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March 28, 2024 38 mins

The audio is a little shaky in this episode, but bear with us as we talk about ideological contradictions, such as Taylor Swift and the Oscars, and we share quotes from Herbert Marcuse’s “Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society” and Carlee Gomes’s “The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire.”



Media, Culture, and Why We Feel Like Crying So Much is a podcast about media in daily life with ⁠Stefanie Chae⁠ and ⁠Grant Lattanzi⁠. In each episode, we use media theory to make sense of our everyday media habits, practices, and experiences. Dialogue with us on Instagram ⁠@mediacultureandwhypod⁠


About the hosts:

⁠Stefanie Chae⁠ is a media researcher, writer, and professor of digital studies, encouraging people to think critically about the media they're engaging with daily. 

⁠Grant Lattanzi ⁠is a qualitative researcher and independent scholar interested in how people make meaning in, alongside, and through media. 

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