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Podcasters on Podcasting – Episode 1: Joel L. Zammit

On December 9, 2022December 10, 2022 By Andrew

Podcasters on Podcasting is a series collecting the highlights of my chats with guest speakers in my podcasting class at Drew University. In this inaugural episode, my conversation with Sanspants Radio co-founder and CEO, Joel L. Zammit. Highlights of our conversation include: -Building a comedy podcast network from scratch -Convincing your parents that podcasting is […]

Review of John Lemza’s “The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen”

On June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 By Andrew

Book review published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television here.

A Feast of Silence: Listening as Stoic Practice

On February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on the SoundingOut! blog. Zeno of Citium, the Hellenistic philosopher who founded the Stoic school at the turn of the third century BCE, once had this advice to give to a garrulous young man: “the reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so that we might listen more and […]

We Read it for the Articles

On June 18, 2021October 22, 2021 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on The Playboy Project. We read it for the articles. Really. The old tongue-in-cheek justification for reading Playboy magazine genuinely applies here. What began with an informal conversation between myself and Interim Manager of Methodist Library & Special Collections, Candace Reilly, about the preponderance of advertisements for radar detectors in issues from the […]

Interview with This American Life’s Nadia Reiman

On November 17, 2020February 18, 2022 By Andrew

Part of a series of guest speakers for my course on podcasting offered at Drew University during the fall semester, 2020. https://archive.org/details/interview-with-this-american-lifes-nadia-reiman-mcom-202-fall-2020

Interview with WRSU Overnight Sensations’ Frank Bridges

On October 21, 2020February 18, 2022 By Andrew

Part of a series of guest speakers for my course on podcasting offered at Drew University during the fall semester, 2020. https://archive.org/details/interview-with-overnight-sensations-frank-bridges-mcom-202-fall-2020

Circus a la King

On May 1, 2020October 22, 2021 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on the Critical Studies in Television blog. Good true crime is like an onion: each layer, each episode, revealing more of the complexity of the case, more about the character and behavior of the suspects, more about possible motives and alibis, and more potentially compromising truths. In Netflix’s Tiger King (2020), each layer […]

The Food that Built America

On October 4, 2019October 22, 2021 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on the Critical Studies in Television blog. Despite the confidence of its title, History’s recent miniseries The Food That Built America (2019) seems to invite questions about its own premise. What, we might ask, does it mean to say that a particular food has built America? Do we mean “built” economically? Culturally? Politically? All of the above? […]

Drunk History

On June 21, 2019October 21, 2021 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on the Critical Studies in Television blog. Incongruity, Immanuel Kant once observed, is an essential element of humor. “In everything that is to excite a lively convulsive laugh there must be something absurd (in which the understanding, therefore, can find no satisfaction). Laughter is an affectation arising from the sudden transformation of […]

SO! Podcast #73: NYC Highline Soundwalk

On January 31, 2019January 2, 2022 By Andrew

This post originally appeared on SoundingOut! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: SO! Podcast #73: NYC Highline Soundwalk SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In a recent profile, New Yorkmagazine’s Justin Davidson called the NYC High Line, a “tunnel through glass towers,” an urban beautification project that had been designed with local real estate prices in mind, which […]

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