New Books in Communications
Episodes
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On February 29, 1940, African American actor Hattie McDaniel became the first person of color, and the first Black woman, to win an Academy Award. The...
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c...
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is vid...
Connor Jackson, "Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising" (Routledge, 2024)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising (Routledge, 2024) explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-dep...
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (Dey Street Books, 2025), Gabe Henry presents a brief and humorous 500-...
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted our Bizarre Times (2025, University of Kansas Press) journalist Ross Benes examin...
Cosmic Visions in Sound
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we...
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Rout...
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) brea...
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Lauren Gawne, about cross-cultural variation in gesture use. In this episode, Brynn and Lauren discuss a paper that Laur...
Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review (Routledge, 2024) e...
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (U California Press, ...
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginning...
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experie...
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity Private Experiences in Public Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2025) examines the development of the confessional subject ...
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Jeremy Braddock, Associate Professor of Literatures in English and Coordinator of the Media Studies Init...
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do nations actively publicize previously overlooked disputes? And why does this domestic mobilization sometimes fail to result in aggressive polic...
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscap...
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of all interstate conflicts across the last two centuries, two-thirds have ended through negotiated agreement. Wartime diplomacy is thus commonly seen...
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumor...
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2023) offers a new look ...
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Megan Hunt joins us to talk about her recent book, Southern By the Grace of God, which was published i...
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series, a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (...
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Rapley’s Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is a sociopolitical history of ...
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the TV Milestones Series, Bridget Kies explores Murder, She Wrote (Wayne State University Press, 2025). Embark on a journey through the ...
Making Radio History
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University. She is the author of The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the Ameri...
Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke UP, 2020), Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequ...
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor sits down with Marc Owen Jones, associate professor at Northwestern University in Qata...
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) by Dr. Adam Kotsko explores the beloved science fiction...
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—...
Writing Against the System
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off Season 9: TECH by talking with our very own Aarthi Vadde, the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Hosts and ...
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of o...
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstream...
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor ...
Joe Pierre, "False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford UP, 2025)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microchips in our vaccines, stolen elections, climate change denial--in the face of a bewildering range of misbeliefs that stem from mistrust of infor...
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen’s Power Plait to JoJo Siwa’s outsize bows, become such a significant part of how g...
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. Melissa Vise, offers a new account of how th...
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were t...
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Amy McHugh, an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney. Dr McHugh...
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the...
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army...
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of d...
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fi...
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (Oxford UP, 2024), Nadira Khatun explores the contentious ...
Sarah Stang, et al., "Monstrosity in Games and Play" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Stang, editor, joins Jana Byars to talk about Monstrosity in Games and Play (Amsterdam UP, 2024). Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklor...
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i...
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has a long history of publishers operating from abroad, producing books and periodicals for a Russian-speaking audience. One notable example is...
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making. Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the ...
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary represen...
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her res...
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed, ...
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In...
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future ain't what it used to be. Is nostalgia revitalizing or killing 21st-century culture? The concept of nostalgia has seeped into almost all as...
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does social media shape perceptions of global cultural trends? On Chinese platforms like WeChat, the concept of Nordic Style (北欧风) has been ...
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our book is: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker (Mariner Books, 2024) by Dr. Amy Reading, which is a lively and intimate bi...
Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the third podcast of this series, “Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds,” host Dr. Karyne Messina, psychologist, psychoanalyst and...
Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is a collection of Peter Boxall's essays over tw...
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Americans increasingly depend upon their phones, computers, and internet resources, their actions are less private than they believe. Data is routi...
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lec...
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pernicious social impact of social media platforms is a matter of global concern, as this digital technology has become a breeding ground for the ...
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique appr...
Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, "Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between s...
Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling spo...
Seung-hoon Jeong, "Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2023)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, Seung-hoon Jeong’s global frame highlights two con...
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World (Verso, 2024) by Marijiam Did asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead ...
Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery...
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm? With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the ...
Understanding Disinformation
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we discern what is factual from what isn’t? In this episode, Dr. Colleen Sinclair joins us to discuss the functions of disinformation, and to...
Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 HZ
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk to Dallas Taylor, host of the most popular sound podcast on the planet, Twenty Thousand Hertz. I like to think our show sounds pretty g...
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples and Things host, Lee Vinsel, is joined by guest host and Peoples & Things producer, Joe Forte, Media Projects Manager with Virginia Tech Publi...
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on...
Multilingual Crisis Communication
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan Universi...
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you walk into David Cecchetto‘s classroom, you might find people wearing audio devices that simulate hearing with a thousand-foot wide head. Or ...
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search for your symptoms and then to evaluate the informat...
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, ser...
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in S...
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Rutgers UP, 2024), Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black ...
Eleanor Baker, "Book Curses" (Bodleian Library, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wanted to protect your books from forgetful borrowers, merciless page-folders or outright thieves? Perhaps you have even wished harm on ...
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material.” I was first int...
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item...
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appr...
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The early twentieth century was a particularly tumultuous time in Chinese history, complete with new conflicts, new technologies, and — as Portray...
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the firs...
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool tha...
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Cambridge UP, 2024) tells a story about the relationship between secular law...
Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French b...
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
29 Dec 2024
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...
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s med...
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump (Spring, 2024) is Randy Fertel’s third book, his second on improvisation. Creating s...
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Pro...
Awfully Viral
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s summer and we are busy working on episodes for our fourth season. We’ve also rebuilt our website–check out the the fabulous new phantompod....
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers. Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game...
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are gr...
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Data has become a defining issue of current times. Our everyday lives are shaped by the data that is produced about us (and by us) through digital tec...
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, we’re joined by Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder for a thought-provoking discussion on the state of fre...
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Sterne is one of the most influential scholars working on sound and listening. His 2003 book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound R...
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You’re in our world now.” This bold tagline led Sony’s 1999 ad blitz for EverQuest (Boss Fight Books, 2024), the year’s most anticipated ...
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024) offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current st...
Reem Hilu, "The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Intimate Life of Computers (U Minnesota Press, 2024) shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geare...
Voices Part 2: The Sound of My Voice
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our three-part series “Voices,” we feature an exciting new voice in the world of sound studies, Stacey Copeland. In part one l...