Hi AoIR! Courtesy of Culture Digitally, I've just open-accessed the audio lectures for the first unit of my undergraduate "Media, Technology & Culture" course at UMass. They're formatted as podcasts and take on the obligatory question for most such courses, "How new are 'new media?'" They feature guest appearances from some great historians and sociologists and I hope some of you may find them useful as assigned "readings" for your own classes. http://culturedigitally.org/2016/05/media-technology-culture-open-source-aud... If you listen and/or make use of them I hope you'll also take the time to provide feedback, as a big motivation on my part for posting these is to make them better and to involve more voices in the conversations that happen in my own classroom. Many Thanks, Josh -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://wideaperture.net/?view=book "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon