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What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens - Episode 11: Coastal Sovereignty and the Canadian Royal NavyHappy New Year! To kick off 2025 we're excited that you'll join us in speaking to Anita Pawluk, Founder of Race Rocks 3D - an Indigenous-owned training company that utilizes cutting-edge technology. One of their largest partners is the Royal Canadian Navy. In this episode we learn a lot about what it means to work with not only the Canada government but its Armed Forces in all matters pertaining to listening to, working with, and training from coastal Indigenous communities across the furthest reaches of the north.
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What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens - Episode 10: Listen and Learn with Indigenous DataWe've got a fascinating and important episode for you today. Our guest is Ja'Elle Leite, CEO of Ultralogix Inc., who is a veteran of data management. Tommy and Lawrence speak with her about how to engage Indigenous communities when it comes to capturing and using their data. Ja'Elle provides a wealth of experience and insight about what it means to interact with Indigenous data. One of her many important points is that Indigenous data tells stories on its own terms. The question is whether or not we are willing to listen. In this case, she doesn't mean through data...2024-10-2542 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens - Episode 9: Catching up on Digital Indigeneity in an AI-driven WorldNot all that long ago when our series started, very few of us had tried AI. The idea of even interacting with AI was almost absurd. One year ago, only a few industries began experimenting with AI. Now, in 2024, AI is everywhere... What does that mean for Digital Indigeneity? What does this mean for Indigenous peoples? How do our conversations adjust in response - or should they? Is AI merely hype? Is it a colonial trap? Is it possible for AI to liberate not only Indigenous communities but empower them? Does it make sense to continue talking about Digital...2024-09-1135 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 8 - The Value of an Indigenous Lens on Tech, Innovation & CollaborationIn Episode 8 Tommy and Lawrence chat with the venerable James Delorme, VP of Community Development at Salish Elements. James is one of our most fun yet most insightful guests. He brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into helping us understand what is meant by an Indigenous lens on all things technology, collaboration, innovation, and co-operation. James also helps us think through what is at stake and what is meant by decolonization, and one of it's remedies: Indigenization.
Thank you all for your patience during our prolonged absence. Tommy took some time to prioritize family and health, b...2024-05-2942 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 7 - Protecting and Promoting Culture through TechnologyIn Episode 7 we speak to Melissa Giles-Hardy, owner, President, and CEO of ORIGIN - a company that design, develops, and delivers technology experiences to drive employment while also protecting and promoting culture for Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island.
It's no surprise that Melissa is recipient of multiple awards, including the 2021 RBC Innovative Company of the Year award, the Indigenomics Top 10 Business's To Watch in Canada, the 2019 Northern Ontario, Influential Women's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and the Confederation College President's Award in 2019 - as well as a nominee for the 2019 Ontario Premier Award.
As you...2023-09-0836 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 6 - Navigating Indigenous Digital SpacesIn Episode 6 we speak to Matthew Norris, Senior Policy Analyst at the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, and President of the Urban Native Youth Association. As a former candidate for Vancouver city council and a PhD student in UBC's Department of Political Science, Matthew has and continues to be exposed to numerous important intersecting Indigenous developments and issues. Between Matthew's grassroots community work and advocacy along with his academic studies on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Matthew has much to contribute toward the emerging discussion around Indigenous digital identity and Indigenous digital space.2023-06-1544 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 5 - Award-Winning Filmmaker on Narrative SovereigntyIn Episode 5 of One Feather Two Pens we speak with the award winning actor, director, producer, writer, and storyteller, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. Member of the Kinai First Nation as well as Sámi from Norway, Elle-Máijá joins us to discuss her Rogers Audience Award winning documentary, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. The powerful film is an intimate and reflexive portrait of her community and the impact of substance abuse and opioid epidemic. Elle-Máijá is a remarkable wisdom and self-awareness facilitates a truly insightful conversation about representation, authenticity, and narrative sovereignty in Indigenous media. Join us as we explor...2023-04-1835 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 4 - Netflix Filmmakers on Indigenous MediaIn our latest episode on One Feather, Two Pens we have the privilege and honor to chat with Mary Teegee and Matt Smiley, the Directors of For Love on Netflix. As an Indigenous woman and non-Indigenous man, Mary and Matt have worked closely together since before their powerful piece Highway of Tears. The two reflect on their journeys, learnings, and discoveries together, which leads to a fascinating and important set of realizations and offerings about the promise of Indigenous media.
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What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 3 - Inclusion in tech industryWe are very excited to have Josh Nilson, Co-Founder of East Side Games, recent winner of the BC Tech Association's Person of the Year Award (and a Producer of one of Tommy's all time favourite games, Company of Heroes!), to talk about the value and importance of reconciliation through the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the tech sector.
Josh shares his fascinating professional journey, beginning in the world of culinary arts and then successfully transitioning into video game development where he produced some of the most popular Apps around, including The Office, Star Trek Upper Decks, Ru P...2023-01-1635 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 2 - Reconciliation in the digital spaceIn our second episode of this new special series, we are honoured to be joined by Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, OC, OBC. Dr. Joseph is a hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, is Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada where he has guided the Canadian Federal government through their residential school response. Dr. Joseph is a survivor of St. Michael’s Residential School.
Dr. Joseph guides Tommy, Al, and Lawrence through the importance of creating safe space to converse and listen deeply in order for reconciliation to move forward. Dr. Joseph believes that technology, and platforms like podcasting, can...2022-12-1448 min
What’s That Noise?!One Feather Two Pens: Episode 1 - The key to digital collaborationOnce upon a time on What's That Noise?! we asked: wouldn't it be wonderful to launch a special series with their new friend and former guest, Lawrence Lewis? That time has arrived! Al, Tommy, and Lawrence are so very pleased to present One Feather Two Pens, a special series that interviews Indigenous thought and technology leaders about functioning and co-existing with Indigenous peoples in this digital space.
We kick off the series in episode 1 by laying the terrain for what this new series is about, what it's goals are, and what it hopes to contribute by means o...2022-12-1422 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 46: AI Regulation in CanadaBefore the pandemic, AI was growing in Canada. Throughout the pandemic, AI has exploded in Canada. Through working from home and online schooling to the abundance of location, health, medical, and interaction data around us at all times, the last half decade truly has witnessed institutions moving rapidly toward AI to make money, increase efficiency, trim fat, and perhaps even assist in finding new cures and vaccines.
And as you might imagine, there are serious rights, liberties, justice, ethics, and equality issues that pop up along the way. So, how does a country insulate itself from such d...2022-09-2150 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 45: Location Data - What Do You Mean?Hey friends! Hope your summer is swell! It sure has been for us - perhaps a bit too good? While it's been rather tough to find time to record together, we're really pumped to finish off the summer with two new episodes. Today's chat is with Tommy's dear friend, Fernando Leiva - an analytics developer at the Centre for Advanced Computing at Queen's University. Tommy and Fernando have worked together for the past 3+ years to investigate location data-related privacy issues on smartphones. Today, we ask a simple but complicated question: location data - what do you mean?
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What’s That Noise?!Episode 44: From the Radio Booth to the ClassroomMore than ever people are questioning whether or not their job is the best fit. How many of us have found themselves in this position, particularly during the pandemic? How many of us have wondered what it takes to change ship, how much courage would be required to do so - and whether or not the grass is truly 'greener' on the other side?
In this episode we hear from our beloved co-host Mr. Al Coombs about his professional journey, one which began with a short stint in insurance, to over a decade as a popular AM d...2022-06-221h 00
What’s That Noise?!Episode 43: Indigenous Digital IdentityTommy and Al are excited to bring a fantastic piece filled with both confusion and clarity around a tremendously important subject: Indigenous Digital Identity. What's That Noise?! is honoured to speak with Lawrence Lewis, Founder and CEO of OneFeather: an Indigenous technology company that designs specialized software solutions for Indigenous peoples across Canada.
Lawrence joins us to talk about the messiness that is "Digital Identity" and "digital identity". That's right, there's two. One has capitals in "D" and "I" in it, and the other does not. The latter refers to a concept - digital identity, as in...2022-06-061h 04
What’s That Noise?!Episode 42: Why Borders are ConfusingAlmost immediately after the #warinukraine began, the Western world told Ukrainians: "our borders are open". When a humanitarian crisis unfolds, such as the largest exodus of a population occurs since the end of world war two, it's logical that a country would open its borders to those in need, no? Not so fast. The world's borders - how they are made, how they are managed, and how they affect the lives and geographies around them - as our returning guest and dear friend Dr. Benjamin Muller tells us, are confusing. Since well before 9/11 but particularly after it, borders and...2022-04-211h 06
What’s That Noise?!Episode 41: What’s That Slap?!Fact: for the week of March 28, the top 20 global Google search trends do not include the #pandemic, the #warinUkraine, #residentialschools. Will Smith, Jada Smith, Chris Rock, and celebrity reactions dominated. Why? What happened to the rest of the world? Where did it go?
Is Western society seriously this obsessed with celebrity drama? Could it be the case that #theslap highlighted complex hidden social, mental health, and racial issues? Are algorithms and filter bubbles to blame? Why are we still talking about this?! When can we move on?! And how?!?! HOW?!
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What’s That Noise?!Episode 40: Neurotechnology Part 2Part 2 of our chat about neurotechnology delves a bit deeper... If people have fluid identities, can neurotech capture them? What does it mean to enhance a body and a mind that are constantly changing? What happens when people are uncomfortable, unconfident, and uncertain about who they are, what they are doing and where they are heading? Can neurotech help with this, or perhaps make it all more complicated?
Tommy and Al are joined by Dr. Brenda McPhail, Director of the Privacy, Technology & Surveillance Program and member of the National Security team at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. So...2022-03-1622 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 39: Ukraine - How We Can HelpOur hearts are with Ukraine. The situation is incomprehensibly horrific. As the world watches, many of us feel helpless. There's a ton of confusion around what it means to be a passive observer. Even if you wanted to help, could you? What would that look like? Is there any way to support Ukrainians in their time of urgent need beyond memes, hashtags, and profile pictures of blue and yellow flags? Tommy and Al spent the last day scanning civil society, journalism, news media, not-for-profit, and academic sources to find three ways that you can help. We hope that you'll f...2022-02-2751 minWhat’s That Noise?!Episode 38: Neurotech Part 1What do you get when you combine "nervous system" with "technology"? Confusion, evidently! What is neurotech, exactly? Sure, it is technology that is attached to the body's neural activity... But what part of the body? Does it affect the body, and if so - how? Why even build this technology? Who builds, and for what reasons? And as ever, what are the social, ethical, and privacy implications of doing so? Soo many questions, and so few answers - even for experts like our wonderful guest, Dr. Brenda McPhail, Director of the Privacy, Technology & Surveillance Program and member of the...2022-02-1631 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 37: AI & Advertising Part 2What is the connection between bedsheet-related incidents and the consumption of cheese? Hopefully none. That would be confusing, and weird. However! There might be a correlation between those unusually paired items! Correlations, correlations. Part two is about the wonderfully bizarre world of data correlations. Is it not correlations at the heart of AI and advertising, after all? That's certainly where this conversation is headed. We're delighted to resume our superbly odd conversation with our friend Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. If you haven't caught Part 1, consider heading back an...2022-02-0140 minWhat’s That Noise?!Episode 36: AI & Advertising Part 1Today we chat Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County about his confusion with AI and advertising! Join Tommy, Al and Dillon in this first episode of a two-part series that explores the complexities of how targeted advertisements show up in your smartphone. Even with his background in computer science, Dillon is as confused as Tommy and Al about how automated systems find ways to build profiles about who we as consumers are.
How are your preferences measured? What happens with these data? What kinds of assumptions are m...2022-01-1735 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 35: Welcome to the show, Al!Happy New Year, everyone! I am so grateful for two things!
First, we have a new co-host! It's truly my pleasure to introduce my dear friend, Al Coombs to you. Al is a seasoned radio broadcaster who hosted and co-hosted shows in London, Ontario for over a decade. He joins us at WTNCast as a freshly-minted public school teacher, too! His warmth and interview experience is truly invigorating. It's such a pleasure to have you join the show, @thatalcoombsguy!
Second, the podcast has re relaunched! For the past four months, Tommy and Al have worked t...2022-01-0342 min
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What’s That Noise?!Episode 33: PredPolThis latest episode is a special one. Tommy has wanted to explore predictive policing for a while. He had the opportunity to do so as a sample case study for one of the classes he teaches at Queen's University: AI, Ethics & Society - a Masters of Engineering course where students use any media format they wish to explore the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence systems.
And so, this episode is presented a bit differently than what you are used to - but it is still driven by matters of confusion, and certainly in the pursuit o...2021-05-3044 minWhat’s That Noise?!My Shadow is My Skin Episode 3: The Politics ofIn association with the University of Texas Press, the third instalment of the My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora special series features, Prof. Mehdi Tavana Okasi and Dr. Roger Sedarat. Mehdi is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College of the State University of New York, who was born in Iran and became a refugee of the Iran-Iraq war, which led him to the suburbs of Boston. Roger is a Professor in the Department of English at Queen’s College of the The City University of New York. Roger was born in Normal, Illinois to an...2021-03-091h 08
Total Movie RecallTMR 055 – Any Given Sunday This week on Total Movie Recall, the pressures of competing at a professional level with all the concussions, cocaine, infidelities, and painkillers almost make Steve request to be traded during the free agency period after he and Ryan bicker about Oliver Stone’s divisive 1999 film, Any Given Sunday. Does Steve’s complete lack of interest in professional sports bring this episode to a screeching halt? Yes. Can you tell who’s writing these summaries yet? Probably. Any Given Sunday (1999) d. Oliver Stone Starring: Al Pacino Dennis Quaid Cameron Diaz2021-01-241h 46
What’s That Noise?!My Shadow is My Skin Episode 2: ErrandIn this second instalment of our special series, in association with the University of Texas Press, Tommy speaks with Dr. Babak Elahi, Head of Department, Liberal Studies at Kettering University. Dr. Elahi is a special contributor to My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, not only as the musical talent behind the series' music, but also as author of chapter 25: Errand. Dr. Elahi reflects on his deeply personal piece, which surrounds the days and months leading to the loss of his dear mother. In his travel back to Iran, Babak negotiates navigates cultural, emotional, political, and...2020-09-2143 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 32: Competing Perspectives on Data, Privacy & EthicsFrom the vault of unpublished episodes comes with a fascinating conversation with Desmond Cox, an IT and software development professional who has a fresh and often competing take on Tommy's understandings and perspectives about data, privacy and ethics. During a trip to Germany in 2019, Tommy and his wife visited Des and Chrissy - good friends who moved out of Ontario to start new lives in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. In this chat, Tommy and Des get to chat about their mutual passion for the politics of data and privacy, as well as their ethical complexities. What makes this conversation particularly...2020-08-241h 14What’s That Noise?!My Shadow is My Skin Episode 1: the Iranian Diaspora"In the four decades since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iranian-Americans have made sense of their lives and reconciled their sense of belonging and not belonging through writing, first through poetry and memoir in the immediacy of migration and exile, and later in a developing and rich explosion of fiction. In the past decade, we have seen a blossoming of nonfiction writing that reflects complex voices and modern sensibilities and that reveals a broader range of stories and remembrances than ever before." - Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery, Editors, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora.
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What’s That Noise?!Episode 31: From Bucharest, to DachauIn today's chat, Tommy sits down with his wife, Cristina, and his new second-cousins, Georgi and Florin Stancu, to share their incredible journey. Born, raised, and built lives in Bucharest, Romania, Cristina translates between Tommy and his new family to discuss their decision to leave Romania in search of better opportunities and a better for life for their daughter, Alyssa. Now living in Dachau, Bayern, Germany for the past seven years, Georgi and Florin reflect upon some of the challenges they endured not only living under Marxist-Leninist one-party Communist rule prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, but...2020-04-0238 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 30: Quality vs Quantity of Life with a Terminal DiagnosisThank you for joining us on the most important episode we've published to date, and perhaps will be the most important episode we will publish - for more reasons than we could possibly articulate here in written text. In this episode, we discuss the inescapably difficult but exceedingly important matter of quality versus quantity life - when given a terminal diagnosis. It is impossible to convey our saddened we are that a dear friend to this show, Dr. Karen Rees-Milton (who joined us on episode 27), is bravely surviving a terminal diagnosis. As a true reflection of her character, commitment...2020-03-031h 15
What’s That Noise?!Episode 29: Culture Industry, Media Fuel, and Celebrity PrivacyHappy New Year, everyone!
Derek and I are excited to bring you our first episode of 2020. Today's chat is a follow-up to the last episode of 2019. If you haven't heard it yet, you'll want to go back and check it out or this episode will leave you feeling as confused as Tommy was after Episode 28: Kawhi Leonard and the Expectation of Privacy in the Public Sphere.
Over the break, Tommy felt Episode 28 should be continued as a discussion about culture industry: the production of psychological need, desire, and interest through the mass production of capital goo...2020-01-061h 02
What’s That Noise?!Episode 28: Kawhi Leonard and the Expectation of Privacy in the Public SphereAfter the Toronto Raptors won their first championship in franchise history, attention quickly shifted from celebration to discussions of whether or not the team’s star player and finals MVP, Kawhi Leonard, would resign with the team. What ensued was commonly referred to by media as the “Kawhi Watch,” which captivated the city, and perhaps even all of Canada, and led media and fans on path that would see them attempt to track and monitor Kawhi’s every move, on and offline.
Perhaps predictably for Tommy and I, this whole thing led to questions related to the expectat...2019-12-181h 04What’s That Noise?!Episode 27: A Life in LabsImagine spending 24.5 years in a specific laboratory. And then imagine switching, to seemingly start all over again. In this show Tommy chats with Dr. Karen Rees-Milton, a veteran bench scientist who is expertly versed in protein biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, classical biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, cell culture, and glycobiology. After nearly a decade as a research coordinator, Dr. Rees-Milton has completely switched gears: computer programming. Karen's new work on Laboratory Information Management System design recently crossed paths with Tommy's empirical work on privacy data at the Surveillance Studies Centre, leading to a reflexive and unique conversation that has a b...2019-11-1155 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 26: Mission Creep and Domestic Border SurveillanceIn this episode, we continue discussing a long-standing theme of the show: how government develops, mobilizes, and uses surveillance technologies abroad and at home. More specifically, we focus on a program called the "Real Time Regional Gateway," a secretive data processing and mining system introduced by the NSA and deployed during American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May of 2018, Henrik Moltke of The Intercept published a detailed exposé uncovering the RTRG's journey from the international sphere - used in military operations abroad - to the domestic, where it has been mobilized at the US-Mexico border since at lea...2019-10-071h 02
Cabine Cine RádioFilmes sobre RádioUma seleção de filmes sobre o universo do rádio.
INTRODUÇÃO:
Chris Issak - "Baby I Did a Bad Bad Thing"
BOM DIA, VIETNÃ (GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, 1987) de Barry Levinson
Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - "The Game of Love"
Them - "Baby Please Don't Go"
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - "Nowhere to Run"
TALK RADIO: VERDADES QUE MATAM (TALK RADIO, 1988) de Oliver Stone
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - "Bad to the Bone"
The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"
F...2019-09-291h 57
What’s That Noise?!Episode 25: Japan, America, and WhistleblowingTommy sits down with Dr. Midori Ogasawara, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa, and one of the premiere investigative journalists on surveillance in Japan. For nearly twenty years, Midori has researched the legacy of surveillance in Japan, and is the only reporter from Japan to have interviewed NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden. A recipient over 9 academic awards and the author two books on Snowden and surveillance in Japan, Midori has a wealth of insight to share. Tommy and Midori chat about the differences between media attitudes and (in)tolerances towards whistleblowing and surveillance in both Japan and...2019-09-1641 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 24: Representation and AuthorityThis episode is centered on the theme of representation and authority in the public sphere. Can we trust what authorities tell us about how we use our digital technologies, or how laws and public policies are developed and mobilized? How can we make sense of official justifications for interventions that are increasingly intrusive in our daily lives? From Apple and Google to our own governments, tune in as Derek and Tommy discuss these questions through the contexts of how we use our smartphones, dark tourism and prisons, and terrorism as an issue of public health. Derek also gets to...2019-09-011h 01
What’s That Noise?!Episode 23: The NMEAIt's been so long! But we're back! Derek and I have reconnected and we've got a great run of new content coming your way. Today, we begin by touching base - to see where we've been to figure out where we're heading. A big focus of our reconnection is something that has kept Tommy really busy this past half year. In what we might otherwise call "A Day in the Life of Metadata: Part Two", Tommy updates us on his collaboration project, which has led him and his research team at Queen's University to the National Marine Electronics Association...2019-08-1547 min
What’s That Noise?!Episode 22: language, language, languageAn episode to begin the term, and one to close off. Thank you so much, and our deepest apologies, for our hiatus! It has been a great calendar year thus far, and also an exceptionally busy one. In today's episode, Tommy sits down with Dr. Samer Abboud, Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University to chat about language. Tommy and Samer are old buddies and colleagues, and were able to catch up for the first time - in many years - at the recent International Studies Association Annual, which was held this year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.2019-04-2534 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 21: Kinesiology and InterdisciplinarityHappy New Year, everyone!
We're so very excited to share our first episode of the New Year, feat. John Hannant-Minchel, a Masters student of Kinesiology at Queen's University. After meeting at a local breakfast hotspot in the beautiful city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, John and Tommy found time to sit down again - over another coffee - to explore perspectives from within, and around, the Sociocultural Studies of Sport, Health and the Body. Much of our discussion explores interdisciplinarity - not merely in terms of intellectual enrichment, but as John puts it, "a way of keeping an...2019-01-151h 05
What’s That Noise?!Volume 20: The law, language, and dataIn Volume 20, Derek and Tommy sit down with Cale Sutherland, an Associate Lawyer practicing injury and health law at Lerner's LLP in the beautiful city of London, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Sutherland helps our co-hosts not only debunk some preconceived ideas they had about how much the law is like our favourite tv shoe, Suits. Cale also helps them debunk the notion that the courtroom and classroom are radically different. Anxiety, expectation management, the role of confidence, and the value of failure are all exceedingly central in both spaces.
At the heart of the chat today is a...2018-11-261h 23
What’s That Noise?!Volume 19: iOS, Android, and Application PrivacyIn this week's episode, Derek and Tommy chat about application privacy on iOS and Android. New technologies such as the Samsung Galaxy, Pixel, and iPhone have become so heavily relied upon for communication that it is almost unfathomable to be fully 'disconnected' from the social world. But our phones are not simply communication devices - they are now repositories for a host of sensitive information about our lives, our bodies, and our desires. In this episode, the hosts break down what is at steak when we simultaneously treat our personal communication devices as such repositories without knowledge about how...2018-10-0847 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 18: A Day in the Life of DataTommy is back!
After a summer spent researching data privacy in Bochum, Germany (and traversing the Swiss alps with his newly-engaged parter), Tommy is back in studio to chat with Derek about his research project on visualizing data flows in smartphones. In many ways our cell phones are the most important communication tool in our daily lives. Not only are smart phones embedded into the fabric of social life, they also act as repositories for a host of personal and impersonal information about us. Applications collect, analyze, interpret, translate, and share data on their users in continuous f...2018-09-2452 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 17: Queering Families with Dr. Carla PfefferThe ASA annual meeting is almost upon us! In our final pre-ASA episode, Derek chats with one of his own mentors, Dr. Carla Pfeffer, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina (Derek's alma mater!), about her book Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men (Oxford University Press), teaching conversial topics and issues, and some of the problems with traditional approaches to peer-review. Nothing like a chat about peer-review before thousands of sociologists gather in Philly, huh?
Carla's research lies at the intersections of sociological inquiry in...2018-08-0948 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 16: Blowin' Up! with Dr. Jooyoung LeeWelcome to the second episode of our little University of Toronto mini-series! As we ramp up for the ASA annual meeting this weekend in Philadelphia, Derek chats with Dr. Jooyoung Lee (PhD UCLA), Associate Professor in the Deparment of Sociology at the University of Toronto and faculty member at the Centre for the Study of the United States in the Munk School of Global Affairs. In this episode, we discuss Jooyoung's award-winning book Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central (University of Chicago Press), his current projects, academic twitter, gun control and mass shootings, and strategies for teaching ethnography i...2018-08-0643 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 15: On the Limits of Whiteness with Dr. Neda MaghboulehFollowing a few weeks off, we are finally back in the groove in the leadup to the American Sociolocial Association's annual meeting in Philly!
In this week's episode, Derek sits down with a long time twitter-friend Dr. Neda Maghbouleh (PhD University of California), Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, to chat about her book The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press), her current work with Syrian newcomers in the #6ix, and the role of social media in academic circles. Neda is an expert on rac...2018-07-301h 08What’s That Noise?!Volume 14: Reunited and It Feels So GoodIn this long overdue episode, Tommy and Derek finally reunite to reflect upon the podcast's first episodes while chatting about the past, present, and future direction of What's That Noise. We also have some REALLY, REALLY BIG NEWS to share about @thomasncooke's personal life! Tune in as we discuss the confusion and noisiness surrounding the production your own podcast while sharing a bit about what is to come over the next few months. We cannot wait to share the next bunch of episodes with you all while returning to our regular production schedule :)
Tune in over the n...2018-07-2337 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 13: From Bulgaria, to BochumIn our second episode from Germany, co-host @thomasncooke planned to chat with a new friend and colleague about her summer research project at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (@CAIS). That will have to wait, as our guest @julirone - a recent Social and Political Sciences PhD graduate of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy - shares numerous complex and thought-provoking perspectives that challenge many of @Thomasncooke's ideas and assumptions about European culture, politics, and research agendas.
Beginning with a quick lesson on how to properly pronounce Dr. Rone's name, today's episode moves through a wide range of topics an...2018-06-181h 00
What’s That Noise?!Volume 12: Right-Wing ExtremismOver the past few years we have experienced the notable reemergence of a white nationalist movement within the public sphere. From the Emanuel AME shooting to Charlottesville, VA and beyond, white nationalism seems to be undergoing a rebranding of sorts - moving out of the darkness of the internet and into the limelight of public discourse. While many political leaders continue to condemn activities of these so-called "alt-right" - or alternative right - groups, others have provided those who feel that they have been treated unfairly by years of social policy with a sense of legitimacy and authority for t...2018-06-111h 00What’s That Noise?!Volume 11: CAIS, Interdisciplinarity, and Life in the RuhrgebietVolume 11 marks the beginning of a unique side series for @WTNcast, as Tommy conducts numerous interviews during his summerlong Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. In this episode, Tommy sits Max Brenker to learn about life growing up, working in, and navigating around the state of North-Rhein Westfalia. In his capacity as Project Officer at CAIS, Max shares some fascinating insights about what it takes for a research centre to thrive in a burgeoning intellectual landscape that takes very seriously the ramifications and promises of the Internet and digitization upon emergent regional and inte...2018-06-041h 00
What’s That Noise?!Volume 10: (Re)Framing Disability in Pop CultureOn this week's episode, Derek chats with Dr. Jeff Preston, Assistant Professor of disability studies at King's University College, to discuss his work on representations of disability in popular culture. From Jimmy Brooks (a.k.a. Drake) in Degrassi to Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) in Glee, mass media tends to paint a relatively simple and uniform picture of what it means to be disabled in the world. Jeff's research aims to challenge these simplistic representations by flipping the script and investigating how images of disability in pop culture reveal just as much about nondisabled producers as they do of dis...2018-05-281h 03
What’s That Noise?!Volume 9: RadicalizationIn another very special episde, Derek travels to Winnipeg to sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Monaghan, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University, and Fahad Ahmad, PhD candidate in public policy at Carleton, to discuss their work on radicalization and some of the challenges with so-called "radicalization studies." In something of a different episode, we get into some of the overlaps between criminological theory and research and issues related to radicalization leading to political violence. You definitely don't want to miss this one! Follow Jeff @monaghanjeffrey and Fahad @atlast_atweet!
We w...2018-05-2149 min
What’s That Noise?!Volume 8: Freedom of InformationIn today's very special episode, Derek travels to Winnipeg to sit down with Dr. Kevin Walby, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Winnipeg, and Alex Luscombe, PhD student in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Toronto, to discuss their work using Access to Information (ATI) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as data sources in their research. Tune in for a really interesting discussion of some of the benefits and pitfalls of using this type of data to make the backstage of government a little bit more visible!
We would l...2018-05-1447 minWhat’s That Noise?!Volume 7: Education, Inc.In this special episode, Tommy and Derek sit down with long-time high school teacher Danny Clarke to discuss neoliberalism and education, bureaucracy, standardization, and the utility of metrics. Tune in for our discussion of Education, Inc. and some of the problems with "juking the stats" in our efforts to 'educate' our youth.
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What’s That Noise?!Volume 6: Radio and the Future of News MediaIn a slightly different episode, Tommy and Derek sit down with radio personality and voice of the London Knights Mike Stubbs of AM980 Global News Radio to chat about the radio industry, the future of news in the age of social media, and the emergence of so-called "PC" culture and challenges to his industry. Tune in as Mike schools us on how to be a great radio personality! You can follow Mike on Twitter @Stubbs980
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What’s That Noise?!Volume 5: Borders and BorderlandsIn this episode, Tommy and Derek sit down with Dr. Ben Muller, Associate Professor of Political Science at King's University College, to chat about his research, critical security studies, problems with academic conferences and scholarly associations, and the digital and aesthetic evolution of borderlands.
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iTunes: What's That Noise? on iTunes!2018-05-1347 minWhat’s That Noise?!Volume 4: Tesla, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine LearningIn this episode, Derek and Tommy sit down to chat about Tesla, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and some of the problems associated with the diffusion of computer algorithms in social life.
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What’s That Noise?!Volume 3: Ethnomusicology, Drake, and the 6ixIn this episode, Derek sits down with Jordan Zalis to talk about his research in ethnomusicology, Drake, the Toronto Raptors, and the influence of sound on Northern culture. They seek to provide some clarity to key questions of cultural appropriation, power, political economy, and the often underestimated role of sound in sport.
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iTunes: What's That Noise? on iTunes!2018-05-1355 minWhat’s That Noise?!Volume 2: The NCAAIn this episode, Tommy and Derek talk about the NCAA and question whether or not collegiate-athletes should be paid.
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iTunes: What's That Noise? on iTunes!2018-05-1338 minWhat’s That Noise?!Volume 1: Cambridge AnalyticaIn the very first volume of What's That Noise? Tommy and Derek discuss Cambridge Analytica and question the future of surveillance studies in Canada and elsewhere.
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