This is the fourth and final podcast installment featuring archival audio from the preconference event. Due to technical difficulties with the A/V system we weren't able to record all of the day's panels, but for posterity we're dropping the presentations that were captured into this podcast feed. Sadly, the battery-operated microphones died out af…

This is the third of four podcast installments featuring archival audio from the preconference event. Due to technical difficulties with the A/V system we weren't able to record all of the day's panels, but for posterity we're dropping the presentations that were captured into this podcast feed.This installment comes from the panel titled, "Spreadi…

This is the second of four podcast installments featuring archival audio from the preconference event. Due to technical difficulties with the A/V system we weren't able to record all of the day's panels, but for posterity we're dropping the presentations that were captured into this podcast feed.This installment comes from the "Infrastructure and P…

This is the first of four podcast installments featuring archival audio from the preconference event. Unfortunately, we weren't able to capture audio of all of the day's presentations. If you were there in San Diego, you'll recall that the A/V system experienced a slow and painful death as the batteries in each of the wireless mics gave out. And wh…

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Seyram Avle talks to co-host Lucy Martirosyan about how the widespread adoption of mobile phones in Ghana has helped lead not just to an increase in digital communications in the country, but to a boom in FM radio consumption as well.This episode's theme music is "My Original Dictionary," cc …

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Mora Matassi and Pablo Boczkowski talk to co-host Josh Braun about how young news consumers have begun not simply consuming, but "living in" the media—and the ramifications for journalism and the media industries. The study they discuss is co-authored with Eugenia Mitchelstein.This episode's …

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Lucas Graves and C.W. Anderson talk to co-host Lucy Martirosyan about how the "Share the Facts" widget—a web tool aimed at helping to spread information online about the truth or falsehood of statements in the news—subtly shapes the working of the fact-checking organizations behind it.This ep…

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Raven Maragh and Tim Havens talk to co-host Lucy Martirosyan about their study—co-authored with Andrew High, Brian Ekdale, Huyen Le, and M. Zubair Shafiq—on how users' race and views on race-related issues may affect what Google News chooses to show them.This episode's theme music is "Emerge,…

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Henrik Bødker talks to co-host Lucy Martirosyan about how a messy and informal system of distribution helped to transform Vice from a free local magazine in Montréal into a global media brand.This episode's theme music is "Test Drive," cc by nc 3.0 ccMixter user Zapac.…

In this installment of the Distribution Matters podcast, Rick Popp talks to co-host Josh Braun about how the built environment of 1960s Manhattan intersected with its political culture to shape the rollout of one of America's first major urban cable television systems. Co-hosts Lucy Martirosyan and Jessica Eklund were on break as this was recorded,…