We hear from two groups of students exploring topics in library and information studies. The first focuses on intersections of LBGTQ people, queer theory, and libraries --- especially cataloging. Another group thinks about how public lands and public libraries relate to each other as resources for the public good and human wellbeing.
An interview with Peg Cook, interim library director at Elmhurst College, on academic libraries now, followed by a discussion of the misinformation in the online information ecosystem.
Student discussions of the embeddedness of libraries and archives within imperial power, with emphasis on indigenous lands and knowledges. Followed by a reflection on literature for youth and Banned Books Week 2020.
We launch season 3 of the Eyes Cool Podcast and everything around here is new, new, new! New students, a new episode format for this season, and, today, an interview with new iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker.
Some relevant links: Worlds Without End: http://www.worldswithoutend.com/ Locus Mag: https://locusmag.com/
Links: N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds Den of Geek - Top New Fantasy Books https://www.denofgeek.com/books/top-new-fantasy-books-2020/ World Fantasy Awards http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/ Nebula Awards https://nebulas.sfwa.org/ Hugo Awards controversy https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awards-broken-earth-sad-puppies The Problem of Innocence in the Dark Fantastic http://thedark...
Our recommendations/favs: From Mia: M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin Mystery Series Kathleen Ernst: Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None and Hercule Poirot mysteries Ashley Weaver: The Amory Ames Mysteries Amy Stewart: Kopp Sisters Mysteries Meg Cabot: Heather Wells Mysteries Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (YA crossover) From my grandma: M.C. Beaton, William Kent Krueger, Alexander McCall Smith From my husband: Mr. Merce...
Bibliography and Notes The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorized London by Brian McDonald Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes About the Criminal Justice System by Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn (The Sociological Quarterly vol. 52 issue 1) Why Do Women Love True Crime? by Kate Tuttle (The New York Times, 15 July 2019) Savage Appetite...
We launch season two - which takes a series of deep dives into genres popular with adult readers - with an episode about Romance Novels! Links to resources mentioned in the episode: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/readers-advisory-episode-96-a-princess-in-theory/ https://bellwetherfriends.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/episode-92-we-need-inclusive-romance/ https://bellwetherfriends.word...
Season Two of EYES COOL PODCAST is coming soon! This season we take a series of deep dives into genres that are popular with adult readers from romance to true crime and everything in between. We're embedded in a course called Reading Interests of Adults where we'll get a taste of what interests adult readers, how and why we read together, and how industry factors like reviews and recommendation systems affect the literary scene. Launching soon, episode one focuses on Romance Novels!...
In the final episode of the season, we discuss Jenny Odell's How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy . How can we reclaim control over our most precious resource in the 21st-century information economy: attention? Odell theorizes withdrawal, refusal, and self determination an puts the digital attention economy within the larger context of human history and ecology. Then, at the end of the first season, our host reflects on the end of season one and teaching with podcasts!...
This week we discuss Amy Lonetree's 2012 book, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Lonetree, who is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, discusses how museums can shed centuries of colonial violence at the core of their collecting and display practices by centering Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing. She also discusses Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums, or TLAM, a specialized area of libraries and archives that UW-Mad...
This week we discuss Michelle Caswell's Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. Then a discussion of the prod-Democracy protests in Hong Kong and how the tech industry has been involved. Closed out by a conversation about digital humanities and book history in the UW-Madison Special Collections library.
On this week's pod we discuss Melissa Adler's Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham 2017, https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823276363/cruising-the-library/). From there, we learn about the Madison LGBTQ Archive and the Madison LGBTQ Oral History Project. Finally, a look at parent challenges of LGBTQ books in school libraries.
Misogyny in tech industries and the information professions isn't an accident. It was created and has a long history. And it comes with great costs to individual people and society at large. This week the pod's main segment is on Mar Hick's award-winning 2018 book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.
.A look at Sarah T. Roberts' new book Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.
Mark Zuckerberg went before Congress last week and tried to defend facebook's positions on privacy, truth in targeted advertising, and cryptocurrency. And this week we're reading Siva Vaidhyanathan's Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.
When did you first feel represented by the media you read and viewed? A group of students sit down to discuss Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's new book, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Episode also features an interview with iSchool professor Rebekah Willett whose work focuses on youth and media. Rounding out the episode is a look at the Wisconsin Book Festival.
Show Notes On Being Included: Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press, 2012). Sara Ahmed: The Institution as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection Solid Ground, Definition & Analysis of Institutional Racism Current Events: Mettler, K. (2019, April 14). A black college student went looking for free food. He ended up pinned down by campus officers. The Washington Post. Cutlup, C. (2019, April 19). Black columbia student restrained by ...
Show Notes content warning : In this episode, hosts read the content of an anti-semitic tweet in order to analyze how AI bots learn and repeat racist language. Sources Referenced in Podcast Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Polity Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/WISC/detail.action?docID=5820427 Vincent, J. (2016, March 24). Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day. The Verge. https://www.thever...
In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool! SHOW NOTES! Audio clip sources: Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of Oppression. Data & Society Research Institute. Retrieved from https://listen.datasociety.net/algorithms-of-oppression/ Elevator Speech (00:09 - 00:...
