The Global Media Cultures podcast introduces scholarship about the world to the world. Every episode of the podcast showcases an academic article about media in a global context. The author of the article engages in conversation with the podcast host and discusses the research process, context on the subject matter, and any connections between their research and relevant current events. This public humanities project aims to connect researchers of global media studies, particularly junior scholars, to an audience beyond the academy. It is intended as a teaching resource for those teaching in higher education and as an introduction to these topics for anyone interested in the roles that media play in our understanding of the world.
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In this week's episode, guest Channette Romero discusses her article "Toward an Indigenous Feminine Animation Aesthetic (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/659891)," which analyzes the aesthetics and politics of animation shorts created by Indigenous women situated in North America. Romero argues that these women's innovative animation styles draw attention to the pervasive colonial gaze in mainstream animation and position Indigenous creatives as foremost multimedia artists.
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12 Nov 2021
Telenovelas and Black Celebrity in Brazil
In this week's episode, guest Bruno Guaraná discusses his article "Taís Araújo: The Black Helena against Brazil's Whitening Television (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/707685)," which traces key moments in the television career of one of Brazi's most popular television celebrities Taís Araújo, including the several times she has been slated as "the first black protagonist" on different television shows. Guaraná argues that, against Brazilian television's practices of whitening raced subjects and pushing forth a colorblind ideology, the construction of Araújo's star image has ultimately turned her into a popular symbol of black female resistance.
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5 Nov 2021
Digital Altars and Migrant Death in Mexico
In this week's episode, guest Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez discusses her article "Where Blackness Dies: The Aesthetics of a Massacre and the Violence of Remembering (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470412921999456)," which analyzes the digital altar created to commemorate the lives of 72 Central American migrants massacred in Mexico in 2010. Cervantes-Gómez builds on this analysis to interrogate the sensationalist depictions of migrant death, the affordances and limitations of digital media for attending to the divine, and, ultimately, the politics of blackness in the context of Mexico and the American continent.
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