Critical Media Studies

Barry and Mike discuss the E.M. Forester short story "The Machine Stops" and marvel at how timely it is, over 100 years after it was written. Using the story as a contextual springboard, they discuss...

4 Mar 202237min

What does Marshall Mcluhan's mean by the medium is the message? What does that look like when we hold it up to something like Spotify, and what does that mean in terms of how we consume and then proc...

18 Feb 202245min

Barry and Mike discuss sections of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society with an emphasis on how his concept of culture works in our time. We talk about what makes a mass a mob, the role of technolog...

4 Feb 20221h 5min

This episode comes on what is usually a week off because, well, we got pretty fired up about Gioia's article!Barry and Mike agree (and disagree) about what's happening with the music industry right no...

28 Jan 202236min

Barry and Mike continue with their conversation of Bernard Steigler's Automatic Society in the second of a two part discussion.

21 Jan 20221h 2min

Barry and Mike begin a two part discussion on Bernard Steigler and his book, The Automatic Society.

7 Jan 202250min

Barry and Mike introduce themselves and the show. We talk about who we are, where and how we come to Critical Media Studies, and what the show is about.

7 Jan 202212min