Lounge Ruminator

By Martin Feld

Join podcast researcher Martin Feld as he discusses media and the

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October 13, 202372. The Lounge Resurrections
I’m back on the audio lounge after an entire year of absolutely nothing, and of course, there are some excuses! Welcome back to Lounge Ruminator… restored, reloaded, rebooted—however you want to put it!
There’ll be more in the future, but without the pressure of a regular schedule. Thanks for following the show!
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Links and Show Notes
Everybody Loves Raymond
59. Playing to the Audience with Evan Kerr
71. Unintended Hiatus
Baldur Bjarnason on Really Specific Stories
Jason Snell
Internet Archive
...more
12min
October 14, 202271. Unintended Hiatus
After a long break, the Lounge Ruminator podcast returns! (Thanks for sticking around.) I discuss the ethical review behind my research interview show, Really Specific Stories, and reflect on the challenges of balancing family, work and academic commitments.
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Links and Show Notes
The last episode was a while ago!
RSS
Really Specific Stories
Ethics
Narrative inquiry
Honours degrees in Australia
Wattle bird
Hemispheric Views
Jason Burk
Andrew Canion
Core Intuition
Manton Reece
Daniel Jalkut
Persona
Feld Notes
Micro.blog
Audio Hijack
Ferrite Recording Studio
...more
12min
January 20, 202270. Lounge Bite: After Life
If you haven’t watched this show, then you definitely should.
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Image credit: Netflix (2022)
Links and Show Notes
Ricky Gervais
After Life
Daily Rumination No. 24: The Value of British Humour
Hemispheric Views podcast
Media franchise
The Matrix (franchise)
James Bond
Daniel Craig
Quantum of Solace
Lost
...more
5min
January 06, 202269. Review: Semicolon by Cecelia Watson
In my first podcast episode for 2022, I give a quick review of Cecelia Watson’s book Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, while sharing some of the key themes that resonated with me.
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Links and Show Notes
Semicolon (punctuation mark)
Cecelia Watson and Semicolon
Prescriptivism (or linguistic prescription)
Descriptivism (or linguistic description)
Media ecology
Marshall McLuhan
Neil Postman
Faustian Bargain (in Postman’s 10 Principles of Technology)
...more
12min
September 20, 202168. On a Country Road with Andrew McLuhan
Andrew is a writer, poet and media educator, as well as the founder of the McLuhan Institute. He also happens to be the descendant of renowned media ecologists Marshall and Eric McLuhan. In this episode, he kindly joins me to discuss his work at the institute, what motivates him to write, how we can slow down our digital lives and what it means to continue (and challenge) family tradition.
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Find Andrew Online
@amicusadastra and @McLinstitute on Twitter
The McLuhan Institute
The McLuhan Institute on Patreon
Andrew McLuhan on Medium
The Massage: Presented by The McLuhan Institute on Apple Podcasts
Links and Show Notes
Introducing Andrew — 00:00
Marshall McLuhan
Family photo from Marshall McLuhan’s 69th birthday
Eric McLuhan
University of Toronto
Continuing the Tradition — 06:50
Understanding Media (1964 book) by Marshall McLuhan, with reference to the concepts ‘the medium is the message’, ‘probing’, ‘hot and cool media’ and more
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
ABC of Reading (1934 book) by Ezra Pound
Inscriptorium blog
Understanding Media Intensive Course
Tetrad of Media Effects
Outside Academia — 17:04
Media ecology
Media Ecology Association
Jacques Ellul
2019 MEA Awards (including Andrew’s receipt of The Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism)
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Written Matter — 28:41
Written Matter (2021 book) by Andrew McLuhan
Book of Ezra (from the Hebrew Bible)
Tradition according to T. S. Eliot
Alain de Botton
The School of Life
Atheism 2.0
Lance Strate
Jack Kerouac
The Waste Land (1922 poem) by T. S. Eliot
Letters and Postcards — 50:08
Card stock
Stencil
End-to-end encryption
Serif
Sans-serif
Helvetica
Times New Roman
Winnipigeon — 55:59
The McLuhan Institute Logo Design
...more
1h
September 09, 202167. Podcasting on Podcasting with Dr. Dario Llinares
I’m joined by Dario to talk about his background in film research (and now audio), along with the art of academic podcasting and why the podcast as a medium has a propensity to talk about itself.
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Find Dario Online
@dariodoubleL on Twitter
The Cinematologists
Podcast Studies Podcast
Links and Show Notes
Introducing Dario — 00:00
Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review
Serial
Filmspotting
The Cinephiliacs
The Greg Proops Film Club
Dr. Neil Fox on Twitter
At the Movies (with Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton)
Academic Podcasting — 05:07
Autodidacticism
Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies)
Aristotle
Cultural studies
Sociology
Aural
Assistant Professor Hannah McGregor on Twitter
Associate Professor Lori Beckstead on Twitter
Open source
Modes — 14:21
Impostor syndrome
Podcasts on Podcasts — 17:10
Podcast Studies: The Podacademics Network
dariollinares.com
Digital Archives — 26:37
The long tail
Practice research
Dario’s Outlook — 28:04
Neoliberalism
Hemispheric Views (mentioned technology show by Martin and friends Andrew and Jason)
Philosophy of technology
Democratisation
Episode with Caroline Catz
Episode with Mark Jenkin
Episode with Janis Rafa
Knowing Sounds
...more
35min
July 06, 202166. An Aca-fan Moment with Anne Korfmacher
Anne is a PhD student who is investigating what she calls ‘fan commentary’ podcasts. She tells the story of how she started listening to them, what appealed to her about undertaking higher research on the topic and what it means to be a fan.
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Find Anna Online
@anne_korfmacher on Twitter
Anne’s dissertation description at the University of Cologne, Germany
Links and Show Notes
Full episode transcript
Screenshot of editing timeline in Ferrite Recording Studio
Getting into Podcasts 00:00
Harry Potter
PotterCast (referred to mistakenly as Pottermore in the conversation)
MuggleCast
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Transmedia storytelling
Chumcast
Parasocial interaction
The McElroy Family
The Besties
Defining Fandom 08:40
J.J. Abrams
Fan studies
Gift economy
Fanzine
Gilmore Guys
Unboxing
From Fan to Aca-fan 12:30
FANGASM
Post-feminism
Cultural studies
Gender studies
Twilight (novel series)
Friends
Audio commentary (e.g. DVDs)
Formalism (literature)
Aristotle
Plato
Choosing Case Studies 20:51
British studies
Narrative
Podcast Studies: The Podacademics Network
American studies
Literary studies/criticism
Popular culture
Fawlty Towers
The Fawlty Towers Podcast
Supernatural
Gilmore Girls
Analysing Audio 28:36
Sitcom
Identity and Habits as a Listener 32:49
Hannah McGregor
Thoughts on Podcast Discovery 41:44
Mimesis
Podnews
Long tail
The PhD Journey Ahead 45:23
...more
47min
June 19, 202165. Becoming an Independent Developer with Vincent Ritter
Vincent shares his personal story of how he became an independent developer, from his earliest use of computers through to creative projects and apps like Gluon for Micro.blog.
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Find Vincent Online
vincentritter.com
@vincent on Micro.blog
Links and Show Notes
Full episode transcript
Screenshot of editing timeline in Ferrite Recording Studio
Early Days with Computers 00:00
Adobe PageMill
WYSIWYG (‘What You See Is What You Get’)
Web development
AppleWorks
HTML
Yahoo!
GameStop
PlayStation
Interface (computing)
‘Ruby Red’ iMac (Apple iMac G3 400 DV, Summer 2000)
Unboxing
Classic Mac OS
John Sculley
Steve Jobs
HyperCard
Microsoft Windows
Flight simulator (disambiguation)
Floppy disk (floppy)
Flight 10:22
Airline transport pilot licence
Experimenting on the Web 13:23
iWeb
CSS
Adobe Dreamweaver
Myspace
Developing on Windows 20:23
Content management system
Swinging Back to Apple 24:53
MacBook Pro 17-inch
Virtualisation / virtual machine
How It Feels to Code 28:09
Gluon
Sublime Ads
Becoming an Independent Developer 29:21
iOS
iPhone
Sleepy Eyes (white noise app)
Basecamp
Android
Objective-C
Swift
C Sharp
JavaScript
Ruby
Simple Schedule
Gluon 39:16
Micro.blog
Manton Reece
013: HVmini // Vincent’s Desk (podcast)
Podcasting 44:23
Jean MacDonald
Micro Monday
Abstract Development
Identity 46:36
Conclusion 48:32
...more
53min
June 06, 202164. Lounge Bite: Small-file Aesthetics
We all know about the monetary cost of streaming media, but what does it cost the planet?
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Links and Show Notes
Sy Taffel
53. Excess Energy and Urban Eyesores
Apple Music announces Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos; will bring Lossless Audio to entire catalog
Laura U. Marks
Marks, L.U., 2020, ‘Let’s Deal with the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media’, in Afterimage, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 46–52.
...more
5min
April 20, 202163. Information Curation
In this episode, I offer a quick critique on Apple’s power as a ‘vectoralist’ of information, drawing on Kara Swisher’s recent interview of CEO Tim Cook and the work of scholar McKenzie Wark.
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Links and Show Notes
Introduction 00:00
Hmmmm… that was a longer gap between episodes than I had planned!
Apple as Vectoralist 00:47
‘Is Apple’s Privacy Push Facebook’s Existential Threat?’ on Sway with Kara Swisher — New York Times
Apple‘s dedicated site for data and privacy
‘How Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency policy works’ — Ars Technica
‘The Tim Cook Interview’ on Dithering — Twitter video excerpt
‘Curation‘ definitions at Lexico (Oxford English Dictionary)
McKenzie Wark
Capital Is Dead: Is this Something Worse? (2019) by McKenzie Wark — Verso (links to book and explanatory clips)
Capitalism
Means of production
Neoliberalism
Rupert Murdoch
To Ruminate… 11:30
RSS
...more
14min

FAQs about Lounge Ruminator:

How many episodes does Lounge Ruminator have?

The podcast currently has 72 episodes available.