New Books in Communications

Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aline B. Louchheim (1914-1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero...

Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Internet plays a central role in how we communicate, share information, disseminate ideas, maintain social connections, and conduct business. The ...

Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human di...

Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ioannis Gaitanidis' book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spiritua...

Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imaginations, and Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2023) is a tour de force that weaves together the...

Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Joyce Kinkead, Distinguished Professor of English at Utah State University discusses her recent book, A Writing Studies Primer (Broadview Press....

Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Intern...

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels be...

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around thei...

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, journalist and UN director of Human Rights Watch Louis Charbonneau describes the US's government misinfor...

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the s...

Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Felix Zimmermann about his book Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten: ...

Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League an...

David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detache...

Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, ...

Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019), Nicholas Brown offers a fresh perspective on aesthetic au...

Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Jessica Brantley, Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Rosenberg is the author of the previous monograph, Reading in...

Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The national purpose of the American state is to realize and then sustain the democracy and the equality that was the promise of our founding. I belie...

The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sally Wilson, VP of Publishing at Emerald opens up about the challenges publishers are facing in contending with the onset of the mass adoption of AI ...

Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal or...

Herman Wasserman, "The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Yuval Katz discusses the book The Ethics of Engage...

Stephen Prothero, "God, the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time" (HarperOne, 2023)

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century Amer...

Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (UP of Kansas, 2022), Drs. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren ask what lessons does Marvel – a “...

Jessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could h...

Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What role do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the reader will never watch or play?  Com...

James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Rev...

Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (U Georgia Press, 2022) provides an interdisciplinary approach to antebellum...

Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini clarif...

Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatte...

Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship—s...

How to Reach People with Your Research: A Discussion with Elissa Redmiles

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Founder and M...

Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in suc...

The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Michelle Chihara, Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Annie Berke, the Film Editor at the Los Angeles Review ...

Open Access in Humanities Publishing: A Discussion with Irene Van Rossom of Amsterdam UP

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Irene Van Rossom and Avi do a deep dive into how Open Access works (or doesn't work) in the context for book manuscripts in the Humanities. Listeners...

Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’...

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisic...

Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital revolution. One strong continuity betw...

Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (O...

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for m...

Profitability and University Press Publishing: A Discussion with Stanford UP's Alan Harvey

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, sits with Avi to discuss why it is so challenging for scholars to write and publish books and to d...

The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, author Ryan Milner talks to Chris Gondak about the rise of the internet meme, and the five logics that factor into the foundation, gr...

Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism,...

Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The concept of bias is familiar enough, partly because it is deployed frequently and in different contexts. For example, we talk about biased juror...

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others sh...

Dave Colangelo, "The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam UP, 2019) describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively depl...

Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream poli...

Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, "The Sounds of Spectators at Football" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers,...

Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, a...

Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it's easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In Pol...

Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how ...

David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...

Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across t...

Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, a famous Vietnamese businesswoman hosted a three-hour long Facebook livestream, in which she named and shamed celebrities for their controver...

Making Open Access Work for Both Readers and Authors

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Denne (Director of Publishing, Academic Books, Cambridge UP) joins Avi to discuss how Open Access quickly became a predominant form of academic...

Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White suprema...

Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a m...

Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investi...

Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . ....

A Primer for Teaching Digital History

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital...

Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A signific...

Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printe...

Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradit...

James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from th...

Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2022) brings together emerging and established voices at the nexus o...

The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather o...

Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the early 1990s, and the USSR is no more. An intrepid young American TV producer has been given a seemingly foolhardy task: bringing the belov...

Hannah Noel, "Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Ohio State UP, 2022), Hannah Noel repositions Whiteness studies in relation to...

Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Dr. Kenny Linden, an environmental and animal historian of Mongolia and Inner Asia, joins me to discuss the Disney+ Star Wars preque...

The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Communication researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt talks about her book, The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication, as well as some of her recent and forthco...

Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It seems undeniable that language has limits in what it can express – among other philosophers, Wittgenstein famously drew a line of this sort in hi...

Martin Scott and Kate Wright, "Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone" (Routledge, 2022)

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can the news better reflect important global issues? In Humanitarian Journalists Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone (Routledge, 2022), Drs M...

The Art of Translating Academic Research

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Crewe talks about how translation became a key component of the Columbia University Press publishing program and how the press decides which...

Michael Murawski, "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’...

Index

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Dennis Duncan tells us about the history of the index. At it’s simplest, an index is a table with columns that allow...

The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist and STS graduate student Gemma Milne talks about her book, Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, with Peo...

Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our co-hosts Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang discusses t...

The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequali...

Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as ...

Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today Recall this Book welcomes Zachary Horton, Associate Professor of Literature and director of the Vibrant Media Lab at University of Pittsburgh...

Inventing American Telecommunications

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, w...

Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speak...

The History of Teletherapy

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Scienc...

Think Bigger: How Researchers Can Use their Books to Make Real Breakthroughs

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avi and Gita Manaktala discuss how researchers should approach the book publishing process, including determining whether research should be publish...

Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "vi...

Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For almost a year now, we have been absorbing news and information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are a variety of different, or competin...

Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press,...

The Editor and Humility: A Conversation with the NYT's Peter Catapano

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we talk with New York Times Opinion Section Editor Peter Catapano, who has edited and published more than 1,000 pieces in The Times a...

Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Devon Powers, a professor of advertising, media, and communication at Temple University, talks about her book, On Trend: The Business of Forecasting t...

Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democracy and how it operates in different spaces. Fore...

Patrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to de...

Improvisation and Communication: A Discussion with Laura Lindenfeld

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of Laura Lindenfeld, Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. We talk about how improvisation h...

Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hun...

Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that wide...

Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But sh...

Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities ...

Criticism Amplified: New Media and the Podcast Form

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Korn...

Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media inc...

The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The traditional folklore and animistic beliefs of the Sámi, the Indigenous nomadic peoples of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia, are under...

The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 1)

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the box-office and critical success of Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2013 film Frozen, it also drew criticism and backlash for how it incorpo...

Romani Representation in Pop Culture

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Roma figures have been an essential part of European folklore, myths, and literary traditions for centuries, with writers from Cervantes to Shakespear...