New Books in Communications

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John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Jun 11, 2025 – 56:51
Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason
Jun 8, 2025 – 54:16
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)
Jun 2, 2025 – 01:06:21
Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
May 30, 2025 – 43:40
Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
May 29, 2025 – 56:35
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2025 – 35:21
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 23, 2025 – 01:26:23
Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
May 22, 2025 – 50:58
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 16, 2025 – 40:39
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
May 15, 2025 – 55:21
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 14, 2025 – 30:49
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 01:09:41
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 12, 2025 – 01:07:45
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
May 12, 2025 – 52:57
Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, "The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 11, 2025 – 33:08
Courtney M. Cox, "Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
May 10, 2025 – 01:05:06
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, "Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
May 9, 2025 – 01:09:10
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 8, 2025 – 01:13:44
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 7, 2025 – 39:03
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
May 6, 2025 – 01:04:29
Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
May 5, 2025 – 45:26
Alan Chong, "The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
May 4, 2025 – 01:16:41
Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 3, 2025 – 56:34
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 2, 2025 – 44:59
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
May 1, 2025 – 01:00:55
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 30, 2025 – 55:44
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025 – 36:32
Radiophilia
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:10:31
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025 – 01:12:55
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Apr 26, 2025 – 50:06
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 25, 2025 – 52:05
Connor Jackson, "Zombies, Consumption, and Satire in Capcom's Dead Rising" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 24, 2025 – 16:06
Gabe Henry, "Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell" (Dey Street, 2025)
Apr 23, 2025 – 46:05
Ross Benes, "1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Apr 22, 2025 – 48:47
Cosmic Visions in Sound
Apr 21, 2025 – 24:27
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 44:32
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:16:38
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
Apr 16, 2025 – 36:26
Anne Korfmacher, "Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review" (Routledge, 2024)
Apr 15, 2025 – 01:19:29
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 14, 2025 – 40:40
Henry Jenkins, "Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025 – 58:25
Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Apr 12, 2025 – 32:57
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:09:15
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
Apr 10, 2025 – 01:10:10
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 9, 2025 – 24:38
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Apr 8, 2025 – 01:15:07
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:02:52
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 6, 2025 – 44:47
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 4, 2025 – 48:05
Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Apr 2, 2025 – 49:29

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