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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
May 6, 2026
Dangerous Creations
Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France (U Toronto Press, 2025) presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle F…
May 4, 2026
The Religion Department
The Religion Department is an online learning platform dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion, created by the team behind Religion …
May 3, 2026
Media Rurality
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…
April 29, 2026
Are Libraries the Hidden Book Market?
What if the most powerful tool in your book marketing strategy isn't social media — it's your local library? In the debut episode of The Publishing Pl…
April 26, 2026
Practical Project Management for Librarians
Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Lea…
April 25, 2026
Reading Media
Reading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies’ most foundational methods at a moment when it is most neede…
April 23, 2026
Trans Cinema
Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come togeth…
April 22, 2026
Powered by Smart
Powered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and stream…
April 22, 2026
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny interviews Jacob Siegel, writer, Army veteran, and author of The Informatio…
April 21, 2026
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age
A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity (Emerald, 2026) fosters a platform for information sc…
April 20, 2026
Archiving the Past
What happens when we assume women’s presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women’…
April 20, 2026
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films: Industry, Regulation, Humour and Authorship (Routledge, 2025) offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a …
April 19, 2026
Boom to Bust
Boom to Bust is a timely investigation into the rise of Peak TV and the perfect storm that caused a rapid decline in Hollywood work. When Hollywood w…
April 19, 2026
The Long War of Ideas
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on terror.…
April 12, 2026
U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory
In U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space (Taylor & Francis, 2024), John Bechtold examines how the US military understands …
April 12, 2026
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures (Academic Studies Press, 2025) examines the New Cold War betw…
April 11, 2026
Fire and Silence
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Annahid Dashtgard about her new book, Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders (Dundurn Pres…
April 4, 2026
Race on Screen
What is the role of television in the history of the UK? In Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain (Cambridge UP, 2026) Christin…
April 2, 2026
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge, 2025) illuminates individual and collecti…
March 30, 2026
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Ben C…