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Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
64 hours 4 mins; August 17, 2025
Transhuman Horror in Alien: Earth
42 mins; August 16, 2025
David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; August 15, 2025
Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
30 mins; August 14, 2025
JirĂ­ Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2025
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
62 hours 14 mins; August 09, 2025
Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)
24 mins; August 08, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
56 mins; August 03, 2025
Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
48 mins; August 02, 2025
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
72 hours 48 mins; August 02, 2025
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
54 mins; August 02, 2025
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 47 mins; August 01, 2025
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
49 mins; July 30, 2025
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
40 mins; July 26, 2025
Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
78 hours 36 mins; July 23, 2025
Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
38 mins; July 23, 2025
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
63 hours 3 mins; July 20, 2025
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
36 mins; July 20, 2025
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
50 mins; July 19, 2025
Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)
72 hours 34 mins; July 18, 2025
James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
24 mins; July 18, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
34 mins; July 16, 2025
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
29 mins; July 13, 2025
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
36 mins; July 07, 2025
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
46 mins; July 03, 2025
Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
51 mins; June 30, 2025
Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 23 mins; June 24, 2025
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine and OR Books Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
40 mins; June 19, 2025
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 11, 2025
Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason
54 mins; June 08, 2025
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
66 hours 21 mins; June 02, 2025
Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
43 mins; May 30, 2025
Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
56 mins; May 29, 2025
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
35 mins; May 27, 2025
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
86 hours 23 mins; May 23, 2025
Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
50 mins; May 22, 2025
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; May 15, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 15, 2025
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 mins; May 14, 2025
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
69 hours 41 mins; May 13, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 12, 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
52 mins; May 12, 2025
Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
33 mins; May 11, 2025
Courtney M. Cox, "Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
65 hours 6 mins; May 10, 2025
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
69 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2025
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; May 08, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; May 07, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
64 hours 29 mins; May 05, 2025
Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
45 mins; May 05, 2025
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
76 hours 41 mins; May 04, 2025
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 03, 2025
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
60 hours 55 mins; May 01, 2025
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; April 30, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; April 29, 2025
Radiophilia
70 hours 31 mins; April 28, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; April 27, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
50 mins; April 26, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
52 mins; April 25, 2025
Connor Jackson, "Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising" (Routledge, 2024)
16 mins; April 24, 2025
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
46 mins; April 23, 2025
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
48 mins; April 22, 2025
Cosmic Visions in Sound
24 mins; April 21, 2025
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
44 mins; April 20, 2025
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
76 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2025
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
36 mins; April 16, 2025
Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
79 hours 29 mins; April 15, 2025
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
40 mins; April 14, 2025
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; April 13, 2025
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
32 mins; April 12, 2025
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
69 hours 15 mins; April 11, 2025
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
70 hours 10 mins; April 10, 2025
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
24 mins; April 09, 2025
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; April 08, 2025
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
62 hours 52 mins; April 07, 2025
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
44 mins; April 06, 2025
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 04, 2025
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
49 mins; April 02, 2025
Bridget Kies, "Murder, She Wrote" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
51 mins; April 01, 2025
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
67 hours 12 mins; April 01, 2025
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy
62 hours 10 mins; April 01, 2025
Making Radio History
67 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025
Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2020)
65 hours 35 mins; March 30, 2025
Marc Owen Jones, "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media" (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2021)
27 mins; March 28, 2025
Adam Kotsko, "Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
37 mins; March 25, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Writing Against the System
34 mins; March 21, 2025
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
30 mins; March 19, 2025
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; March 16, 2025
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; March 16, 2025
Joe Pierre, "False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; March 15, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
68 hours 0 mins; March 14, 2025
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
52 mins; March 13, 2025
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
35 mins; March 12, 2025
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
34 mins; March 11, 2025
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; March 09, 2025
Margaret Peacock, "Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East" (U California Press, 2025)
64 hours 3 mins; March 08, 2025
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
46 mins; March 07, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; March 07, 2025
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