Media Futures Podcast

Podcast by A podcast about how media and cultural studies can shape more just media futures from the Media Futures Hub at UNSW Sydney and @MediaFuturesHub on Twitter.

Media Futures Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Conspiracy Nation: book discussion with authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson

  Nov 9, 20251h 11mS0

  Media Futures Hub hosted a live conversation at UNSW with the authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson about their recently launched book, Conspiracy Nation. The technology and internet culture reporters discuss the history of local conspiracies and how the media and online platforms feed into these ideas, as well as advice for journalism students on the skills they've honed through their work. Cam Wilson is a Walkley Award-nominated reporter whose work covers the intersection between internet culture, online extremism and politics. He’s currently Crikey’s Associate Editor, and previously worked at the ABC, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider and Gizmodo. He h...

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  From PhD to PostDoc

  May 5, 20251h 1mS0

  On this episode of the Media Futures Podcast, we hear from Dr Danielle Hynes (Maynooth) and Dr Kevin Witzenberger (QUT), two postdoctoral researchers who recently completed their PhDs in the Media Futures Hub at the University of New South Wales, as they share tips and strategies from their experiences of moving from PhD to Postdoc. Recent years have seen a move from approaching the PhD experience as aimed primarily at the production of a thesis, to the more expansive aim of cultivating a researcher. Amid this changing academic landscape, this discussion addresses a series of increasing relevant questions: How can...

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  Beyond Media Diversity E4: The Crisis of Diversity

  Feb 24, 202535 minS0

  On this fourth and final episode we hear from Professor Anamik Saha (Leeds) on the crisis of diversity. Anamik’s talk imagines how media can proactively challenge racism in society, and how a radical reimagining of diversity can contribute to this urgent task. Beyond Media Diversity is a series of four episodes from the Media Futures Hub which takes a critical look at diversity debates in the media, examining how these are limiting (and limited), what decolonial and anti-colonial alternatives could look like, and how we might divest from the diversity paradigm. The series was recorded at the Beyond Media Di...

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  Beyond Media Diversity E3: Centering Disability

  Feb 17, 202544 minS0

  On this third episode we hear from Ashleigh Haw (UC), Gerard Goggin (WSU) and Victor Zhuang (USyd) on the topic of centring disability within diversity debates. Beyond Media Diversity is a series of four episodes from the Media Futures Hub which takes a critical look at diversity debates in the media, examining how these are limiting (and limited), what decolonial and anti-colonial alternatives could look like, and how we might divest from the diversity paradigm. Centring Disability panellists: Dr. Ashleigh Haw: https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/ashleigh-haw and https://x.com/ashyhaw Distinguished Professor Gerard Goggin: https://www...

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  Beyond Media Diversity E2: Racial Literacies

  Feb 10, 20251h 23mS0

  On this second episode we hear from Debbie Bargallie (Griffith), Anamik Saha (Leeds), Tito Ambyo (RMIT), and Mohan Dutta (Massey) on the theme of racial literacies. Beyond Media Diversity is a series of four episodes from the Media Futures Hub which takes a critical look at diversity debates in the media, examining how these are limiting (and limited), what decolonial and anti-colonial alternatives could look like, and how we might divest from the diversity paradigm. The series was recorded at the Beyond Media Diversity Symposium at the University of New South Wales in June 2024, hosted by the Media Futures Hub...

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