A couple of months ago, I presented a critique of the concept of 'the' public sphere at the 2026 Digital Media Research Centre Summer School in Brisbane. Like the other talks in that segment of the Summer School programme, the team producing our DMRC podcast Read Them Sideways has now also published a recording of that talk for your listening pleasure, so here it is:
I think the podcast works fine by itself; since some of the presentation was fairly visual, though, if you'd like to flick through the slides while you listen I've embedded them below as well. And I'll present an updated version of the talk in the ZeMKI ComAI lecture series here in Bremen on Tuesday 7 April 2026, too; the recording of that talk should go up on the ZeMKI YouTube channel some time later.
Podcast versions of the other talks in the same Summer School segment are also online now, or coming up soon: here are Amanda Lotz and Gabriela Lunardi, and Patrik Wikström's talk should follow soon...
