New Books in Communications

Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Engstrom is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her latest book, Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’...

Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" (New English Review, 2019)

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In his book about enormous sea changes brought about by digital technology, Michael Rectenwald begins and ends his Google Archipelago: The Digital Gul...

Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information. It’s an id...

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Philli...

L. Benjamin Rolsky, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left" (Columbia UP, 2019)

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As someone who grew up watching All in the Family and Sanford and Son, I’ve long been familiar with Norman Lear and his work. What I didn’t know, ...

Caitlin Frances Bruce, "Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter" (Temple UP, 2019)

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Public art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but al...

Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place (NYU Press, 2019), Germaine R. Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions tha...

Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism” (SUNY Press, 2019)

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days. There’s an entire body of r...

Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...

Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City. Jacobs is also the founder and editor of the acclaimed A...

Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities" (MIT Press, 2019)

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Three years after the withdrawal of the Open Internet Order – then-President Barack Obama’s attempt at codifying network neutrality by prohibiting...

Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In her new books, Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?: A Modern Guide to Parenting Digital Teens, Derived from Lessons of the Past (Amsterdam Univers...

K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. How...

Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves" (Routledge, 2017)

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks an...

Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds" (PublicAffairs, 2019)

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us. In this episode wit...

Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why and how is fiction important to women? In Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives (Oxford University Press, 2020), Helen Taylor, Emeritus...

Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Keri Holt is the author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830, published by the University of Georgia Pres...

Jodie Jackson, “You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change The World” (Unbound, 2019)

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The old mantra “if it bleeds it leads” is alive and well in today’s media landscape. In fact, social media and up-to-the-second news have made i...

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas has written a beautiful, captivating, and thoughtful book about the idea of our imaginations, especially our cultural imaginati...

Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: Interpretations in Political Science and Political Television" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Dyson has provided a fascinating and engaging analysis of political science, the discipline, and political television in his new book, Imagini...

Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" (Stanford UP, 2019)

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Narges Bajoghli’s gripping new book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford UP, 2019) presents a riveting ethnography of...

Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience" (OneWorld, 2019)

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism? This is the question raised in the exciting new book Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the America...

Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing" (Stanford Law Books, 2017)

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "ad...

H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right" (Peter Lang, 2019)

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...

Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stanley Fish is a well-known scholar regarding the First Amendment and free speech. In his latest book, The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Cam...

Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

21 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

International and transnational historiography has given us vivid glimpses of the development and impact of cybernetics on a national scale in such co...

Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" (Stanford UP, 2019)

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In her book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press, 2019), Narges Bajoghli takes an inside look at what ...

Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (...

Timothy J. Shaffer, "A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and its Discontents" (Routledge, 2019)

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics. While there are plenty of examples of uncivil behavior, there’s far less a...

Joshua Sperber, "Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace" (Lexington, 2019)

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace (Lexington Books, 2019), Joshua Sperber analyzes on...

Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Media World of ISIS" (Indiana UP, 2019)

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized...

Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In her book, Putin Kitsch in America (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), Alison Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, bot...

Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" (UNC Press, 2019)

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and In...

Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does Friends mean to us now? In Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Simone Knox, an Associate Professor in the Departmen...

Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Philip M. Napoli has been thinking about algorithmic news and social media feed curation for quite some time, as he acknowledges in his new book, Soci...

R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. What was once confined to the pag...

Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, 2016)

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains...

Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva Perón" (U New Mexico Press, 2016)

04 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Donna Guy’s 2016 book Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva Perón (University of New Mexico Press) is a history of Peron...

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, i...

Roland Elliot Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda" (FUEL, 2019)

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the arc of Soviet history, few government programs were as tenacious as the anti-religious campaign, which systematically set out to debunk organiz...

Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democracy" (The Experiment, 2017)

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind? Probably someone like Hitler or another bombastic leader, right? Patricia Roberts-Mill...

David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" (All Points Books, 2019)

18 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy. David McCraw spends his days making sure that journalists can do ...

Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...

Quassim Cassam, "Conspiracy Theories" (Polity, 2019)

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

9/11 was an inside job. The Holocaust is a myth promoted to serve Jewish interests. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a false flag op...

Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of? Anne Nelson has an answer: the Council for National Policy. Nelson is Adjunct Associa...

Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polity, 2019)

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In his short book, Theory of the Hashtag (Polity, 2019), Andreas Bernard traces the origins and career of the hashtag. Following the history of the # ...

Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900" (Open Book, 2018)

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain and the roles ...

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude t...

Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Noah Cohan, Lecturer in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and the author of We Average Unbeautifu...

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but...

Leah Price, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading" (Basic Books, 2019)

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s talk about books! How, when, and what do you like to read? Have you ever thought about the history of books and reading? How about shape, size...

Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How have memes changed politics? In Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts(Routledge, 2019), Anastasia Denisova, a lectu...

Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. By 1932 the Atlanta World had be...

Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016" (U Kansas Press, 2019)

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tammy Vigil’s new book, Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016 (University Press o...

Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys" (Oxford UP, 2019)

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019) looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers o...

Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019)

26 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Suzanne Scott’s new book Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (NYU Press, 2019) provides an overview of the converg...

Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Magazines" (U Massachusetts Press 2018)

26 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"What I feel most moved to write, that is banned―it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the otherway I cannot." Herman Melville wrote these words a...

Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for publ...

Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World" (Penn State UP, 2018)

20 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--inte...

Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of New Books in Buddhist Studies, I am joined by Daniel Veidlinger to discuss his exciting new book From Indra’s Net to Internet: Co...

Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)

12 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How does thinking about gender and work help to rethink cultural hierarchies? In Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Fi...

Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work" (Routledge, 2019)

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries? In Women, Inequality and Media Work (Routledge, 2019), Dr Anne...

David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thought, Settings and Issues" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

29 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

David Resnick combines two of his passions, movies and education, in his book, Representing Education In Film: How Hollywood Portrays Educational Thou...

Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The American press is older than the United States itself. Ever since its catalytic role in the American Revolution, journalism has evolved to meet ch...

David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception“ (Sage, 2019)

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is the social role of data? In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Sage, 2019), David Beer, a professor of sociology at the Universi...

Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

26 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

American society is deeply divided at this moment—not just on values and opinions but on basic perceptions of reality. In their latest book, One Nat...

Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco" (Oxford UP, 2018)

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printi...

Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom...

Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--Dr. Anne Cheng (...

Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727" (Manchester UP, 2019)

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

People value loyalty. We prize it in our dogs. We loyally carry loyalty cards to claim discounts at our favourite stores and coffee shops. We follow s...

Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Convinced that sexual immorality and unstable gender norms were endangering national recovery after World War One, German lawmakers drafted a constitu...

Heidi Tworek, "News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945" (Harvard UP, 2019)

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In our current moment marred by media monopolies and disinformation campaigns, it is easy to get caught up in the dizzying temporality of the news cyc...

Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dr. Sharon Kirsch (she/hers)--Associate Prof. of Engli...

Sara K. Eskridge, "Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties" (U Missouri Press, 2019)

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence. But in their original historical, social, and commercial ...

Derek Gaunt, "Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader" (New Degree Press, 2019)

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo—...

Jeremy Black, "The English Press: A History" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this succinct and brilliantly written one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, premier historian Jeremy Black, the most prolif...

Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era" (U Massachusetts Press, 2017)

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--interviews Dr. C...

Aaron Rock-Singer, "Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Discussions of Middle East politics will inevitably bring Islamism to the table and with it, questions of how Islam in its current iterations came to ...

Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in US Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Neoliberal policies have been a primary feature of American political economy for decades. In Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the ...

Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, "#Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

05 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the new book #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019), Abigail De Kosnik and Keith Feldman b...

Kerim Yasar, "Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945" (Columbia UP, 2018)

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Columbia UP, 2018) explores the soundscapes of modernity ...

Martin Collins, "A Telephone for the World: Motorola, Iridium, and the Making of a Global Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to take for granted that one can pick up a cell phone and call someone on the other side of the planet. But, until very recently, this had...

Derrick Spires, "The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With talk about birthright citizenship and border walls running rampant in Trump’s America, there are many scholars reaching back to antebellum Amer...

Nicholas Baer et al. "Unwatchable" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. Yet what does it mean to proclaim somet...

Peter Daou, "Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace" (Melville House, 2019)

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Democratic political adviser Peter Daou has long toggled between the world of presidential campaigns and online activism. He worked for the presidenti...

Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans" (Yale UP, 2019)

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs. But Michael A. Cohen and his co-author...

Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)

29 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be famous on the Internet? How do people become Internet celebrities, and what can that celebrity be used to do? Dr. Crystal Abid...

Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shortly after its introduction, photography transformed the ways Americans made political arguments using visual images. In the mid-19th century, phot...

Leslie Hahner, "To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early 20th Century" (Michigan State UP, 2017)

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they)--Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dr. Leslie Ha...

Rósa Magnúsdóttir, "Enemy Number One: The United States of American in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959" (Oxford UP, 2019)

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Enemy Number One: The United States of American in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 (Oxford University Press, 2019), Dr. Rósa Magnúsdót...

Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Racquel J. Gates’ new book, Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2018), interrogates understandings of Afric...

Dave Dillon, "Blueprint for Success in College and Career" (Rebus Community Press, 2018)

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dave Dillon of Grossmont College-...

Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future" (Brookings, 2019)

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to get sidetracked while writing a book. But imagine being interrupted by the President of the United States. That happened to Tom Wheeler, ...

Controversial Ideas and “No Platforming” with Jeff McMahan

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff McMahan is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research focuses broadly on moral and political philosophy, ...

Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television" (Routledge, 2015)

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Dr. Michael Mario Albrecht (h...

Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more de...

Richa Kaul Padte, "Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography" (Penguin Viking, 2018)

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles. Author Richa Kaul Padte approac...

Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)

13 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the wit...

Suk-Young Kim, "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance" (Stanford UP, 2018)

13 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is hard to ignore. This “animal ...

Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Reece Peck's Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class (Cambridge University Press, 2019) offers a unique argument of why the Fox News Chan...