Most of us are familiar with the environmental impacts of our physical technology, like the e-waste generated from cell phones or the minerals required to run our laptops, but have you ever wondered about the connections between digital media and resource extraction? This week we are joined by guest Antonio López to explore how ICT (Information and Communica ... Show More
Jun 4
FAT OF THE LAND - DOLCE S1:E5
“I’d like to propose a toast to the garden, to this beautiful planet, and to the gardener. You know, some people have gardens, some people don't. But, they need to have a garden because Grandfather used to say, “We are all a garden in the world." So, I give thanks to the garden a ... Show More
26m 47s
May 21
FAT OF THE LAND - SECONDI S1:E3
“Before I came here, I dreamt about this land.” —Jessie Jowers, Slow Life Family FarmThe third course in our series, Secondi, brings us to the tensions of resistance and surrender. In this episode of Fat of The Land, Ayana speaks with Jessie Jowers of Slow Life Family Farm and De ... Show More
29m 58s
Feb 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
Andrew Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022) , with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Media of the Masses is an engagi ... Show More
1h 6m
Sep 2020
Yves Citton, "Mediarchy" (Polity Press, 2019)
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ... Show More
1h 6m
Apr 2024
Andrea Wenzel, "Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories that shed light on protest, activism, institutional turmoil, and policy change. Especially in recent years, though, the racial politics of journalism has very often become the story ... Show More
54m 56s
Oct 2021
90/ The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies (with Paz Peña)
<p>This is a conversation with Paz Peña, a Chile-based independent consultant and activist, who recently published a paper entitled “<a href="https://giswatch.org/node/6245" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Bigger, more, better, faster: The ecological paradox of dig ... Show More
1h 9m
