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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
October 9, 2026
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Katherine L. Alexander explores how one late …
October 4, 2026
The Hypocrisy Trap
In our increasingly distrusting and polarized world, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy may backfire, cr…
October 2, 2026
The Best 100 TV Shows of the 21st Century
It’s the Pop Culture Professors, and the New York Times has published its list of the best 100 television shows of the 21st Century. We react to this …
September 26, 2026
Power Surge
Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its…
September 26, 2026
Climate Hegemony
Climate action is at an impasse. Its political opponents are stronger than ever, its advocates powerless. Almost every major government and corporatio…
September 25, 2026
Projecting Knowledge
Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s (Brepols, 2026) takes one of those fundamental questions - how does k…
September 25, 2026
Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan
When the Taiwanese political drama Wave Makers appeared in April 2023, few anticipated its impact beyond the screen. Within weeks, survivors in politi…
September 25, 2026
Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies
How was drama experienced in early modern China? It was not tied to a single medium such as the page or the stage, but operated in a media ecology—an …
September 22, 2026
The Discursive-Digital Link
We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory techno…
September 21, 2026
The Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art
Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) represents a risky experiment in art-his…
September 20, 2026
Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic
Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, m…
September 15, 2026
Hate Speech
The United States has no hate speech laws; hate speech is generally considered to be free speech under the First Amendment. In Hate Speech: The Legal …
September 13, 2026
Enjoyment Is Breaking News
Why we crave enjoyment from news, how our news use divides us, and what we can do to create better news and more informed citizens. TikTok. Short-form…
September 12, 2026
Arts of the Border
Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges (Fordham, 2025) investigates the consequences of unfolding catastrophes across the world and the…
September 12, 2026
China in African Media
At its core, China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a book about power, journalism, geopolitica…
September 11, 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, …
September 7, 2026
Data-Driven Hollywood
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also i…
September 5, 2026
Extra! Extra!
American pop culture loves newsies. The children who bawled out headlines and sold newspapers on city streets in the late nineteenth and early twentie…
September 3, 2026
Inside Ink & Ribbon Press
A year ago, Ink & Ribbon Press did not exist. Today it’s a nonprofit publisher with its first books in the world, a readership built largely throu…
September 3, 2026
178 Done in a Day with the Vietnam War (JP)
Elisa Tamarkin, an English prof of high repute (Anglophilia and Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance) at UC Berkeley, joins RT…