Book 5, Ep. 7 | Media Studies: The Wand is the Message
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Marcelle leads us through an overview of famous Edmontonian and Media Studies scholar, Marshall McLuhan! We tackle McLuhan's “Tetrad of Media Effects” (a chart!) and use it to think through the DA's gold coins, Umbridge's Educational Decrees, The Daily Prophet, and other forms of communication that flood Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We also draw on previous episodes about ideology, class, magical capital, books and archives.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:06.6 | Hey Marcel. |
| 0:07.8 | Hey Hannah. |
| 0:08.9 | What is your relationship to riddles? |
| 0:12.2 | Well, my eight year old asks me a lot of the time to give her a riddle. |
| 0:18.2 | And so I've been spending a lot of time Googling riddles to satisfy her. |
| 0:22.0 | That's terrible. |
| 0:23.0 | You can't find things out on Google. |
| 0:24.8 | You know the best way to find things out is on a podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh my gosh, that's true. |
| 0:30.4 | So, I've got a Riddle-based podcast recommendation for you. |
| 0:33.8 | What is it? |
| 0:34.8 | It is called Hey Riddle Riddle. |
| 0:37.1 | It is hosted by three originally Chicago-based improvisers, Adil Refi, JPC, and Aaron Keefe. |
| 0:45.3 | And guess who those people are friends with? |
| 0:48.1 | Is it you? |
| 0:49.9 | No, it's coach. |
| 0:52.1 | It's coach. |
| 0:54.1 | They are all friends with coach, which is why I started listening. |
| 0:57.2 | But now I gotta tell you, I'm just listening because I love them. |
| 1:01.9 | It's very funny. |
| 1:02.9 | They attempt to answer riddles and do improv scenes and are pretty bad at riddles. |
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