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A lot of parents nowadays are concerned about their children spending too much time on screens. We begin by discussing how screen time is inevitable in this post-pandemic era and that screen time itself might not be the problem. Lynn shares her own parenting experiences to state that parents also can use screen time and technology to build a good children-parent relationship and bond the family together. We then discuss the relationship between screen time and young people’s mental health, pointing out that the problem lies somewhere else instead of timing itself and we should consider other contexts like personal life when it comes to young people’s mental health. Also, regarding issues like “policing” and children’s rights, the key is the balance, and how parents use technology to create a wholesome societal environment are discussed. 

Sonia Livingstone is a professor in the Department of Media and Communication at London School of Economics and Political Science. Much of Sonia’s research focuses on children’s rights in the digital age. Sonia has published 20 books on media audiences, especially on children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age  (New York University Press, with Julian Sefton-Green) (view here). Her new book is Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives (Oxford University Press), with Alicia Blum-Ross (view here). 

Lynn Schofield Clark is a media critic and researcher focused on media studies and film studies. She is a prize-winning author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news. The book received the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the 2018 James Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research  Clark's book regarding parenting in the digital age is titled The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2012). Clark’s main contributions are in the areas of family media studies, media rich youth participatory action research and the mediatization (media) of world religions.

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Parenting in the Age of Screen

Parental mediation theory for the digital age

The parent app: Understanding families in the digital age

Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment

Gradations in digital inclusion: Children, young people and the digital divide

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Kevin Driscoll, author and associate professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, discusses the history of BBSs, or bulletin board systems, and how they have been overlooked as part of the history of the internet. Developing out of his early experiences with local online communities, Kevin approaches the history of the internet from a grassroots perspective, offering up true stories and examples of how everyday people developed communities online. He outlines how BBSs, from the late 1970s to the 1980s, develop from a space for computer club members to share information to a place where marginalized groups, for example gay men, could gather online. Using BBS lists that were either regional or interest-oriented, Driscoll has been able to uncover the various communities and practices of early online interactions that laid the groundwork for contemporary online social groups and platforms.

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Kevin Driscoll Bio
Book, The Modem World

Fred Turner’s Research on The Well
Howard Rheingold’s Research on The Well
Byte Magazine Vol. 3 number 11 featuring Christensen and Suess Article on CBBSs
Kristen Haring’s Work on Postwar Ham Radio Culture
Susan Douglas’ Work on Ham Radio Culture
Charlton McIlwain’s Work on AfroNet

Relevant Background Information: 
WIRED Article on The Well
Minitel
Quartz Article on Stacy Horne and Echo
MIT  Project Athena 
Internet as Third Space
Sherry Turkle 
Amy Bruckman

Check out our previous episodes with Howard Rheingold and Sherry Turkle

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This week we are joined by archivist Jacqueline Stewart and historian Tyree Boyd-Pates to discuss the power of museum curation. The role of the museum curator is critical to the way that museums are experienced. We begin by discussing museums as “safe spaces for dangerous ideas” – in other words, how museums can be harbingers of racist and colonialist rhetoric when spaces are improperly curated. Museums can not only present history through materials, but also have the power to represent the present materials. We then discuss how museums can be spaces of change through seeing not only more presentation of anti-colonial materials, but also seeing those materials represented through an anti-colonial gaze. The guests stress the importance of having more African American curators in order to not only tell the history of a people, but of the community as well.

Jacqueline Stewart is film scholar, archivist, curator and a Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, Director of Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago. She is also the Chief artistic and programming officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She also serves as an appointee to the National Film Preservation Board and hosts Silent Sunday Nights on Turner Classic Movies.

Stewart is also the author of Migrating to the Movies Cinema and Black Urban Modernity and William Greaves Filmaking as Mission, and is an editor of L.A. Rebellion Creating a New Black Cinema.

Tyree Boyd-Pates is a historian, speaker,  and museum curator at the Autry Museum of the American West as the Associate Curator of Western History. He previously held the position of History Curator and Public Program Manager at the California African American Museum. He began his career as a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. He has curated shows for notable institutions such as the Smithsonian, the LA Philharmonic, The Getty, and more. 

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

“Where Are the Jews?”

Black Films at TCM

Black Cinema at the Academy Museum

“Oscars So White”

Iris Barry

Lewis Jacob

Oscar Micheaux

Anna May Wong ; Academy Series 

Academy Museum Podcast

Making  film history more inclusive

Racism in Animation

Gene Autry

Community Curation

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Our guest this week is Diana Williams, who, after 30 years in the entertainment media industry working on premier content like the Star Wars Marvel Cinematic universes, has founded a new company, Kinetic Energy Entertainment, focused on partnering with creatives to build new intellectual property (IP) for today’s rapidly changing media landscape. Starting with a clear and holistic definition of IP as being a story world with multiple points of entry for an audience, Diana sees this as a way to honor rich content by developing the ABC’s – Audience, Business, Creative – in tandem with specific media formats, thus building authentic engagement with the audience from the start, rather than marketing to them after a product is developed. We look at how entertainment revenue models have changed with streaming, and how business is struggling to change to fit that reality. Talking through one of her current projects, a PC game called Political Arena developed with pundit Eliot Nelson, we get a closer look at some of the strategies that guide this venture, and also the changing role of entertainment as a source of education. Without having the primary goal to educate, entertainment increasingly, if unwittingly, fills that gap, but does that make it a responsibility? While audience demand may still be dragging the legacy entertainment industry kicking and screaming toward changes in representation, that is the tide, and Diana is betting that building entertainment around audience truth is the way to develop solid and loyal fan relationships that will in turn feed into better content.

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Diana’s company, Kinetic Energy Entertainment

More about the Peabody Interactive Board
And the inaugural Winners for Digital and Interactive Storytelling, which were announced on 3/24/2022

Some of the press coverage of Political Arena game:

Washington Post
NPR
Washingtonian
MarketWatch
Mic
The Times UK
Cheddar

Steam page, including the "attack ad" trailer for the game

Political Arena creator and HuffPost columnist Eliot Nelson (book, The Beltway Bible)

Science and Entertainment Exchange

Controversy over whether to recast T’Challa (Black Panther) in the MCU

For more on games-based learning, see:

Kurt Squire

James Paul Gee

Zoe Corwin

Katie Salen Takinbas

For more about building out story worlds, check out our previous episodes with Nonny de La Peña, Alex McDowell, and Ann Pendleton-Julian

We’ve also done several episodes about Transmedia Storytelling

For more on games-based learning, listen to our episode with Kurt Squire and Katie Salen Tekinbas.

… and for more discussion of Fast & Furious fandom, check out our previous episode with Sue Ding!

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This week we are further diving into the recent banning of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a school board in TN by speaking with comics scholar Hillary Chute, Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and associate editor of MetaMaus. She discusses the history of the original publication of Maus and Spiegelman’s roots in the Underground Comics movement, which led to the elevation of the graphic novel. Then we move on to looking at why the book has been banned by the McMinn County, TN education board and situating those reasons within a larger context, including issues of otherizing Jewish histories and complicated parent/child relationships. She also uses examples from Maus to explain the power of comics as a teaching tool, and a way of processing trauma.

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Our previous episode on the broader context of recent comics censorship, with critic Jeet Heer & Jeff Trexler of the CBLDF

Maus
MetaMaus
Original publication of Maus in 1972 Funny Aminals anthology

Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (Justin Green, who passed away just before we released this episode)

History of Raw magazine, Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly

Zap Comix, Robert Crumb

McMinn, TN Education board censorship of Maus

Other Holocaust narratives taught in schools (and banned):
Night and Fog (1956 film)
Banning Anne Frank – A Case of Censorship

Spiegelman and Sendak Collab Strip about kids reading Maus

Spiegelman’s Support for Children Comics:
Toon Books Imprint
Little Lit anthology series

Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe

Hillary’s forthcoming book of essays about Maus, Maus Now

Our previous episode with comics theorist Scott McCloud

Hillary’s recommendation: Joe Sacco

Our previous episode with Carol Tyler & Mimi Pond and the emergence of female-centered underground comics

In the Shadow of No Towers (Henry’s own writing on No Towers can be found here)

Reprinting classic comics – Sunday Press Fantagraphics

(NSFW or kids!) Wally Wood’s “Disneyland Memorial Orgy”

Will Eisner

Classics Illustrated comics

Librarians and Comics

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This week Henry and Colin are joined by writer and comics critic Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, to discuss the broader context for the censorship of graphic novels in schools. Jumping off from the recent censorship of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a TN school board, we review the long history and reasoning of censorship, policing, gatekeeping of comics – from early newspaper strips, to the first magazine books sold to kids in drug stores, the Senate investigation and self-censorship code of the 50s, and on to the Underground comics movement for adults and the independent comics of the 80s. Recently, we’ve seen the same concerns arise anew as equal protection laws have brought things that were once considered private into the public sphere, and the pandemic brought the classroom and its educational use of graphic novels into the home. We point out the changes that have led teachers and librarians to “switch sides” in this argument and become proponents of comics as literature, and talk about the role comics can play in engaging readers of all ages, as well as helping to express the full diversity of American culture. We end with some thoughts about how individuals can respond to the challenges comics are once again coming under and support their role in this dialogue.

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Jeet Heer, columns in The Nation, The New Republic

books: Arguing Comics, A Comic Studies Reader, The Superhero Reader, In Love with Art

Jeff Trexler, Interim Director, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

McMinn, TN Education board censorship of Maus; Jeet’s writing immediately after
Leander, TX school district banning of graphic novel versions of The Handmaid’s Tale & The Lottery

Early newspaper comics: Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt & Jeff

Comics for older youth:
Duck Comics, Carl Barks
Crime Does Not Pay, Charles Biro
EC Horror comics, William Gaines
For more about the history of horror comics, see Episode 74: Horror, Social Change, and
Experimentation with Michael Monello and Qiana Whitted
Frederic Wertham and Moral Panic around Horror and Crime Comics
Frederick Wertham speech
The Comics Code

Underground Comics and the origins of the CBLDF:
Friendly Franks comics shop
Dennis Kitchen, comics publisher
Zap Comix, Robert Crumb
Raw, Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly
Film, Comic Book Confidential

Independent comics of the 80s aimed at adults:
Watchmen
The Dark Knight

The new wave of graphic novels aimed at youth again:
Bone, Jeff Smith
TOON Books, Françoise Mouly
Manga
Books By Raina Telgemeier

Other critically-acclaimed yet controversial graphic novels:
Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Early proponent of comics for children Josette Frank
And today: Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table of the American Library Association

Henry’s book Comics and Stuff

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In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong sci-fi nerd chats with Henry and Colin about her experience writing her hybrid PhD dissertation. As part of her PhD, Stephanie got the opportunity to work with the DEEP Center’s Block to Block Program teaching middle-school age black girls how to write science fiction. Her now published dissertation combines the stories written by those girls with theory and methodology to outline how Stephanie centers Black girls in her academic research. In this conversation they discuss how Stephanie’s leading style during the workshop was informed by the girls’ own interests and their storytelling instincts rather than the typical teacher-student model. As a group they engaged with afrofuturist stories from Black authors like Octavia Butler, Sherri L. Smith, Tracie Baptiste, and Nnedi Okorafor and used those stories to inform their own work. In detailing her own process, she explores with the hosts how academia should encourage storytelling, especially for scholars of color, rather than enforcing that they write in a more standard voice and tone. As a professor she encourages educators to use young adult literature to bridge the gap between learning and storytelling and more information about that can be found on her blog readingblackfutures.com. 

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Documentary on the DEEP Center’s Block by Block Program: Block by Block's Guide to Resilience 21-22

USC Annenberg’s Civic Media Fellowship

Henry’s Civic Imagination Project

On Spiritual Strivings, Cynthia Dillard’s Book that inspired Toliver’s teaching methods

Stephanie’s Blog Post Defining Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism Defined Elsewhere:
Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present | UCLA
A Beginner's Guide To Afrofuturism: 7 Titles To Watch And Read (Essence)
How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend | WIRED
Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters | It's Lit! (PBS)

Afrofuturist Texts Mentioned in the Episode: 
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith 
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 
The Jumbies by Tracie Baptiste 
Octavia’s Brood edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha 
“Sera” by Nicola Yoon from Because You Love to Hate Me edited by Amerie 

For more visit Stephanie’s blog here: https://readingblackfutures.com/black-girl-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-boy-sffh/, https://readingblackfutures.com/black-sffh-anthologies/

Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary”

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This week Henry and Colin are joined by Cathy Cohen, a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago and Jen Humke, a senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation to discuss Participatory Civic Media. Cohen discusses her work with The Black Youth Project and GenForward, projects that are focused on building independent institutions and influencing media institutions, respectively. These projects are supported by Humke through the MacArthur Foundation. We discuss the work introduced by the guests as they focus on engaging youth of color, predominantly Black youth in how they are represented and the way they represent themselves within digital media. Participatory civic media allow marginalized groups who have not had a voice in media, particularly in the political sphere, to now have one. We then consider the danger in focusing on voice more than power. More and more people may find their voice through a growing democratic digital media landscape, but that does not mean they are sharing in the power. How do we enact a power shift to give an equal playing field to all voices?

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Cathy Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is also the creator of The Black Youth Project and the GenForward Survey.

Cohen is the author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. She is also a co-editor of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader.

Jen Humke is the Senior Program Officer for the Journalism and Media program at the MacArthur Foundation. Her grantmaking work focuses on participatory civic media. 

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Henry Jenkins, What Is Civic Media?

Black Youth Project
genForward Survey

Civic Imagination Project
Atlas of the Civic Imagination

Civic Media Fellowship

Danielle Allen on Reconciliation

From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age

Robin Kelly, Freedom Dreams

Alissa Richardson: Bearing Witness While Black: African-Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest Journalism

Megan Stielstra

Color of Change

Define American

Darnell Moore

Nicholas Negroponte – Being Digital

Crystal Echo Hawk
Reservation Dogs
Illuminative Podcast  
Illuminative Netflix program

Connie Yowell

danah boyd

Mimi Ito

Digital Media and Learning
Youth and Participatory Politics

Joe Kahne

March for Our Lives

Q-Anon

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture (Fifteen Years Later) 

Podcasting  Origin Stories
BBC’s Noise: A Human History, “Radio Everywhere” (14:37)
FDR fireside chat 1 (12:57)
Norman Corwin (56:28)
Edward R. Murrow

Podcast and Discord
Radio Free Georgia
Ear Hustle
Nancy
How to Be a Girl; Peabody Award

Plus, check out these earlier earlier episodes:
Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo Hawk
Episode 22: Benjamen Walker and Wu Ming
Episode 81: Warren Hedges on the Fantasy Roots of the Capital Insurrection
Episode 48: Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie Salen
Episode 82: Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke on the Intersection of Art and Activism
Episode 69: The Power of Fan activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn Taylor

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Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels which is a cross-partisan nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging America's widening political divide. Mónica’s background in journalism and her own life experiences brought her to Braver Angels as a person interested in conversation without judgment. As a daughter of Mexican immigrants who considered themselves Republicans and a journalist, Mónica understands political party differences on a personal and professional level. In the episode she describes her journey to Braver Angels and details how the organization creates spaces, through workshops, where citizens across party lines can have difficult conversations. As she and Henry explore divides within family structure she notes how family ties put more at stake in these political conversations but how that can be extremely powerful even though it is uncomfortable. Trust and listening are more important than people may think when trying to have these conversations and Braver Angels helps people develop those skills. The end of the episode also addresses some of the controversy the organization has had recently surrounding the conservative opinions related to the January 6th Capitol attack and Henry and Colin discuss how Braver Angels transparently discussed their podcasting practices in relation to misinformation and conspiracies. 

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Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:

Mónica Guzmán

Book: I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

Braver Angels
Mónica’s earlier journalism for The Evergrey (Seattle)
Interview with The Daily Kos (“you don’t have to talk to a Nazi tomorrow”)

Braver Angels’ list of roles we play in family conversations about politics

USC Norman Lear Center research on media consumption among liberals, moderates and conservatives

Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
And more about his book, The Righteous Mind

Braver Angels podcast and controversy:
Depolarization in the Age of Misinformation | Jonathan Rauch with David Blankenhorn & Ciaran O'Connor (our clip starts around min 7)

A Conservative Perspective on January 6th & the 2020 Election | Peter Wood with Ciaran O'Connor (our clip starts around min 17:00)

Braver Angels national debate to open up the larger question—"Should we draw lines?"—to hundreds of people. President David Blankenhorn chimes in toward the end of the video

Braver Angels Podcast host Ciaran O'Connor’s op-ed in the Deseret News with more of the product of Braver Angels’ reflection on what happened, and also YouTube's role

Mónica’s own reflection on the issue in an interview with the American Press Institute asking "what might journalism learn from 'bridging'?."

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