# communication and media studies (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover communication and media studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why Topology Matters for Data Science and AI](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41487) _2026-08-10 · Science (Video)_ Topology offers a way to organize complex data by looking for shape, structure, and relationships. Yusu Wang, Ph.D., UC San Diego, and Gunnar E. Carlsson, Ph.D., Stanford University, discuss how ideas from algebraic topology move from pure mathematics into data science, machine learning, and AI. Carlsson explains why topological data analysis helps identify meaningful groups in large data sets,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41487.mp4) ## [Archaeology Coastal Heritage and Climate Adaptation with Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41490) _2026-08-01 · Science (Video)_ Archaeology can help communities understand environmental change, protect cultural heritage, and prepare for an uncertain climate future. Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo, Ph.D., of UC San Diego studies relationships among people, oceans, coastal ecosystems, and climate in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. She explains how Hurricane Maria shifted her research from identifying theoretical vulnerabilities to… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41490.mp4) ## [The Rescue: Centering Autistic Voices in Film](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41175) _2026-07-25 · Science (Video)_ Authentic autism representation begins with listening to autistic people and including them in stories about their lives. Seth Bakke, producer, writer and director of The Rescue, explains how his autistic cousin Aaron and a poem by autistic typer Peter Tran inspired the film. Bakke describes working with Aaron on screen, consulting the Tran family and adapting the set to support his needs.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41175.mp4) ## [Trust and Support in the Future of American Science and Biomedical Innovation with Fred Ramsdell](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41113) _2026-07-24 · Science (Video)_ Scientific progress depends on curiosity, investment and the freedom to take risks. Nobel Laureate and UC San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell traces his path from community college to biotechnology and a discovery that reshaped understanding of immune regulation. He explains how decades of publicly funded research made that breakthrough possible and why failed experiments are essential steps toward… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41113.mp4) ## [Janelle Iglesias on Art Identity and Collaboration](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41254) _2026-07-11 · Education Channel (Video)_ Art can connect personal history, community, and social change. Janelle Iglesias, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at UC San Diego, traces her path from a multicultural childhood in Queens to anthropology, ceramics, sculpture, and public art. She explains how objects in her family home sparked an interest in material culture, and how a reconciliation program in South Africa changed her view of… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41254.mp4) ## [Returning to the Moon](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41597) _2026-07-10 · Science (Video)_ With the success of Artemis II, NASA is preparing for humanity’s return to the Moon through the ambitious Artemis Project. In this lecture, Professor Neil Farber explores the future Artemis missions, the spacecraft and technologies designed to support them, and the challenges NASA faces in sending astronauts back to the lunar surface. Building on the legacy of the Apollo program, Artemis… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41597.mp4) ## [Early Roles of SYNGAP1 in Neurodevelopment: Insights from a Top Autism Risk Gene](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41174) _2026-07-05 · Science (Video)_ Human brain organoids help researchers study neurodevelopmental disorders that are difficult to examine directly in developing brain tissue. Giorgia Quadrato, USC, uses cortical organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells to examine SYNGAP1, an autism risk gene associated in the transcript with intellectual disability, epilepsy, and global developmental delay. Quadrato describes how… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41174.mp4) ## [From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction Semiotic Skill and the Authority of AI Chatbots](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41542) _2026-07-03 · Science (Video)_ As chatbots trained on Large Language Models become more sophisticated, their responses can sometimes seem uncanny, as if they come from a source that is mysterious, inexplicable, or even divine. Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, examines what happens when people treat artificial intelligence as a kind of “metahuman.” He explains how this reflects a broader human… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41542.mp4) ## [How Machine Learning Improves Algorithms with Ellen Vitercik](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41179) _2026-06-28 · Science (Video)_ Hard optimization problems often look impossible through worst-case analysis, but real-world problems can contain structure that helps algorithms work faster. Ellen Vitercik, Ph.D., of Stanford University explains how machine learning can improve algorithm design for NP-hard optimization problems while preserving the formal guarantees that make solvers useful. She discusses beyond worst-case… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41179.mp4) ## [Heart Regeneration in Humans: Are We There Yet?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40853) _2026-06-26 · Science (Video)_ Heart regeneration faces two connected challenges: replacing lost muscle and keeping transplanted cells safe and accepted by the body. Charles Murry, M.D., Ph.D., of USC explains why the adult heart heals major cardiomyocyte loss with scar tissue rather than new muscle, leading to progressive heart failure. Murry describes how stem cell derived cardiomyocytes can be manufactured at scale,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40853.mp4) ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Wn8mXa9BvB6W) _2026-06-26 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Inflammatory Memory in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells as a Driver of Clonal Selection in Aging and Cancer](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41406) _2026-06-19 · Science (Video)_ Hematopoietic stem cells make blood across the lifespan, but they do not all behave the same way. Stephanie Xie, Ph.D., Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, examines how these rare cells self-renew, differentiate, and respond to inflammatory stress, asking whether differences in the stem cell pool help explain why aging affects people so differently. Xie identifies… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41406.mp4) ## [Extreme Events in California’s Changing Climate](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41412) _2026-05-22 · Education Channel (Video)_ How does global warming connect to the extreme weather people experience close to home? Drawing on the work of the Weather Extremes and Climate Impacts Analytics group, Sasha Gershunov of Scripps Institution of Oceanography outlines the accelerating warming trend, the role of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide, and the greenhouse effect, and how it relates to extreme weather. He also traces key… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41412.mp4) ## [Extended Studies: Lifelong Learning That Expands Opportunity](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41108) _2026-02-25 · Education Channel (Video)_ UC San Diego’s Division of Extended Studies broadens the university’s public impact by connecting campus expertise to the evolving needs of people and workplaces. Dean Hugo Villar, Ph.D., M.B.A., describes a mission centered on lifelong learning that helps individuals build skills, pursue new opportunities, and stay adaptable as work and technology change. He explains how the division develops… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41108.mp4) ## [Paola Capó-García: Poet Laureate on Humor Intimacy and Voice in Poetry](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41024) _2026-01-07 · Education Channel (Video)_ Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García explores how graduate study, mentorship, and workshops shape her writing and sense of voice. Capó-García describes building poems through experimentation, including physically cutting and rearranging pages, and links her work to family stories and identity. As… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41024.mp4) ## [Engineer Turned Restaurateur: Cris Liang’s Journey](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40974) _2025-11-29 · Education Channel (Video)_ Cris Liang, a UC San Diego alumnus trained in engineering, explains how a cross-border upbringing and family entrepreneurship guided his move from engineering to hospitality. He grew up between Mexico and the United States, spoke Cantonese and Spanish at home and in the community, and came to see food as a bridge that connects cultures and neighborhoods. His restaurants focus on community,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40974.mp4) ## [Dealing with Difficult People](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40599) _2025-11-15 · Education Channel (Video)_ If you feel like there's more rudeness in the world, you're not alone. According to John O'Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," there's a pandemic of incivility. O'Brien says we're seeing bad behavior everywhere, from the streets to the workplace to even the operating room. As part of our Osher Author Talk series, host Henry DeVries talks with O'Brien about the physical and mental… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40599.mp4) ## [Mobile Mental Health for Students: Triton CORE](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40955) _2025-10-31 · Education Channel (Video)_ Campus-based mental health response matters everywhere, providing timely help that prevents crises and keeps students thriving. At UC San Diego, Triton CORE’s mobile, trauma-informed clinicians meet students where they feel safest and connect them to least restrictive care. Series: "Education Channel" \[Health and Medicine\] \[Education\] \[Show ID: 40955\] [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40955.mp4) ## [The Great Philosophers: Augustine](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41056) _2025-10-25 · Education Channel (Video)_ Peter Bolland, professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College, explores the lasting influence of Augustine of Hippo. Born in North Africa in 354, Augustine—now known as Saint Augustine—is remembered as one of Christianity’s most important thinkers. He shaped core beliefs like the doctrine of original sin and wrote The City of God, a work meant to comfort Christians after Rome fell… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41056.mp4) ## [Panic!: Swoon](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40927) _2025-10-18 · Film and Television (Video)_ Artist and filmmaker Tom Kalin joins moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his 1992 film Swoon. Kalin discusses the historical background of the film (the famous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case), how he reimagined the case through the lens of queer desire, and how he conducted archival research into the central figures of the murder. Kalin also discusses how… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40927.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: Facing the Falls](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40926) _2025-10-11 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film producer Liz Yale Marsh and mustang wrangler West Taylor join moderator and co-producer Wendy Eley Jackson to discuss their work on the documentary Facing the Falls, which follows disability rights advocate Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan and her twelve-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. They explore how Yar Khan’s muscle disease provided a unique challenge to navigating the Grand Canyon, as… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40926.mp4) ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eazJDZfD3hsE) _2025-10-11 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40925) _2025-10-04 · Film and Television (Video)_ Filmmakers Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov join moderator Sasha Razor (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to discuss their film Captain Volkonogov Escaped. Merkulova and Chupov share how they work as a film making team, how they researched the period of Stalinist purges in the 1930s, and how they sought to make the period of the film feel contemporary. They go on to discuss their experience working… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40925.mp4) ## [CWC Global: Japanese Paper Films](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40924) _2025-09-27 · Film and Television (Video)_ Eric Faden (Bucknell University) discusses his work on the Japanese Paper Film Project, a project that has been preserving paper films made in Japan in the 1930s. Koto player Yoko Reikano Kimura and cellist Hikaru Tamaki (Duo Yumeno) joins Faden and moderator Alex Lilburn (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to talk about how the preservation work was carried out and their experiences presenting the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40924.mp4) ## [CWC Global: From Ground Zero](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40923) _2025-09-20 · Film and Television (Video)_ Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) and Elisabeth Weber (German and Slavic Studies, UCSB) join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies, UCSB) to discuss the film project From Ground Zero, an anthology of films made by Palestinian filmmakers since the beginning of the war in Gaza. They discuss how the films present a unique vision of Gaza, showing a vibrant society dealing… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40923.mp4) ## [The History of Food: The Universalization of Regional Food Practices](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40966) _2025-09-17 · Education Channel (Video)_ Stanley Chodorow, Emeritus Professor of History at UC San Diego, traces the evolution of food preservation, preparation, and production from ancient times to the modern era. He explores early methods such as drying, salting, and ice cellars, advances like iceboxes, refrigeration, and flash freezing, and innovations in cooking technology from open fires to gas and electric stoves. Chodorow examines… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40966.mp4) ## [Panic!: The Sound of Fury](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40919) _2025-09-13 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film historian Rebecca Prime joins moderator Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of the classic Hollywood film The Sound of Fury. Prime outlines the film’s production history and how its political and social commentary was shaped by its director, Cy Endfield, who would go on to be blacklisted due to his association with the Communist Party. They further discuss Endfield’s… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40919.mp4) ## [The Exploration of Space Asteroids: The Fossils of the Universe](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40964) _2025-09-06 · Education Channel (Video)_ Asteroids, often called “fossils of the solar system,” are remnants from its formation that offer clues about planetary origins and the potential beginnings of life. Dr. Neil Farber, Solar System Ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains that some, known as near-Earth objects, pose impact risks—though large, dangerous collisions are rare—and NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40964.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: American Homeboy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40921) _2025-09-06 · Film and Television (Video)_ Documentary subject and Chicano activist Jerry Ramirez joins moderator Clint Terrell (English, UCSB) for a discussion of the documentary film American Homeboy. They discuss Ramirez’s involvement with the film, his relationship to his Chicano identity, and how his experience being incarcerated fueled his activism, particularly in relation to Chicano issues. Ramirez and Terrrell reflect on how the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40921.mp4) ## [Panic!: Hedwig and the Angry Inch](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40922) _2025-08-23 · Film and Television (Video)_ Over 20 years since its release, Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains as relevant as ever to the politics of the day. A child of division, Hedwig refuses to be caught between categories, instead evading gender description and embracing herself as lovingly as one can. Writer/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell joins moderator Patrice Petro, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, to discuss a… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40922.mp4) ## [Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40920) _2025-08-16 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film curators Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld join moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of their program “Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation.” The program juxtaposes five films that about anonymity and labor, from silent films that show the invisible labor of housemaids and film editors to films that highlight the erased labor of decolonial struggle. This program is… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40920.mp4) ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/utnpizy29HPA) _2025-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Panic!: CBS and the 1950s Blacklist](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40918) _2025-08-09 · Film and Television (Video)_ Carol Stabile (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) joins moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of “CBS and the 1950s Blacklist,” a program that included an episode of the television sitcom The Goldbergs and William N. Robson’s radio broadcast titled “Open Letter on Race Hatred.” They discuss the history of anti-communist activism in the U.S. and how CBS capitulated to the FBI and its… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40918.mp4)