When this podcast launched over TWO YEARS AGO, we said the goal was to shed light on all of the types of research and scholarship that go on throughout the communication and information sciences discipline. And over these two years, we have learned so much about media effects, the role of sports in our lives, how research can actually help answer big public health problems, and how social media can influence interpersonal communication. Today's guest is going to shake that up a bit but in a tremendous way. Today, we catch up with Dr. Dmitrios Latsis, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. Dmitrios hails from Greece, and he tells us stories about what his family thinks he does compared to what he actually does, and what he actually does is pretty amazing. Dmitrios had big dreams of being a news broadcaster and actually wrote out scripts and recorded them (but they have gotten lost in the netherworld in Greece), and then he came to the United States for college and got hooked on finding digital and audio presentations that needed to be archived for historical and cultural reasons. Can you imagine how many recordings might be out there that we'd never know about if it weren't for scholars like Dmitrios to track it down and archive it. When you think about radio broadcasts for decades ago or speeches that politicians gave decades ago, we have access to all of that because of people like Dmitrios.  As he describes it in today's episode, there is a next frontier of discoverability and an ocean of content. 
Don't miss today's episode as we learn more about Dr. Dmitrios Latsis. 
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