What’s That Noise?!
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -What’s That Noise?! The podcast about confusion! Tune in for marginally intelligent discussions on a variety of topics with academics, researchers, community leaders, musicians, and noisemakers of all kinds. Follow us on Twitter @WTNcast and @whatsthatdata.
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Episodes
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 7 - Protecting and Promoting Culture through Technology
September 08, 2023 18:47 - 36 minutes - 83.5 MBIn Episode 7 we speak to Melissa Giles-Hardy, owner, President, and CEO of ORIGIN - a company that design, develops, and delivers technology experiences to drive employment while also protecting and promoting culture for Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. It's no surprise that Melissa is recipient of multiple awards, including the 2021 RBC Innovative Company of the Year award, the Indigenomics Top 10 Business's To Watch in Canada, the 2019 Northern Ontario, Influential Women's Entrepr...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 6 - Navigating Indigenous Digital Spaces
June 15, 2023 00:34 - 44 minutes - 101 MBIn Episode 6 we speak to Matthew Norris, Senior Policy Analyst at the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, and President of the Urban Native Youth Association. As a former candidate for Vancouver city council and a PhD student in UBC's Department of Political Science, Matthew has and continues to be exposed to numerous important intersecting Indigenous developments and issues. Between Matthew's grassroots community work and advocacy along with his academic studies on United Nations De...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 5 - Award-Winning Filmmaker on Narrative Sovereignty
April 18, 2023 20:13 - 35 minutes - 82.4 MBIn Episode 5 of One Feather Two Pens we speak with the award winning actor, director, producer, writer, and storyteller, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. Member of the Kinai First Nation as well as Sámi from Norway, Elle-Máijá joins us to discuss her Rogers Audience Award winning documentary, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. The powerful film is an intimate and reflexive portrait of her community and the impact of substance abuse and opioid epidemic. Elle-Máijá is a remarkable wisdom and ...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 4 - Netflix Filmmakers on Indigenous Media
March 01, 2023 17:30 - 39 minutes - 91.3 MBIn our latest episode on One Feather, Two Pens we have the privilege and honor to chat with Mary Teegee and Matt Smiley, the Directors of For Love on Netflix. As an Indigenous woman and non-Indigenous man, Mary and Matt have worked closely together since before their powerful piece Highway of Tears. The two reflect on their journeys, learnings, and discoveries together, which leads to a fascinating and important set of realizations and offerings about the promise of Indigenous media. Gila’...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 3 - Inclusion in tech industry
January 16, 2023 22:25 - 35 minutes - 80.8 MBWe are very excited to have Josh Nilson, Co-Founder of East Side Games, recent winner of the BC Tech Association's Person of the Year Award (and a Producer of one of Tommy's all time favourite games, Company of Heroes!), to talk about the value and importance of reconciliation through the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the tech sector. Josh shares his fascinating professional journey, beginning in the world of culinary arts and then successfully transitioning into video game developmen...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 2 - Reconciliation in the digital space
December 14, 2022 22:26 - 48 minutes - 112 MBIn our second episode of this new special series, we are honoured to be joined by Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, OC, OBC. Dr. Joseph is a hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, is Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada where he has guided the Canadian Federal government through their residential school response. Dr. Joseph is a survivor of St. Michael’s Residential School. Dr. Joseph guides Tommy, Al, and Lawrence through the importance of creating safe space to converse and listen deeply...
One Feather Two Pens: Episode 1 - The key to digital collaboration
December 14, 2022 22:25 - 22 minutes - 51.9 MBOnce upon a time on What's That Noise?! we asked: wouldn't it be wonderful to launch a special series with their new friend and former guest, Lawrence Lewis? That time has arrived! Al, Tommy, and Lawrence are so very pleased to present One Feather Two Pens, a special series that interviews Indigenous thought and technology leaders about functioning and co-existing with Indigenous peoples in this digital space. We kick off the series in episode 1 by laying the terrain for what this new serie...
Episode 46: AI Regulation in Canada
September 21, 2022 18:57 - 50 minutes - 117 MBBefore the pandemic, AI was growing in Canada. Throughout the pandemic, AI has exploded in Canada. Through working from home and online schooling to the abundance of location, health, medical, and interaction data around us at all times, the last half decade truly has witnessed institutions moving rapidly toward AI to make money, increase efficiency, trim fat, and perhaps even assist in finding new cures and vaccines. And as you might imagine, there are serious rights, liberties, justice, ...
Episode 45: Location Data - What Do You Mean?
August 04, 2022 23:39 - 1 hour - 162 MBHey friends! Hope your summer is swell! It sure has been for us - perhaps a bit too good? While it's been rather tough to find time to record together, we're really pumped to finish off the summer with two new episodes. Today's chat is with Tommy's dear friend, Fernando Leiva - an analytics developer at the Centre for Advanced Computing at Queen's University. Tommy and Fernando have worked together for the past 3+ years to investigate location data-related privacy issues on smartphones. Toda...
Episode 44: From the Radio Booth to the Classroom
June 22, 2022 01:55 - 1 hour - 138 MBMore than ever people are questioning whether or not their job is the best fit. How many of us have found themselves in this position, particularly during the pandemic? How many of us have wondered what it takes to change ship, how much courage would be required to do so - and whether or not the grass is truly 'greener' on the other side? In this episode we hear from our beloved co-host Mr. Al Coombs about his professional journey, one which began with a short stint in insurance, to over a...
Episode 43: Indigenous Digital Identity
June 06, 2022 21:16 - 1 hour - 148 MBTommy and Al are excited to bring a fantastic piece filled with both confusion and clarity around a tremendously important subject: Indigenous Digital Identity. What's That Noise?! is honoured to speak with Lawrence Lewis, Founder and CEO of OneFeather: an Indigenous technology company that designs specialized software solutions for Indigenous peoples across Canada. Lawrence joins us to talk about the messiness that is "Digital Identity" and "digital identity". That's right, there's two. On...
Episode 42: Why Borders are Confusing
April 21, 2022 21:05 - 1 hour - 152 MBAlmost immediately after the #warinukraine began, the Western world told Ukrainians: "our borders are open". When a humanitarian crisis unfolds, such as the largest exodus of a population occurs since the end of world war two, it's logical that a country would open its borders to those in need, no? Not so fast. The world's borders - how they are made, how they are managed, and how they affect the lives and geographies around them - as our returning guest and dear friend Dr. Benjamin Muller t...
Episode 41: What’s That Slap?!
April 05, 2022 20:25 - 55 minutes - 127 MBFact: for the week of March 28, the top 20 global Google search trends do not include the #pandemic, the #warinUkraine, #residentialschools. Will Smith, Jada Smith, Chris Rock, and celebrity reactions dominated. Why? What happened to the rest of the world? Where did it go? Is Western society seriously this obsessed with celebrity drama? Could it be the case that #theslap highlighted complex hidden social, mental health, and racial issues? Are algorithms and filter bubbles to blame? Why are ...
Episode 40: Neurotechnology Part 2
March 16, 2022 19:20 - 22 minutes - 50.6 MBPart 2 of our chat about neurotechnology delves a bit deeper... If people have fluid identities, can neurotech capture them? What does it mean to enhance a body and a mind that are constantly changing? What happens when people are uncomfortable, unconfident, and uncertain about who they are, what they are doing and where they are heading? Can neurotech help with this, or perhaps make it all more complicated? Tommy and Al are joined by Dr. Brenda McPhail, Director of the Privacy, Technology ...
Episode 39: Ukraine - How We Can Help
February 27, 2022 01:32 - 51 minutes - 117 MBOur hearts are with Ukraine. The situation is incomprehensibly horrific. As the world watches, many of us feel helpless. There's a ton of confusion around what it means to be a passive observer. Even if you wanted to help, could you? What would that look like? Is there any way to support Ukrainians in their time of urgent need beyond memes, hashtags, and profile pictures of blue and yellow flags? Tommy and Al spent the last day scanning civil society, journalism, news media, not-for-profit, ...
Episode 38: Neurotech Part 1
February 15, 2022 23:43 - 31 minutes - 72.5 MBWhat do you get when you combine "nervous system" with "technology"? Confusion, evidently! What is neurotech, exactly? Sure, it is technology that is attached to the body's neural activity... But what part of the body? Does it affect the body, and if so - how? Why even build this technology? Who builds, and for what reasons? And as ever, what are the social, ethical, and privacy implications of doing so? Soo many questions, and so few answers - even for experts like our wonderful guest, Dr. ...
Episode 37: AI & Advertising Part 2
February 01, 2022 21:38 - 40 minutes - 93.4 MBWhat is the connection between bedsheet-related incidents and the consumption of cheese? Hopefully none. That would be confusing, and weird. However! There might be a correlation between those unusually paired items! Correlations, correlations. Part two is about the wonderfully bizarre world of data correlations. Is it not correlations at the heart of AI and advertising, after all? That's certainly where this conversation is headed. We're delighted to resume our superbly odd conversation wit...
Episode 36: AI & Advertising Part 1
January 17, 2022 19:23 - 35 minutes - 81.9 MBToday we chat Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County about his confusion with AI and advertising! Join Tommy, Al and Dillon in this first episode of a two-part series that explores the complexities of how targeted advertisements show up in your smartphone. Even with his background in computer science, Dillon is as confused as Tommy and Al about how automated systems find ways to build profiles about who we as consu...
Episode 35: Welcome to the show, Al!
January 03, 2022 21:46 - 42 minutes - 97.1 MBHappy New Year, everyone! I am so grateful for two things! First, we have a new co-host! It's truly my pleasure to introduce my dear friend, Al Coombs to you. Al is a seasoned radio broadcaster who hosted and co-hosted shows in London, Ontario for over a decade. He joins us at WTNCast as a freshly-minted public school teacher, too! His warmth and interview experience is truly invigorating. It's such a pleasure to have you join the show, @thatalcoombsguy! Second, the podcast has re relaunch...
Episode 33: PredPol
May 30, 2021 17:40 - 44 minutes - 101 MBThis latest episode is a special one. Tommy has wanted to explore predictive policing for a while. He had the opportunity to do so as a sample case study for one of the classes he teaches at Queen's University: AI, Ethics & Society - a Masters of Engineering course where students use any media format they wish to explore the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence systems. And so, this episode is presented a bit differently than what you are used to - but it is still dri...
My Shadow is My Skin Episode 3: The Politics of
March 09, 2021 02:31 - 1 hour - 158 MBIn association with the University of Texas Press, the third instalment of the My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora special series features, Prof. Mehdi Tavana Okasi and Dr. Roger Sedarat. Mehdi is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College of the State University of New York, who was born in Iran and became a refugee of the Iran-Iraq war, which led him to the suburbs of Boston. Roger is a Professor in the Department of English at Queen’s College of the The City Univ...
My Shadow is My Skin Episode 2: Errand
September 21, 2020 21:19 - 43 minutes - 101 MBIn this second instalment of our special series, in association with the University of Texas Press, Tommy speaks with Dr. Babak Elahi, Head of Department, Liberal Studies at Kettering University. Dr. Elahi is a special contributor to My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, not only as the musical talent behind the series' music, but also as author of chapter 25: Errand. Dr. Elahi reflects on his deeply personal piece, which surrounds the days and months leading to the loss of...
Episode 32: Competing Perspectives on Data, Privacy & Ethics
August 23, 2020 22:51 - 1 hour - 170 MBFrom the vault of unpublished episodes comes with a fascinating conversation with Desmond Cox, an IT and software development professional who has a fresh and often competing take on Tommy's understandings and perspectives about data, privacy and ethics. During a trip to Germany in 2019, Tommy and his wife visited Des and Chrissy - good friends who moved out of Ontario to start new lives in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. In this chat, Tommy and Des get to chat about their mutual passion for the p...
My Shadow is My Skin Episode 1: the Iranian Diaspora
July 01, 2020 20:19 - 41 minutes - 95.7 MB"In the four decades since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iranian-Americans have made sense of their lives and reconciled their sense of belonging and not belonging through writing, first through poetry and memoir in the immediacy of migration and exile, and later in a developing and rich explosion of fiction. In the past decade, we have seen a blossoming of nonfiction writing that reflects complex voices and modern sensibilities and that reveals a broader range of stories and remembrances ...
Episode 31: From Bucharest, to Dachau
April 02, 2020 00:07 - 38 minutes - 87.8 MBIn today's chat, Tommy sits down with his wife, Cristina, and his new second-cousins, Georgi and Florin Stancu, to share their incredible journey. Born, raised, and built lives in Bucharest, Romania, Cristina translates between Tommy and his new family to discuss their decision to leave Romania in search of better opportunities and a better for life for their daughter, Alyssa. Now living in Dachau, Bayern, Germany for the past seven years, Georgi and Florin reflect upon some of the challenge...
Episode 30: Quality vs Quantity of Life with a Terminal Diagnosis
March 03, 2020 04:13 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBThank you for joining us on the most important episode we've published to date, and perhaps will be the most important episode we will publish - for more reasons than we could possibly articulate here in written text. In this episode, we discuss the inescapably difficult but exceedingly important matter of quality versus quantity life - when given a terminal diagnosis. It is impossible to convey our saddened we are that a dear friend to this show, Dr. Karen Rees-Milton (who joined us on epis...
Episode 29: Culture Industry, Media Fuel, and Celebrity Privacy
January 06, 2020 22:05 - 1 hour - 114 MBHappy New Year, everyone! Derek and I are excited to bring you our first episode of 2020. Today's chat is a follow-up to the last episode of 2019. If you haven't heard it yet, you'll want to go back and check it out or this episode will leave you feeling as confused as Tommy was after Episode 28: Kawhi Leonard and the Expectation of Privacy in the Public Sphere. Over the break, Tommy felt Episode 28 should be continued as a discussion about culture industry: the production of psychologica...
Episode 28: Kawhi Leonard and the Expectation of Privacy in the Public Sphere
December 18, 2019 17:15 - 1 hour - 118 MBAfter the Toronto Raptors won their first championship in franchise history, attention quickly shifted from celebration to discussions of whether or not the team’s star player and finals MVP, Kawhi Leonard, would resign with the team. What ensued was commonly referred to by media as the “Kawhi Watch,” which captivated the city, and perhaps even all of Canada, and led media and fans on path that would see them attempt to track and monitor Kawhi’s every move, on and offline. Perhaps predictab...
Episode 27: A Life in Labs
November 11, 2019 00:46 - 55 minutes - 102 MBImagine spending 24.5 years in a specific laboratory. And then imagine switching, to seemingly start all over again. In this show Tommy chats with Dr. Karen Rees-Milton, a veteran bench scientist who is expertly versed in protein biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, classical biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, cell culture, and glycobiology. After nearly a decade as a research coordinator, Dr. Rees-Milton has completely switched gears: computer programming. Karen's new work...
Episode 26: Mission Creep and Domestic Border Surveillance
October 07, 2019 17:36 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn this episode, we continue discussing a long-standing theme of the show: how government develops, mobilizes, and uses surveillance technologies abroad and at home. More specifically, we focus on a program called the "Real Time Regional Gateway," a secretive data processing and mining system introduced by the NSA and deployed during American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May of 2018, Henrik Moltke of The Intercept published a detailed exposé uncovering the RTRG's journey f...
Episode 25: Japan, America, and Whistleblowing
September 15, 2019 22:35 - 41 minutes - 94.4 MBTommy sits down with Dr. Midori Ogasawara, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa, and one of the premiere investigative journalists on surveillance in Japan. For nearly twenty years, Midori has researched the legacy of surveillance in Japan, and is the only reporter from Japan to have interviewed NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden. A recipient over 9 academic awards and the author two books on Snowden and surveillance in Japan, Midori has a wealth of insight to share. Tommy...
Episode 24: Representation and Authority
September 01, 2019 17:42 - 1 hour - 112 MBThis episode is centered on the theme of representation and authority in the public sphere. Can we trust what authorities tell us about how we use our digital technologies, or how laws and public policies are developed and mobilized? How can we make sense of official justifications for interventions that are increasingly intrusive in our daily lives? From Apple and Google to our own governments, tune in as Derek and Tommy discuss these questions through the contexts of how we use our smartph...
Episode 23: The NMEA
August 15, 2019 20:36 - 47 minutes - 86.7 MBIt's been so long! But we're back! Derek and I have reconnected and we've got a great run of new content coming your way. Today, we begin by touching base - to see where we've been to figure out where we're heading. A big focus of our reconnection is something that has kept Tommy really busy this past half year. In what we might otherwise call "A Day in the Life of Metadata: Part Two", Tommy updates us on his collaboration project, which has led him and his research team at Queen's Universit...
Episode 22: language, language, language
April 25, 2019 00:50 - 34 minutes - 79.2 MBAn episode to begin the term, and one to close off. Thank you so much, and our deepest apologies, for our hiatus! It has been a great calendar year thus far, and also an exceptionally busy one. In today's episode, Tommy sits down with Dr. Samer Abboud, Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University to chat about language. Tommy and Samer are old buddies and colleagues, and were able to catch up for the first time - in many years - at the recent International ...
Volume 21: Kinesiology and Interdisciplinarity
January 15, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBHappy New Year, everyone! We're so very excited to share our first episode of the New Year, feat. John Hannant-Minchel, a Masters student of Kinesiology at Queen's University. After meeting at a local breakfast hotspot in the beautiful city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, John and Tommy found time to sit down again - over another coffee - to explore perspectives from within, and around, the Sociocultural Studies of Sport, Health and the Body. Much of our discussion explores interdisciplinarit...
Volume 20: The law, language, and data
November 26, 2018 21:15 - 1 hour - 152 MBIn Volume 20, Derek and Tommy sit down with Cale Sutherland, an Associate Lawyer practicing injury and health law at Lerner's LLP in the beautiful city of London, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Sutherland helps our co-hosts not only debunk some preconceived ideas they had about how much the law is like our favourite tv shoe, Suits. Cale also helps them debunk the notion that the courtroom and classroom are radically different. Anxiety, expectation management, the role of confidence, and the value of f...
Volume 19: iOS, Android, and Application Privacy
October 08, 2018 14:00 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MBIn this week's episode, Derek and Tommy chat about application privacy on iOS and Android. New technologies such as the Samsung Galaxy, Pixel, and iPhone have become so heavily relied upon for communication that it is almost unfathomable to be fully 'disconnected' from the social world. But our phones are not simply communication devices - they are now repositories for a host of sensitive information about our lives, our bodies, and our desires. In this episode, the hosts break down what is ...
Volume 18: A Day in the Life of Data
September 24, 2018 14:00 - 52 minutes - 95.2 MBTommy is back! After a summer spent researching data privacy in Bochum, Germany (and traversing the Swiss alps with his newly-engaged parter), Tommy is back in studio to chat with Derek about his research project on visualizing data flows in smartphones. In many ways our cell phones are the most important communication tool in our daily lives. Not only are smart phones embedded into the fabric of social life, they also act as repositories for a host of personal and impersonal information a...
Volume 17: Queering Families with Dr. Carla Pfeffer
August 09, 2018 14:41 - 48 minutes - 89.6 MBThe ASA annual meeting is almost upon us! In our final pre-ASA episode, Derek chats with one of his own mentors, Dr. Carla Pfeffer, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina (Derek's alma mater!), about her book Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men (Oxford University Press), teaching conversial topics and issues, and some of the problems with traditional approaches to peer-review. Nothi...
Volume 16: Blowin' Up! with Dr. Jooyoung Lee
August 06, 2018 13:36 - 43 minutes - 80 MBWelcome to the second episode of our little University of Toronto mini-series! As we ramp up for the ASA annual meeting this weekend in Philadelphia, Derek chats with Dr. Jooyoung Lee (PhD UCLA), Associate Professor in the Deparment of Sociology at the University of Toronto and faculty member at the Centre for the Study of the United States in the Munk School of Global Affairs. In this episode, we discuss Jooyoung's award-winning book Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central (University of Ch...
Volume 15: On the Limits of Whiteness with Dr. Neda Maghbouleh
July 30, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBFollowing a few weeks off, we are finally back in the groove in the leadup to the American Sociolocial Association's annual meeting in Philly! In this week's episode, Derek sits down with a long time twitter-friend Dr. Neda Maghbouleh (PhD University of California), Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, to chat about her book The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press), her current work w...
Volume 14: Reunited and It Feels So Good
July 23, 2018 17:01 - 37 minutes - 68.1 MBIn this long overdue episode, Tommy and Derek finally reunite to reflect upon the podcast's first episodes while chatting about the past, present, and future direction of What's That Noise. We also have some REALLY, REALLY BIG NEWS to share about @thomasncooke's personal life! Tune in as we discuss the confusion and noisiness surrounding the production your own podcast while sharing a bit about what is to come over the next few months. We cannot wait to share the next bunch of episodes with ...
Volume 13: From Bulgaria, to Bochum
June 18, 2018 11:30 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn our second episode from Germany, co-host @thomasncooke planned to chat with a new friend and colleague about her summer research project at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (@CAIS). That will have to wait, as our guest @julirone - a recent Social and Political Sciences PhD graduate of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy - shares numerous complex and thought-provoking perspectives that challenge many of @Thomasncooke's ideas and assumptions about European culture, po...
Volume 12: Right-Wing Extremism
June 11, 2018 14:08 - 1 hour - 110 MBOver the past few years we have experienced the notable reemergence of a white nationalist movement within the public sphere. From the Emanuel AME shooting to Charlottesville, VA and beyond, white nationalism seems to be undergoing a rebranding of sorts - moving out of the darkness of the internet and into the limelight of public discourse. While many political leaders continue to condemn activities of these so-called "alt-right" - or alternative right - groups, others have provided those wh...
Volume 11: CAIS, Interdisciplinarity, and Life in the Ruhrgebiet
June 04, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBVolume 11 marks the beginning of a unique side series for @WTNcast, as Tommy conducts numerous interviews during his summerlong Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany. In this episode, Tommy sits Max Brenker to learn about life growing up, working in, and navigating around the state of North-Rhein Westfalia. In his capacity as Project Officer at CAIS, Max shares some fascinating insights about what it takes for a research centre to thrive in a burgeo...
Volume 10: (Re)Framing Disability in Pop Culture
May 28, 2018 12:21 - 1 hour - 116 MBOn this week's episode, Derek chats with Dr. Jeff Preston, Assistant Professor of disability studies at King's University College, to discuss his work on representations of disability in popular culture. From Jimmy Brooks (a.k.a. Drake) in Degrassi to Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) in Glee, mass media tends to paint a relatively simple and uniform picture of what it means to be disabled in the world. Jeff's research aims to challenge these simplistic representations by flipping the script and i...
Volume 9: Radicalization
May 21, 2018 12:06 - 49 minutes - 90.8 MBIn another very special episde, Derek travels to Winnipeg to sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Monaghan, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University, and Fahad Ahmad, PhD candidate in public policy at Carleton, to discuss their work on radicalization and some of the challenges with so-called "radicalization studies." In something of a different episode, we get into some of the overlaps between criminological theory and research and issues related ...
Volume 8: Freedom of Information
May 14, 2018 12:01 - 47 minutes - 86.8 MBIn today's very special episode, Derek travels to Winnipeg to sit down with Dr. Kevin Walby, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Winnipeg, and Alex Luscombe, PhD student in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Toronto, to discuss their work using Access to Information (ATI) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as data sources in their research. Tune in for a really interesting discussion of some of the benefits and pitfalls of using this ...
Volume 7: Education, Inc.
May 13, 2018 12:49 - 1 hour - 115 MBIn this special episode, Tommy and Derek sit down with long-time high school teacher Danny Clarke to discuss neoliberalism and education, bureaucracy, standardization, and the utility of metrics. Tune in for our discussion of Education, Inc. and some of the problems with "juking the stats" in our efforts to 'educate' our youth. You can follow the show on Twitter! Follow us on Twitter: @WTNcast | @Derekcrim | @Thomasncooke Email us: [email protected] Subscribe to the podcast: https://wtnc...
Volume 6: Radio and the Future of News Media
May 13, 2018 12:42 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MBIn a slightly different episode, Tommy and Derek sit down with radio personality and voice of the London Knights Mike Stubbs of AM980 Global News Radio to chat about the radio industry, the future of news in the age of social media, and the emergence of so-called "PC" culture and challenges to his industry. Tune in as Mike schools us on how to be a great radio personality! You can follow Mike on Twitter @Stubbs980 You can follow the show on Twitter! Follow us on Twitter: @WTNcast | @Dere...