New Books in Communications

Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Vose (St. Thomas University) talks about his new monograph, The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for t...

Seriously Funny: Politics and Comedy

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when politics becomes comedy and the jester becomes the king? Guests Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker Avi Steinberg...

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Juan Llamas-Rodriguez discusses the book The Digital...

Paul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new v...

Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis ...

Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, autom...

Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s appro...

Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its ...

Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than dri...

Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur an...

Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Kn...

John Allen Paulos, "Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More" (Prometheus, 2022)

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos, was first published in 1988. In it the author brilliantly highlighted many of the sorry truths those of us who teach...

Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a...

Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast ar...

Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be ...

Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical f...

Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have...

Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media" (Dutton, 2020)

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Founding Fathers to Fake News (Dutton, 2020), Ha...

Finding Yourself in Difficult Conversations?

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why do so many difficult conversations happen over a school break, a holiday meal, or at an important family event? How can we better prepare ourselve...

Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how the...

Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narrative...

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous cat...

Victoria Hoyle, "The Remaking of Archival Values" (Routledge, 2022)

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Remaking of Archival Values by Victoria Hoyle (Routledge, October 2022) posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that rec...

Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the history and historiography of women Latinists i...

Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Florence Madenga discusses the book Left to Our Own ...

Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autumn Womack is a professor of English and of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her new book, The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthe...

Robert Houghton, "Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact" (de Gruyter, 2022)

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable...

Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comedy is so frequently the topic of cultural dialogue, but it is rarely taken seriously as an object of study. Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing ...

Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Wandering Games (MIT Press, 2022), Melissa Kagen analyzes wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism...

Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the journalism culture in Vietnam? What role does Sweden play in the transformation of Vietnamese journalism? How has Swedish media aid fulfil...

Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) examines various forms of Russian online ant...

Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but ...

J. Logan Smilges, "Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Mi...

Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frans Camphuijsen explored records from the law courts of York, Paris, and Utrecht and used them as a base for Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Eu...

Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the c...

Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, "Fandom, the Next Generation" (U Iowa Press, 2022)

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Fandom, the Next Generation (University of Iowa Press, 2022), Bridget Kies and Megan Connor have edited the first collection to offer a close s...

Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside...

Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many of today’s digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools ...

Robert J. Savage, "Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990" (Oxford UP, 2022)

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robert J. Savage is a professor in the Boston College History Department and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies progra...

Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia: A Conversation with Annie Rauwerda

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020, during the nadir of the pandemic, Annie Rauwerda began posting strange, humorous, and obscure Wikipedia entries on social media. She dubbed h...

Publishing Activism & Alternative Forms of Collaborative Scholarship

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scholarship is frequently imagined as a solitary pursuit, done mostly in archives or with books. This CHI Salon will feature scholars pursuing alterna...

Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily pr...

Alan Shuback, "Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Alan Shuback about his book Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf (UP of Kentucky, 2019) A love of the slapsti...

Janaki Srinivasan, "The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India" (MIT Press, 2022)

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India (MIT Press, 2022), written by Janaki Srinivasan and publi...

University Presses Today: A Conversation with Charles Watkinson

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The NBN would not exist but for the work of university presses. So every year we celebrate the efforts of our colleagues at UPs during "University Pre...

Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different ...

Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do transnational Filipino families remain connected through mobile media technologies? In (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age ...

Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Crowley's book Representations of Poverty in Videogames (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) argues that digital games address contemporary, middle-cla...

100th Episode: Public Humanities

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Saronik Bosu talks about humanities work engaging diverse communities and publics, misconceptions about what the ‘public’ in public humanities mig...

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish’s edited book Food In...

Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the ...

Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by Dr. Andrew Fiss tel...

Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from t...

Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2022) provides the first comprehensive history of film experiments at the Bauhaus, the...

Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ashley Sweetman works in cyber security for a London-based global bank and holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College Lon...

Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, ...

Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast features Brian A. Wong, discussing his new book, The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That is Changing the World (Publ...

Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults' assumptions, they are not simply "addicted" to their screens, oblivious t...

Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" (MIT Press, 2022)

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss a book that will be appealing to a general audience and which helps to bridge the gap of the story of communication in the...

Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrei Nae's book Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Routledge, 2021) investigates the narrativity of some of t...

Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two decades after Lewis and Lamb Chop last graced television with their presence, Lewis' daughter Mallory and author Nat Segaloff have set the record ...

Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrei Nae's book Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Routledge, 2021) investigates the narrativity of some of t...

On Social Media and Hinduism

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on th...

Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be f...

Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, our host Mariela Morales Suárez discusses the book Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of C...

Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing...

Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (Amsterdam UP, 2022), Orli Fridman traces the emergence of memory acti...

Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lo...

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster...

Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find...

Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ramzi Fawaz, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that weaves together the more contemporary history of feminis...

Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new norma...

Want to Talk to People about Books? Here's How....

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rebel Book Club is an online and in-person book club. Each month, over 1,000 people get together to discuss a non-fiction book, occasionally with the...

Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular...

Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games (Lit Verlag, 2022). In light...

Thomas Baudinette, "Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo" (U Michigan Press, 2021)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city's gay male community. Typically understood ...

Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eran Kaplan's book Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen (Rutgers UP, 2020) is a wide-ranging history of over seven deca...

Neil Levy, "Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People" (Oxford UP, 2021)

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Misinformation, disinformation, fake news, alternative facts: we are awash in a vast sea of epistemically questionable, not to mention false, testimon...

Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode from the Vault, we hear from historian Eric Hobsbawm, a frequent visitor at the New York Institute for the Humanities. His talk, Liter...

Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Roquet is an MIT associate professor in media studies and Japan studies; his earlier work includes Ambient Media. It was his recent mind-bendin...

Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senio...

Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (Routledge, 2022) examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make ...

Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King's Representing Religion in Film (Bloomsbury, 2021) is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between...

The Two Russias

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1980s, Hollywood reflected the real world thaw in the Cold War by depicting the idea of two Russias: the cold bureaucratic state run by gr...

Elizabeth Ellcessor, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" (NYU Press, 2022)

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor presents a much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives in In Case of Emergency: How Technol...

Standpoint Theory

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses....

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designe...

NBN Classic: Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. As you may know, university pr...

Social Media and Political Participation in the Philippines

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are all familiar with the spread of disinformation on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But just when we thought we’...

The Future of Brainwashing: A Discussion with Daniel Pick

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick discuss brainwashing, thought control and group think. In the case of totalitarian ...

Digital Lethargy

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Tung-Hui Hu talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Digital Lethargy, as part of our High Theory in STEM series. As a mo...

Catherine Lester, "Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed...

Sarah Huffman et al., "Preparing to Publish" (Iowa State University Digital Press, 2022)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Sarah Huffman (Assistant Director of the Center for Communication Excellence) and Elena Cotos (Associate Professor of Appl...

Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. ...

Echo

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Amit Pinchevski tells us about echoes. An echo is a sonic reflection of an emission bouncing back to its origin, which...

Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy" (Rupa Publications, 2019)

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Sinha works at the intersection law, technology and society, and studies the impact of digital technologies on socio-political processes and st...

Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's e...

Michael O. Johnston, "Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest" (Lexington Books, 2022)

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest (Lexington Books, 2022) explores an annual interstate tug-of-war between two small...

Felicia Wu Song, "Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're being formed by our devices. Unpacking the soft tyranny of the digital age, Felicia Wu Song combines insights from psychology, neuroscience, soc...

Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, ...