In this episode we introduce the main question we seek to answer in this show: What is a Medium? We pose a hypothesis and explain why it is fruitful to analyze media in this way.
Many shows talk about doomscrolling. It seems that nobody likes the addiction they have to their phone. But most investigations focus only on the content, while we go beyond. We analyze the algorithms as a medium.
News broadcasts love to show the voice of the people. Whether the topic is trains being delayed or covid-19, the opinion of the people matters. But what happens when you start to analyze the Vox Pop as a medium?
At our university the coffee is the worst. Objectively it's bad, but we love it! Why? In this episode we investigate the paradoxical relation between our experience and review.
As we have seen in earlier episodes, there is a fundamental disagreement between Jason and Zep. While Jason seeks to find the truth, Zep believes that this is just one of many narratives. This episode crystallizes this opposition through an investigation into documentaries.
The podcast is, of course, also a medium,. To conclude our media investigations we analyze the medium in which our investigation has taken place, the podcast itself.