New Books in Communications
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives with Michael Hallsworth (MIT Press, 2026)
Oct 4, 202649 min
The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
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
Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan: Media, Empathy, and Digital Testimony with Xinling Li (Anthem Press, 2026)
Sep 25, 202632 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
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
Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)
Aug 31, 202643 min
John Trafton, "Los Angeles and Film: A Cultural History of 20th-Century Hollywood" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 31, 20261h 0m
Steven Herman: Behind the White House Curtain
Aug 30, 202637 min
Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Aug 30, 202631 min
Michelle A. Amazeen, "Content Confusion: News Media, Native Advertising, and Policy in an Era of Disinformation" (MIT Press, 2025)
Aug 27, 202628 min
How to Write a Book Proposal and Make Your Manuscript Work with Laura Portwood-Stacer
Aug 26, 202626 min
Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027)
Aug 23, 20261h 10m
Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 23, 20261h 23m
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 20, 202653 min
Vincent Haddad, "Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Aug 18, 202652 min
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Architecture" (Applied Research & Design, 2025)
Aug 16, 202653 min
Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al., "Melodrama As Provocateur" (Duke UP, 2026)
Aug 14, 20261h 10m
Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202655 min
In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship
Aug 6, 202659 min
Katharina Stevens, "The Ethics of Argumentation" (Routledge, 2025)
Aug 5, 20261h 1m
Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 3, 202643 min
James W. Cortada, "Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Aug 3, 202649 min
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Aug 3, 202657 min
Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
Aug 2, 202651 min
Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
Aug 2, 202641 min
Siri Carpenter on Why She Self-Published First — and How It Led to a Traditional Book Deal
Jul 30, 202625 min
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Jul 27, 20261h 24m
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 20261h 2m
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
Jul 20, 202627 min
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
Jul 18, 202656 min
Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 3m
Stacey Copeland, "Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Jul 17, 202653 min
Mike F. Alvarez, Warren J. Bareiss, and Jolane Flanigan eds., "Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe" (Bristol University Press, 2026)
Jul 15, 20261h 17m
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jul 14, 20261h 6m
Amélie Junqua and Geoffrey Day, "Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
Jul 11, 202637 min
Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Jul 10, 202643 min
Podcast Intellectuals, Panel #4
Jul 8, 202656 min