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Virginia Tech Publishing is committed to pushing the boundaries of academic publishing and scholarly communication beyond traditional forms and formats, especially toward those that promise to integrate new media with teaching, learning, and research. Additionally, the Athenaeum Media team, which produces all media projects for Virginia Tech Publishing, is committed to facilitating the transdisciplinary communication of academic ideas to non-academic audiences. Toward this end, we are cultivating partnerships with members of the Virginia Tech community as they experiment with many forms of spoken-word and visual story-telling, including live-streams, audiobooks, and the popular podcasting format.
To support this work, Virginia Tech Publishing and the University Libraries have engaged a combination of subscripted and home grown tools, resources, and expertise to produce and distribute our diverse and dynamic catalog of programs, and to make these discoverable within the Libraries' collection.
This initiative is still emerging and evolving. Projects are in development all the time. So, please check back frequently to see what is new.
Please browse all of our published media projects below or find a specific podcast in the Quick Links sidebar to the right.
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Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower is an audiobook memoir produced by the media projects team at Virginia Tech Publishing, and narrated by the author, Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt. The recordings are available commercially alongside other formats of the book wherever you may find books, ebooks, and audiobooks. The memoir has been published and distributed by She Writes Press in 2024.
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Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology. Peoples & Things is produced by Virginia Tech Publishing and is distributed by the New Books Network, the leading platform for academic podcasting across the world.
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Vox Humanities is a podcast from the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech. Our focus is on the advancement of human centered knowledge, pursued in conversation with experts whose work enhances public understanding of a complex world to which humanistic inquiry has never been more important. Throughout this series, we return to the theme of "Tech for Humanity," a university-wide initiative guiding research, curriculum, and engagement across many disciplines at Virginia Tech. The host, Sylvester Johnson, is the director of the Center for Humanities and leads the Tech for Humanity initiative. He is also the Associate Vice-Provost for Public Interest Technology at Virginia Tech.
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Standpoints is a podcast for living and loving blackness, in which hosts Andrea Baldwin, Trichia Cadette, and Jenaya Amore welcome guests who explore black feminist experiences within a scholarly, pedagogical, and community based praxis of care.
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Published By is a pilot podcast in which host Joe Forte interviews authors and editors published by Virginia Tech Publishing about their work, their audience, and the experience of partnering with Virginia Tech Publishing.
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Stacks on Stacks is the weekly radio broadcast from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The show airs on Tuesdays from 3:30pm until 5pm on 90.7 FM WUVT. Hosts Kira Dietz and Joe Forte play an eclectic mix of music, and invite guests from the Libraries and across the Virginia Tech community to talk about some of the work (and the play), in which they are involved. This is a collection of those conversations.
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MFAngle is an archived podcast that was hosted by creative writing MFA students for MFA applicants, students, lovers of literature, and more. Our voices are from women of color, which makes us attuned to the ways in which our marginalized identities shape our experiences in academia. We are all first or second years in our MFA, so we got fresh takes. We are here to pass on the chisme, the good and the bad, starting from the application process to workshop horror stories.
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A podcast about building an Institute for Empathic Immersive Narrative. Made possible by a American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grant, this podcast follows the efforts of its hosts, and the principle investigators for the grant, Tyechia Thompson, Eric Lyon, and Wallace Lages as they work with an Advisory Board of experts, each with a distinct perspective on story, technology, and empathy.
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Across the globe, practitioners are working to craft a more just and thriving world. Meanwhile, researchers are engaging in work fundamentally changing how we understand social dynamics. Unfortunately, there is not as much connection between these two spheres as there could be. Practitioners are too often working from incomplete information and faulty theories of change. The Social Science For Good Podcast is a new podcast series focused on connecting change agents and leaders to social science theories and research that might be relevant to their work in an accessible manner.
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In the TechnoSlipstream Podcast we take deep dives into research, books, news, and articles with a focus on exploring the complex and powerful technologies being developed and released into the world with sometimes beneficial but often unintended consequences. We discuss what you need to know about science, technology, and society.
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Gen(der) Ed is a podcast that hosts conversations exploring the intersection of gender and other identities. We cover topics on leadership, equity, wellbeing, and healthy relationships.The Women's Center recognizes that our current staff represents a limited perspective and set of lived experiences on gendered issues. With this podcast, we strive to highlight and promote the diverse backgrounds, accomplishments, and needs of the women in our community. Our conversations will explore the intersection of gender and other identities and cover topics on leadership, equity, wellbeing, and healthy relationships. Join us every other week for these important conversations.
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