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Stephen J. A. Ward: Objectively Engaged Journalism

Stephen J. A. Ward discusses his book Objectively Engaged Journalism: An Ethic with Chris Richardson. Ward is an internationally recognized author, media ethicist and historian of ideas whose research is on the ethics of global, digital media, the rise of extreme media, and its impact on democracy. He is professor emeritus and Distinguished Lecturer on Ethics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He has written and edited 10 books on media ethics, including the award-winning Radical Media Ethics and The Invention of Journalism Ethics. He is editor-in-chief of The Handbook of Global Media Ethics featuring chapters by over 80 media scholars and journalists around the world. A former war reporter, he is founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, co-founder of the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver, and former director of the Turnbull Media Center at the University of Oregon in Portland.  He has won the President’s Award for lifetime contribution to journalism from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Scott Newstok: How to think like Shakespeare

Scott Newstok discusses his book How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from A Renaissance Education with Chris Richardson. Newstok [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhodes.edu%2Fnewstok&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C0%7C637378708507987027&sdata=lilf4r8qfuf4s8C5XT0s2%2BZjBZRQqSRF%2F2oWyv1bMGU%3D&reserved=0]is Professor of English and Founding Director of thePearce Shakespeare Endowment [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhodes.edu%2Fshakespeare&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C0%7C637378708507997025&sdata=U%2B390NlYrrE2N2hNclAhaPq1HRPBvS83w%2FYazFLxoos%3D&reserved=0]at Rhodes College. Newstok is the author ofQuoting Death in Early Modern England [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottnewstok.com%2Fquoting-death&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C1%7C637378708507997025&sdata=kKpnQZxNA32aDO4tumy3ZOz1V1R00dNHixYbvwfGoQs%3D&reserved=0]: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb(Palgrave, 2009) andHow to Think like Shakespeare: [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottnewstok.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C1%7C637378708508007021&sdata=GoWa0Bbk94ZuByg01%2BE6Bne1q2Gs6SonuLdJQoDjY3k%3D&reserved=0]Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Princeton, 2020); and editor ofKenneth Burke on Shakespeare [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottnewstok.com%2Fkenneth-burke-on-shakespeare&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C1%7C637378708508007021&sdata=z%2B95ngYNTtXk6PE7flFJrX2bqCHUejRZvkz3d5T8Apg%3D&reserved=0](Parlor Press, 2007),Weyward Macbeth [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottnewstok.com%2Fweyward-macbeth&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C1%7C637378708508017020&sdata=juBOdwNY9GHlmnpPN3%2FtA3LFXlAcVE65gxDHOofNmsE%3D&reserved=0]: Intersections of Race and Perforance(Palgrave, 2010, with Ayanna Thompson), andParadise Lost: A Primer [https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottnewstok.com%2Fparadise-lost&data=02%7C01%7Ccjrichardson%40yhc.edu%7C6c50f65e6290450adbd208d86c8eeea8%7C1379e863408a4b749b272a14b4ee5a07%7C1%7C1%7C637378708508017020&sdata=AKcUNfNLGRrGmohieBGXAbhaEDH2ZyxkW8DMcLZ%2FC94%3D&reserved=0],writtenby his late mentor Michael Cavanagh (Catholic University of America Press, 2020).

Anna F. Peppard: Supersex

Anna F. Peppard discusses her book Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero with Chris Richardson. Peppard is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in the department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. She’s published widely on representations of race, gender, and sexuality within a variety of popular media genres and forms, including action-adventure television, superhero comics, professional wrestling, and sports culture. She’s currently working on a monograph about the iconic 1960s spy-fi TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and writing entirely too much X-Men fanfiction. She co-hosts the podcast Three Panel Contrast (a monthly discussion of comics classics), and The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast (a weekly discussion of the classic Marvel comics series Excalibur).

Jonathan Cohn: The Burden of Choice

Jonathan Cohn discusses his book The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture with Chris Richardson. Cohn is an assistant professor of digital cultures and head of the digital humanities program at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on digital culture and history, critical algorithmic studies, film and media, postfeminist and postracial discourses…and television. With Dr. Jennifer Porst, he is co-editing Very Special Episodes: Event Television and Social Change (Rutgers, forthcoming) on the history of how the television industry has confronted traumatic events and cultural change. In the meantime, he is thinking a lot about what differences might exist between algorithmic and AI culture, and the experiences of incoherence endemic to our current moment. In an effort to make our relationship with AI more collaborative, ethical and egalitarian, he is also creating a program to help humanities scholars co-write and research with AI.

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn: Postmodern Vampires

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn discusses her book Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture with Chris Richardson. Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. She is a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and author of Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2019). She has published widely on socio-cultural history, subjectivity and postmodernism in Film Studies, American studies, Horror studies, and Popular Culture. Previous books include Clive Barker: Dark imaginer (Manchester UP, 2017), and The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films (McFarland, 2010), and articles in Adaptation (Oxford UP), and Horror Studies (Intellect). She is currently leading a research project and writing a monograph on the popular culture of the 1980s.