Media Futures Podcast

A podcast about how media and cultural studies can shape more just media futures from the Media Futures Hub at UNSW Sydney and @MediaFuturesHub on Twitter.

Podcast by A podcast about how media and cultural studies can shape more just media futures from the Media Futures Hub at UNSW Sydney and @MediaFuturesHub on Twitter.

  1. 11/10/2025

    Conspiracy Nation: book discussion with authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson

    Media Futures Hub hosted a live conversation at UNSW with the authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson about their recently launched book, Conspiracy Nation. The technology and internet culture reporters discuss the history of local conspiracies and how the media and online platforms feed into these ideas, as well as advice for journalism students on the skills they've honed through their work. Cam Wilson is a Walkley Award-nominated reporter whose work covers the intersection between internet culture, online extremism and politics. He’s currently Crikey’s Associate Editor, and previously worked at the ABC, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider and Gizmodo. He has been published in The Guardian, Slate, the Sydney Morning Herald and be sure to sign up to his excellent tech newsletter, The Sizzle. Ariel Bogle is a reporter with a focus on technology, law and the internet. An investigations reporter at the Guardian Australia, she has won a Walkley Award for her journalism and worked in media in Australia and the United States for more than ten years. Previously, she was a technology reporter with the ABC. Her reporting has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Australian Financial Review and Slate, among other outlets. The conversation is hosted by Seamus Byrne, a PhD student in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW, and was recorded in August 2025. Conspiracy Nation is available here: https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/conspiracy-nation-by-cam-wilson/9781761153570

    1h 11m
  2. 05/06/2025

    From PhD to PostDoc

    On this episode of the Media Futures Podcast, we hear from Dr Danielle Hynes (Maynooth) and Dr Kevin Witzenberger (QUT), two postdoctoral researchers who recently completed their PhDs in the Media Futures Hub at the University of New South Wales, as they share tips and strategies from their experiences of moving from PhD to Postdoc. Recent years have seen a move from approaching the PhD experience as aimed primarily at the production of a thesis, to the more expansive aim of cultivating a researcher. Amid this changing academic landscape, this discussion addresses a series of increasing relevant questions: How can HDRs best position themselves for postdoctoral opportunities beyond the thesis? What is the contribution and value of research networks in the development of researchers? How can HDRs find Postdoc opportunities and then position themselves as the best candidate? This conversation was recorded at the From PhD to PostDoc workshop at the University of New South Wales in October 2024, hosted by the UNSW Data Justice Research Network and the UNSW Media Futures Hub. This episode was produced by Mitchell Price and Tanja Dreher. Speakers: Dr Danielle Hynes: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/danielle-hynes Dr Kevin Witzenberger: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/kevin.witzenberger Professor Lyria Bennett-Moses: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/lyria-bennett-moses Associate Professor Tanja Dreher: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/tanja-dreher Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-sukhmani-khorana A podcast from the Media Futures Hub at www.mediafutureshub.org

    1h 1m

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