New Books in Communications
Episodes
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the ...
Elizaveta Friesem, "Media Is Us: Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk ab...
Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For nine years, Stephen Colbert’s persona “Colbert”?—a Republican superhero and parody of conservative political pundits--informed audiences o...
Ashley Hinck, "Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World" (LSU Press, 2019)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World (Louisiana State Press, 2019) examines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-base...
Emily Mokros, "The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority" (U Washington Press, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and cen...
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bys...
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismic...
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of tr...
Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson, "Reclaiming Popular Documentary" (Indiana UP, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades, thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this fact, doc...
David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 (UP of Mississippi, 2021) enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entir...
Cyrus R. K. Patell, "Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star War...
Carol Padden, “Sign Language Linguistics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sign Language Linguistics is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned researcher of sign languages Carol Padden, t...
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How have Black women lead a digital revolution? In Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021), Catherine Knight Steele, an assistant professor of co...
Will Mari, "The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960" (U Missouri Press, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Pre...
The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz, Editors-in-Chief of Soil Biology and Biochemistry. We talk about the people who all scientist...
Hannah Zeavin, "The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy" (MIT Press, 2021)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews author Hannah Zeavin about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Among ...
Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Ends of Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of wha...
Teaching College Students to Communicate: A Discussion with Elena Cotos
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Elena Cotos, Director of the Center for Communication Excellence at the Graduate College (Iowa State University) and also...
Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't wan...
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and res...
Denis McQuail, “Perspectives on Mass Communication” (Open Agenda, 2021)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Perspectives on Mass Communication is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Denis McQuail (1935-2017), who was Emeritus ...
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are tethered to our devices all day, every day, leaving data trails of our searches, posts, clicks, and communications. Meanwhile, governments and ...
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders. Screaming audiences with sleepless nights or sweat-drenched nightmares in the...
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the impact of Internet technology communication in China? How do Chinese people view "privacy" differently from the western perspective? How i...
Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she knew exactly what it would take to advance. But soon she realized that even...
Mary F. Scudder, "Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary (Molly) Scudder, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, has a new book that focuses on an incredibly timely issue: how do...
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (New Star Books, 2021), Stephen Lee Naish guides us ...
Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts, "Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new collection, Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television (Syracuse University Press, 2021) by Amanda Konkle and Charl...
Martin Jay, “Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay,...
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – ...
Covering Donald Trump: A Conversation with Allen Salkin
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like to cover Donald Trump? In this episode, veteran American journalist Allen Salkin explains. For over three decades, Salkin has writt...
The Small Literary Press: An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Home Press is a tiny local publishing house and press in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Uri Yoeli and Nana Ariel, a couple, established it in their apartment in 201...
Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsro...
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel...
Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Cultural Impact of RuPaul's Drag Race: Why are we all Gagging? (Intellect, 2021) Cameron Crookston has compiled chapters from scholars in th...
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Ameri...
William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing (Utah State UP, 2021), William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the gr...
Corinna Zeltsman, "Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for p...
Ann Latham, "The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Ann Latham about her new book The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerme...
Christopher M. Elias, "Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If information is power, then so too is gossip. In Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (U Chicago P...
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiq...
Matthew Flisfeder, "Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most fundamental aspects of modern life is that much of it is lived on and through social media. We create profiles, post pictures, update ...
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic w...
Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and pre...
Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of a long and successful legal career, Morris Ernst established himself as one of Americas foremost civil libertarians. Yet his advoca...
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neig...
Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cryptoreality is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Inst...
Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Sword, writing champion, brings us into the word gym. Or maybe kitchen. Either way, The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose (U Chicago Press,...
John Lovett, "The Politics of Herding Cats: When Congressional Leaders Fail" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In considering how legislation moves forward in the American political system, we often think about elected representatives sitting in committee heari...
Peter B. Kaufman, "The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge" (Seven Stories Press, 2021)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Peter Kaufman, Program Manager in Strategic Initiatives and Resource Development at MIT Open Learning and author of Th...
Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Alex Csiszar, professor in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University and author of The Scientific Jour...
Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, "Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in lang...
Jennifer Pan, "Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for Its Rulers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Development economists have been doing intensive research in recent years on conditional cash transfer programs as a tool to help get people out of po...
Jim Detert, "Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work" (HBR, 2021)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Retaining Freedom After Speech Today I talked to Jim Detert about his book Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work (Harvard Busin...
Nick Couldry, “The Value of Voice” (Open Agenda, 2021)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Value of Voice is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social T...
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural ...
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the...
Scott Krzych, "Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria" (Oxford UP, 2021)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Krzych's book Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria (Oxford University Press, 2021) offers the firs...
James Leo Cahill and Luca Caminati, "Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice" (Routledge, 2020)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (Routledge, 202...
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote that “the silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of ...
Gordon Glenister, "Influencer Marketing Strategy: How to Crate Successful Influencer Marketing" (Kogan-Page, 2021)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked Gordon Glenister about his new book Influencer Marketing Strategy: How to Crate Successful Influencer Marketing (Kogan-Page, 2021) G...
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Psychology of Bilingualism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York ...
Knitting and Politics in the Age of Trump: A Discussion with Carrie Battan
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are talking to a New Yorker staff writer Carrie Battan about her piece from March of this year "How Politics Tested Ravelry and the Craftin...
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Frank Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roam...
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is China's new vision for regulating cyberspace? What does its new Data Security Law intend to do? Is China's Personal Information Protection Law...
Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2021), Ken Ellingwood takes readers back to t...
Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of soci...
David Bellos, “Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized” (Open Agenda, 2021)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Princeton University Prof...
William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central plac...
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking ...
Ellen Seiter and Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stefania Marghitu's Teen TV (Routledge, 2021)explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ...
Joshua P. Darr et al., "Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The connection between local news and political polarization is a hot topic that scholars in political science, journalism, and other fields have expl...
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town p...
Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the pa...
Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, "No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media" (Vernon Press, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and diss...
Amanda Ripley, "High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the greatest crisis facing America today? — Racism and hate crimes, exploding government debt, climate change, or the mess at the border? I...
Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Faith Kearns unpacks science communication as so much more than the “...
Nikki Usher, "News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism" (Columbia UP, 2021)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The future of local news and the connection between local news and democracy are two of the hottest topics in philanthropy, education, and media these...
Richard Toye et al,, "The Churchill Myths" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is not a book about Sir Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himse...
Stephen M. Norris, "Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe" (Indiana UP, 2020)
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed m...
Wendy K. Z. Anderson, "Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet (U Mississippi Press, 2021), author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white ...
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019) Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s tau...
John B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of the book? In Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021) John Thompson, Professor of Sociology at the Univ...
Aim Sinpeng, "Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why did hundreds of thousands of Thai people rise up in opposition to elected governments in 2006, 2008 and 2013-14? What were the ideological underpi...
Brooke Rollins, "The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Brooke Rollins, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University. We talk about lots of Greeks and about one Frenchman ...
Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth, "Level Up Your Essays: How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades" (NewSouth, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I've had 18 years of formal education - why is writing so hard? Today's guests Dr Katherine Firth explains the disease's cure. The book Level Up Y...
Jacob L. Nelson, "Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public" (Oxford UP, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry — including profound financial instability and public distrust — is for journal...
Pete Davis, "Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie—and losing so much ...
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist Robert Bartlett spoke with the New Books in Political Science podcast about two of his recent publications, which take on translati...
Iain McGee, "Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing" (Equinox, 2018)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Iain McGee, a PhD student in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (UK), where he also teac...
Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (Brookings, 2021)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years Americans have experienced a range of assaults upon the truth. In The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Insti...
The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun M...
Andrea Wenzel, "Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when trust in the media is low and "news deserts" are increasing across the United States, engaged journalism offers a framework for connec...
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to...
S. Livingstone and A. Blum-Ross, "Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, I talked with Professor Sonia Livingstone about her book Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shap...
Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For most of the eighteenth century, the format, size, and price of the earliest novels meant that they would have been sold and bought alongside Prot...
Cara A. Finnegan, "Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks. In this episode, Dr. Lee M. Pierce (they & she) interviews Dr. Cara A. Finnegan about...
Julie Golia, "Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age" (Oxford UP, 2021)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the news...
Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, "Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access" (MIT Press, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, editors of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Glob...
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to “upend a norm,” which is the translation of the title of Sergio Rigoletto’s recent study “Upended norms: essays on gender...