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Gender Studies May 7, 2021

Hear #metoo in India

News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism

Pallavi Guha

Hosted by Jana Byars
Hello Everyone, and welcome to New Books in Gender and Sexuality, a channel on the New Books Network. I’m your host, Jana Byars, and I’m here today with Pallavi Guha …

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Scholarly Communication May 7, 2021

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, audio books, distribution chains …
Communications May 6, 2021

Silicon Values

The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

Jillian C. York

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 6, 2021

You're Invited

The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

Jon Levy

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jon Levy about his new book You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence (Harper Business, 2021). Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist who over a decade …
Communications May 6, 2021

Twitter

A Biography

Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at …
Cover Story May 4, 2021

The Work of Editing a Magazine

A Discussion with Chris Lehmann

Chris Lehmann

Hosted by Agata Popeda
In this episode, we are talking to writer and editor Chris Lehmann, an editor of The Baffler, a former managing editor of The New Republic and a former editor of …
Communications May 4, 2021

How Non-Being Haunts Being

On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance

Corey Anton

Hosted by Lee Pierce
How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 3, 2021

The Politics of Online News in Cambodia

A Discussion with Astrid Norén-Nilsson

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
In this episode Astrid Norén-Nilsson of Lund University discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo, the Director of NIAS. Fresh News has …
Communications April 30, 2021

Reimagining the Middle Passage

Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

Tara T. Green

Hosted by Lee Pierce
From ships and novels to Mardi Gras, water, and television, how does the legacy of the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic through which African people were trafficked as …
Communications April 29, 2021

The African Lookbook

A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood

Catherine E. McKinley

Hosted by Lee Pierce
What does it mean to tie your cloth to that of another person, as in the Ghanaian tradition, or to be in full dress? How is fashion photography in a …
National Security April 28, 2021

Behind the Enigma

The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

John Ferris

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For more than a hundred years, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, has played a central role in the conduct of British statecraft. But the organization has traditionally operated from the …
Communications April 28, 2021

Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

Jack Black

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Jack Black, Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (Routledge 2021). In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining …
Critical Theory April 27, 2021

The Generic Closet

Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom

Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How do race and sexuality intersect in the American sitcom? In The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom (Indiana University Press, 2021),  Alfred L Martin, an assistant professor …
Cover Story April 27, 2021

Can Journalism Be Saved?

A Discussion with Nicholas Lemann

Hosted by Agata Popeda
There is no better person to start this journey than with journalist Nicholas Lemann, who has been observing the industry, also long-form journalism, for almost 50 years. Lemann started at …
Sociology April 23, 2021

The Pornification of America

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

Bernadette Barton

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Bernadette Barton, Ph.D. exposes the double standard we attach to women’s sexuality in The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society (NYU Press, 2021) Pictures of half-naked …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight April 22, 2021

The Context Marketing Revolution

How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media

Mathew Sweezey

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Mathew Sweezey about his new book The Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). Mathew Sweezey …
Economics April 21, 2021

Digital Renaissance

What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture

Joel Waldfogel

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Digitization is reshaping creative industries. Old gatekeepers in music, publishing, television, movies, and other industries no longer play such an important role, and digital piracy makes it easy for consumers …
Critical Theory April 16, 2021

Redlining Culture

A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction

Richard Jean So

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant professor of …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2021

Can We Fix Social Media?

A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail

Christopher A. Bail

Hosted by Marshall Poe
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast April 15, 2021

The Hidden History of Coined Words

Ralph Keyes

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted …