New Books in Communications
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Myka Kennedy Stephens, "Integrated Library Planning: A New Model for Strategic and Dynamic Planning, Management, and Assessment" (ACRL, 2023)
44 mins; June 19, 2023
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)
79 hours 52 mins; June 18, 2023
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 17, 2023
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
54 mins; June 16, 2023
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
34 mins; June 14, 2023
Francis Cody, "The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
45 mins; June 14, 2023
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
55 mins; June 13, 2023
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
40 mins; June 12, 2023
Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
34 mins; June 12, 2023
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; June 11, 2023
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; June 11, 2023
Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
43 mins; June 09, 2023
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 08, 2023
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 24 mins; June 07, 2023
Can Data Science Help Us Combat Disinformation?
43 mins; June 05, 2023
Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 05, 2023
Life at the London Review of Books
44 mins; June 04, 2023
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 04, 2023
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
48 mins; June 02, 2023
Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications
61 hours 0 mins; June 01, 2023
Efficient Academic Writing: A Discussion with Mushtaq Bilal
54 mins; May 31, 2023
Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, "Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice" (Atria Books, 2023)
34 mins; May 28, 2023
Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 22, 2023
Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)
76 hours 5 mins; May 22, 2023
Julia Serano, "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back" (Seal Press, 2022)
59 mins; May 20, 2023
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
64 hours 20 mins; May 19, 2023
Landon Jones, "Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers" (Beacon, 2023)
26 mins; May 19, 2023
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
63 hours 59 mins; May 17, 2023
Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
46 mins; May 16, 2023
Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy, "Secret Cinema and the Immersive Experience Industry" (Manchester UP, 2022)
49 mins; May 13, 2023
Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
28 mins; May 13, 2023
John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
60 hours 27 mins; May 12, 2023
Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis, "The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media" (Bristol UP, 2021)
37 mins; May 11, 2023
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
36 mins; May 11, 2023
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 13 mins; May 11, 2023
Nina Hall, "Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; May 08, 2023
Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
66 hours 9 mins; May 07, 2023
Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
42 mins; May 07, 2023
Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
53 mins; May 06, 2023
Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
24 mins; May 06, 2023
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
40 mins; May 04, 2023
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication
21 mins; May 04, 2023
Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
71 hours 45 mins; May 03, 2023
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
47 mins; May 03, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
95 hours 21 mins; May 02, 2023
Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian
73 hours 45 mins; May 02, 2023
Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
55 mins; May 01, 2023
Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)
59 mins; April 30, 2023
John Bond, "The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
51 mins; April 30, 2023
Eric Hoenes del Pinal et al., "Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
33 mins; April 29, 2023
Macs Smith, "Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2023
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
66 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2023
Computer Graphics
17 mins; April 27, 2023
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; April 26, 2023
Experiments in Open Peer Review
22 mins; April 24, 2023
Strong Ideas from MIT Libraries and the MIT Press
17 mins; April 23, 2023
Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
36 mins; April 22, 2023
Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)
50 mins; April 21, 2023
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
52 mins; April 20, 2023
Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
47 mins; April 20, 2023
How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction
14 mins; April 19, 2023
The Making of "Ways of Hearing"
67 hours 16 mins; April 18, 2023
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
62 hours 43 mins; April 16, 2023
Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
59 mins; April 15, 2023
CinegogĂ­a: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
57 mins; April 14, 2023
Natasha Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
45 mins; April 12, 2023
Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
77 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2023
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40 mins; April 11, 2023
Discussions on Open Access: Open Science Tools
15 mins; April 11, 2023
The Future of Dictatorship: A Discussion with Sergei Guriev
48 mins; April 10, 2023
Gwen Burnyeat, "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
76 hours 43 mins; April 09, 2023
Amahl Bishara, "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford UP, 2022)
49 mins; April 09, 2023
Discussions on Open Access: Frankenbook and OA Publishing
21 mins; April 09, 2023
Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary" (Routledge, 2022)
66 hours 48 mins; April 08, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
45 mins; April 07, 2023
Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
64 hours 3 mins; April 05, 2023
Has Peer Review Hit a Point of No Return?
45 mins; April 04, 2023
Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
55 mins; April 04, 2023
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
98 hours 56 mins; April 03, 2023
Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)
79 hours 16 mins; April 03, 2023
Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, "Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
32 mins; April 03, 2023
Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
77 hours 23 mins; April 03, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
42 mins; April 02, 2023
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 39 mins; April 01, 2023
Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)
46 mins; April 01, 2023
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
22 mins; March 31, 2023
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
50 mins; March 31, 2023
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
54 mins; March 30, 2023
Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)
23 mins; March 28, 2023
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 28, 2023
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
26 mins; March 28, 2023
Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; March 27, 2023
Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
62 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2023
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War
37 mins; March 27, 2023
Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (BĂźchner-Verlag, 2023)
35 mins; March 26, 2023
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
103 hours 2 mins; March 25, 2023
David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 50 mins; March 22, 2023
Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 36 mins; March 20, 2023
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
69 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2023
Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
50 mins; March 19, 2023