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- Reimagining Criminal Justice with Josie Duffy Rice
This week Henry and Colin catch up with AnnLab Civic Media Fellow Josie Duffy Rice to talk about the stories we hear and tell about our criminal justice system, and how we can reframe them to focus on people, not punishment. Josie recalls how her early experiences as a journalist covering public prosecutors quickly made her realize how opaque the system was and how she continues to work to humanize issues of criminal justice reform and abolition through her work as a writer and podcast host on What a Day. We discuss how fictional narratives, like the myriad police procedurals on television, inform much of our common understanding (and mis-understanding) of the issues, and wonder what abolition media might look like, and how it can play a central role in the real work of transitioning our culture toward one where we don’t need police and prisons.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Josie Duffy Rice, Twitter, Instagram
What a Day podcast
Vanity Fair article, The Abolition Movement
The Appeal
Josie’s earlier work on Daily Kos60 Minutes story about Glenn Ford, wrongly convicted to Death Row
Prosecutor Marty Stroud’s public apologyDavid Foster Wallace - This is Water
Progressive policing imagined on The Wire
Harvard Law School’s class on The WireBecoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
Abolitionist Mariame KabaConflict on Star Trek
Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo Hawk
This episode features clips from:
Friends: Season 7 Episode 11 "The One with all the Cheesecakes" and Season 6 Episode 9 "The One Where Ross Gets High."
Law & Order SVU: Season 15 Episode 7 "Dissonant Voices"
The Wire: Season 3 Episode 4 "Hamsterdam"
Scandal: Season 4 Episode 14Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet
https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X
https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library
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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––47 min - Disney Theme Parks with Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa
Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa discuss Disney theme park fandom from Disneyland California to Disney theme parks across the globe. Williams and Sowa share their history with Disney films and how that love has translated into their love for the theme parks as adults. We then dive further into the theme park as a space of play for adults and why being a childless adult at Disney has been unjustly stigmatized. Even with strict rules and regulations, Disney theme parks offer spaces of play for adults who have very little safe spaces to play outside the parks. We also discuss the Disneyfication of adult source material and how that further translates into the transmedia brand universe that is specific to Disney theme parks. Disney theme parks have been spaces of ritual and transformation for both children and adults. As Disney continues to consume our fantasies with its continual purchases of franchises such as Star Wars and Marvel, how do children and adults alike contend with the rapidly expanding trans media universes that come together within the Disney theme parks while the outside world contends with its own racist, sexist, and culturally insensitive past and present.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
About Lauren Sowa
About Rebecca Williams; Faculty Page
Books:- A Fan Studies Primer
- Theme Park Fandom: Spatial Transmedia, Materiality and Participatory Cultures
- Post-Object Fandom
- Everybody Hurts
- Torchwood Declassified
How to Properly Dress at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge
What is DisneyBounding?
Disney Bounding Fan documentaryJanet Wasko, Disney Project
Henry Jenkins, Transmedia Storytelling 101
Splash Mountain revamp
You Must Remember This on Splash Mountain
Brides for Sale on Pirates of the Caribbean ride
Revisions to Jungle CruiseLauren Sowa on Disney Princesses as Feminist Icons
Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood and Corporate Culture – critical documentary on Disney culture
Sparks Program
The Official Album of Disneyland/Walt Disney World ride theme music
Walt Disney's Tour of Disneyland
Disneyland - Lands - Wonderful World of Color - Walt Disney
The Disneyland Story (Disneyland Episode #1): October 27th, 1954Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet
https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X
https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library
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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 12 min - How the Arts Can Save Education with Erica Halverson
This week we’re joined by a whoopensocker of a guest - Erica Halverson. After telling us all what a “whoopensocker” is, she brings us up to speed on her education intervention of the same name, where teaching artists employ the rules of improv to encourage kids to express themselves and engage in collaborative storytelling. Those stories are then presented back to them in the form of a professionalized vaudeville show on the Whoopensocker podcast and YouTube channel. We discuss how these methods confront some of the failings of traditional learning environments and assessments in the classroom today, as well as honor the importance of The Arts in education in a way that seems absent from most STEAM programs.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
More about Erica Halverson, past and present projects: https://www.ericahalverson.com/
Book: How the Arts Can Save Education
The Whoopensocker Project
Whoopensocker Podcast
Whoopensocker YouTubeWhat the heck is a Whoopensocker?
Playmakers Laboratory, Chicago
Bossypants by Tina Fey (see: “the rules of improv and how they can change your life”)Henry’s blog series on his open-laptop exam:
The Question
Knowledge Community
What Happened Part One Part Two
Open Laptop Activities Part One Part TwoBaking Impossible
Portlandia: Put a Bird On It!
Making It with Amy Poehler & Nick OffermanCarole King - Really Rosie
Kids’ pop culture references:
Giannis Antetokounmpo | Milwaukee Bucks
Fortnite
Dabbing
Five Nights At Freddy's
John CenaSeymour Papert
Mitch Resnick
Computer Clubhouse
Shirley Brice HeathConstructionism - constructivist theory of learning
Six, the musical
Sputnik Crisis
Margaret Mead - A Creative Life for Your Children
Amy Ogata – Designing the Creative ChildShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr - Lori Kido Lopez on Micro Media Innovations in Hmong American Communities
This week Henry & Colin are joined by Lori Kido Lopez, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss her new book, Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora. Lopez shares some background on this little-known ethnic community’s place in the U.S. and how their unique media ecologies serve their needs. We also consider the many innovations in format, genre, and technology that have developed where traditional media outlets would not be viable for this relatively small population with a largely oral culture, notably the use of teleconference lines that serve effectively as 24-hour radio stations. With a mix of participatory and broadcast media thriving outside of a commercial revenue model, there is a lot to consider about the future of the mass-market media landscape.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Lopez’s books:
Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the DiasporaJon Oliver segment about misinformation in diasporic media
#hoomchim Hmong LGBTQ podcast
What is Clubhouse
Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––57 min - Sherry Turkle on Empathy and the Narratives That Shape Our Lives
This week, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author, joins Henry & Colin to discuss her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Sherry and Henry talk about their shared experiences of teaching arts & humanities at MIT. Since Sherry’s work is usually interpreted as a critique of technology and Henry’s work is interpreted as a support of technology, they both start by sharing some recent optimism that Sherry has about technology, and some recent pessimism that Henry has about technology. Sherry expresses concerns about people’s apathy about the increasing intrusion of technology in our lives, and how that could potentially lead to the erosion of our rights. Sherry reflects back on the process of memoir writing and questioning her own assumptions earlier in life. She shares a story about being asked to make dinner for Steve Jobs instead of being invited to a meeting with him, and how reflecting on that was a humbling experience. Ultimately, Sherry ends with posing a question about not only how we can see empathy as a pathway into politics, but how we can expand the definition of empathy and apply that to our own lives.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Sherry Turkle’s new memoir, The Empathy Diaries
Falling for Science, one of the books she edited of her students’ writing
Henry’s blog interview with Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle’s TED talk
The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen
Henry and his son on the ASMR community
Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism
Trump’s statement that republicans shouldn’t vote in 2022 and 2024 elections
Depaysement
Fiction that shaped Sherry’s childhood:
Nancy Drew - The Secret of the Old Clock
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
My Fair Lady stage musicalCurrent TV she’s enjoying:
Succession (Influence of King Lear)
DickinsonNina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life
Henry’s memoir piece about comics and mourning can be found in Turkle’s Evocative Objects book
Allissa Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism
Henry Jenkins’s Farewell to MIT
John Perry Barlow, “Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace”
Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”
Atlas of the Civic Imagination
Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet
https://soundcloud.com/dylanemme
Spaceship by Lesion X
https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream:
https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library
https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 31 min - Race & Fandom, with andré carrington, Abigail De Kosnik, and Rukmini Pande
This week, Henry & Colin are joined by three fan studies scholars, andré m. carrington,author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction; Abigail De Kosnik, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation; and Rukmini Pande author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the Margins. We talk about how race has been addressed (or not) in fandoms and fan studies, digging into recent fandom controversies over race, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the legacy of fandom’s roots in America. We ask how Squid Games can be the most popular series on Netflix, even as we are seeing an unprecidented wave of anti-Asian hate crimes or why fandom has tended to ignore some of the characters of color who have emerged through popular entertainment franchises. Ultimately, how can we look beyond the competing narratives of “fandom will save us” vs. “toxic fandom” for more nuanced ways to understand and deal with societal biases through fandoms?
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
andré m. carrington - Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
Abigail De Kosnik - Associate Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
Rukmini Pande - Associate Professor, Literary Studies and Writing, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the Margins
Original Star Trek series – origins of fandom
Star Wars Last Jedi trolling - Kelly Marie Tran, Krystina Arielle, John Boyega
Tolkien fandom dust-up
Early Sherlock Holmes fan clubs
Star Trek, Blake’s 7 60s-70s
Early internet fandom – usenet, geo cities, yahoo groups
Live Journal
Fan Pressure to integrate:
Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Reboot
Ava duVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time
Disney’s live action version The Little Mermaid
The Flash – pushback on casting Iris as Black
Netflix announces Squid Game is bigger than Bridgerton
Wendy Chun – High-Tech orientalism
Concept of “ships”/"shipping"
Bong Joon-ho, Steven Yeun
Bruce Lee (actor) vs. Kato in the Green Hornet (character)
Simu Liu (actor) vs. Shang-Chi (character)
Korean media wave: BTS, Parasite
Fan fiction and diversity/inclusion
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
Tenoch Huerta as Namor (Black Panther character)
Oscar Isaac
Tony Leung
Lead Users and Democratizing Innovation book by Eric Von Hipple
Robert Kozinets
Review of #Republic (and the value of deliberating enclaves) by David Weinberger
Michael Saler - a public sphere of the imagination
Episode #79: Hope for New Online Public Spaces with Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser
Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 28 min - Te Rita Papesch and Sharon Mazer on the Living Tradition of Kapa Haka
This week, we are joined by Te Rita Papesch, a legendary figure in the Maori tradition of Kapa Haka, and Sharon Mazer, her friend and an American performance studies researcher. Together, they converse about Kapa Haka as a manifestation of the historic relations between the Maori people and their “Kiwi” colonizers, one which is embedded in the everyday life of the community but also undergoing constant change as performers adjust to the increased global visibility of their performances. Mazer describes the national Kapa Haka gatherings, which attract thousands of attendees and are nationally televised, as “a theatrical event incorporated into an Olympic competition encased in a ritual frame.” Papesch is the consummate insider, the matron of a family of Haka performers, whose influence stretches back to the 1970s, whereas Mazer offers the perspective of an informed outsider who has been observing the performances for more than twenty years. Together, they model bicultural conversation as they teach us how to read Kapa Haka’s place in the cultural politics of New Zealand.
A full transcript of this conversation will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Co-authored writing by Te Rita Papesch & Sharon Mazer:
Breaking the Stage: From Te Matatini to Footprints/Tapuwae
But can it be Art? Kapa Haka as a contemporary indigenous performance practice
Maori Performance/Cultural Performance: Stages of PowhiriMore about Te Rita Papesch
Waka Huia profile: Part One; Part Two
Performance: Nga Roimata
Ōtairongo (audio portrait of Te Rita by artist Maree Sheehan)
Tainui Waka Kapa Haka Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
Selected writing:
Creating a Modern Māori Identity Through Kapa Haka (2015 PhD Thesis)
Te Rita Papesch: case study of an exemplary learner of Māori as an additional languageMore about Sharon Mazer
Selected writing:
Performing Māori: Kapa Haka on the Stage and on the Ground
Performance: Ethnographer/Tourist/Cannibal
Professional Wrestling: Sport and SpectacleKapa Haka
National Kapa Haka Festival
Rules of Competition
Maori Television – Kapa Haka commentary; Te Kapa Haka o Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
Te Whare Wananga o Waikato at the NZ Polynesian Festival, 1981All-Blacks and Haka
Hobbes and Shaw – Haka
Haka tourist shows
Game of Thrones Haka
Beyonce does HakaDiana Taylor – The Archive and the Repertoire
Konstantin Stanislovsky – “As If”Haka in support of Black Lives Matter
Maori Protest MovementsMore Maori culture:
Maori Powhiri (welcome)
Ta Moko – Maori tattoo
Raranga – Maori Weaving
Maori Musical Instruments
Maori Religion
Maori WeaponsShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music & Audio clips:
Te Whare Wananga o Waikato (1981)
Kapahaka Roopu Te Haona Kaha
Te Whānau a Apanui whakaeke- Te Matatini - 2015 - Entrance (Game of Thrones)“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 39 min - What's Making Us Sappy Episode 21: Ioana Mischie and Howard BlumenthalThis week's media recommendations come from Ioana Mischie, a transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal, a television and new media creative, to talk about how children can shape the future of education and our world. Their recommendations span everything from jazz to emerging futuristic fiction. You'll love em! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].8 min
- Ioana Mischie and Howard Blumenthal on the Future of Education
This week we invited Ioana Mischie, a futurist and transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal, a television and new media creative, to discuss the future of education and the role of children in shaping the field. Mischie’s work includes Government of Children and Tangible Utopias, which both place children as the arbiters of new types of governments and cities, and Blumenthal was heavily influenced by his time on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? to interview children around the world for his series, Kids on Earth in the 21st Century. The two note general differences amongst different populations of children; areas with greater civic education from an earlier age tend to be more involved in social issues such as immigration reform and class, whereas those without that background might be more distanced. For the most part, though, both Mischie and Blumenthal agree that children are more willing to respect different perspectives and compromise than adults. They’re also full of simple yet potentially innovative ideas; they note concepts such as multi-level traffic systems and cities built for people, animals, and vegetation that have come up in their conversations with students. They argue that the best way to formulate these ideas is through the power of play, a method the current education system suppresses by institutionalizing and protecting teaching, not learning. Together, the two guests posit a better education system that brings together people of different disciples, producing ideas that are imaginative, co-creative, and tangible. It is also important to draw from the most successful elements of all methods of schooling while also incorporating self-education. Most importantly, however, we must give children a stronger platform, which would look like eliminating some rules and providing them rights in school that parallel those of adults. In other words, education must allow children to tell their stories.
A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Some of Mischie’s works:
Government of Children
Tangible UtopiasWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, which Blumenthal developed
OMNIVERSITY, a VR university founded by Mischie
Art Linkletter – Kids Say the Darnedest Things
Linda Ellerbee – Nick NewsShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
School’s Out by Alice Cooper“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 14 min - What's Making You Sappy Episode 20: S.B. Divya and Jonathon KeatsThis week's media recommendations come from scientist turned author S.B. Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. Their list includes everything from 1960s architecture collectives to a weekly science fiction podcast! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].5 min
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Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on…
the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.