New Books in Communications
Episodes
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tudor Networks of Power (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Ruth Ahnert & Dr. Sebastian Ahnert is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration be...
This is What Language Means
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Episode No.7 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. ...
Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about her new book Multilingualism and History (Cambridge UP, 2023). We often hear that our world 'is mo...
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationshi...
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibility of its boundaries. As the...
Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in U.S. Journalism” (SUNY Press, 2019)
14 Feb 2024
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...
Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusett...
Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque (Yale UP, 2018) is a cutting–edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic tha...
Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg, "Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds. The internet brings information to our fingertip...
Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population's A...
Robert Alpert et al., "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As I may be the target audience for Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies (Edinburgh UP, 2023), I really enjoyed interv...
Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) by Dr. Brydie Kosmina investigates the witch as a key ...
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Dr. Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing ho...
Lisa L. Phillips et al., "Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the nature of grassroots activism? How and why do individuals get involved or attempt to make change for themselves, others, or their own comm...
Ross S. Purves et al., "Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions Through Computational Text Analysis" (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and their su...
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For better or worse, democracy and epistemology are intertwined. For one thing, politics is partly a matter of gathering, assessing, and applying inf...
Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau, "Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Undercover investigators have been celebrated as critical conduits of political speech and essential protectors of transparency. They have also been d...
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant wo...
Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. I...
Judith Fathallah, "Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer" (Mediastudies Press, 2023)
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Fathallah's Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer (Mediastudies.Press, 2023) is the first long-form treatment of serial...
Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes, "Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring perspectives from educators, undergraduates, and archivists who are affiliated with community and institutional archives, the contributions ...
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema" (Duke UP, 2024)
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (Duke University Press, 2024), Bliss Cua Lim draws on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, ma...
The Communication You Need to Research, to Review, and to Publish Work with Societal Impact
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Wouter Lueks, faculty at the CISPA Helmhotz Center for Information Security. We talk about getting into the reviewer's m...
Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter ...
Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) unta...
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, s...
Thomas Baudinette, "Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Baudinette's Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the cont...
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Pres...
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation (Routledge, 2022), Kathryn Mathers interrogates the white...
Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, "Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication" (2022)
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication (2022) is a transformative guide to elevate your everyday conversations. Authored by Mudita ...
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert ...
Comics Journalism in Taiwan: The Reporter File
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Sherry Lee, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of the non-profit, independent media organization The...
Thomas DeGloma, "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of...
Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Ayelet Brinn offers a fascinating glimpse into the...
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and the...
Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
07 Jan 2024
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...
Maria Repnikova, “Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite its extraordinary diversity, life in the People’s Republic of China is all too often viewed mainly through the lens of politics, with dynami...
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerful...
Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese l...
Plot
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simpl...
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suspicious of what he called the spectator's "sticky" adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a h...
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmiss...
Denise Y. Ho, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“In Mao’s China, to curate revolution was to make it material.” Denise Y. Ho’s new book explores this premise in a masterful account of exhibi...
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press, 2016), Christine E. Evans reveals that Soviet television i...
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Communication at SUNY Geneseo--interviews Bryan McCann (he/his)--Associate Professor of Com...
Sukhmani Khorana, "Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency" (Bristol UP, 2023)
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sukhmani Khorana's book Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency (Bristol UP, 2023) unpacks how emotions and affect are key conc...
Jie Li, "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest episode of New Books in Chinese Studies! I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and today I will be talking today to Jie Li, about her...
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
George MacLeod's book Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War (U Nebraska Press, 2023) explor...
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back...
Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their te...
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are geographies of communication changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructure? What is ‘geomedia’ and ‘transmedia’? Wh...
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed...
Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes (Durvile, 2023) is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with c...
Emma Reay, "The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, Emma Reay's book The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the...
Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen...
David Craig, "Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped Save the World" (Applause Books, 2023)
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the e...
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What (and why) can and can't we say? What do empirical examples both at home and abroad tell us about how we should protect freedom of speech? How do ...
Really Communicating Real Impact Is Not Quite What You Think It Is
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Cristiano Matricardi, Senior Editor at Nature Communications. We talk about just how closely tied are the research and the...
Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laila Shereen Sakr's book Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Stanford UP, 2023) explores an alternative origin story of twent...
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipat...
Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm, "Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries" (ACRL, 2023)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy is not dead: Students care deeply about their privacy and the rights it safeguards. They need a way to articulate their concerns and guidance ...
Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores how comics function to make meanin...
Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. Playing the Middle A...
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril ...
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the...
Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the development of North Indian Muslim publics (Dubrow, 2018...
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode ...
Too Much Communication?
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to Episode No.2 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. ...
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completene...
Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the...
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Honesty is an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships depend upon it. Employers value it in their employee...
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging...
Plagiarism
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Geoffrey Sanborn tells us about Plagiarism. A concept emerged with the idea of originality, plagiarism challenges some...
Anne Baillot, "From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text a...
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of ...
Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersi...
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly bel...
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency. The Sw...
Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot ...
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold....
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pavitra Sundar's book Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema (U Michigan Press, 2023) is a study of the cultural politics and pos...
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the UConn PopCast, and in this episode we tackle ‘For All Mankind,’ Apple TV’s alternate history about a space race that never ended. We ...
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and ev...
Speak UP!: Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Jane Bunker
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
University Press Week 2023 will provide an opportunity for presses and their supporters to shout to the rooftops about the value of the essential work...
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nea...
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were wri...
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of ...
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Laist, professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport, has a new edited volume focusing specifically on popular cul...
What Reality TV Says About Us
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reality TV shapes and reflects how we see ourselves, and what we regard as normal. Professor Danielle J. Lindemann watched thousands of hours of reali...
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel...
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fro...
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contempora...
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). T...
Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023)
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a world dominated by the notion of autonomy, free choice, and consent, Akiko Takeyama takes us on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Jap...
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-autho...
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public th...
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive vi...
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show...
William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digital...
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin...