Alicia Zuckerman on emotion without audio

An unusual angle this time: How do we convey emotion **without** audio? We're so used to the full range of words and emotion in our audio life. Yet there is a big difference between wow and WOW! Music is primarily conveying an audio message. We love audio.

But not everybody hears audio the same way. We at CCRMA have an amazing collection of experience about how to convey audio emotion. What can you do without the audio? What are you trying to convey and what would you like to convey to people who are hard of hearing? How might you do that?

Alicia Zuckerman, has been here at Stanford on a Knight Journalism Fellowship, where she gets to think about new ways to think about journalism.  Come see and hear what she has learned.  See for example her Medium post "Let's make podcasts more accessible."

Who: Alicia Zuckerman on
What: Emotion without audio
When: Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: Can we make audio more accessible for all?

Note: There will be on-screen captions for the audience.

No matter how good or bad your hearing is, come to CCRMA and we’ll have a discussion about how we can make the acoustic world better for all.

- Malcolm

Biography
Alicia Zuckerman is a 2023 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and has been exploring ways to make podcasts accessible for people who are d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing . Prior to that, she was editorial director/executive editor of on-demand audio at WLRN, the NPR member station in Miami, winner of the 2021 national Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in large market radio. In 2020, she was honored as Editor of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists Florida chapter.

She co-created the podcasts Tallahassee Takeover, looking at how Florida’s state government increasingly limits local decision-making, and Detention by Design about migration by boat from Haiti and Cuba and the origins of immigration detention policy. She also reported and produced The Sally J. Freedman Reality Tour starring Judy Blume and The Judy Blume Radio Hour. Alicia was previously an arts reporter at WNYC and New York magazine.