New Books in Communications

Interviews with Scholars of Media and Communications about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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James M. Lundberg, "Horace Greeley: Print, Poli...
Lundberg finds within his seemingly contradictory positions a consistent belief in the power of print to forge American nationalism...
42 min
1327
Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Medi...
Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...
53 min
1328
Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press...
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world...
54 min
1329
Leticia Bode et al., "Words That Matter: How th...
How does social media impact presidential campaigns?
58 min
1330
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing ...
Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...
79 min
1331
Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in ...
Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...
64 min
1332
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revol...
The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....
48 min
1333
Elizabeth Horodowich, "The Venetian Discovery o...
We explore her primary argument, that Venetians used their knowledge, and their ability to employ that knowledge, to write Venetians into the story....
50 min
1334
David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawe...
What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?
39 min
1335
Luke Winslow, "American Catastrophe: Fundamenta...
Winslow offers a fresh, provocative, and insightful contribution to our most pressing social challenges by taking an orientation toward catastrophe....
69 min
1336
Cristina Soriano, "Tides of Revolution: Informa...
Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical ideas, literacy, and the circulation of information in a society without a printing press...
63 min
1337
Kurt Braddock, "Weaponized Words" (Cambridge UP...
Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....
55 min
1338
Jon Wilkman, "Screening Reality: How Documentar...
Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,
68 min
1339
Donald A. Barclay, "Fake News, Propaganda, and ...
Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles?
59 min
1340
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adapt...
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies....
61 min
1341
Sam Han, "(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global U...
Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....
49 min
1342
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1343
Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Coun...
Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...
56 min
1344
Elinor Carmi, "Media Distortions: Understanding...
What is spam?
33 min
1345
Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Liste...
Senechal examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal...
58 min
1346
Cailin O’Connor, "The Misinformation Age: How F...
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
40 min
1347
Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...
51 min
1348
E. Michele Ramsey, "Major Decisions: College, C...
Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...
75 min
1349
Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, D...
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?
61 min
1350
John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afte...
Looking at wealth of case studies among Amazon reviewers, redditors, and established journals, "Update Culture" is a deep diver into the many factors that contribute to the circulation of a digital text
70 min