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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
August 31, 2026
Much Matter in a Penny Paper
Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos,1910-1930 (Ohio UP, 2026) is a survey of the history and development of Yoruba print…
August 31, 2026
Los Angeles and Film
It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined with Los …
August 30, 2026
Steven Herman
Steven Herman spent 1990-2006 in Japan, most of those years with Voice of America. He served as South East Asia Bureau Chief as well as North East Asi…
August 30, 2026
Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century
Taiwanese cinema is internationally celebrated for the auteurs of the Taiwan New Cinema. Yet over the past fifteen years, ghosts, demons, curses and h…
August 27, 2026
Content Confusion
We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault. Not only…
August 26, 2026
How to Write a Book Proposal and Make Your Manuscript Work
Are you a scholar sitting on a manuscript that you think could be a book — but you have no idea where to start? In this episode of The Publishing Play…
August 23, 2026
Seriality
This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, …
August 23, 2026
Journalism in the Age of AI
What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Joanne Kuai…
August 20, 2026
Hot Type
Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-…
August 18, 2026
Next Time on Dragon Ball
Since its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative media franchises in the world. In Next Time on Dra…
August 16, 2026
Media Matters in Landscape Architecture
Media Matters in Landscape Architecture (Applied Research & Design, 2025) goes behind the scenes to consider how media technologies that have emerged …
August 14, 2026
Melodrama As Provocateur
The centerpiece of Melodrama as Provocateur (Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhet…
August 9, 2026
The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties
In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-…
August 6, 2026
In the Scholar’s Workshop
For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, com…
August 5, 2026
The Ethics of Argumentation
The Ethics of Argumentation (Routledge, 2025) offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentall…
August 4, 2026
The Land of Happiness
The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life (MIT Press, 2026) explores the far-reaching influence of the Japanes…
August 3, 2026
Beyond the Facts
Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how …
August 3, 2026
Palace of the Ether
Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the ar…
August 3, 2026
When the Declaration of Independence Was News
Amy Weitzman interviews Emily Sneff on her new book When the Declaration of Independence Was News and the graduate school experience. In 1776 peopl…
August 2, 2026
Visualizing Egypt
Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publish…