S8E7: Social Media with Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, and Siobhan Speiran

Guests Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, and Siobhan Speiran join Claudia to discuss case studies as wide ranging as Japanese animal cafes, Spanish bull fighting, and Costa Rican sanctuaries to unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. Together they probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back. 

Date Recorded: 11 April 2025 

Featured: 

• Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema by Amanda Weiss
• Critical Animal and Media Studies by Núria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman
• Media Theories and the Crossroads of Critical Animal and Media Studies by Debra Merskin
• Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere by Elisa García Mingo and Silvia Díaz Fernández
• A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries by Siobhan Sperian
• The Emotional politics of images: moral shock, explicit violence and strategic visual communication in the animal liberation movement by Laura Fernández
• Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade byRosemary-Claire Collard
• Big Cat Reporting Tool by Four Paws
• About Looking by John Berger
• The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands.
• Social Media Cruelty Coalition
• Seoul Zebra Escape
• Stop Animals Selfie Campaign 
• The Civet Project
• Global Federation of Sanctuaries
• Earthlings
• Fugitive cows in Quebec captured after months on the run
• Tiger King
• Chimp Crazy

A.P.P.L.E
Animals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.

iROAR Network
iROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals.

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & Commun

Pollination Project
The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need.

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