
COMM As You Are is a graduate-led podcast from the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst. Each episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at emerging scholarship - where theory meets personal experience, and big ideas take shape. hosted and recorded by Val Paskar jingle by @Bass King
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 7 | Founded | 10 months ago |
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| Categories | Social SciencesScienceSociety & Culture | ||||

In this episode of COMM As You Are, we sit down with Lizhen Zhao, a PhD candidate in Communication at UMass Amherst, to talk about her ethnographic research on e-commerce and platform economies in rural China. Drawing on fieldwork in her hometown in ... more
A PhD candidate and novelist Shanaz Bashir sits down with COMM As You Are to unpack how a single cinema in Kashmir becomes a visual archive of power. Through two photographs taken seventy-six years apart, Shanaz Bashir traces a striking transformatio... more
What happens to art when the gallery moves online - and when artists can no longer afford to live near it? Dr Brendan McCauley joins us to explore how digital platforms, economic pressures, and the pandemic have reshaped creative practice. From regio... more
Larri Miller is helping define a new subfield: critical computational social science. In this episode, we talk about their research on right-wing digital communities, their commitment to mixed methods, and the epistemological roots of conspiracy beli... more
How does political language change when it moves from newspapers to social media? PhD candidate Alina Ali Durrani joins us to trace how meaning, ambiguity, and power shift across media ecosystems in Pakistan. Her dissertation analyzes Urdu-language o... more
Is a rom-com just a rom-com? In this episode, PhD candidate Kate Burrell reflects on her journey from theater and film studies to a deeply interdisciplinary project on cinematic genre. Drawing from documentary studies, critical media theory, and cult... more
Cecilia Zhou joins COMM As You Are to discuss her mixed-methods research on children and media, examining how gender norms, digital advertising, and parental mediation shape adolescent experiences online. Drawing on fieldwork in both China and the U.... more









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