COMM As You Are
COMM As You Are
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Graduate Program at the Department of Communication at University of Massachusetts Amherst presents: podcast about all things COMM
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Examines themes of media literacy, technology's impact on youth, and communication strategies with episodes discussing the implications of social media on adolescent identity and the role of digital communication in modern education.
COMM As You Are is a graduate-led podcast from the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst. Each episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at emerging scholarship – where theory meets personal experience, and big ideas take shape.
hosted and recorded by Val Paskar
jingle by @Bass King
In this episode of COMM As You Are, we sit down with Lizhen Zhao, a PhD candidate in Communication at UMass Amherst, to talk about her ethnographic research on e-commerce and platform economies in rural China. Drawing on fieldwork in her hometown in Gansu Province, including working inside a distribution center, Lizhen explores how digital platforms reshape labor, land, and everyday life. We discuss rural livestreaming and the commodification of agricultural labor, the material infrastructures that make platform convenience possible, and the environmental and human costs hidden behind logistics, surveillance, and “green” platform initiatives like Ant Forest.
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