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Media
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
September 18, 2024
How and Why We Make Games
How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, a…
September 18, 2024
Through a Noir Lens
Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmar…
September 16, 2024
Star Trek
In this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek w…
September 14, 2024
Evacuee Cinema
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously unex…
September 13, 2024
Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
In June, a presidential debated ended the candidacy of incumbent President Joe Biden. On September 10th, Vice President Kamala Harris and Former Presi…
September 10, 2024
The Metamodern Slasher Film
It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of "classics". Consequently, most orig…
September 9, 2024
Literary Mathematics
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research re…
September 8, 2024
TikTok Broadway
Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the c…
September 4, 2024
Hate Speech and Academic Freedom
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on B…
September 4, 2024
Game Poems
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poem…
September 4, 2024
The American Surveillance State
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a…
September 3, 2024
Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer
If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone—billions of people worldwide now play video games. However, you may still find your…
September 3, 2024
Batman and the Joker
In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, i…
September 1, 2024
Speaking for Others
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, t…
August 31, 2024
What Readers Do
What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2024) Beth Driscoll, an Associate Professor in P…
August 31, 2024
Fandom Is Ugly
In their latest book, Fandom is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture (NYU Press, 2024), Mel Stafill highlights the importance of consid…
August 30, 2024
Journalism and the Metaverse
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or what some describe as the future of the Internet…
August 26, 2024
New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociological p…
August 23, 2024
Liberating Fat Bodies
Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024…
August 23, 2024
Codes of Modernity
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing s…