This weeks episodes features a very special guest (my gorgeous friend & flatmate)...Laura Hern! Tap in as fellow OarFM podcaster Laura and I discuss our early exposure to the Internet and online influencers...including our own pre-teen passions for recorded skits. Don’t forget to check out Laura’s podcast “Through the Kaleidoscope”! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
23 Sept 2026
17: Blacked. — A Look Into Digital Blackface
This weeks episode is a look into digital blackface — a newer concept based around the Internets usage of Black reaction images/GIFs. We talk about the history of minstrelsy, the prevalence of racialized visualizations and audios in the social media sphere, and how the past informs the present. This discussion is applied to a video essay I did for post-grad this year in which I offer the term “blacked” to analyse this online phenomenon. Despite the importance of this topic, don’t mind my bouts of stuttering and voice cracks — I was tired, okay?! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
10 Sept 2026
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This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
26 Aug 2026
15: Snapewives: Fandom Turned Religious
This week’s episode is all about the niche community of Snapewives/Snapeists — a corner of the early 2000’s Harry Potter fandom that religiously engaged and transformed the narratives of Severus Snape.
Following Henry Jenkins framework of fandom analysis, we delve into the interesting dynamics of online communities interactions with fictional texts...even to the point of religious devotion.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
12 Aug 2026
14: Internet Horrors (Part II): Chain Letters
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A.K.A part two on the topic of creepypasta and how the Internet is a reflection of our human fears. This week we’re talking about email and text chain letters!
The episode features: the strange history of chain letters (“the original meme”), Carmen Winstead, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, r/nosleep, my clown collection, and the debut of my audiobook narration career. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
29 Jul 2026
13: Internet Horrors (Part I): Creepypasta
This week’s episode of Virtuality gets a little creepy...pasta.
The episode features: the origins of Slender Man (Slendy), 4chan (again), true crime, and the Internet phenomenon known as “creepypasta”.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
15 Jul 2026
12: Futurism: A Cult of the New
Speed, violence, war, and hot new tech! This weeks episode is all about FUTURISM — the artistic movement of the 20th century that foregrounded the tone of technological accelerationism today, all with a splash of misogyny (fun!) Tune in as I talk about poetic cult manifestos and get increasingly more insecure about how I pronounce words! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
1 Jul 2026
11: Bias in the Code
Algorithms don’t exist in a vacuum, they code and curate the biases of humanity. This episode is based on Ghanian-American computer scientist and poet Dr. Joy Buolamwini’s concept of the Coded Gaze! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
17 Jun 2026
10: Hacking Into the Mainframe (Hackers Pt. II)
Welcome to Part II of the Hackers series! (You won’t be surprised that I once again manage to relate this to cyberpunk.) This episode of Virtuality features: Anonymous, the Backflip Kids of hacking, Operation Payback, Americas obsession with masked men, and Revenge of the Nerds. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
3 Jun 2026
9: The Geeks Manifesto (Hackers Pt. I)
Phreaks, geeks, and sneaky MIT undergrads.
This week, we’re talking about hackers. From campus pranks to phone phreaks to writing manifestos in a jail cell, the hackers have a colorful history. This is part one of badly explained history around hackers, featuring an excerpt of my Computer x Hacker Nerd fanfiction and, finally, you guessed it, a permanent Webpage of the Week segment theme song, composed by my very own kin (shout out to Diego—love ya...I guess).
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
20 May 2026
8: High Tech, Low Life
Neon signage, cybernetic augmentations, multi-colour holograms, clusters of projected billboards, dingy motels, low lives, sinister corporations, hustling mercs...and...oriental ‘othering’ that can be historicised in the post-war anxieties circling the U.S. economy in the 1980’s??? You guessed it — this weeks episode is all about the Cyberpunk genre and its prolific authors and adaptations, as well as the historical foregrounding of its trope-y narratives and visuals. The episode features: my poor excuse of sci-fi prose, a lesson on Techno-Orientalism (because I’m doing a presentation on it Friday afternoon), a special Webpage of the Week intro, and my fatigue-induced rambling (complaining) at the end that may or may not be cut by Arina since I low-key went overtime. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
6 May 2026
7: 1D Fanfic & Wattpad Bad Boys (Fandom II)
Y/N puts her hair up into a messy bun and then turned on her favourite podcast, Virtuality. The hosts voice is so warm and soothing, like a fresh cup of tea in winter.
Okay, I'll stop now. This episode is, you guessed it, all about fanfiction online. It features: a brief history of fandom archive sites, One Direction Y/N fanfic, Hamilton the Musical, my obsession with Bad Boy stories on Wattpad at 12 years of age, and the worst intro I've written for this podcast to date.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
22 Apr 2026
6: GeoCities! (Fandom – Part I)
To stan, or not to stan.
This short episode is the intro to a two-parter about fandom culture online. We talk about GeoCities, the 90s nostalgia epidemic, and my credentials as a fangirl.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
9 Apr 2026
5: I Could Have Been An Influencer
Do you know what your kid is doing online? Because I was trying to become a social media star from the ages of 10 to 11.
This episode features: insight into my short-lived social media career, Jacob Sartorius, R.I.P Vine, The Ocean Show, a 10-minute tangent about the fresher flu, and a deliriously rushed conclusion to the episode because I started to run out of time and realized I was very dehydrated, to be honest with you.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
26 Mar 2026
4: Apple’s Most Iconic Commercial
“Big Brother”? I hardly know her! That’s right—this episode is about the 1984 Apple Macintosh Super Bowl commercial featuring: me stuttering out big words and the name “Baudrillard” over and over again, bald white guys, my bad voice acting, and a brief, but painful, explanation of the Super Bowl from an American who only ever cared about the halftime shows.
A.K.A— paraphrasing an essay from 2nd year that I wrote on this commercial because, hey, it’s gotta be useful for something!
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
12 Mar 2026
3: Inventing Internet (Brief, Basic Chronicling)
A jam-packed episode for the nerds, including but not limited to: Bad explanations of The Cold War, ARPANET, the evolution of data storage, packet switching, my long lost dream of graphic design, and another strike for corny usage of 14-year-old boy slang. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
26 Feb 2026
2: Gen X talks Internet
A discussion with the host’s Gen X parents featuring rich friends with 90’s computers, early social media, being Black on the Internet, and the beauty of MySpace music. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
12 Feb 2026
1: The commencement of Virtuality
An introduction to the podcast. Touching the surface of Bad Internet, casual computer terminology, and the host's first iPhone.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
10 Feb 2026
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