Amplified: Reimagining the Sound of Scholarship

Videographic critics Jason Mittell and Christian Keathley join Amplified on the mic to share their insights into the benefits of engaging with non-traditional forms of scholarship and explain what exactly is videographic criticism? From the halls of Middlebury college in Vermont, the duo are leading voices in the videographic criticism movement, a creative and pedagogical scholarly practice that has led to a series of workshops, an open peer review journal, and a thriving community of practitioners interested in the conceptual use of moving image media as a mode of scholarly rhetoric and exploration.

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Guest Bios

Christian Keathley is the Walter J Cerf Distinguished Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. See his faculty page for more details.

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. See his CV for more details, his scholarly writings for downloadable content, and his Vimeo page for videographic work.

Additional Resources and Mentions

[In] Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies: http://mediacommons.org/intransition/

“The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy” by C. Keathley, J. Mittell, & C. Grant: http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/index

Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshops in Videographic Criticism: https://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/

Journal of Embodied Research is an example shared by Jason of videographic work being done outside the field of film and media studies. A “peer-reviewed, open access, academic journal to focus on the dissemination of embodied knowledge through video”. https://jer.openlibhums.org/

Intro + Outro Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

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Join Amplified host Stacey Copeland in conversation with Dr. A.D. Carson, assistant professor of Hip Hop and the Global South in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia, to talk about bridging the worlds of rap and academic publishing, and their experience in non-traditional peer review, asking 'who are the peers anyway?'. 

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

Guest Bio

A.D. Carson is an award-winning rapper, performance artist, and educator from Decatur, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. from Clemson University in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. His most recent album is iv: talking to ghosts, and his academically peer-reviewed album, i used to love to dream, was published by University of Michigan Press in 2020. Dr. Carson is currently assistant professor of Hip-Hop & the Global South in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. [social: @aydeethegreat]

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Song featured in the intro by A.D. Carson - “Asterisk”. (2020). I used to love to dream. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11738372.cmp.12

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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, I'm joined by Dr. Ethel Tungohan, the host of the Academic Aunties podcast, to talk about collaborative, ethical and consent based interview podcasts. We also dig into questions of podcaster versus researcher identities and the pros and cons in considering all academic podcasts as scholarship.

Full transcript available over at Amplify Podcast Network

Guest Bio

Dr. Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Associate Professor of Politics and Social Science at York University. She has also been appointed as a Broadbent Institute Fellow. Previously, she was the Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of Political Science. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. Her research looks at migrant labor, specifically assessing migrant activism. She is also the host of the monthly podcast Academic Aunties.

Links Mentioned

Academic Aunties Podcast - https://www.academicaunties.com

Academic Aunties Twitter - https://twitter.com/academicauntie

Academic Aunties episode with Dr. Joyce Green - https://www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the-ultimate-academic-auntie

Dr. Ethel Tungohan's Other Impressive Work - https://www.tungohan.com/

Amplified audio blog with Dr. Jill Fellows - https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/2022/06/21/the-podcast-as-book-companion-with-jill-fellows/

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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 I’m joined by Dr. Jill Fellows, faculty member in Philosophy at Douglas College to talk about her new podcast Gender, Sex, and Tech!, a podcast made in compliment to her forthcoming co-edited book collection under the same name. Fellows share her insights on ‘the podcast book companion’ and what makes the form such an exciting opportunity for scholars interested in taking their conversations beyond the page.

Guest Bio:

Jennifer Jill Fellows is a faculty member in the philosophy department at Douglas College, and a 2022 podcasting fellow of the Mark Sanders Foundation for Public Philosophy. She's currently involved in two podcasting projects: one called Gender Sex and Tech: Continuing the Conversation, and the other known as Andraste’s Gadfly. Her academic research interests are in social epistemology and metaphysics of personhood. She particularly focuses on trust, expertise and marginalization in science and technology studies. In her spare time she enjoys camping, canoeing, baking and playing three-chord songs on her guitar. . . badly.

Things Mentioned:

Gender, Sex, and Tech! Podcast - https://gendersextech.opened.ca/

Gender, Sex, and Tech! An Intersectional Feminist Guide (July 2022) - https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/gender-sex-and-tech

Jill’s ‘fun’ podcast aka Andraste’s Gadfly - https://andrastesgadfly.opened.ca/

TRU Podcasting Masterclass - https://podcastmasterclass.trubox.ca/

 Marc Sanders Foundation Public Philosophy Initiative - https://marcsandersfoundation.org/public-philosophy/philosophy-in-the-media/

Humanities Podcast Network - https://humanitiespodnetwork.org/

OpenEd.ca - https://opened.ca/get-started/

Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Just Sustainability podcast - https://just-sustainability.com/

Full transcripts available at https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/blog/

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Have you heard of open science? From open access to open data to community engaged practices and public scholarship, the open science movement is making waves across the university. It's a larger movement in academia toward making our research more transparent and accessible. This month on Amplified, I'm joined by a leading thinker on Open Science, Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin of Simon Fraser University, Canada. Juan shares his insights into the open movement, where it got started and how scholarly podcasting fits into the conversation.

Guest Bio:

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, the co-Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar who uses a combination of computational techniques and traditional qualitative methods to investigate ways of raising the scientific quality, global impact, and public use of scholarly work. You can read more about Juan Pablo’s work at the ScholCommLab website https://scholcommlab.ca

Links Mentioned:

Public Knowledge Project - https://pkp.sfu.ca/

Rethinking Research Assessment, ScholCommLab (2022) - https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2022/05/04/findings-from-the-rpt-project/

UNESCO Open Science - https://www.unesco.org/en/natural-sciences/open-science

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This month I’m joined by Kim Fox, professor of Practice at The American University in Cairo to talk feminism, pedagogy, and what we might envision for the future of podcasting in the university ecosystem. Kim takes us behind the scenes of their latest co-authored study "Egyptian Female Podcasters Shaping Feminist Identities" (Fox & Abada 2022) to reimagine how students might learn differently by stepping in front of the microphone.

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify podcast network.

Full Transcript and References available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest Bio:

Kim Fox is a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Cairo, Egypt. She primarily teaches Audio Production and other journalism courses. PodFest Cairo, Egypt’s first podcasting conference was founded and organized by Fox in 2020. She has been a consultant on numerous audio related projects including the HUSSLab, an organized research lab, on the AUC campus as well as for the Enterprise Egypt podcast “Making It.” As the executive producer of the award-winning Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast, a narrative nonfiction podcast about life in Cairo, Egypt, she works with young freelance producers, many of them former students, writing and editing audio content.

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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 sit down with Amplify collaborator and director of SpokenWeb Jason Camlot to talk about their collaborative work on the SpokenWeb Podcast. Jason takes us behind the scenes at SpokenWeb to discuss the ways in which engaging in sonic scholarship has transformed his relationship to research and the academic world.

Guest Bios:

Jason Camlot’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge 2008), and the co-edited collections, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill Queen’s UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule 2007). He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb <www.spokenweb.ca>, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. Jason is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.

Additional Links:

SpokenWeb Podcast - https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/spokenweb-podcast/

Episode with Brenna Clarke Gray re: vulnerability - https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/News/2022/Amplified-Brenna-Clarke-Gray-says-You-Got-This

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Amplified is an audio blog series taking us behind the scenes at the Amplify Podcast Network to explore the different ways our team is reimagining the sound of scholarship. This month we go behind the scenes to learn more about the You Got This! podcast from Brenna Clarke Gray, Amplify project collaborator and Coordinator of Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University. Brenna and I sit down over Zoom to talk about the podcast and what vulnerability and embodiment can offer to our current state of teaching and learning in the post-secondary system.

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

Guest:

Brenna Clarke Gray is Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, where her research interests include the history and future of open tenure processes and the role of care and care work in the practice of educational technology. Prior to her transition to faculty support, she spent nine years as a community college English professor and comics scholar, and has published extensively on Canadian comics and representations of Canada in mainstream American comic books. She holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of New Brunswick. Outside of the academy’s walls, Brenna co-hosts Hazel&Katniss&Harry&Starr, a podcast about young adult literature and film adaptation, and plays the role of a public intellectual on Twitter, when you can find her @brennacgray.

You Got This! podcast: https://yougotthis.trubox.ca

Hosted and produced by Stacey Copeland

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Amplified is an audio blog series taking us behind the scenes at the Amplify Podcast Network to explore the different ways our team is reimagining the sound of scholarship. This month we go behind the scenes to explore the spirit behind the project and what got us started, our co-directors’ path toward peer review. To learn more about how the network got started and where it is headed in the future, Amplify project manager Stacey Copeland, is joined in conversation by co-directors Hannah McGregor and Siobhan McMenemy.

Transcript available on our website: https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest Bios:

Hannah McGregor,  Amplify Co-Director, Simon Fraser University.

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, 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 podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, which is currently undergoing an experimental peer review process with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (Book*hug 2018).

Siobhan McMenemy, Amplify Co-Director, WLU Press.

Siobhan McMenemy is Senior Editor at WLU Press. She has worked in scholarly publishing for over twenty years, during which time she has built book lists and edited scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. She is committed to publishing scholarship by and about members of communities who have been pushed to the margins for too long. Her editorial work includes cross- and interdisciplinary research, hybrid genres, and collaborative, born-digital scholarship, of which her work on scholarly podcasting is a part. 

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Additional Resources and Mentions:

Secret Feminist Agenda Peer Review 

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Amplified is an audio blog series taking us behind the scenes at the Amplify Podcast Network to explore the different ways our team is reimagining the sound of scholarship. This month we go behind the scenes of creating accessible design for our Guide to Academic Podcasting. If Amplify’s goal is to increase the accessibility of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences through podcasting, accessible design is key. To learn more about accessible design practises in the world of publishing, Amplify project manager Stacey Copeland, is joined in conversation by Murray Tong and Lindsey Hunnewell of Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Transcript available on our website at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest Bios:

Murray Tong,  WLU Press, Managing Editor.

Murray Tong is the managing editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. A graduate of the University of Guelph and Simon Fraser University, he has worked in communications, journalism, and publishing for twenty years.

Lindsey Hunnewell, WLU Press, Production Coordinator. 

Lindsey has been obsessed with books since she was a young girl growing up in New Brunswick. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King’s College and has worked as a writer, editor, and production assistant for television news and magazines. Currently she looks after print production and the audiobook program at Wilfrid Laurier University Press as their Production Coordinator. She is passionate about all things accessibility-related and looks for ways to better incorporate accessible elements into her work. In her spare time, you can usually find her at the curling rink or on the dance floor at a swing dance event.

Intro + Outro Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

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Additional Resources Mentioned:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

CNIB Frontier Accessibility

National Network for Equitable Library Services

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