New Books in Communications
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Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
60 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2026
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
29 mins; March 28, 2026
Gist Books: How Print on Demand Creates New Possibilities for the Publishing Industry
42 mins; March 23, 2026
Deirdre Flynn and Mary McGill eds., "Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space" (Routledge, 2025)
42 mins; March 22, 2026
A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)
75 hours 43 mins; March 18, 2026
P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
80 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2026
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
50 mins; March 11, 2026
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
65 hours 9 mins; March 10, 2026
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
69 hours 27 mins; March 10, 2026
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
54 mins; March 10, 2026
Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
77 hours 4 mins; March 09, 2026
Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
45 mins; March 07, 2026
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; March 02, 2026
Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)
61 hours 9 mins; March 01, 2026
Barbie Zelizer, "How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline" (Polity, 2025)
40 mins; February 28, 2026
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
79 hours 2 mins; February 25, 2026
Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)
56 mins; February 22, 2026
The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy
48 mins; February 19, 2026
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
46 mins; February 16, 2026
Linda Quirk, "Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates" (U Alberta Press, 2025)
72 hours 45 mins; February 14, 2026
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley et al. eds., "Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media" (Routledge, 2025)
38 mins; February 12, 2026
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors" (Yale UP, 2026)
45 mins; February 10, 2026
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
35 mins; February 08, 2026
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 07, 2026
Betto van Waarden, "Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
81 hours 45 mins; January 23, 2026
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 19, 2026
Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)
47 mins; January 14, 2026
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
61 hours 26 mins; January 12, 2026
Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)
41 mins; January 07, 2026
Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
53 mins; January 03, 2026
Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
65 hours 5 mins; January 03, 2026
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
41 mins; January 01, 2026
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
77 hours 4 mins; December 31, 2025
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; December 31, 2025
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
49 mins; December 30, 2025
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
71 hours 59 mins; December 30, 2025
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; December 28, 2025
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
32 mins; December 28, 2025
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
68 hours 48 mins; December 23, 2025
Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
37 mins; December 23, 2025
Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
52 mins; December 20, 2025
Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)
73 hours 42 mins; December 20, 2025
Cupid Jamila and Joell Myescha, "Who's in the Room? A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective" (Kendall Hunt, 2025)
50 mins; December 20, 2025
J Finley, "Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity" (UNC Press, 2024)
57 mins; December 16, 2025
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
49 mins; December 16, 2025
Michelle Anya Anjirbag, "Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
63 hours 35 mins; December 14, 2025
Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025)
66 hours 1 min; December 14, 2025
James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" (Freegovinfo Press, 2025)
67 hours 38 mins; December 11, 2025
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025)
71 hours 48 mins; December 10, 2025
Claire Parnell, "Inequalities of Platform Publishing: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era" (U ï»żMassachusetts Press, 2025
44 mins; December 07, 2025
Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
24 mins; December 06, 2025
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives" (Routledge, 2025)
51 mins; December 06, 2025
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
66 hours 12 mins; December 03, 2025
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
84 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2025
Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 28, 2025
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; November 22, 2025
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath, "TEDified Islam: Postsecular Storytelling in New Media" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
74 hours 15 mins; November 21, 2025
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)
32 mins; November 19, 2025
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 17, 2025
PĂĄraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 37 mins; November 16, 2025
Pluribus Episode 3 Analysis: The Amazonification of Everything
28 mins; November 16, 2025
Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
70 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2025
Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; November 12, 2025
In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?
27 mins; November 10, 2025
Vanesa RodrĂ­guez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)
55 mins; November 08, 2025
Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
69 hours 41 mins; November 08, 2025
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
34 mins; November 03, 2025
Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, "Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News" (Columbia UP, 2025)
60 hours 44 mins; November 01, 2025
Muhammad Atique, "Algorithmic Saga: Understanding Media, Culture, and Transformation in the AI Age" (Atique Mindscape Publishing, 2024)
46 mins; November 01, 2025
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; October 31, 2025
Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
23 mins; October 31, 2025
Nora Kenworthy, "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare" (MIT Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 30, 2025
Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
58 mins; October 20, 2025
Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)
63 hours 3 mins; October 16, 2025
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
33 mins; October 15, 2025
Petar Mitric, "The Co-production Landscape in Europe: From Eurimages to Netflix" (Springer Nature, 2025)
49 mins; October 15, 2025
Will Kitchen, "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
41 mins; October 10, 2025
John R. Davis, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
56 mins; October 10, 2025
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
25 mins; October 06, 2025
Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)
36 mins; October 05, 2025
Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025)
37 mins; October 05, 2025
Michelle Bumatay, "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 03, 2025
Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
80 hours 13 mins; September 29, 2025
Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)
43 mins; September 20, 2025
Gabrielle Durepos and Amy Thurlow, "Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences" (Emerald Publishing, 2025)
68 hours 59 mins; September 18, 2025
Alisha Karabinus et al. eds., "Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (Punctum Books, 2025)
27 mins; September 17, 2025
Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025)
42 mins; September 13, 2025
Alfred L. Martin Jr. and Taylor Cole Miller eds., "The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
72 hours 9 mins; September 10, 2025
J. Siguru Wahut, "In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
68 hours 59 mins; September 09, 2025
Justin Wyatt, "Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystemï»ż" (U Texas Press, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; September 03, 2025
Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 31, 2025
Patricia Aufderheide, "Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy" (U California Press, 2024)
84 hours 21 mins; August 30, 2025
Olga Touloumi, "Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
58 mins; August 30, 2025
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 26, 2025
Intercultural Communication
51 mins; August 26, 2025
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez ed., "Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media" (Amherst College Press, 2025)
50 mins; August 22, 2025
"Assignment Moscow" with author James Rodgers
56 mins; August 20, 2025