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A personal and political exploration of today's American media landscape and how it works. Yikes!**All opinions are my own! ... more
FAQs about Bespoke:How many episodes does Bespoke have?The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.
August 17, 2025Part Four (Rhetoric and Solutions...maybe)Final episode!Resources:NAMLE - National Association for Media LiteracyBipartisan Policy Center - Countering Online Radicalization in Americahhttps://perilresearch.com/who-we-are/ https://www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation ...more19minPlay
August 16, 2025Part Three (History Matters)Even MORE sources: Sykes, Charles. “We’re Living in the World Rush Limbaugh Created.” The Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html. Accessed 9 May 2025. Tenore, Haley. “Teens Spend Nearly 2 Hours a Day on TikTok — and Barely Look at Facebook, a New Study Says. See How Other Apps Stack Up.” Business Insider, 28 Sept. 2023, www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-youtube-most-popular-screen-time-teens-facebook-instagram-study-2023-9. Toobin, Jeffrey. Homegrown. Simon and Schuster, 9 Apr. 2024. UNHCR. Factsheet 4: Types of Misinformation and Disinformation. 2022. Waldman, Steven. “An Overlooked — and Increasingly Important — Clue to How People Vote - POLITICO.” POLITICO, Politico, Nov. 2024, www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548. Wofford, Benjamin. “Meet the Lobbyist next Door.” Wired, 14 July 2022, www.wired.com/story/meet-the-lobbyist-next-door/. Wolfson, Sam. “Don’t Underestimate the Rogansphere. His Mammoth Ecosystem Is Fox News for Young People.” The Guardian, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2024, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/joe-rogan-theo-von-podcasts-donald-trump. ...more33minPlay
August 14, 2025Part Two (Media Effects and other stuff)More Sources:Grossmann, Matt, and David A. Hopkins. “From Fox News to Viral Views: The Influence of Ideological Media in the 2018 Elections.” The Forum, vol. 16, no. 4, 19 Dec. 2018, pp. 547–567, www.degruyter.com/view/journals/for/16/4/article-p551.xml, https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2018-0037. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020.Gunderman, Richard. “The Manipulation of the American Mind: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations.” The Conversation, 9 July 2015, theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393.Hatfield, Jenn. “More than 80% of Americans Believe Elected Officials Don’t Care What People like Them Think.” Pew Research Center, 30 Apr. 2024, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/30/more-than-80-of-americans-believe-elected-officials-dont-care-what-people-like-them-think/.Hemmer, Nicole. Messengers of the Right : Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.Hoare, Annabel. “What Parents Need to Know to Talk to Their Children about the Manosphere.” The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025, theconversation.com/what-parents-need-to-know-to-talk-to-their-children-about-the-manosphere-252984.Horowitz, Justin. “TikTok’s Manosphere Problem: Violent Misogyny Keeps Going Viral.” Media Matters for America, 10 Jan. 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-manosphere-problem-violent-misogyny-keeps-going-viral.Leidy, Levi. “It Pays to Talk! Joe Rogan’s Net Worth from Podcasting and More.” Parade, 7 Mar. 2024, parade.com/celebrities/joe-rogan-net-worth.Lewis Raven Wallace. The View from Somewhere : Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity. Chicago, The University Of Chicago Press, 2019.Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922.Little, Olivia. “STUDY: Tradwife Influencers Are Quietly Spreading Far-Right Conspiracy Theories.” Media Matters for America, 1 May 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories....more28minPlay
August 14, 2025Part One (Being Wrong Sucks)Sources (Part One)https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-electionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/science/apa-traditional-masculinity-harmful.htmlhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804649/Alterman, Eric. “Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America.” Journal of American History, vol. 105, no. 4, 1 Mar. 2019, pp. 1038–1039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz086. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019.Atske, Sara. “Podcast Use among Different Age Groups.” Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, 18 Apr. 2023, www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/04/18/podcast-use-among-different-age-groups/.Borelli, Gabriel. “Americans Are Split over the State of the American Dream.” Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2 July 2024, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/02/americans-are-split-over-the-state-of-the-american-dream/.https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-electionDeckman, Melissa. “Gen Z Men’s Rightward Shift Is Happening, but Could Be Temporary.”The Hill, 10 Feb. 2025, thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5134296-gen-z-men-voting-trump/.The Politics of Gen Z. Columbia University Press, 3 Sept. 2024.Deckman, Melissa, and Erin Cassese. “Gendered Nationalism and the 2016 US Presidential Election: How Party, Class, and Beliefs about Masculinity Shaped Voting Behavior.” Politics & Gender, vol. 17, no. 2, 23 Oct. 2019, pp. 1–24, www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gendered-nationalism-and-the-2016-us-presidential-election-how-party-class-and-beliefs-about-masculinity-shaped-voting-behavior/1F3F3AC0CBEA6F4AC4D89C4CA1FF8409, https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x19000485.DiResta, Renee. Invisible Rulers. PublicAffairs, 11 June 2024.Dupuis-Déri, Francis. “The Bogus “Crisis” of Masculinity.” The Conversation, 14 May 2018, theconversation.com/the-bogus-crisis-of-masculinity-96558.Ganz, John. When the Clock Broke. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 18 June 2024....more20minPlay
FAQs about Bespoke:How many episodes does Bespoke have?The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.