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b'What is your relationship with media technologies? When we say things like \\u201cI love television,\\u201d \\u201cI hate the internet,\\u201d or \\u201cI can\\u2019t live without music, \\u201d we implicitly answer this question without explicitly asking it. In her new book, 20th Century Media and the American Psyche: A Strange Love (Routledge 2021), Dr. Charisse L\\u2019Pree (MIT SB \\u201903 CMS, SB \\u201903 Course 9) addresses the strange love that we have with communication technology \\u2013 specifically over the past 150 years \\u2013 and how these relationships with past mediums inform our relationships with newer technologies.\\n\\nIn this talk, Charisse L\\u2019Pree discusses the role of interdisciplinary research and how she has maneuvered a wide variety of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, critical, and applied, in order to answer life\\u2019s questions.\\n\\nAt Syracuse University, L\\u2019Pree teaches classes on communication and diversity to professional media students, specifically how do media affect our understanding of different social categories and how do the social categories of media producers affect the media with which we all engage. She has mentored over 50 McNair Scholars across disciplines at the University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University, and Syracuse University since 2008 and was awarded Teacher of the Year from the Newhouse graduating class of 2017.\\n\\nVideo and transcript:'