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A Culture Made of Algorithms

Omar Alleyne

A Podcast that dives into our media consumption and the cultures it produces. Incorporating Media Theory, Cultural Theory and Sociology, 'A Culture Made of Algorithms' engages in dialogues a...

Episodes

20 of 36 episodes

The Hamilton Commission Exposes F1's belief in the Great White Myth

Formula One has more than one race problem. Music by Amine Maxwell: Lovely Shared under Creative Commons 3.0 licencing agreement.

00:25:05Aug 9, 2021

Disney+'s NEXT Questions our AI Anxieties

The show has an AI groom a young child into taking a gun to school. It's wild, but it's not new from the Sci-fi fear space. Music by Amine M...

00:22:00Jul 26, 2021

Is it Ethical to use Deepfakes in Education? [Live]

This week I closed out my internship at Coventry University's Centre for Postdigital Cultures' Virtual Reality Archive Learning (ViRAL) Proj...

00:59:34Jul 12, 2021

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

I've been working with the Virtual Reality Archive Learning Project (ViRAL) at Coventry University's Centre for PostDigital Cultures and I'm...

00:04:20Jun 28, 2021

The War on Dads in Popular Culture

Reactionaries would have you believe that the latest culture war is against dads in Television and Film. The evidence disagrees. Music by Am...

00:23:32Jun 14, 2021

The Many Meanings of Football

Football has transformed from a grassroots game people played in the streets with a pig bladder, to an international, multi-billion-dollar g...

00:21:39May 31, 2021

Media as Political Expression, Education and Community Activism - Interview with Marquise Richards

Marquise Richards (also known as @MarquiseDavon ) is an Activist, Educator and Multi-Media Practitioner and in this episode, we talk through...

01:33:50May 17, 2021

Reviewing the UK Government's Race and Ethnic Disparities Report

On March 31st, 2021, the UK government published a report which claimed institutional racism no longer existed in British Society. Intereste...

00:52:54May 3, 2021

Neoliberalism in Fallout 4's Post-Apocalyptic World Shows How We Treat Money Like it Is Magic

Neoliberalism is a socio-economic model that exists everywhere, but what happens when it exists inside a media text that is set in a world t...

00:28:43Jan 1, 2021

Hegemonic Masculinity, Oppositional Readings, Working Moms and Maternal Horrors.

THE ESSAY THAT STARTED THIS PODCAST: R.W. Connell's* theory of Hegemonic Masculinity argues that men exert their power in society through th...

00:12:19Dec 25, 2020

DISCOURSE #5: Kettles, Kevin Hart and Clubhouse: My Clubhouse Stories So Far

Clubhouse is a new, invite and audio-only social media platform that was popularised by celebrities and media professionals who flocked to t...

00:25:25Dec 18, 2020

THE GODDARD LINKUP: @EedsMckenzie on TikTok, Surveillance, Racism in Tech and Ruha Benjamin.

Going through the archive this week, I've come good on a promise to share with you a previously unreleased, juicy portion of content by Eeds...

00:21:13Dec 11, 2020

DISCOURSE #4: Spotify Unwrapped, Don't Click the Porn-Bot & PSA.

Thank you to everyone who's listened over the past eight months. This episode reacts to the Spotify Unwrapped News, Warns you about Porn Bot...

00:19:35Dec 4, 2020

DISCOURSE #3: Getting Scammed on Habbo Hotel

On Wednesday I was inspired by a wave of overflowing nostalgia felt by a Twitter thread talking about the social media that got us into soci...

00:27:37Nov 20, 2020

DISCOURSE #2: Power, Fear and Factions in Fallout 4 - Who's misery are you aiding in?

DISCOURSE is the show that looks at media texts and talks about them but without all the media theory. This week, I crack open a small conve...

00:34:30Oct 30, 2020

DISCOURSE #1: Not a Review of Netflix's Snowpiercer

DISCOURSE is the media show that talks about media. It's low budget, rambly and all about talking about talking. This episode is all about N...

00:42:17Oct 9, 2020

S2 EP10: Questions, Answers, Polls and Conversations [Season 2 Finale]

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in the weekly polls, who used this podcast in your own discussions and for tuning in! This episo...

00:26:40Sep 11, 2020

S2 EP9: You, Me, Us and Them: Representation Finale

*Re-UPLOADED* Women, Queer and Ethnic Minority voices are frequently touted to be ignored in media representation. But what are the gripes t...

00:23:02Sep 4, 2020

S2 EP8: Why the Police Force Cares about Their Media Representation

In the second of a three part mini-series on representation, we look at the police as a state body and why media representation matters to t...

00:20:49Aug 28, 2020

S2 EP7: Why Care About [Semiotic] Media Representation?

Salutations Listener. Sorry I kept saying 'As such' and apologises to Kay and Skittles for calling you Key and Skittle. Everyone else whos n...

00:23:11Aug 21, 2020