The WSP as OG DH), In Sound, Media, Ecology, eds. M. Droumea & R. Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 85-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_5 

Amplified - Videographic Criticism with Jason Mittell and Christian Keathley

Amplified - Who are the Peers? with Dr. A.D. Carson

But Is Any Of This Legal? Some Notes About Copyright and Fair Use by Jason Mittell - videographicessay.org* (*Note fair use differs country to country)

Fulcrum open source publishing platform - ​​fulcrum.org 

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We are the AMPLIFY PODCAST NETWORK and we are reimagining the sound of scholarship. 

Our new network manifesto, a collaboratively voiced soundwork articulating the core values of the Amplify Podcast Network: we believe that scholarly podcasts create new knowledge, out loud and in conversation, by embracing experimentation, making space for different voices, and building new communities through collaboration and openness.

Co-authored by co-directors Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor and sound-designed by Copeland, the manifesto aims to capture the spirit of the network: playful, experimental, and multi-voiced. Lauren Jeanneau is the designer behind the visual companion. One that creatively remediates the manifesto in print form, expanding the potential reach and accessibility of the manifesto while working to continually ground it in the affordances of sound.

Music:

Brek PKL - Limoncello. Blue Dot Sessions

Lakkalia - Banana Cream. Blue Dot Sessions

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Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. In this episode, we’re joined by a leading thinker in the refereed open-access online scholarship movement, Dr. Cheryl Ball. Cheryl is Senior Editor at Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. A refreshingly ground-breaking anti-racist community-driven open-access journal publishing academic web texts since 1996. Together we talk about how and why the journal got started and where Cheryl hopes to see digital publishing headed next.

Find the episode transcript and more at https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/

Guest Bio

Dr. Cheryl E. Ball is a digital nomad, publishing consultant, writer, and intuitive. She worked as a faculty member in several institutions for 14 years before transitioning to library publishing for 5 years. She continues to edit *Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy,* and she is also Executive Director for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In her spare time, she reads tarot, studies Iyengar Yoga, and watches nature for its wonder. Oh, and binges shows on Netflix. cherylball.org

Resource Links

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy - https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/

McGregor, Hannah, and Stacey Copeland. 2022. “Why Podcast?: Podcasting as Publishing, Sound-Based Scholarship, and Making Podcasts Count.” Kairos 27 (1). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/27.1/topoi/mcgregor-copeland/index.html.

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This month on Amplified, we sit down with Dr. Parinita Shetty, the freshly minted Doctor of Education behind Marginally Fannish, a podcast and PhD thesis exploring intersectionality in online fandom. We talk about imposter syndrome and explore how fan podcasts act as sites of public pedagogy by providing a social learning context in informal digital spaces. 

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. Find the full transcript and more at: https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/

Guest Bio:

Parinita Shetty has worked with young people and children’s books in India in various ways – as an author, a bookseller in a children’s bookshop, a reading programme developer, and a coordinator of a children’s literature festival. She completed her M.Ed in Children’s Literature and Literacies at the University of Glasgow in 2017. She passed her PhD in Education viva at the University of Leeds in June 2022. She launched a PhD podcast called Marginally Fannish to research intersectionality and public pedagogy in fan podcasts. She is passionate about co-creating knowledge, including diverse voices in her research, and making academic research as accessible as possible to non-academic audiences in creative ways. She should currently be planning Season 2 of her fan podcast but is probably watching Doctor Who.

Resources Mentioned:

Marginally Fannish - https://marginallyfannish.org/

Burdick, J., & Sandlin, J. A. (2010). Inquiry as Answerability: Toward a Methodology of Discomfort in Researching Critical Public Pedagogies. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(5), 349–360. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1177/1077800409358878

Episode with intersectionality discussion mentioned: https://marginallyfannish.org/2020/01/30/episode-1-more-inclusive-the-journey-of-three-indian-fangirls/

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