Podcasts

Personal branding is essential in highlighting your value in the workplace. In this podcast you hear from a UNC alum who is now working in New York, find out how her personal branding efforts were crucial to landing her current position.


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In this podcast, my bilingual roommate and I discuss the topic of linguistic relativity. We explore this topic through the lens of bilingualism and his own personal experiences with learning a unique language. 

I expounded on the topic I chose for my audio essay, digital literacy, for the podcast project. I learned a great deal from the research I conducted. I was able to make many connections to my experience as a scholar that uses many digital platforms. My partner also made great points about the ways in which technology impacts the way we learn.

Overall, I learned a great deal from this course and enjoyed taking

Screen-Time Addiction

Listen to me and my girlfriend discuss relationships to uncover what it truely means to be stay connected and healthy. 

This is a podcast that discusses digital literacy. It focuses on access to tools and technologies needed to develop them and touched on possible solutions for the inequities. 

Listen to a podcast about memes, what they mean for our society, and what they can mean for our future. Special guest is my husband, Sam McCool, who is a big meme guy!

This podcast talks about technology's impact on children but also on social phenomenons and the way millennials currently think. Narrowing the field of technology, the conversation focuses on social media and how it can be used for good and for bad, while trying to understand what about it is bad for children and teens. 

We are all very used to seeing memes about silly things, like a funny faces or a dog wearing a hat. But what about memes on more serious topics such as politics and depression. Can memes be used appropriately to discuss such topics?

Have you considered the impact social media has on your life? In this podcast Taylor and I will discuss multiple studies that have researched the impacts of social media on attention spans. 

A podcast exploring the influence of cinema on pop culture through discussions on the Oscars and Black Panther. Talking points include race, representation, and various aspects of today's culture.

Literacy is prevalent in everything we do, from reading an article to googling a question. What exactly is literacy, and what are the problems with literacy in America?

For my podcast I invite on a guest to further the discussion from my audio essay on transitions in media. 

In the first episode of 4K Podcast, Brittney, Josh, Alex, and I discuss music in cinema and how it affects us not only emotionally, but also psychologically.

In this podcast, Pearce welcomes special guest Will Gollnick to the studio. Together, these two discuss widespread multitasking, its harmful side effects, and how to work around it. 

Stephen and I discuss the evolution of memes, why they're so prevalent in our society and how they're having an impact on us in our daily lives.