As more of our culture is produced and consumed on digital platforms, state actors seek to influence international politics through them. In this episode of The Annex, we discuss cultural production and influence operations with Dana Weinberg (CUNY Queens College), Ashely Mears (Boston University), and Ori Swed (Texas Tech).
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A discussion about how the organization of science affects the behavior of scientists and departments, and in turn knowledge. With JP Pardo-Guerra (UC San Diego) and Charles Gomez (Arizona).
The Annex is back for its tenth semester. In this episode, we meet with Hannah Wohl (University of California, Santa Barbara) to discuss her book on creativity and cultural production, Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Judged (University of Chicago Press). Photo Credit. By Jami430 – Own work, CC […]
In this episode of The Annex, we sit down with Michael Siciliano of Queen’s University (Canada). Michael is currently working on a book for Columbia University Press about YouTubers, tentatively titled Creative Control: Platforms, Labor Relations, and the Aesthetics of Precarious Work. We talk about YouTube, content creation, and media. […]
Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) describes her research on making it in country music songwriting.
This week, The Annex sits down with Clayton Childress from the University of Toronto. Clayton wrote Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel with Princeton University Press. We discuss the process of a fiction book’s conception, development, distribution, and reception, and the degree to which the fiction publishing industry […]