New Books in Communications
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Quassim Cassam, "Conspiracy Theories" (Polity, ...
Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...
56 min
1527
Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and...
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?
21 min
1528
Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polit...
Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...
38 min
1529
Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: Th...
The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...
43 min
1530
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1531
Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: F...
In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”
64 min
1532
Leah Price, "What We Talk About When We Talk Ab...
Price begins her book by debunking the assumption that ebooks are more popular than print books...
39 min
1533
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...
49 min
1534
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
1535
Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black Sout...
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...
60 min
1536
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...
43 min
1537
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History...
DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
27 min
1538
Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
1539
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender...
Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...
37 min
1540
Joseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The...
Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...
56 min
1541
Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Wome...
Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...
51 min
1542
Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Interne...
Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.
54 min
1543
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
1544
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work...
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?
40 min
1545
David Resnick, "Representing Education In Film:...
Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...
50 min
1546
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the A...
Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...
51 min
1547
David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power a...
What is the social role of data?
34 min
1548
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
1549
Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Cult...
Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...
115 min
1550
Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Cat...
Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...
59 min