{"id":60129,"date":"2026-03-23T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60129"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:47:14","slug":"mad-about-media-podcast-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60129","title":{"rendered":"Mad About Media &#8211; Podcast Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mad About Media - Podcast Teaser\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Fmad-about-media-podcast-teaser%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What does media really do \u2013 and who decides?<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to a teaser from Near FM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/author\/mad-about-media\/\">latest podcast series<\/a> in which students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhulaigh.ie\/\">FET College Dh\u00falaigh<\/a> take on the big questions &#8211; interviewing journalists, academics, and experts about the forces shaping the media we consume every day and finding out how to navigate the world in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>From online influence to misinformation, online gambling to platform ownership, this series is about curiosity, critical thinking and making media.<\/p>\n<p>This series is co-funded by Ireland\u2019s media regulator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnam.ie\/\">Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n<\/a> and supported by your television licence fee.<\/p>\n<p>Music credits: Demented Nightmare by Darren Curtis and Madness of Linda by Rafael Krux<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-60130 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-162x110.png 162w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-90x61.png 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-370x251.png 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo-653x442.png 653w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WP-logo.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does media really do \u2013 and who decides? Take a listen to a teaser from Near FM&#8217;s latest podcast series in which students from FET College Dh\u00falaigh take on the big questions &#8211; interviewing journalists, academics, and experts about the forces shaping the media we consume every day and finding out how to navigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":60130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[28158,23019,28176,25964,29329,17154,2443],"class_list":["post-60129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sound-and-vission","tag-city-of-dublin-fet-college","tag-coimisiun-na-mean","tag-dhulaigh","tag-media-literacy","tag-media-ownership","tag-nearcast","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60134,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129\/revisions\/60134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}