Academy Vibes 01-02: Media Studies with Briana Barner
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Major conference: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS)
Historically Black colleges and universities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education
(The Carnegie Classification system was most recently revised in 2025, so the description in this episode is not highly up-to-date.)
Foundational texts:
Stuart Hall, "What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?." In Stuart Hall, pp. 479-489. Routledge, 2006.
Patricia Hill Collins, Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. routledge, 2022.
Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Robin DG Kelley, Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Beacon Press, 2002.
Postmodern theorists and works Watson mentioned:
Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard (The Postmodern Condition), Fredric Jameson (Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism)
Good speakers:
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. https://www.alfredmartin.com/
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press, 11 October 2024. [OPEN ACCESS: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/finding-god-in-all-the-black-places/9781978839779/]
Brian Eno, A year with swollen appendices: Brian Eno's Diary. Faber & Faber, 1996.
What Song is Your Field: Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
Guests Briana recommends:
Alfred Martin, Media Studies
Shatavia Wynn, Religious Studies
XKCD, "Average Familiarity" (the feldspar comic): https://xkcd.com/2501/
T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson BlueSky @txwatson.com TikTok @txwatson
Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg BlueSky @oddpride.com TikTok @oddpride