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New Books in Communications

New Books in Communications

Interviews with Scholars of Media and Communications about their New Books

Marshall Poe · New Books Network

1,964 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Communications has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 1,964 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to over 1700 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 42 min and 1h 3m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 140 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 362 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
1,964
Running
2008–2026 · 18y
Median length
53 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

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Oct 4, 202649 min

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Oct 2, 20261h 30m

Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah with Thomas Schatz (U California Press, 2026)

Sep 26, 20261h 12m

Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse with Laurie Parsons (LSE Press, 2026)

Sep 26, 202635 min

Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies with Yinghui Wu (Brill, 2025)

Sep 25, 20261h 9m

Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s with Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk and Frank Kessler (Brepols, 2026)

Sep 25, 202658 min

Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan: Media, Empathy, and Digital Testimony with Xinling Li (Anthem Press, 2026)

Sep 25, 202632 min

Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)

Sep 22, 202647 min

Glenn Peers, "Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)

Sep 21, 20261h 38m

Joe Jackson, "Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sep 20, 20261h 11m

Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026)

Sep 15, 202635 min

Jennifer Hoewe, "Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It)" (MIT Press, 2026)

Sep 13, 202654 min

Emeka Umejei, "China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Sep 12, 202641 min

Debarati Sanyal, "Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges" (Fordham, 2025)

Sep 12, 202642 min

Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Sep 7, 20261h 11m

Autumn Lorimer Linford, "Extra! Extra! A History of America's Girl Newsies" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

Sep 5, 202636 min

Done in a Day with the Vietnam War: Elisa Tamarkin (JP)

Sep 3, 202641 min

Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)

Sep 3, 20261h 2m

John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Aug 31, 20261h 0m

Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)

Aug 31, 202643 min
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