Author Conversations – Global Media Podchat

This podcast series explores how media content circulates through various media channels, infrastructures, and industrial formations around the world. Examining a range of global media flows through the lens of recent work by scholars concerned with how global media industries operate according to distinct (yet frequently overlapping) disciplinary perspectives, this podcast series works to build a comparative understanding of how such industries function in various regions and global contexts. Each episode features a different author of a recent book engaged in questions concerning how texts, technologies, and geopolitics interact in different cultural and industrial settings. We ultimately invite listeners to consider the historical, political, economic, and social construction of media infrastructures, alongside their various regional and global industrial dynamics and influences.

Author Conversations: Alfred Martin Jr.: Fandom For Us By Us – Global Media Podchat

Fandom For Us By Us examines class as a key component of how Black fandom is contingent on distinctions between white, nationally recognized cultural productions and multicultural and/or regional cultural productions. Martin highlights the nuanced ways Black fans interact with media representations, suggesting class, clout, canon, and comfort are universal to the study of all fandoms while highlighting its specificities for black fandoms, in global contexts as well.Swapnil Rai⁠⁠⁠, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with Amber Hardiman, Bailey Apollonio, Doctoral Candidates, and Grey Mangan, PhD Student at the University of Michigan, in conversation with Associate Professor Alfred Martin Jr.