Office Hours: Julia Ticona talks sociology and superpowers

In the latest episode of 'Office Hours,' a Penn Today podcast, Assistant Professor of Communication Julia Ticona explains her research about the gig economy and chitchats about cooking, campus, and superpowers.

Julia Ticona smiles with her hands in her pockets
Julia Ticona, assistant professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication. 

Welcome to the “office hours” of Julia Ticona, assistant professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication.

Here, in the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Office Hours” podcast series, which explores the minds of the University’s academic talents in a more unbuttoned setting outside of the lecture hall, Ticona unpacks the “sociological imagination,” explains how people are adapting to new technologies and gig economies born from them, and what superpower she’d embrace if given the choice. 

1:12: The “sociological imagination” and what Ticona studies

3:50: The “actual story” of how the cell phone kickstarted her research

13:55: Smartphones as a utility

23:20: Chitchat about roller rinks, who she’d invite to an ideal dinner, and more

34:22: Which superpower she’d choose between reading minds, being invisible, or flying

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