Speaking Well: Recent Episodes
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The Department of Communication Studies would like to welcome you to a new podcast, presented by 90.5 KCSU, that discusses important and pressing items of our times, as well as anything having to do with the College of Liberal Arts on CSU’s campus! Take a dive into topics such as freedom of speech, race and rhetoric, as well as social support structures to help individuals during hectic times.
In this final episode of the 2020-21 academic year, "Speaking Well" host Greg Dickinson talks about the origins of the "Speaking Well" project, his reflections on surviving with the massive upheaval COVID-19 cast on all our lives, getting comfortable with uncertainty and how rhetoric offers a framework for a way forward.
Serious topics are usually presented in serious mediums, but comedy can be a powerful influencing force. Comedy and satirical media are increasingly popular, especially in politics for young people. Marx challenges the idea that comedy is mainly used by liberal figures and suggests that conservative figures are using comedy talk shows and similar mediums to present their agenda and attack their adversaries. Why are right-wing news outlets adding political entertainment shows? Listen in for the answer and other insights about comedy's role in our society.
In this episode of "Speaking Well," host Greg Dickinson sits down with Elizabeth Williams to chat about life as essential employees and what we can do to keep going during this pandemic.
Communication studies professor Eric Aoki has explored the notion of community through ethnographic research in the small town of Biola, California, located in the heart of the Central Valley. He talks with "Speaking Well" host Greg Dickinson about the ways in which communication defines community, the forces that reshape our understanding of it and approaches to exploring difference that are not grounded in binary ways of thinking.
Film and media studies scholar from Colorado State University Kit Hughes connects virtually with host of Speaking Well, Greg Dickinson as they both explore the rise and role of corporate TV and other influencers that shape the way we consume and share information.
Speaking Well host Greg Dickinson talks with Carl Burgchardt, leading expert on American public address, about the role presidential inaugurations have played in U.S. American democracy, the particular concerns President Joe Biden addressed in his inaugural address and lessons we can all learn from the study of historical speeches.
Speaking Well host Dr. Greg Dickinson talks with listening and communication expert Dr. Elizabeth Parks about what constitutes listening, how we orient to listening, how listening changes brain patterns, and how to listen with empathy and intentionality as we approach the year-end and its many celebrations and remembrances.
In Episode 6, Speaking Well host and Department of Communication Studies Chair Greg Dickinson talks with Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Morgan Johnson about her research on the discourses of racial in/justice in the U.S., particularly surrounding police violence, her work supporting graduate and undergraduate students of color at Penn State, and her top recommendations for how we engage with anti-racism in higher education.
In Episode 5, Speaking Well host Dr. Greg Dickinson talks with Dr. Tom Dunn about the intersection of traditional and nontraditional rhetoric, the weaponization of free speech, and the power of public speaking.
In episode 4, Speaking Well host Dr. Greg Dickinson talks with Communication Studies Associate Professor Katie Knobloch about her research on deliberative democracy. Knobloch, who calls voting a “collective act of love,” shares her insights on focusing conversations about politics on issues and the person you’re speaking with, not on politicians.
On this episode, Dr. Kari Anderson sits down with Dr. Scott Diffrient and Beth Seymour about the ACT Human Rights Film Festival.
In Episode 2, host Greg Dickinson talks with Professor Karrin Vasby Anderson about navigating political communication during these contentious times.
In this first episode of Speaking Well, host Greg Dickinson talks with Meara Faw about social support - what it means, what it looks like, and how we can use it to better our everyday lives.