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Andrew J. Hoffman, "The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World" (Stanford UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 23, 2023
Federico Alvarez IgarzĂĄbal, "Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach" (Transcript, 2020)
46 mins; September 23, 2023
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
33 mins; September 22, 2023
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, "Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care" (U California Press, 2023)
23 mins; September 22, 2023
Scott Selberg, "Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
45 mins; September 21, 2023
David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
35 mins; September 19, 2023
Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 5 mins; September 19, 2023
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
55 mins; September 17, 2023
The Other Side of the Desk: A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello
58 mins; September 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
70 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023
Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)
59 mins; September 09, 2023
Marc Bonner, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural Landscape in the Computer Game" (BĂźchner-Verlag, 2023)
48 mins; September 07, 2023
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
82 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2023
Altman Yuzhu Peng, "A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere" (Palgrave Pivot, 2020)
27 mins; September 06, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 06, 2023
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 05, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 02, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
64 hours 39 mins; September 02, 2023
Digital Repression in Thailand
34 mins; September 01, 2023
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 30, 2023
James S. Damico et al., "Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice: Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond" (Routledge, 2021)
69 hours 45 mins; August 30, 2023
Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
76 hours 14 mins; August 29, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
110 hours 37 mins; August 27, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; August 27, 2023
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
108 hours 12 mins; August 27, 2023
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
25 mins; August 26, 2023
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
41 mins; August 26, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 25, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
57 mins; August 25, 2023
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (HĂźlsbusch, 2023)
30 mins; August 23, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
38 mins; August 22, 2023
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
45 mins; August 21, 2023
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
47 mins; August 19, 2023
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
15 mins; August 19, 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
18 mins; August 18, 2023
Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
86 hours 43 mins; August 17, 2023
Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson
57 mins; August 17, 2023
Networked: The New Social Operating System
16 mins; August 16, 2023
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
52 mins; August 16, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2023
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
22 mins; August 16, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
72 hours 32 mins; August 15, 2023
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
14 mins; August 15, 2023
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
17 mins; August 14, 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
52 mins; August 12, 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
43 mins; August 10, 2023
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 30 mins; August 09, 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
43 mins; August 09, 2023
Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)
76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 08, 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
15 mins; August 07, 2023
Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
16 mins; August 06, 2023
Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
78 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
18 mins; August 05, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
18 mins; August 04, 2023
Why Photography Matters
12 mins; August 03, 2023
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
19 mins; August 02, 2023
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 mins; August 01, 2023
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
52 mins; July 31, 2023
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
48 mins; July 30, 2023
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
37 mins; July 30, 2023
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
75 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2023
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 26, 2023
Po-Shek Fu, "Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
117 hours 24 mins; July 26, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
55 mins; July 26, 2023
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
33 mins; July 22, 2023
Usha Raman and Sumana Kasturi, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)
37 mins; July 21, 2023
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
60 hours 19 mins; July 19, 2023
Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
40 mins; July 19, 2023
Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 18, 2023
Xiaoning Lu, "Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)" (Brill, 2020)
84 hours 43 mins; July 18, 2023
Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
80 hours 7 mins; July 16, 2023
Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)
43 mins; July 16, 2023
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
39 mins; July 13, 2023
Dana Rubin, "Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women" (RealClear, 2023)
49 mins; July 13, 2023
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
53 mins; July 13, 2023
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 12, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
37 mins; July 06, 2023
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
52 mins; July 05, 2023
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2023
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
48 mins; July 04, 2023
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; July 02, 2023
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
16 mins; July 01, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
19 mins; June 30, 2023
Mary BeltrĂĄn, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
48 mins; June 29, 2023
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
65 hours 16 mins; June 26, 2023
Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
47 mins; June 25, 2023
Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
53 mins; June 25, 2023
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
87 hours 47 mins; June 25, 2023
Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
75 hours 38 mins; June 24, 2023
Metadata
19 mins; June 24, 2023
Academic Chat: "Detention" and Other Horror Videogames: Avatars, Memory and Trauma
35 mins; June 23, 2023
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
15 mins; June 23, 2023
Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
35 mins; June 22, 2023
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
18 mins; June 22, 2023
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
19 mins; June 21, 2023
Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
14 mins; June 20, 2023
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 19, 2023
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