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The world of interiors and renovations can be overwhelming, costly and time-consuming. Whether you want to do up your rental or you're renovating - it’s hard to know where to start! Well, stress no more because interiors obsessive, Laura Jackson, is here to help. In each episode, Laura explores a new topic with interior designers, tradespeople and good old DIYers to gather the insider secrets that will help you to make your dream home a reality, no matter your budget. For more tips and trick ...
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Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.
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Grace L. Dillon is an American academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, at Portland State University. She received her PhD in literary studies with an emphasis in sixteenth-century literature, and her recent research regards Science fiction studies, especially the…
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Caty Borum, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Provost Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University, joins us again to discuss her new book, The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power. Starting with what Caty finds funny and how she uses comedy as part of her p…
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In addition to being Henry’s former dissertation advisee, Meryl Alper is am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies (College of Arts, Media, and Design) and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Bouvé College of Health Sciences) at Northeastern University. At Northeastern,…
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This week we’re joined by USC Faculty colleagues Alison Trope, Clinical Professor of Communication, and DJ Johnson, Associate Professor of Practice, Cinematic Arts. Together they direct the Critical Media Project (CMP), a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empat…
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Robeson Taj Frazier is an associate professor of communication and director of IDEA (the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg), as well as the author of The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination and KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell, and producer of IT'S YOURS: A Story About Hip-Hop and the Int…
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As a former volunteer and later employee of Fandom Forward (what was then called The Harry Potter Alliance) and a transgender man, Jackson Bird’s feelings about Harry Potter have certainly evolved, especially given the extremely divisive statements JK Rowling has made about the transgender community. He shares how what was once an important part of…
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If you’re considering renovating a single room or working on a full house transformation, this episode is full of inspiration and hugely helpful tips from one of the OG DIY Instagram accounts. Laura Jackson is joined by Jessica Horton, owner of ‘Since_1859’ (which since recording has rebranded to @deorling_) who bought an “ugly” Victorian Terrace a…
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The main route through your home is the staircase and yet so many of us neglect our halls in favour of the main rooms of the house. It’s time to give the backbone of your home a little love – enter the stair runner! In this episode, Laura Jackson gets the inside scoop from Kate Watson-Smyth who runs an interior styling consultancy and blog Mad Abou…
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We love finding eco-friendly interior options, but how much more can we do to make all our homes more environmentally friendly whilst also saving some cash? In this episode, Laura speaks to Hannah from The Green Bungalow who is retrofitting her 1990s home. Hannah explains how to make sustainable interior options, how she’s lowered her energy bills …
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To find out the dos and don'ts of Living Room design and styling, Laura Jackson quizzes interior designer Sophie Ashby on how to achieve the perfect cosy living room, the optimal way to arrange your furniture, and clever tricks to hide your TV. Laura is also joined by Natasha Landers, who tells us how to use paint creatively, how she’s created foca…
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With summer fast approaching is it time to make more of your garden shed? Or are you ready to build your own outside cabin for some peace and quiet? In this episode, Laura Jackson gets insider knowledge from Beata Heuman, whose extravagant shed has appeared in the likes of Architectural Digest. Beata shares her tips for revitalising your garden she…
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Concrete is no longer reserved for building sites and paving slabs; you can have a polished kitchen floor, a pink basin or even a self heating bathtub! In this episode, Laura Jackson is exploring all the creative and sleek ways you can bring concrete into your home. Laura discovers the ins and outs of a poured concrete floor by speaking to the owne…
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Whether your dream home is a bold collection of prints and patterns or a simple canvas of serenity, this episode will teach you how to avoid messiness in maximalism and emptiness in minimalism. If you’re a maximalist, Laura Jackson speaks to interior designer Meta Coleman. Meta shares her approach to layering, how to achieve a complimentary clash, …
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Our guest today is Maggie Hennefeld, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who has co-curated a dvd set of the medium’s early female comedians titled Cinema’s First Nasty Women. Maggie talks us through the current resurgence in interest in sil…
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Framing your windows with stylish bespoke material or just needing something to keep the light out – curtains and blinds are as much of an essential as they can be a statement piece. In this episode, Laura Jackson gets insider knowledge from interior designer Micaela Sharp (Interior Design Masters) on all the different curtains and blinds jargon, t…
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Before you even consider the endless options for flooring, there’s the space, the traffic and the upkeep to contend with as well! Luckily, this episode is dedicated to calming all floor related worries. In this episode, Laura Jackson quizzes interior designer Angus Buchanan on what you need to consider when choosing flooring for each room, how to b…
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There are a lot of working parts to a bathroom, so even when you want to make minor tweaks it can end up feeling like a full renovation! Kicking off season 2, host Laura Jackson will be speaking with interior designer Kay Westmaas about her top tips for space saving, the unusual places she sources bathroom inspiration, and how she feels about artwo…
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Listen to the original episode HERE. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dy…
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Bonus content not released as part of Episode 108 - hear the original episode here: https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/?p=1307 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett a…
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We’re thrilled to be joined by Academy-Award winning Production Designer Rick Carter, who has four decades of experience working on Hollywood productions, including with his own personal “Mt. Rushmore” of blockbuster directors: Stephen Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron and J.J. Abrams. Carter walks us through how he tackled his latest Oscar…
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We’re joined by Alexandria Arrieta, doctoral candidate at USC Annenberg and Christopher Cayari, associate professor of music education at Purdue University, about how music creators are using platforms like YouTube and TikTok to not just share performances but actually create content and hone their craft. By providing a distribution outlet for amat…
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We begin to talk about the story between MIT’s Open Doc Lab and our guests’ book Collective Wisdom with Kat’s experiences working for the National Film Board of Canada and how this provided a precious chance for her to dig into collective wisdom. William Uricchio brings in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and two major characteristics o…
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We start by digging into each of our guests’ definitions of “meme” (in contrast to Richard Dawkins), zeroing in on the agency of the meming process, how it connects with politics, and the need to be responsive to the way popular culture and the participating communities are using and defining these terms. Whitney offers “trolling” as an example to …
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Kevin discusses possible futures of the internet and online communities. Be sure to check out the original episode at https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/episode-101-kevin-driscoll/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofa…
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This week, we have Paul Mihailidis, Sangita Shresthova and Megan Fromm talking about their insights, stories, and theories in their book Transformative Media Pedagogies. We start with the three authors’ inspirations for their book, and then our guests share their definition of transformation, before discussing more detailed contexts for transformat…
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Kevin talks about what was happening in the 80s in France with Minitel –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dyl…
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As one of the most influential musicians in Turkish history and the first modern pop star of Turkey, Zeki Müren gained huge popularity beginning in the 1950s across all different communities in Turkey, in spite of his groundbreaking behaviors like cross-dressing, and can be seen as an LGBTQ+ trailblazer. Even now, Zeki Müren continues to have a pro…
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In this episode, Lynn Spigel, Chair of Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, and our hosts discuss her research and new book, TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life, on snapshot technology and TV history. While working on a research grant for smart houses, Lynn began researching the ways in which everyday…
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A lot of parents nowadays are concerned about their children spending too much time on screens. We begin by discussing how screen time is inevitable in this post-pandemic era and that screen time itself might not be the problem. Lynn shares her own parenting experiences to state that parents also can use screen time and technology to build a good c…
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Kevin Driscoll, author and associate professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, discusses the history of BBSs, or bulletin board systems, and how they have been overlooked as part of the history of the internet. Developing out of his early experiences with local online communities, Kevin approaches the history of the internet from a gras…
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This week we are joined by archivist Jacqueline Stewart and historian Tyree Boyd-Pates to discuss the power of museum curation. The role of the museum curator is critical to the way that museums are experienced. We begin by discussing museums as “safe spaces for dangerous ideas” – in other words, how museums can be harbingers of racist and colonial…
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Our guest this week is Diana Williams, who, after 30 years in the entertainment media industry working on premier content like the Star Wars Marvel Cinematic universes, has founded a new company, Kinetic Energy Entertainment, focused on partnering with creatives to build new intellectual property (IP) for today’s rapidly changing media landscape. S…
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This week we are further diving into the recent banning of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a school board in TN by speaking with comics scholar Hillary Chute, Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and associate editor of MetaMaus. She discusses the history of the original publication of Maus and Spiegelman’s roots …
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This week Henry and Colin are joined by writer and comics critic Jeet Heer and Jeff Trexler, Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, to discuss the broader context for the censorship of graphic novels in schools. Jumping off from the recent censorship of Art Spiegelman’s Maus by a TN school board, we review the long history and reaso…
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In this episode Stephanie Toliver, Assistant Professor of Literacy and and Secondary Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder and lifelong sci-fi nerd chats with Henry and Colin about her experience writing her hybrid PhD dissertation. As part of her PhD, Stephanie got the opportunity to work with the DEEP Center’s Block to Block Program teachi…
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This week Henry and Colin are joined by Cathy Cohen, a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago and Jen Humke, a senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation to discuss Participatory Civic Media. Cohen discusses her work with The Black Youth Project and GenForward, projects that are focused on building independent institutions and…
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Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels which is a cross-partisan nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging America's widening political divide. Mónica’s background in journalism and her own lif…
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For more with Josie Duffy Rice, listen to Episode 93! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://…
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This week Henry and Colin catch up with AnnLab Civic Media Fellow Josie Duffy Rice to talk about the stories we hear and tell about our criminal justice system, and how we can reframe them to focus on people, not punishment. Josie recalls how her early experiences as a journalist covering public prosecutors quickly made her realize how opaque the s…
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Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa discuss Disney theme park fandom from Disneyland California to Disney theme parks across the globe. Williams and Sowa share their history with Disney films and how that love has translated into their love for the theme parks as adults. We then dive further into the theme park as a space of play for adults and why be…
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This week we’re joined by a whoopensocker of a guest - Erica Halverson. After telling us all what a “whoopensocker” is, she brings us up to speed on her education intervention of the same name, where teaching artists employ the rules of improv to encourage kids to express themselves and engage in collaborative storytelling. Those stories are then p…
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From gallery walls to investment pieces, where do you begin with finding the perfect art for your home? In this episode, Laura talks to: Interiors content creator Lisa Dawson about how to create the perfect gallery wall; art consultant Georgia Spray who reveals that working with consultants isn’t as expensive as you think, and professional framer D…
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Sometimes our ideas can go beyond our DIY capabilities, no matter how confident you might be. Whether that’s a partition wall or an extension, there’s one person you’ll definitely need to get involved… and that is a builder. In this episode, Laura will take you through all the steps in order to find and work with a builder, to create the space you’…
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Kitchens. For many of us it’s the centre point of the home. It’s where we eat, meet and… party! So it needs to work for you and stand the test of time. In this episode, Laura explores how to create the perfect layout with Fred Rigby, how to create the perfect pantry (even if you don’t have one!) with Matilda Goad and how to add character and person…
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Creating ambience is possible in every room big or small – all it takes is well thought out lighting. Laura explores the perfect placement for lamps, downlights, spotlights and more with lighting consultant Max Barlow, where to source unusual light fittings and appliances with interior designer Shalini Misra and then figuring out the essentials on …
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There are endless hues of blue and when you finally make a decision, it looks completely different to what you expected… a waste of money and paint! However, if you’re unsure on what to choose - Laura’s got your back. In this episode, she explores how to choose the perfect colour for your room with artist and designer Luke Edward-Hall, how to choos…
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For the serial plant killers amongst us… it’s time to ditch the plastic plants, you’ll be greenfingered in no time! In this episode, Laura takes a look into the benefits that plants have on our health and well-being with Biophilic Designer (you’ll find out what that is!), Oliver Heath, as well as getting top tips on keeping our ‘plant pets’ alive w…
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It can be really difficult to find a rental home that’s decorated to your taste, or a place with a landlord who’s happy to let you put your stamp on the place but there are things you can do to make your rental feel like your own. In this episode, Laura chats to: Medina Grillo – the master of doing up a rental and approaching your landlord to get t…
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If you’ve recently seen a wall that has a beautifully stony finish or a soft and curvy element of architecture with a real depth to it, the chances are it’s Tadelakt. After Laura had her shower and bathroom finished in Tadelakt, it’s been a point of constant admiration which gets lots of questions so here are the answers! To help her delve deeper, …
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Whether you’re going for a minimalist or maximalist look, tiles are a sure fire way to add depth and interest to your space. But who knew they were so hard to fit, how many types there are to choose from?! Well, in this episode Laura gets all the answers by chatting to interior designer and tile lover, Alexandria Dauley, to find out what the differ…
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