Crowdfunding launch supports media podcast at Cornell

Cornell will be the setting for an upcoming season of "Ways of Knowing," a new podcast created by Chris Hoff '02 and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the NPR radio show The World According to Sound. The podcast is produced in partnership with leading universities to explore facets of the humanities through sound. Hoff and Harnett spent a semester-long residency at Cornell in Fall 2019, supported by Cornell's Media Studies Program.

A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support the Cornell-based season, a collaboration with media studies scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Open through Dec. 5, the campaign's initial goal is $5,000.

The Ways of Knowing season, titled "Media Objects," amplifies Cornell research in a wide variety of disciplines, including music, information science, sociology, classics, communication and performing and media arts, as well as highlighting Cornell's leadership in the field of media studies. A trailer and two pilot episodes - "Containers" and "Typewriters" - are complete. Future episodes will focus on topics such as buttons, mixtapes, artificial intelligence, office plants and the book.

"It's asking listeners to consider that what we typically mean by the concept of media - newspapers, radio, TV, film - is much smaller than what media and mediation actually do in our world," said Jeremy Braddock, associate professor of literatures in English (A&S) and chair of the CIVIC Media Studies Initiative. "That has been one of the foundational ideas that's driven media studies at Cornell."

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