Podcast: Control Shift
Cohosted by Joan Donovan & Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Debuting in spring 2025, CISI’s Control Shift podcast connects listeners with maverick frontline experts who work to equip communities with TALK (Timely, Accurate Local Knowledge). Episodes spotlight new projects that buck platform monopolization and champion collective independence.
Co-host Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Control Shift connects listeners with maverick frontline experts who work to equip communities with TALK.
Season 1
The future of journalism is unwritten
As the practice and sustainability of journalism degrades, what can DIY subcultures like punk teach us about democratizing participation in the media? Our hosts explore four futures for journalism that mobilize local knowledge networks: News unions, nonprofit news, new indie media, and next-wave democratized journalistic practices.
Six episodes will be released in spring 2025.
Joan Donovan
Joan Donovan is Co-Director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. Dr. Donovan's research analyzes internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns. She is the coauthor of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America with Emily Dreyfuss and Brian Friedberg.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and the American Philosophical Association newsletter Philosophy and the Black Experience.
Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
His public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.