Communication

Oliver O’Donovan describes the distinctive character of publicity in modernity, which drowns us in a flood of ever-changing representations that do not serve the common good. (37 minutes)

Oliver O’Donovan describes the nature of publicity as the force that mediates our communication with one another, creating common interests and then rapidly subsuming them into newer ones.(Lecture 3 of 3; 57 minutes)

Media theorist John Durham Peters wants us to reexamine the purposes of media and how fundamental media are. (59 minutes)

John Durham Peters discusses the history of the idea of communication, saying that our hopes are too high when we believe that the solution to social discord is just better communication. (49 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Jeffrey Bilbro, Daniel McInerny, Joseph Minich, Carl Elliott, Nadya Williams, and Don W. King

D. C. Schindler draws on Plato to argue that in its very form, social media evidences a general contempt for logos — reason and language — which defines man. (26 minutes)

In this lecture, Felicia Wu Song explains how social media industrializes and monetizes our relationships, forming us in modes of relationships and identity that are detrimental to ourselves and to society. (41 minutes)

Critic Nicholas Carr talks about how technology-driven trends affect our cultural and personal lives. (56 minutes)

FROM VOL. 59 Todd Gitlin discusses the effects of media saturation on our mental and emotional lives. (14 minutes)

FROM VOL. 39 John L. Locke discusses the value of personal communication and how technology is displacing it. (12 minutes)

FROM VOL. 95 Eugene Peterson talks about how Jesus spent most of his time speaking normally and conversationally, and how the Spirit infused this normal speech. (14 minutes)

Adam McHugh and Susan Cain explain how an American culture that prizes gregariousness and "selling" oneself ends up marginalizing introverts and the gifts they have to offer, even in the Church. (36 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Hauerwas, Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, Jeffrey Bishop, Alan Jacobs, D. C. Schindler, and Marianne Wright

Oliver O’Donovan on how authority and language connect us with reality and thus sustain community

FEATURED GUESTS: Nigel Cameron, Joel James Shuman, Brian Volck, Russell Hittinger, Mark Noll, and Stephen Miller

FEATURED GUESTS: David Lyon, Christopher Wolfe, Patrick Fagan, Joseph Davis, Morris Berman, Frank Burch Brown, Robert K. Johnston, and Ralph C. Wood

FEATURED GUESTS: Christopher Clausen, Don Eberly, George Weigel, Luci Shaw, Steve Wilkens, David Harvey, John Durham Peters, and Masaaki Suzuki