In this continuation of our Media Methods and Content Creation mini-series, host Garret Castleberry interviews academician, Batman scholar, and occasional cohost of Special Topics, Kyle Hammonds. Kyle discusses his love of popular culture, how he roots it in teaching practices, and explains how technologies like podcasting enable learning opportunities both inside of and external to traditional educational settings. Ultimately, newly minted Dr. Hammonds reveals three theoretical takeaways that podcast provides listens and users of the burgeoning mass medium. This interview coincides with the MACU graduate course Media Methods and Content Creation but will provide an informative conversation for that welcomes all creatives and podcast listeners.

Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Kyle Hammonds (guest)

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings:

Kyle Hammonds. "The Globalization of Superheroes: Diffusion, Genre, and Cultural Adaptations," In Oxford Research Encyclopedia [Online Publication]. 31 August, 2021.  

Hammonds, K. A., & Anderson-Lain, K. The batman comes to class: Popular culture as a tool for addressing reflexive pain. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 7(1), 2020.

Kyle Hammonds & Karen Anderson-Lain. "A Pedagogy of Communion:  Theorizing Pop Culture Pedagogy," The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 4(1&2), pp. 106-132, 2016.

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