New Books Network

Critical Theory May 27, 2022

Heritage and Nationalism

Understanding Populism through Big Data

Chiara Bonacchi

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text …

High Theory May 25, 2022

Distant Reading

A Discussion with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

In this episode Kim talks with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu about distant reading. Ama Bemma provides her Global Poetics Project as an awesome example of distant reading. She also references Franco …

Scholarly Communication May 24, 2022

How to Start a Successful Academic Podcast

A Discussion with Sean Guillory

Sean Guillory

Hosted by Marshall Poe

Today I talked to Sean Guillory. Sean did something pretty remarkable (and hard): He started a successful academic podcast. It's called the SRB Podcast and deals with Russian and Eurasian affairs. In …

Education May 11, 2022

A Guide to Academic Podcasting

Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo

A Guide to Academic Podcasting is a practical guidebook introducing scholars to the multiverse of podcasting. It’s an open-source publication made by Amplify Podcast Network, written by Stacey Copeland and …

High Theory May 6, 2022

Computational Creativity

A Discussion with Tuhin Chakrabarty

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results fair. (Saronik messes up the word …

Media April 27, 2022

Media Disrupted

Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars

Amanda D. Lotz

Hosted by Gummo Clare

Has the internet really been the main culprit behind the upheaval of the contemporary media industries? In Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars (MIT Press, 2021), Professor Amanda Lotz …

Intellectual History March 14, 2022

Permanent Crisis

The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird

The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and …

Digital Humanities March 9, 2022

Unlocking the Colonial Archive in Latin America

Albert A. Palacios

Hosted by Marcus Golding

In this new episode about Digital Humanities at the New Books Network podcast channel we talk about digital projects, the use of Machine Learning technologies, and how they intersect with …

Education March 3, 2022

Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World

Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester

Hosted by Pengfei Zhao

Whether you like it or not, the pandemic has pushed us to make many changes in our life, from working from home to following all the mitigation measures. In the …

Art February 17, 2022

Medium Design

Knowing How to Work on the World

Keller Easterling

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas, from climate change, to inequality, to concentrations of authoritarian power? Keller Easterling argues that the search for singular …

Film February 4, 2022

Deep Mediations

Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures

Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible

Hosted by Jules O'Dwyer

In Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures (U of Minnesota Press, 2021), co-editors Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible argue that the notion of “depth” is a multivalent …

Sociology February 1, 2022

Evolving as a Digital Scholar

Teaching and Researching in a Digital World

Wim Van Van Petegem, J. P. Bosman, and Miné de de Klerk

Hosted by Deidre Tyler

What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains …

Art January 28, 2022

The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality

Grant Tavinor

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value …

Recall This Book January 27, 2022

Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin

"High Theory" Crossover

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

Crossover Month at Recall this Book ends with a glance sideways at the doings of our pals Saronik and Kim, hosts of the delightfully lapidary podcast High Theory. Refresh your …

Entrepreneurship and Leadership January 17, 2022

Marshall Poe

The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis

This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have increased more than four-fold to just below …

Recall This Book January 6, 2022

Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp

Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)

Jennifer Egan and Ivan Kreilkamp

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers together to discuss the making of novels and what …

Digital Humanities December 22, 2021

Living Books

Experiments in the Posthumanities

Janneke Adema

Hosted by Sarah Kearns

In Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021), Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project -- not as linear, bound …

Digital Humanities December 14, 2021

Can We Be Wrong?

The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data

Andrew Piper

Hosted by Katherine McDonough

Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data (Cambridge UP, 2020) by Andrew Piper tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in the …

American South December 8, 2021

Southern Journey

The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by Brandon Jett

Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the …

Food December 2, 2021

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and media studies and explores …