Show Notes
Neon signage, cybernetic augmentations, multi-colour holograms, clusters of projected billboards, dingy motels, low lives, sinister corporations, hustling mercs...and...oriental ‘othering’ that can be historicised in the post-war anxieties circling the U.S. economy in the 1980’s??? You guessed it — this weeks episode is all about the Cyberpunk genre and its prolific authors and adaptations, as well as the historical foregrounding of its trope-y narratives and visuals. The episode features: my poor excuse of sci-fi prose, a lesson on Techno-Orientalism (because I’m doing a presentation on it Friday afternoon), a special Webpage of the Week intro, and my fatigue-induced rambling (complaining) at the end that may or may not be cut by Arina since I low-key went overtime. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
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This week’s episode of Virtuality features an established character on the show: Emily Esplin! Click in as we get into the nitty, gritty, (and quite abstract) aspects of identity construction on social media in relation to gender and sexuality. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
This weeks episodes features a very special guest (my gorgeous friend & flatmate)...Laura Hern! Tap in as fellow OarFM podcaster Laura and I discuss our early exposure to the Internet and online influencers...including our own pre-teen passions for recorded skits. Don’t forget to check out Laura’s podcast “Through the Kaleidoscope”! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
This weeks episode is a look into digital blackface — a newer concept based around the Internets usage of Black reaction images/GIFs. We talk about the history of minstrelsy, the prevalence of racialized visualizations and audios in the social media sphere, and how the past informs the present. This discussion is applied to a video essay I did for post-grad this year in which I offer the term “blacked” to analyse this online phenomenon. Despite the importance of this topic, don’t mind my bouts of stuttering and voice cracks — I was tired, okay?! This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
This weeks episode is featuring my very first guest (and long, long time friend)...Emily Esplin! As a local independent music artist who is starting to find their place in the industry, Emily knows the nitty gritty of what it takes to catch people’s attention in the age of the Internet. Tap in as we talk about music videos, our early Musical.ly careers, and how contemporary artists are expected to double as both musicians and social media influencers. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz and made thanks to the support of NZ on Air.
This week’s episode is all about the niche community of Snapewives/Snapeists — a corner of the early 2000’s Harry Potter fandom that religiously engaged and transformed the narratives of Severus Snape.