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Today in class, we looked quickly at a few examples of media that we might analyze for our podcast series. I talked fairly quickly through some of those and didn’t always give links to them, so here are a few more details about these. Be thinking about what examples you would most be interested in analyzing for your own podcast episodes, which is really far more important than the sorts of examples that come into my mind.<\/p>\n

I played in class part of the video from yesterday where the vlogger\u00a0Nerdwriter<\/a> analyzes a Louis CK joke:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also referenced quickly “<a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdwriter.net\/2016\/9\/8\/how-ee-cummings-writes-a-poem\">How E.E. Cummings Writes a Poem<\/a>” and a few others. You should watch all of the Louis CK video, at least, and glance through the list of other videos he’s produced and his FAQ page.<\/p>\n<p>I also pointed you toward the podcaster and writer David McRaney at <a href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/\">You Are Not So Smart<\/a>. His episode of last week, “<a href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2017\/01\/13\/yanss-092-avoiding-the-many-varieties-of-bullshit\/\">Avoiding the many varieties of bullshit<\/a>” might be topical given our reading for today. There are a bunch of other podcasts on that site, which have also lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/the-book\/\">a pair of books<\/a>\u00a0and other media.<\/p>\n<p>Or, we might think about the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">comic xkcd<\/a> produced by Randall Munroe. It’s led to a series of books and other media as well.<\/p>\n<p>I also gestured briefly toward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/\">Vox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/\">Fivethirtyeight<\/a>, which are both more corporate ventures than the ones above but might be interesting to consider.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Podcasts<\/h2>\n<p>If any of you are interested in something closer to fiction, you might check out the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcometonightvale.com\/\">Welcome to Night Vale<\/a>\u00a0or one of the other productions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightvalepresents.com\/\">Night Vale Presents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps one of the NPR podcasts like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510307\/invisibilia\">Invisibilia<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/serialpodcast.org\/\">Serial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"https:\/\/themoth.org\/\">The Moth<\/a>, which sets up events organized around a theme and then invites people to come up and tell true stories about that theme and then produces a series of podcasts from those events.<\/p>\n<h2>Other vlogs<\/h2>\n<p>Tony Zhou produces videos at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/everyframeapainting\">Every Frame a Painting<\/a> that analyze how movies work in insightful and intriguing ways. Anything from “How to Do Action Comedy” by looking at Jackie Chan’s films<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z1PCtIaM_GQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>to “Composing Movement” by looking at Akira Kurosawa films<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/doaQC-S8de8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>or the Steven Spielberg “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8q4X2vDRfRk\">Oner<\/a>” an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ojm74VGsZBU\">analysis of how Vancouver cloaks itself<\/a> as so many other cities in other movies.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyNtlmLB73-7gtlBz00XOQQ\">Folding Ideas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube Trailer August 2015\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6OJZsH9zZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His recent video on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Vy2Vhnqtu8I\">Kuleshov Effect<\/a> is a nice analysis of the fundamentals of how film and film editing work.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/pbsideachannel\">PBS Idea Channel<\/a>, a PBS YouTube channel that examines the connections between pop culture, technology and art?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/X22t_4ZQK0w<\/p>\n<h2>Environmentalist sites<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the examples above (though not all) are film or literary sites, or at least a kind of\u00a0cultural criticism. We might also consider sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/350.org\/\">350.org<\/a>, which is creating a grassroots effort to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Or a site like <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/\">Grist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Journalism<\/h2>\n<p>There are a ton of other sites for various kinds of journalism that might go here, so think about ones that you’d be interested to pay attention to. I think the key is to avoid simple political blogs or “blogs” that are really just basically newspaper columns or magazines ported into an online space. One site that might be worth thinking about along these lines is <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>, which used to be a simple political blog by Josh Marshall, but has now grown into a much more complex (but still fairly indie) site that includes interesting examples of crowdsourcing, polling, a podcast, and a user forum that is more than just a simple comment feed.<\/p>\n<h2>Other stuff<\/h2>\n<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/\">How Stuff Works<\/a> an example of new media writing?<\/p>\n<h2>Brainstorm your own list<\/h2>\n<p>I’ve got a bunch of examples above. Those are some of the sites that immediately popped into my mind as things that I would be interested in looking more closely at if I were going to be producing a podcast episode where I try to analyze how new media writing works. 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