In today's podcast I talk with Ana Jorge from the Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies about her book Atomospheres and

Digital Media: Connection and Disconnection across Everyday Life.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/atmospheres-and-digital-media

On the Geomedia podcast I talk with Professor Mette Mortensen on the way in which digital media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived.

Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram's reputation for shallowness, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas. Who are we? What do we want to show of ourselves? What do we aspire to be?

On Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social media. John D. Boy and Justus Uitermark provide an encompassing account of how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments. They examine how personalities, relationships, social movements, urban subcultures, and city streets change as they are represented on Instagram. Interviews and ethnographic vignettes render an intimate account of the desires and anxieties that animate the platform. Just as importantly, Boy and Uitermark reveal how Instagram is implicated in social inequalities.

John D. Boy, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology (with tenure) at Leiden University.

In the podcast I talk with Professor Bo Reimer from Malmö University about his current research project into imaginative futures and issues such as AI.

Adventure tourism gets no more extreme than mount Everest. Each year sees increasing numbers of trekkers, climbers, and tourists in the region. The evident dangers and risks are, in many ways, the essence of its attraction – an experience to find yourself, define yourself or even display yourself. The establishing of cellular and wifi coverage has meant that even more images are generated each season. How might the experience of Everest be studied from the perspective of anthropology and media? In this edition of the podcast I talk to Jolynna Sinanan from the University of Manchester who is working on just this project.

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/jolynna.sinanan

When we think of processes such as diplomacy we usually think of receptions, dinners and heavily coded conversations between state representatives. Yet there is a way to think about the complexity of this relationship in terms of how it operates through a range of material and immaterial practices from the rise of paper records in the British Empire to the procedures for standardisation for equipment between NATO countries. here I talk with Jason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography at University College London about his book Diplomatic Material:Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/jason-dittmer

As the climate crisis impacts on all of us, science and research is continuously expanding on the amount of data that describes what is happening. Yet, communicating this information can be challenging, especially if we are to avoid endless doom scenarios that seem to offer little in terms of how we can imagine a different future. Andrew Merrie of the Stockholm Resilience Centre has been at the forefront of developing science-based future scenarios that build on fictional models to challenge this.

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2011-11-18-merrie.html

https://rethink.earth/author/andrew-merrie/

https://www.planethon.io/about-us

The free exchange of opinion and argument in a shared space of a public sphere has been central to western democratic systems for over 150 years. The expansion of mobile communication technologies has introduced a number of key changes to this process and arguably raises the need for similarly new techniques for studying the very fluid and dynamic nature of these events. From protest to festivals, there are those who attempt to address the questions of movement of people and those excluded from or, indeed facilitated by systems of boundaries and entry points.

https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/joan-rodriguez-amat

https://www.kau.se/forskare/cornelia-brantner

In the podcast I talk with Stijn Reijnders about his research into media tourism and the popular imagination.

In the podcast I talk with Emiliano Treré, Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University in the UK about how digital communication technologies has impacted on recent activism and the role it is playing in social movements.