Media, Culture, and Why we feel like crying so much

Mentioned in today's episode: John Durham Peters' book, Speaking into the Air   Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie C...

Mentioned in today's episode: James Carey's book, Communication as Culture Stef's paper exploring the ideological function of the Netflix show, Bridgerton. Read it here: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1081659   Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyd...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to thin...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to thin...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to thin...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to think...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to thin...

Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram  @mediacultureandwhypod . About the hosts: Stefanie Chae is a media researcher and pop culture enthusiast, encouraging people to thin...

What exactly makes a meme a  meme ? In this episode, we introduce one approach to analyzing internet memes and the larger implications for communication, meaning-making, and cultural criticism.  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media h...

Sources we mentioned in today's episode: Abidin, C. (2016). Please Subscribe! Influencers, Social Media, and the Commodification of Everyday Life. The University of Western Australia. Berryman, R., and Kavka, M. (2017, June).  “‘I Guess A Lot of People See Me as a Big Sister or Friend’: The Role of Intimacy in the Celebrification of Beauty Vloggers.” Journal of Gender Studies 26(3), pp. 307–20. EB...

In this episode, Grant works through Mark Deuze's 2012 work of media theory, "Media Life" which claims that " You live in media. Who you are, what you do, and what all of this means to you does not exist outside of media”  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make s...

It is common to experience something through media before experiencing it for "real." In this episode, we reflect on how media structured, informed, and archived our time as undergrads.  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, p...

Sometimes it isn't only what we say, but  how we say it that reveals deeper meanings circulating through our media and interactions with each other. What can we learn about ideologies of work, labor, power, and humanity through discourse surround paid time off (PTO)? -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. I...

As efforts continue to destigmatize mental health, people seem to be talking about it more and more. Whether it is Tik Toks made by therapists, the endless "self-help" genre, or mental health services like Cerebral, BetterHelp, and Headspace, mental health in digital media is the topic of this episode.  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life wit...

Have you ever bonded with someone over a shared appreciation for Spongebob? Or maybe you've seen memes made from your favorite TV shows. In our rich media environment, the media we most enjoy can be a fun way to express ourselves or communicate with others. -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each epi...

Stories about military personnel or armed conflict are everywhere in our entertainment media from video games to Top Gun to Masterchef. How do media shape the ways we interpret the armed forces? -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media h...

How do we come to interpret behavior as "healthy" or "unhealthy"? In this episode, we unpack how our material and media environment impact how we think about our bodies. -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and exp...

Documenting weddings through photos and videos is media practice we might take for granted. In this episode, we look deeply into media practices related to weddings to uncover insight into Guy Debord's idea of "spectacle" -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make se...

Many of us think of entertainment as automatically related to consumption. This is a wide-ranging episode with a lot of ideas about what we mean by culture.  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Di...

Does your algorithm "get" you? Here we unpack TikTok as the messy and rich media environment that it is.  -- Media, Culture, & Why we feel like crying so much is a podcast about media in daily life with Stefanie Chae and Grant Lattanzi. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram @mediacultureandwhypod....