New York, New York - A Brief History of the Broadway Musical: New York’s Broadway theater district has a world-renowned reputation as the center of the American theater world, particularly musical theater. Kate Elizabeth Orgera discusses how New York City created and shaped musical theater, and how Broadway has influenced New York City in turn.Talk…

NYC Mom Chat: What is it like to be a mom in New York City? Three graduate students discuss various aspects of being moms to young children in NYC.Talk to us on Instagram and Twitter @MASCLab!Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!Episode produced and edited by: Jacqueline CofieldMusic: Grandma'…

Big Apple Educators: What's unique about being a teacher in New York City? This episode investigates this question through the stories of three New York City educators with backgrounds in environmental justice education, art education, deaf education, international education, and adult education.Talk to us on Instagram and Twitter @MASCLab!Check ou…

The Rat Takeover: When was the last time you saw Rats? Do you like them or are you like most of us? Terrified of them? And where were they? In the subway, in the rubbish on the streets or did you see them scurry across the road? This episode chronicles the ecosystem and history of New York City's rat population. Though they cause a lot of damage to…

NYC Open Streets And Public Space: Streets are often seen as a place of transit, exclusively for the person on the move, but streets also have a history as spaces for community, as public spaces where people come together rather than just pass by one another. This podcast episode shares a brief history of the New York City Open Streets program and …

Unique New York: This season, the MASC Lab’s Podcasts series focuses on themes connected to place, in this case New York City, and the many interconnected realities of life in the big apple. Our process is inquiry based and we chose this season’s focus by starting with the question: What is unique or strange about NYC? Our collaborative podcast ser…

Sound capsule 2020: Loops and samples, presence and collective memories, creativity and remixing multiplicities in music educationIn what ways can sound snippets, traces, and edges that hold intimate and every day personal and collective feelings and memories of our lives during this pandemic spark creativity and reflection? How can this practice m…

MASCLab members Xiaoyi Gabby Zhou, Joe Riina-Ferrie, and Lívia Barros Cruz chat with Catherine Cheng Stahl, a Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Curriculum and Teaching of Columbia University, Teachers College. She discusses how she used multimodal research methods to explore how Gen Z youth navigate their identities on digital spaces.Talk to us …

Episode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitim…

In this episode, Katie Newhouse introduces our series on sounds of the pandemic. She stitches together short sound collages submitted to our group project by Gabby Zhou, Kyle Oliver, and Shoshana Gottesman.Talk to us on Twitter @MASCLab!Check out masclab.org/podcast for the episode transcript and to learn more!Produced and edited by Katie Newhouse.…

Introducing: Season 4 of the MASCLab podcast!MASCLab alum Azsaneé Truss chats with a few members of the #JustLit Project team: Katie Harlan-Eller, Noelle Mapes, and Jenice Mateo-Toledo, and the founder of the project, Professor Detra Price-Dennis. She discusses how they’ve gone about curating multimodal sets of resources for K-12 teachers, specific…

What if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.Sonali sits down with Lou Klarevas, political scientist and author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from …

In 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #T…

What is media literacy? And more importantly, why does it matter? MASCLab member Azsaneé Truss has a conversation with TC Professor and MASCLab co-director Ioana Literat about media literacy.Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Ahram ParkEditing: Azsaneé TrussMusic: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The IllstrumentalistYou can find more media literacy resource…

In Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and …

In Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers…

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Episode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandC…

(Re)Search for Solutions is a podcast where we cover research about pressing issues in our world today. This season of (Re)Search for Solutions is a limited series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence. Subscribe to the (Re)Search for Solutions podcast feed on Apple Pod…

MASCLab’s Podfest is A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Makeing held each year at Teachers College, Columbia University. The event is hosted in the state-of-the-art Smith Learning Theater to provide an interactive and immersive environment for students, researchers, practitioners and community members to come together and share in the experience…

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The "Craftivism" episode features an interview with Dr. Sandra Markus about her dissertation research on craftivist subcultures, both on and offline. The 2017 Women's March features prominently in the discussion as does the British Suffragette movement as a historical precedent. As mentioned in this episode, you can see Janie Terrero's work here: h…

On October 29, 2018, Steve Goodman, founding director of the Educational Video Center, came to Teachers College to discuss his new book “It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching.” The Educational Video Center is a social justice youth arts organization that builds the capacity of young people in transfer schoo…

This is the first "crossover" episode in which we're featuring MASCLab member Kyle Oliver's ethnographic research on digital storytelling in faith and faith-adjacent settings.Learn more about digital storytelling at storycenter.org.References and further reading:Ackermann E. K. (2007) Experiences of artifacts: People’s appropriations / objects’ “af…

Join us Friday, May 3, 5-8 pm in the Smith Learning Theater at Teachers College for Podfest 2019: A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Making.Our music in this trailer is Mai Tai Beach by Little Glass Men (CC BY 4.0 via FreeMusicArchive.org).You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at masclab.org/podfest…

A wide-ranging conversation on the phenomenon of firearm use and gun reform legislation, recommendations on policy and areas in need of further research with MASCLab Director and Professor of Technology and Education, Lalitha Vasudevan, Louis Klarevas - an expert on the study of mass shootings and homeland security, and author of the recently publi…

Teachers College, the first and largest graduate school of education in the U.S., serves students in the interrelated fields of education, health, and psychology. It does so through a number of degree programs, centers, labs, and institutes spread out across a large, city-block campus in New York City. Its partnerships have national and global reac…

We talk with Matthew Camp, Director of Government Relations and a PhD student at Teachers College, Columbia University, about the college's #TakeActionTuesday initiative and related civic engagement activities going on across campus. We recorded this conversation on November 5, 2018, one day before the closely watched 2018 midterm elections. Matt's…

MASCLab's Joe Riina-Ferrie interviews our colleague Janell Drone about her research into African American one-room school facilities and her experience of school desegregation in rural West Texas. A transcript of this episode is coming soon.This video includes photos from Dr. Drone's archival research:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6Kf9HFfqcOur …

MASCLab's Kyle Oliver interviews Sarah Lefton, Jewish educator and founder of BimBam, about the art and science of teaching old wisdom on new media.Sarah and Kyle talk about Christian readings of Hebrew texts:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oktwIkRLZQRough edit of Sarah and Kyle's full conversation:https://soundcloud.com/kylematthewoliver/sarah-le…

Join us Friday, December 15 at the launch party for our new podcast. From 5 to 7 pm, the Smith Learning Theater will come alive with first-person stories of real-world learning. Let our hosts transport you to the research sites of Teachers College students, faculty, and alums.You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at h…

MASCLab's Ioana Literat discusses exciting new research with Caroline DeVoe, Elizabeth Herbert-Wasson, and Kyle Oliver. Her project examines the political participation that took place on youth-oriented online communities for creative expression in the days following the 2016 U. S. presidential election.You can read a transcript of this episode at …

MASCLab's Lalitha Vasudevan sits down with Ana Dopazo, Program Director of Choices, Alternative to Detention. They discuss student-centered learning, multimodal research, and alternative sites of education.You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep1-scriptSpecial thanks to EdLab at Teachers College, who provided suppleme…

A behind-the-scenes clip from our early conversations about the story that would become Episode 1.Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at http://masclab.orgעל ידי MASCLab