Digital Alchemy: Recent Episodes

ICA Productions

With Moya Bailey

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This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey

Alice Wong

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from our guests:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President, Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Alice Wong

Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project

Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility

Instagram: @disability_visibility

Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com

Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

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In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, who is The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in History of Medicine. Dr. Cooper Owens goes into detail about her journey of becoming an historian and speaker, and how that journey keeps her grounded, yet committed to teaching community-based history. Her story reminds us of all the challenges and personal costs when building the worlds that we need.

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Featuring

Moya Z Bailey

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from the host & speakers:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Twitter - @Moyazb

Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor History of Medicine | University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Director of the Humanities and Medicine program | University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Director of the Program in African American History | Library Company of Philadelphia

Facebook - Diedre Cooper Owens

Twitter - @drcooperowens

LinkedIn - Diedre Cooper Owens

Instagram - @deirdrecooperowens

Relevant or related works:

Cooper Owens, Deirdre, Medical Bondage. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017

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The International Communication Association presents the ICA Podcast Network, where we’re grappling with questions about how to navigate, transform, and make sense of a changing world. Our podcasts will bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world to showcase the most exciting and important work in our field and amplify researchers, educators, and advocates who are underrepresented in our field. 

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In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Sasha Costanza-Chock, who is the Director of Research & Design at the Algorithmic Justice League ( ajlunited.org ). Sasha goes into detail about the journey of the Algorithmic Justice League thus far, and the influence of social movements when it comes to building the worlds that we need.

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Featuring

Moya Z Bailey

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from the host & speakers:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Twitter - @Moyazb

Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Director of Research and Design | Algorithm Justice League

Faculty Associate | Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society

Committee Member | Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network

Design Justice Network

Algorithmic Justice League

Twitter - @schock

Papers/Journal referred to in episode:

Design Justice

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In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Jeanette Lee who is the co-executive director of Allied Media Projects. Jeanette discusses her introduction into media-based organizing, the journey thus far with Allied Media Projects, and what the future holds for herself and the rest of humanity.

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Featuring

Moya Z Bailey

Jeanette Lee

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from the host & speakers:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Twitter - @Moyazb

Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir

Jeanette Lee

Co-Executive Director | Allied Media Projects

Allied Media Projects

Twitter - @jeanettelx

Twitter - @Allied_Media

Twitter - @AlliedMediaConf

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For the inaugural episode, Moya Bailey is interviewed about her plans for the Digital Alchemy podcast by PhD students working in her Digital Apothecary lab: Bailey Flynn, Yena Lee, Annika Pinch. Moya also discusses her vision for the podcast and what to expect in future episodes.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey

Bailey Flynn
Yena Lee
Annika Pinch

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from the host & speakers:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University

Twitter - @Moyazb

Instagram - @TransforMisogynoir

Bailey Flynn

PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program

Northwestern University

Twitter - @bflynnlearns
Instagram - @natcomm

Yena Lee

PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program
Northwestern University
Twitter - @letterhead234

@datasociety

Annika Pinch
PhD Student | Media, Technology, and Society PhD program
Northwestern University
Twitter - @annika_pinch
@NU_MTS