Paul Levinson on Media, Writing, Science Fiction, and Freedom

About this original series

interviews about the impact and evolution of media, the writerly life, and more; occasional lectures on the First Amendment, media coverage of Presidential campaigns, and other issues crucial to our democracy; short movies made from my science fiction stories - from Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and author of 15 books

Category
Learning
# Episodes
12 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of Paul Levinson on Media, Writing, Science Fiction, and Freedom

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  Occupy Wall Street - Fall 2011
  
  This video consists of a 24-min panel discussion on October 22, 2011 and 4-min interview on November 15, 2011. Among the points I make on panel: why the demand for specific goals from the Occupy Movement is old-media thinking - what's the headline? what's the lead story? - and fails to take into account the capacity for complex, multi-issue discussion with social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, and blip.tv. I also discuss the Occupy Movement as a resurgence of direct democra...
  - Release date
    
    Dec 15, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    27:03
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  A Conversation with Dominic Chianese
  
  Paul Levinson and David Lavery talk with Dominic Chianese about his role as Uncle Junior on The Sopranos, Johnny Ola in Godfather II, and his life as an actor. Transcript: http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2010/01/conversation-with-dominic-chianese.html
  - Release date
    
    Apr 21, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    01:22:34
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  Paul Levinson talks about Cellphones to Harold C...
  
  Paul Levinson talks about Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium to Harold Channer on his "Conversations," ; public access Manhattan Neighborhood Network, September 24, 2004 more about Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium
  - Release date
    
    Mar 21, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    58:48
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  Paul Levinson talks about Evolution of Media to ...
  
  Paul Levinson talks about The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution to Harold Channer on his "Conversations" on the public access Manhattan Neighborhood Network, January 5, 1998. More about The Soft Edge
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    Mar 20, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    59:17
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  Paul Levinson talks about Digital McLuhan to Har...
  
  Harold Channer interviews Paul Levinson about Digital McLuhan for Channer's Conversations on the public access cable television Manhattan Neighborhood Network June 21, 1999. more about Digital McLuhan
  - Release date
    
    Mar 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    57:34
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  Marshall McLuhan, North Africa, and Social Media
  
  My February 23, 2011 lecture at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY: "North Africa Shows the Medium is Still the Message: McLuhan at 100." Relevant books: New New Media and Digital McLuhan
  - Release date
    
    Mar 4, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    42:58
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  Guest Panelist on "The 1st Question" - Second Li...
  
  My avatar Paul Levinson Freenote competes on Pooky Amsterdam's science quiz show "The 1st Question" in Second Life!
  - Release date
    
    Apr 30, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    57:08
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  The Flouting of the First Amendment
  
  Paul Levinson's June 2005 Keynote Address to the Media Ecology Association conference at Fordham University in New York City, about the origins and history of the First Amendment in the United States, and its current trampling by the Federal Communications Commission. John Hollwitz, VP for Academic Affairs at Fordham, introduces Dr. Levinson, who discusses Thomas Jefferson vs. John Adams on the First Amendment, the "clear and present danger" decision of 1919 which opened the door to the curren...
  - Release date
    
    Apr 27, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    01:05:36
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  The Chronology Protection Case
  
  Jay Kensinger's 2002 low-budget 38-minute movie of my 1995 science fiction-mystery novelette (published in Analog Magazine), "The Chronology Protection Case". This is the complete, original, uncut movie. also: The Chronology Protection Case radio play (free audio)and: the original: The Chronology Protection Case novelette more details about Dr. Phil D'Amato , hero of The Chronology Protection Case
  - Release date
    
    Apr 24, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    43:28
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  Talking about Media, Philosophy, and The Plot to...
  
  60-minute Meet the Author interview by Adele Ward in Second Life - in which I talk about the media, discuss many of my non-fiction books, and read from my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates
  - Release date
    
    Dec 12, 2007
  - Runtime
    
    53:30