19 March 2020, 2 - 3:30 PM
Zoom presentation and Q+A
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Talk Description: While large media organizations focus primarily on the value of podcasts as advertising or subscription real estate, producers, scholars, political organizers, artists and other communities continue to push this medium beyond its commodity functions. Assistant Professor, podcast host, and race and economic justice organizer, Chenjerai Kumanyika discusses why it is crucial for us to understand podcast and radio as practices of radical performance and experimentation, research and knowledge production, political power, and networked community building.

Bio: Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika is a researcher, journalist, and organizer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of social justice and emerging media in the cultural and creative industries. He has written about these issues in numerous publications, including Popular Music & Society, Popular Communication, Technology, and Pedagogy and Education and The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture. Kumanyika is the Co-Executive Producer and Co-Host of “Uncivil,” Gimlet Media’s Peabody award-winning podcast on the Civil War. He has collaborated on the Scene on Radio podcast series, including "Seeing White" (Season 2) and “The History of American Democracy” (Season 4). Kumanyika has also contributed to numerous other podcast and radio programs including The Intercept, Transom, and NPR series including Codeswitch, All Things Considered, Invisibilia and VICE, and is a news analyst for “Rising Up Radio” with Sonali Kolhatkar. He sits on the executive committee of 215 People's Alliance, is a member of the Philadelphia Debt Collective and affiliate of the Media Inequality and Change Center, and continues to serve on Street Poets' board as well as the Moth board.