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1401
Scholarly Communications: An Interview with Hel...
What challenges do science publications like 'Nature' face in the era of the Internet?
45 min
1402
Yves Citton, "Mediarchy" (Polity Press, 2019)
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies...
63 min
1403
Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce ...
Klein explores the relationship between music and money, from the early years of the pop industry to contemporary society’s ‘promotional culture’...
40 min
1404
Teresa A. Goddu, "Selling Antislavery: Abolitio...
Goddu a richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifacts...
57 min
1405
Jonathan Haber, "Critical Thinking" (The MIT Pr...
"Critical Thinking." You hear a lot about it, but what is it?
59 min
1406
S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...
45 min
1407
Nick Morgan, "Can You Hear Me? How to Connect w...
How is communicating virtually Is like eating Pringles forever?
41 min
1408
Dana Renga, "Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators ...
Dana Renga offers the first comprehensive study of recent, popular Italian television...
54 min
1409
E. F. Bloomfield, "Communication Strategies for...
Bloomfield positions religion as an important factor in environmentalism and focuses on how identities play a role in environmental conversation...
50 min
1410
Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics...
The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...
57 min
1411
Ting Zhang, "Circulating the Code: Print Media ...
How could a peasant in Shandong in the Qing dynasty come to know enough about a specific law that he felt confident enough to kill his own wife and his lover’s husband and think that he could get away with it?
62 min
1412
Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformat...
Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...
64 min
1413
Art Markman, "Bring Your Brain to Work: Using C...
What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?
40 min
1414
Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Contro...
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?
78 min
1415
M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorpo...
The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...
69 min
1416
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Pe...
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?
34 min
1417
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and th...
Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....
61 min
1418
Cary Cooper, "The Apology Impulse: How the Busi...
What are best-practices for alleviating stress in the workplace?
39 min
1419
T. Paulus and A. Wise, "Looking for Insight, Tr...
The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...
70 min
1420
Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated ...
Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...
64 min
1421
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil...
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...
48 min
1422
Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How...
Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...
51 min
1423
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...
68 min
1424
Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortio...
If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?
58 min
1425
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min