Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.
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episode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory Doctorow
Welcome to another week, How Do You Like it So Far? crew! Henry and Colin welcome science fiction writer, blogger, and policy advocate, Cory Doctorow. His newest book, Radicalized, is a collection of four science fiction novellas: Unauthorized Bread, Model Minority, Radicalized and Masque of Red Death. Through social, technological and economic visions, each story paints a vivid picture of what America could look like all too near future. Listen in as Doctorow breaks down the current (scary) state of technology by analyzing where we have been in the past and where we might go in the future if we do not imagine a new reality. He even drops a hint on what his next book will be! He even drops a hint on what his next book will be!