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Break Away

An interview with Dr. Victor Braitberg about the machinations by social media platforms that help us form online relationships - and help them profit from it all. Is this good? Bad? Or The Truman Show? Produced by Jacquie Kuru and Gabe Stultz. Listen while viewing the transcript at https://share.descript.com/view/0jameQzbz00 or at https://ivoices.ischool.arizona.edu/social-media-and-ourselves.
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Parasocial and Parasitical

Honeybee

The internet can seem like a faraway place. It can seem fictional and like it cannot affect you. But today we see relationships, politics, and cultural movements echoing attitudes that originate on the web. How can this be? In this episode, we listen to stories from people who thought they were impervious to the internet's influence. Instead, they found their realities perturbed by things they first saw on-screen. Produced and narrated by Gabe Stultz with support from Jacquie Kuru and Diana Daly of iVoices Media Lab at the University of Arizona. All music in this episode by Gabe Stultz. Image: "internet" by miniyo73 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

@Reality

When Kiersten made a gamer friend during a Siege Grind, it seemed like a solution to lockdown loneliness. Then she got to know him better. Contains offensive language - for a bleeped version go to https://ivoices.ischool.arizona.edu/social-media-and-ourselves. Edited by Gabe Stultz. Produced by iVoices Student Media Lab, which is supported in part by the Center for University Education and Scholarship. Public Domain image from the US National Archives.

Girl Meets Chud

"There's a lot of pressure on sorority girls in particular to perform and to act like a typical sorority girl. But in reality, they're just being surveyed and watched over at every second." Gabe Stultz and Prof Daly guide us through stories illustrating the three levels of sorority behavior policing and how they play out on Instagram, Snapchat, and Greek Rank. Transcript at https://share.descript.com/view/jl7lf7zFEdN. Produced by Diana Daly and Gabe Stultz, with deep thanks to the students who shared their stories.

Citations: 

Berbary, L. A., & Johnson, C. W. (2012). The American sorority girl recast: An ethnographic screenplay of leisure in context. Leisure/Loisir, 36(3-4), 243-268.

Berbary, L. A. (2012). “Don’t Be a Whore, That’s Not Ladylike” Discursive Discipline and Sorority Women’s Gendered Subjectivity. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(7), 606-625.

Berbary, L. A. (2014). “Even the Good Girls Have Their Moments” Sorority Women’s Mis-Repeats of Ladylike Discourse. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(8), 947-964.


Cover image designed by Diana Daly from the following Images: Dove https://github.com/emojione/emojione/graphs/contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Mary Louise Bennet. Surveillance by Marwa Boukarim from NounProject.com.

Mary Louise and Sorority Surveillance

In this episode, Gabe Stultz gives us an introduction to the world of Twitch. A site that dominates the live streaming world, the platform itself becomes subject to changing "metas," or trends in popular programming dictated by popular creators. With boundaries being pushed to create the hottest new trend, we run into the latest meta: the "react" meta, in which streamers are baiting DMCA strikes. Will they bring the wrath of copyright holders down upon all of Twitch, or is there no reason to panic? SMO theme composed by Gabe Stultz. Music in this episode by PR1SM. Produced by Gabe Stultz with a deep thanks to Dr. Daly for this episode's interview. Listen with Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/XnYlnMMRRar

Cover image designed by Gabe Stultz from the following Images: Source: Fox/xQc/Pokimane https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/15997/how-long-can-the-masterchef-twitch-meta-last

Cosmic Cruise

Metas And MasterChef

In this episode, Professor Diana Daly, Gabe Stultz, and Jacquie Kuru take a look back on the podcast, sharing their favorite episodes, moments, and challenges so far. Stay tuned for an additional episode this month - recorded at SXSW!

SMO theme and episode production by Gabe Stultz. Listen with Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/iYrRt1oV4bX

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Looking Back

The SMO podcast team was at SXSW 2022 with the University of Arizona Wonder House. In this episode, Diana sets out to disentangle the culture of the city of Austin and the hyperconnected projection that is SXSW. Are they in a codependent relationship? What has SXSW done to Austin's music scene? Why do even tech-savvy people prefer f2f to online? And what does all this mean for the next frontier of tech experiences, Virtuality 3.0? Interviews with Austin residents and visitors include Thor Harris of Swans, Luke Savisky of the 1990 film Slacker, and the crew of the food truck Cocina de Carnival aka Big Bertha. 

This episode has considerable profanity! A censored version will be available at ivoices.org or https://ivoices.ischool.arizona.edu/social-media-and-ourselves.

Big thanks to Thor Harris, Eric Redpath, Carlos, Paige Swift, Luke Savisky, and Pri. Also to Ravi, Ratziv, David,  Jose Rodriguez and The Cocina de Carnaval Crew and their families. It was awesome being at the Wonder House, so special thanks to Misha, Joe, and the rest of the Wonder House team. Drums by Thor Harris were recorded in the spectacular installation "Volumes" by Ezra Masch. 

This episode of Social Media & Ourselves was produced by Diana Daly and scored by Gabe Stultz of the iVoices Media Lab, which is sponsored in part by the Center for University Education Scholarship at the University of Arizona. If you liked this episode, subscribe, tell a friend, and review us wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more visit iVoices.us.

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Virtuality 3.0: SXSW in Austin, TX

Conceptualizing Facebook as an airplane. Transcript at https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/hasm/chapter/identity/#chapter-22-section-4 . Walla arrangement by Luis Carrión. Image "engine air aviation modern" is licensed under a Public Domain license at https://svgsilh.com/3f51b5/image/2098593.html

Air Facebook

Social Media and Ourselves uses storytelling, student voices, and sound design in the unflinching examination of social media at the center of our lives. Produced by Diana Daly and the iVoices Student Media Lab. iVoices is made possible in part through funding from CUES the Center for University Education Scholarship at the University of Arizona, by SBS College, and by the iSchool at the University of Arizona. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. (Image by Gerd Altmann.)

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