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The Gaslight Effect Podcast069 - From Gaslighting to Activism: The Role of Youth in Shaping Political DiscourseIn this thought-provoking episode of The Gaslight Effect Podcast, Dr. Robin Stern is joined by two distinguished scholars—Dr. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr. Ioana Literat, Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Associate Director of the Media & Social Change Lab (MASCLab). Together, they explore how young people are responding to and resisting gaslighting in today's media and political landscapes. We dive into the subtle and systemic ways gaslighting operates at the societal level—through disinformation, media manipulation, and the invalidation of young peop...
2025-04-2246 min
The Perkins PlatformPolitical Expression & Participation: How Today's Youth Are InvolvedAssociate Professor in the Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design program at Teachers College and the Associate Director of the Media & Social Change Lab (MASCLab), Dr. Ioana Literat joins us to share insight on the younger generation’s online political expression. Her research examines young people’s creative and civic participation in online spaces. Key questions driving her research agenda are: How does online participation enable new forms of creativity, collaboration and learning? How do young people’s creative and civic practices intersect online? How can we leverage an understanding of these creative and civic practices in order to better suppor...
2023-12-2129 min
Media and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 6: New York, New York - A Brief History of the Broadway MusicalNew York, New York - A Brief History of the Broadway Musical: New York’s Broadway theater district has a world-renowned reputation as the center of the American theater world, particularly musical theater. Kate Elizabeth Orgera discusses how New York City created and shaped musical theater, and how Broadway has influenced New York City in turn.
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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Episode produced and edited by: Kate Elizabeth Orgera
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist
The views expressed in this episode are so...
2023-04-2818 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 5: NYC Mom ChatNYC Mom Chat: What is it like to be a mom in New York City? Three graduate students discuss various aspects of being moms to young children in NYC.
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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Episode produced and edited by: Jacqueline Cofield
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist
The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College...
2023-04-2836 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 4: Big Apple EducatorsBig Apple Educators: What's unique about being a teacher in New York City? This episode investigates this question through the stories of three New York City educators with backgrounds in environmental justice education, art education, deaf education, international education, and adult education.
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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Episode produced and edited by: Joy Yang
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist
The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect...
2023-04-2747 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 3: The Rat TakeoverThe Rat Takeover: When was the last time you saw Rats? Do you like them or are you like most of us? Terrified of them? And where were they? In the subway, in the rubbish on the streets or did you see them scurry across the road? This episode chronicles the ecosystem and history of New York City's rat population. Though they cause a lot of damage to the city, are they underrated creatures?
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2023-04-2712 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 2: NYC Open Streets And Public SpaceNYC Open Streets And Public Space: Streets are often seen as a place of transit, exclusively for the person on the move, but streets also have a history as spaces for community, as public spaces where people come together rather than just pass by one another. This podcast episode shares a brief history of the New York City Open Streets program and how it has shaped public space in New York City since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn...
2023-04-2708 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 5, Episode 1: Unique New YorkUnique New York: This season, the MASC Lab’s Podcasts series focuses on themes connected to place, in this case New York City, and the many interconnected realities of life in the big apple. Our process is inquiry based and we chose this season’s focus by starting with the question: What is unique or strange about NYC? Our collaborative podcast series this semester grew out of that question, in one way or another.
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2023-04-2704 min
Media and Social Change PodcastSeason 4, Episode 4: Sound Capsule 2020Sound capsule 2020: Loops and samples, presence and collective memories, creativity and remixing multiplicities in music education
In what ways can sound snippets, traces, and edges that hold intimate and every day personal and collective feelings and memories of our lives during this pandemic spark creativity and reflection? How can this practice meet educational spaces of all kinds? In this episode from the series “Sounds of the Pandemic,” MASCLab member Shoshana Gottesman shares her composition of sounds from the pandemic submitted by members of the MASC Lab alongside the loops and samples of music producer and Teachers College doctoral student Chucky Kim...
2021-11-2330 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 4, Episode 3: Multimodal Research and Gen Z Online IdentitiesMASCLab members Xiaoyi Gabby Zhou, Joe Riina-Ferrie, and Lívia Barros Cruz chat with Catherine Cheng Stahl, a Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Curriculum and Teaching of Columbia University, Teachers College. She discusses how she used multimodal research methods to explore how Gen Z youth navigate their identities on digital spaces.
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Check out masclab.org/podcast for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Produced and edited by Xiaoyi Gabby Zhou
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist
The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they a...
2021-09-2024 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 6: Guns and the Criminal (In)Justice SystemEpisode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitimized.
Sonali interviews Ekow Yankah, a Professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and Sarah Lustbader, a public defender in New York City, about criminal law and policing as they relate to gun violence. Iesha Sekou, the CEO and founder of Stre...
2021-05-1029 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 4, Episode 2: Alone Together: Sounds of the PandemicIn this episode, Katie Newhouse introduces our series on sounds of the pandemic. She stitches together short sound collages submitted to our group project by Gabby Zhou, Kyle Oliver, and Shoshana Gottesman.
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Check out masclab.org/podcast for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Produced and edited by Katie Newhouse.
The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.
2021-04-1610 min
LearningIsChangeWhat Comes Next Teachers College: Professor Chris Emdin | reflection of non-indictment in the Eric Garner caseAll rights and credits belong to MASCLab is a hub for multimodal and digital scholarship at Teachers College, Columbia University that explores the relationship between media and social change. Transcribed from their video here: https://youtu.be/pdxrjZrRg9gDescription of the video: Professor Chris Emdin speaking at the What Comes Next Teachers College panel following the non-indictment in the Eric Garner case.Copyright disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act: This video is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such a...
2021-04-1513 min
Media and Social Change PodcastSeason 4, Episode 1: The #JustLit Project Tackles Racial LiteracyIntroducing: Season 4 of the MASCLab podcast!
MASCLab alum Azsaneé Truss chats with a few members of the #JustLit Project team: Katie Harlan-Eller, Noelle Mapes, and Jenice Mateo-Toledo, and the founder of the project, Professor Detra Price-Dennis. She discusses how they’ve gone about curating multimodal sets of resources for K-12 teachers, specifically those they curated around the topic of racial literacy.
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Check out masclab.org/podcast for the episode transcript and to learn more!
Produced and edited by Azsaneé Truss
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist
The views expressed in this episode are sole...
2021-04-0126 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 5: Security Studies And GunsWhat if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.
Sonali sits down with Lou Klarevas, political scientist and author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings, to talk about the intersection of gun violence and security studies. They discuss how and why most deadly terrorist attacks in the United States are now perpetrated using firearms. And she talks with Colin Clarke, a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center about the rise...
2020-10-0924 min
Media and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 4: This is Our LaneIn 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane.
Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions.
We spoke with Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and faculty at Brown University and co-founder of the...
2020-08-2128 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 3, Episode 2 - What is Media Literacy?What is media literacy? And more importantly, why does it matter? MASCLab member Azsaneé Truss has a conversation with TC Professor and MASCLab co-director Ioana Literat about media literacy.
Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Ahram Park
Editing: Azsaneé Truss
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist
You can find more media literacy resources at NAMLE.net
2020-07-1016 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 3: Firearm Suicide PreventionIn Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.
Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and suicide. Kerry also shares how suicide has affected her and her family. Sonali also talks with Doreen Marshall, Vice President of Programs at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP] about their efforts to prevent firearm suicide and to support survivors of suicide loss. Visit AFSP.org for more resources and...
2020-06-1724 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and School SafetyIn Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.
Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers College and the Mailman School of Public Health, about her work on how researchers can think of gun violence as an “adverse childhood experience.” Sonali talks with Danielle Kassow from Trauma Free NYC about ACEs and how schools can take a “trauma informed” approach to...
2020-04-0721 min
Media and Social Change PodcastSeason 3, Episode 1 - Creative TechnologiesIntroducing: Season 3 of the MASCLab podcast!
MASCLab member Thomas Sendgraff sits down with Erin Riley, Director of the Greenwich Academy Makerspace, FabLearn Fellow, & Instructor of the Creative Technologies course at Teachers College, to talk about Makerspaces and the world of Creative Tech.
The (new!) Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist.
2020-01-2023 min
Media and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search For Solutions Episode 1: Cleaning And GreeningEpisode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the (Re...
2019-12-0919 min
Media and Social Change PodcastIntroducing: (Re)Search For Solutions(Re)Search for Solutions is a podcast where we cover research about pressing issues in our world today. This season of (Re)Search for Solutions is a limited series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence. Subscribe to the (Re)Search for Solutions podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, & Google Play!
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the Research for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poit...
2019-12-0204 min
Media and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 7 - Live from Podfest 2019MASCLab’s Podfest is A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Makeing held each year at Teachers College, Columbia University. The event is hosted in the state-of-the-art Smith Learning Theater to provide an interactive and immersive environment for students, researchers, practitioners and community members to come together and share in the experience of listening.
Our 2019 Podfest included a bit of live podcasting, where we hosted a panel to discuss all things multimodality. The panel included Lalitha Vasudevan, Ioana Literat, Haeny Yoon, Katie Newhouse, and Dalia Constantine.
Listen in as they answer questions about making and youth story-telling, being open to various modes of...
2019-09-0425 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 6 - Math HistoriesSeason 2, Episode 6 - Math Histories by MASCLab
2019-05-0324 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 5 - CraftivismThe "Craftivism" episode features an interview with Dr. Sandra Markus about her dissertation research on craftivist subcultures, both on and offline. The 2017 Women's March features prominently in the discussion as does the British Suffragette movement as a historical precedent. As mentioned in this episode, you can see Janie Terrero's work here: https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/218153/janie-terrero-embroidery-by-janie-terrero-made-in-holloway-prison-1912 and learn more about the Suffragette's imprisonment at Holloway Prison here: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/suffragettes-holloway-prison. Stay tuned, as there is a craftivism follow up episode in the works! Interviewer and narrator: Elyse Blake. The Media and Social Change Podcast theme...
2019-05-0215 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 4 - It's Not About GritOn October 29, 2018, Steve Goodman, founding director of the Educational Video Center, came to Teachers College to discuss his new book “It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching.”
The Educational Video Center is a social justice youth arts organization that builds the capacity of young people in transfer schools and international schools to create documentary films and to think and engage deeply with social justice.
On this episode of the Media and Social Change Podcast, we will hear from Steve Goodman about what grit is, from his lens, and its relation with urban youth and educat...
2019-04-3012 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 3 - Dispatches from a dissertation on digital storytellingThis is the first "crossover" episode in which we're featuring MASCLab member Kyle Oliver's ethnographic research on digital storytelling in faith and faith-adjacent settings.
Learn more about digital storytelling at storycenter.org.
References and further reading:
Ackermann E. K. (2007) Experiences of artifacts: People’s appropriations / objects’ “affordances”. In: Glasersfeld E. (Ed.) Key works in radical constructivism (pp. 249–259). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Hess, M. E. (2012). Mirror neurons, the development of empathy, and digital story telling. Religious Education, 107, 401–414.
Lambert, J. (2012). Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating community. New York, NY: Routledge.
As always, the Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves...
2019-03-2114 min
Media and Social Change PodcastTrailer - Podfest 2019Join us Friday, May 3, 5-8 pm in the Smith Learning Theater at Teachers College for Podfest 2019: A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Making.
Our music in this trailer is Mai Tai Beach by Little Glass Men (CC BY 4.0 via FreeMusicArchive.org).
You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at masclab.org/podfest
2019-03-1301 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 2 - Preventing Gun Violence and Understanding Gun ReformA wide-ranging conversation on the phenomenon of firearm use and gun reform legislation, recommendations on policy and areas in need of further research with MASCLab Director and Professor of Technology and Education, Lalitha Vasudevan, Louis Klarevas - an expert on the study of mass shootings and homeland security, and author of the recently published book Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings and Sonali Rajan, Assistant Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia, and an expert on adolescent risk behaviors who studies school climate, aggression and violence prevention in schools, and socio-emotional wellbeing among adolescents.
2019-01-1438 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSpecial Episode - TC President Thomas BaileyTeachers College, the first and largest graduate school of education in the U.S., serves students in the interrelated fields of education, health, and psychology. It does so through a number of degree programs, centers, labs, and institutes spread out across a large, city-block campus in New York City. Its partnerships have national and global reach.
MASCLab sat down with TC’s Tom Bailey just ahead of his inauguration as the school’s 11th President. We wanted to hear his thoughts on taking the helm of our longstanding institution at this time in our nation’s history. We spoke with Presid...
2018-11-3017 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 1 - Take Action Tuesdays at Teachers CollegeWe talk with Matthew Camp, Director of Government Relations and a PhD student at Teachers College, Columbia University, about the college's #TakeActionTuesday initiative and related civic engagement activities going on across campus. We recorded this conversation on November 5, 2018, one day before the closely watched 2018 midterm elections. Matt's message is clear: Vote, AND...
Voting is a good step, an important step, but as he and others at the college urge, civic action must be, as Matt puts it, quotidian and not merely episodic.
So give it a listen and get inspired to VOTE, and... contact your representative, take part in local...
2018-11-0615 minMedia and Social Change PodcastEpisode 4 - One-Room School Facilities and Experiencing School DesegregationMASCLab's Joe Riina-Ferrie interviews our colleague Janell Drone about her research into African American one-room school facilities and her experience of school desegregation in rural West Texas. A transcript of this episode is coming soon.
This video includes photos from Dr. Drone's archival research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6Kf9HFfqc
Our theme music is "Kelp Grooves" by Little Glass Men, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves
Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org.
2017-12-1215 minMedia and Social Change PodcastEpisode 3 - Teaching Torah on YouTubeMASCLab's Kyle Oliver interviews Sarah Lefton, Jewish educator and founder of BimBam, about the art and science of teaching old wisdom on new media.
Sarah and Kyle talk about Christian readings of Hebrew texts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oktwIkRLZQ
Rough edit of Sarah and Kyle's full conversation:
https://soundcloud.com/kylematthewoliver/sarah-lefton-full-interview
You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep3-script
Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org
2017-11-3012 minMedia and Social Change PodcastTrailer - Podfest (Launch Party)Join us Friday, December 15 at the launch party for our new podcast. From 5 to 7 pm, the Smith Learning Theater will come alive with first-person stories of real-world learning. Let our hosts transport you to the research sites of Teachers College students, faculty, and alums.
You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org/podfest
You can read a transcript of this trailer at https://bit.ly/podfest-trailer-script
As always, our theme music is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 4.0 via FreeMusicArchive.org).
2017-11-2202 min
Kyle Matthew OliverSarah Lefton - Full InterviewMy full interview with Sarah Lefton of BimBam (formerly G-dcast). Watch for a much shorter edited story, coming soon to the MASCLab Podcast: https://masclab.org/projects/
2017-07-3142 minMedia and Social Change PodcastEpisode 2 - Youth Political Participation and Online CreativityMASCLab's Ioana Literat discusses exciting new research with Caroline DeVoe, Elizabeth Herbert-Wasson, and Kyle Oliver. Her project examines the political participation that took place on youth-oriented online communities for creative expression in the days following the 2016 U. S. presidential election.
You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep2-script
2017-05-1112 min
Media and Social Change PodcastEpisode 1 - Choices: Centering Communities in Education & ResearchMASCLab's Lalitha Vasudevan sits down with Ana Dopazo, Program Director of Choices, Alternative to Detention. They discuss student-centered learning, multimodal research, and alternative sites of education.
You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep1-script
Special thanks to EdLab at Teachers College, who provided supplemental audio.
Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org
2017-04-1509 min
Media and Social Change PodcastPreview - Lalitha on Multimodal Literacy ResearchA behind-the-scenes clip from our early conversations about the story that would become Episode 1.
Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at http://masclab.org
2017-04-0803 min