New Books in Communications
Episodes
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the ...
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language....
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf...
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every ...
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination...
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital...
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something ol...
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studi...
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a p...
Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidde...
Seth Kimmel, "The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth Kimmel explores the material history of librari...
Emotional Rescue
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power...
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b...
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Prof...
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it had...
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented ef...
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power ...
Isaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or c...
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin, i...
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises (Rutgers UP, 2023) interrogates the representation ...
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster suc...
Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shweta Kishore and Dr Kunal Ray’s Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2024) is a unique co...
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Brist...
Transnational Communicative Care
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor...
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy (Routledge, 2024) examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big da...
Leonard Cassuto, "Academic Writing as if Readers Matter" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a si...
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listener note: This interview contains discussions of suicide. Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave Ma...
Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of video game history, ther...
Caitlin Gerrity and Scott Lanning, "Conducting Original Research for Your Library" (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book he...
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering...
Amber Billey et al., "Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches" (ALA Editions, 2024)
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Filling a gap in the literature, Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (ALA Editions and Core, 2024) provides libraria...
Behind the Mic: How Danielle D’Orlando is Transforming Academic Audiobooks at Princeton UP
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Princeton University Press publishes some of the best books every year, racking up accolades and launching the careers of thousands of scholars. As an...
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmar...
Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, ...
Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
n this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek ...
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously u...
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously u...
Postscript: Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In June, a presidential debated ended the candidacy of incumbent President Joe Biden. On September 10th, Vice President Kamala Harris and Former Presi...
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most orig...
Michael Gavin, "Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies" (Stanford UP, 2022)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re...
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the c...
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game...
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone—billions of people worldwide now play video games. However, you may still find yo...
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender,...
Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly...
Mel Stanfill, "Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In their latest book, Fandom is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture (NYU Press, 2024), Mel Stafill highlights the importance of con...
Beth Driscoll, "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2024) Beth Driscoll, an Associate Professor...
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Internet...
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociologic...
Bessie N. Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop, "Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 20...
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing s...
Michele Santamaria and Nicole Pfannenstiel, "Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the Acrl Framework" (ACRL, 2024)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristi...
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship be...
Stephen Pinfield, "Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness" (Routledge, 2024)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Often assumed to be a self-evident good, Open Access has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices...
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Schuyler Bailar didn’t set out to be an activist, but his very public transition to the Harvard men’s swim team put him in the spotlight. His choi...
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediae...
Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat...
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ella Houston's book Advertising Disability (Routledge, 2024) invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubi...
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of at...
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of...
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-five years ago, The West Wing premiered to great acclaim. This book is a behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of the series,...
Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved...
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), G...
Monica Berger, "Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications" (ACRL, 2024)
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines ...
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising play...
Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections ...
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive history of the FTA, ...
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new boo...
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi...
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global...
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Bri...
Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and it...
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an a...
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an...
Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, R...
A Book Unbound
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their r...
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but wh...
Olga Gershenson, "New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next...
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (Headpress, 2024) by Heidi Honeycutt is the first book-length history of fema...
James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agr...
Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media. In contrast, conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and eve...
Mary Schreiber and Wendy K. Bartlett, "Curating Community Collections: A Holistic Approach to Diverse Collection Development" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A primary question for many librarians, directors, and board members is how to evaluate diversity in a collection on an ongoing basis. Curating Commu...
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also un...
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is...
Sandra Hirsh, "Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imag...
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinem...
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr...
Nimmagadda Bhargav, "Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India" (Routledge, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic...
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary quee...
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy...
Travis B. Williams et al., "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture" (Brill, 2023)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls in Anci...
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ances...
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While there has been considerable research on digital cultures in the Indian Subcontinent, video games have received scant attention so far. Yet, they...
Pandemic Perspectives 14: A Classical Approach to Improving Communication
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Christopher Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger ...
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Swapnil Rai’s book Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge UP, 2024) brilliantly navigates the intricate landscapes...
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing f...
Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ishita Tiwary’s book Video Culture in India: The Analog Era (Oxford UP, 2024) is an unprecedented attempt in foregrounding the diverse media hist...
Kim Nelson, "Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film (Rutgers UP, 2024) builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual c...
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics (U Arizona Press, 2024) by Dr. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo offers new understandings of contemporary graph...