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[1]This week, we have two special guests: Gwen Sharp [2] from Sociological Images [3] and Don Waisanen [4] from ThickCulture [5].
First, we talk about a couple of Gwen's recent posts on Soc Images regarding whiteness, cowboys, and the Republican's "Pledge" [6] and the mythology of being a country boy/girl [7]. (Oh, and vajazzling [8].)
Second, we talk about Stephen Colbert's Congressional testimony. Don thinks it missed the mark [9], we compare Colbert and Stewart, and discuss the complexity of satire and irony in politics.
Download Improv #14 [10]
[1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2010/09/album-art-ep14.png
[2] http://nsc.nevada.edu/988.asp
[3] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
[4] http://
[5] https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/
[6] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/09/25/which-americans-are-republicans-pledging-to/
[7] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/09/10/race-gender-and-likes-on-okcupid/
[8] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/10/vajazzling-revealed/
[9] https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/09/26/why-colbert’s-congressional-testimony-missed-the-mark/
[10] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=63517.mp3
[1]This week we talk about the sociology and economics of academic journal publishing, the Elsevier boycott [2], and whether the journal system as we know it is necessary anymore. Our decision: everybody can just podcast everything from now on. Starting with….
Episode Number 37 [3]
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Published 06/14/12
[1]This episode we start with a discussion of violent protests prompted by a question from a listener (Which is great! Send more!). We then talk about Twitter, hashtags, Gmail, and passwords before moving on to a discussion about education and universal preschool.
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Published 05/15/12