Blog Post Assignment #2
My Top 10 Podcasts
For this blog post, I thought I would take the time to share a list of my top 10 favourite podcasts. I started listening to podcasts a couple years ago when I was trying to find new ways to calm my ADHD racing mind down before bed. Before podcasts, I tried many things to fall asleep, including listening to music, counting sheep, picturing a blank page and pretty much anything the internet tells you to try. One day, I was going through my apps to figure out which ones I can delete to get more space on my phone. That's when I came across the Podcasts app. Since discovering podcasts, not only do I use them to fall asleep every night, but I also listen to them every time I'm driving for more then 20 minutes. Anyways, here is my list of podcast recommendations (in no particular order): 1. "Call Her Daddy" 2. "The Cancelled Podcast" 3. "The Viall Files" 4. "BFFs" 5. "Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast" 6. "Hot Mess with Alix Earl...
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ReplyDeleteHarold Innis' analysis of medium theories can relate to the film Pontypool in terms of time-biased and space-biased media. In Pontypool, the medium of radio plays a central role in how information and disinformation spreads. This ties to Innis' concept that media forms can control how societies perceive reality and how power is maintained. In Pontypool, the space-biased medium of radio transmits an infectious form of communication, turning from symbols of connection into vectors of destruction. Innis talks about the dangers of communication systems that lead to societal breakdowns, much like the collapse of ancient empires that overemphasized one form of media.
The media forms in Pontypool are contemporary extensions of oral communication:
Radio → allows for real-time/one-to-many communication across large distances. Grant Mazzy uses his voice to reach listeners, amplifying traditional orality by broadcasting spoken words across time and space. Radio helps spread the virus because it transmits the infected words beyond people’s immediate surroundings.
Telephone → a more personal form of communication, becomes a medium through which the virus is transmitted from speaker to listener. The infection occurs from the meaning and understanding of language, which relates to how orality depends on shared understanding in conversation.
Electronic amplification → allows the human voice to reach larger audiences in real time. However, amplification can also become a vector for the uncontrollable transmission of language-based infection.
These technologies represent extensions of orality, where voice and sound maintain primacy, but their socio-technical affordances magnify the reach and scale of oral communication. This aligns with Innis' theories of media, where modern technology extends communication but introduces risks when technology becomes uncontrollable or overly dominant.