New Books Network Podcast

Sociology May 16, 2023

The Public and Their Platforms

Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri

As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media (Bristol UP …

Library Science May 16, 2023

Holy Digital Grail

A Medieval Book on the Internet

Michelle R. Warren

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation …

Media April 21, 2023

Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures

New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital

Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin

Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is digital politics? What new creative and experimental tools can we use to study digital politics historically and analyse and create future imaginaries of digital politics? Adi Kuntsman and …

MIT Press Podcast April 15, 2023

The Making of "Ways of Hearing"

A Discussion with Damon Krukowski et al.

Hosted by MIT Press

A behind-the-scenes conversation with the creators of Ways of Hearing, the podcast and book. Hosted by author Damon Krukowski, with Radiotopia and Showcase executive producer Julie Shapiro, sound designer Ian …

Anthropology April 14, 2023

Cinegogía

An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema

Bridget Franco

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at College of the Holy Cross, founded and coordinates …

General History April 12, 2023

Sinobabble

A Podcast about Modern Chinese History

Edi Obiakpani-Reid

Hosted by Michael Vann

I got to chat with Dr. Edi Obiakpani-Reid about Sinobabble, her podcast series on 20th century Chinese history. In this series she offers an informed and engaging survey of China …

Art April 3, 2023

Proof of Work

Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021

Rhea Myers

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

Listen on Apple | Listen on Spotify NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. The hype around cryptocurrencies …

Buddhist Studies March 25, 2023

Toward a New Image of Paramartha

Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited

Ching Keng

Hosted by Jessica Zu

Today I talked to Ching Keng about his book Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2022). Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist …

Art March 22, 2023

Visual Culture and the Forensic

Culture, Memory, Ethics

David Houston Jones

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detached from external interests gave rise to artistic production …

Academic Life March 9, 2023

Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?

A Discussion with Alex D. Ketchum

Alex D. Ketchum

Hosted by Christina Gessler

Today’s book is: Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship—sharing research with audiences outside of academic settings—has become increasingly …

Journalism March 6, 2023

The Los Angeles Review of Books

A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke

Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I talked to Michelle Chihara, Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Annie Berke, the Film Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. We talked about book reviewing in …

Academic Life February 16, 2023

A Primer for Teaching Digital History

Ten Design Principles

Jennifer Guiliano

Hosted by Christina Gessler

Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital history for the first time …

Islamic Studies February 10, 2023

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

Shahzad Bashir

Hosted by SherAli Tareen

In his innovative and conceptually ingenious new online, open-access, interactive book A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022), Shahzad Bashir invites his readers to rethink and …

Digital Humanities January 22, 2023

Podcast Series: Hell on Earth

The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism

Chris Wade and Matt Christman

Hosted by Michael Vann

Hell on Earth: The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism is a new 10-part series from the creators of Hell of Presidents — one of Entertainment Weekly’s …

Scholarly Communication January 14, 2023

Digital Codicology

Medieval Books and Modern Labor

Bridget Whearty

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect …

High Theory January 13, 2023

Criticism Amplified

New Media and the Podcast Form

Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

This episode is a recording of a short paper presented by Kim and Saronik in the panel “Literary Criticism: New Platforms” organized by Anna Kornbluh at the 2023 Convention of …

Scholarly Communication December 26, 2022

The Partially Examined Life

A Conversation with Wes Alwan

Wes Alwan

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

"The Partially Examined Life" is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it." In …

Academic Life December 22, 2022

Archival Kismet

Lessons in Launching An Online Conference

Courtney Thompson

Hosted by Christina Gessler

What is the feeling of archival kismet? And how can we reimagine the format of academic conferences to better support scholars? This episode explores: The complex feelings of finding unexpected …

Media December 22, 2022

Sad by Design

On Platform Nihilism

Geert Lovink

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than driven by the same irrational exuberance …

Scholarly Communication December 21, 2022

Writing the Revolution

Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age

Heather Ford

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and …