New Books in Communications

Elizabeth Andrews Bond, "The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2021)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in...

Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we build the AI-powered digital economy, how far do we want to go? Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control ...

Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Bucar is the Director of Sacred Writes, Professor of Religion, and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University. Bucar is an expert in ...

Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Digital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. A Linguisti...

Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the...

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda campaigns, incitement of...

Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, works of botany underwent a radical change in the English book trade. A genre that was onc...

Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Nobody Wants to Talk About It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations (Incognito, 2020), Michael Sidney Fosber...

Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corp...

Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Setting goals for the new year? Learning a language? Going for a run? Delivering food? Picking packages off a warehouse shelf for delivery? There’s ...

Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listen...

Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’ll save the Moby Dick puns for the episode itself, but suffice it to say that sinister game developers are on a whale hunt. This episode, origina...

Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than...

Reality TV

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Olivia Stowell speaks with Saronik about Reality TV. In the episode she talks about the genesis of the genre in Candi...

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

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a fever pitch, many social scientists a...

Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn much about a media and political culture by examining when it panics, and who it panics about. And we’ve always panicked about video g...

Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Johanna Drucker provides the ...

Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Adam Nocek, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technolo...

Paul Naylor, "From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State" (James Currey, 2021)

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast...

Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021) provides...

Rebecca Weeks, "History by HBO: Televising the American Past" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American hi...

Podcasting Academic Research: A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the potential of podcasts to disseminate research based insights? How can a podcast function as a networking and pedagogical tool? And what is...

Twitter, Intellectual Discourse, and Humility

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of How To Be Wrong, I speak with George Styles, a biochemist and author of the book Contemplation. George is also what we describe t...

On Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion"

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is the role of the press in a democracy? For nearly a century, scholars, media critics, and politicians have debated this question—in a large p...

Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” usi...

M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice. It was popularized with the rise of Rap and Hip-Hop, as well as ambient music scenes, ...

On Online Churches

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Tim Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion. His Ph.D. (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churche...

86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Stevens joins Elizabeth and John to discuss Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Her fanta...

Ellis Jones, "DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the 1970s, there has been a rich, global lineage of broadly guitar-based music scenes which have enacted a political critique of the commercial ...

The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed: The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It was billed as “the biggest event in the history of the terminally online.” A debate: socialism vs. capitalism. On your left side, the esteemed ...

Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does o...

Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan, "Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities" (Routledge, 2022)

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assis...

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life m...

Jacqueline N. Parke, "The Podcast Handbook: Create It, Market It, Make It Great" (McFarland, 2022)

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jacqueline N. Parke's book The Podcast Handbook: Create It, Market It, Make It Great (McFarland, 2022) is a comprehensive overview of the burgeonin...

Hsin-I Cheng, "Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship" (Lexington, 2021)

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship (Lexingto...

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick's book Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores a fascinating, yet virtu...

Disintermediation

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark McGurl talks about disintermediation, a key term for internet commerce, and his new book about fiction in the age of digital self-publication. Th...

Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, p...

Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) ...

Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trevor Boffone's book TikTok Cultures in the United States (Routledge, 2022) examines the role of TikTok in US popular culture, paying close attenti...

Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Samuel Ulbricht about his book Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). Despite the increasing number ...

Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Samuel Ulbricht about his book Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). Despite the increasing number ...

Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire...

A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018 (N+1 Books, 2018) collects the best of A. S. Hamrah’s film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookf...

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era (Southern Illinois UP, 2021), editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work o...

Teletherapy

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Zeavin talks about teletherapy, from Freud’s letters to suicide hotlines to therapy apps. If therapy is always mediated, teletherapy is any f...

Greg Hoffman, "Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike" (Twelve, 2022)

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Greg Hoffman about his new book Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike (Twelve, 2022). For this week’...

Whitney Trettien, "Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Whitney Trettien whose book Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork was published through the University of Minnes...

Whitney Trettien, "Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Whitney Trettien whose book Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork was published through the University of Minnes...

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Le...

Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their so...

Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV (Intellect, 2022) are food, television and politics. ...

Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous termi...

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

22 Jun 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 edit contributions that ...

Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren, "Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News" (Princeton UP, 2022)

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News (Princeton UP, 2022) offers a new view of U.S. social movement history across th...

Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Plan S: the open access initiative that changed the face of global research.  Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells's book Plan S for Shock: Science. S...

Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States (Ohio State Press, 2022), Sara Austin traces the evolution of mo...

David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram were first introduced to the public, their mission was simple: they were designed to help people become...

Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford UP, 2022) investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—...

John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutt...

Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Pol...

Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision (Abrams Press, 2022) is the first biography of critically acclaimed then critically...

Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly...

Andie Tucher, "Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History" (Columbia UP, 2022)

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Long before the current preoccupation with “fake news,” American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. To...

Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are living in an era of unprecedented access to popular culture: contemporary digital infrastructure provides anyone with an internet connection ac...

Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello media fans - The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster, for TV, digital and radio. Think BBC and CBC and NPR.  Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital...

Reighan Gillam, "Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into th...

Allison Hahn, "Media Culture in Nomadic Communities" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Media Culture in Nomadic Communities (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), author Allison Hahn examines the ways that new communications technolog...

Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops in 1875, when the last free Comanches entered...

Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember ...

Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Jo Mackiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University and editor of the Journal of...

Ryan Watson, "Radical Documentary and Global Crises: Militant Evidence in the Digital Age" (Indiana UP, 2021)

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by ...

English-Language Publishing in Asian Universities and Colleges

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hear from Professor Chris Gerteis, director of the International Publishing Initiative at Tokyo University. Avi and Chris have a fascinating discussi...

Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle fo...

Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [u...

Joshua Neves, "Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy" (Duke UP, 2020)

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Neves’ Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press, 2020) examines the interplay of ...

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It was the Golden Age of Radio and powerful men were making millions in advertising dollars reaching thousands of listeners every day. When television...

Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago (U Illinois Press, 2010) is the remarkable story of a remarkable man. Richard S...

Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press, 2022), Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by...

Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022...

On Blogging Religion

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Giulia Evolvi is the author of Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe, out now from Routledge. Evolvi is a Re...

Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese...

Anamik Saha, "Race, Culture and Media" (Sage, 2021)

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Race, Culture and Media (Sage, 2021), Anamik Saha provides an account of the role that media plays in both circulating and shaping ideas about ra...

Roslyn Petelin, "How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing" (Routledge, 2021)

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. We talk about her book How Writi...

Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher’s insights, ...

Elena Esposito, "Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a devi...

Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about h...

Donald A. Barclay, "Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Po...

Ratan Kumar Roy, "Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences" (Routledge, 2020)

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ratan Kumar Roy's book Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences (Routledge, 2020) examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Banglade...

Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment" (Duke UP, 2022)

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke UP, 2022) begins by calling into question a fundamental principle of orthodox phe...

Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's techno...

Dylan Mulvin, "Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In" (MIT Press, 2021)

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the hidden histories of how the modern world functions? In Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021), Dylan Mulvin, Ass...

Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections...

Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor, "A Guide to Academic Podcasting" (Amplify Podcast Network, 2022)

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Guide to Academic Podcasting is a practical guidebook introducing scholars to the multiverse of podcasting. It’s an open-source publication made ...

Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical medi...

Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print cultur...

Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide we...

On Teaching Religion on YouTube

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew M. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion at Boston University and founder of the educational YouTube channel, Religion for ...

Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer...

Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark o...