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Media
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Pop Islam
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new book …
July 26, 2024
The Virus Touch
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global…
July 26, 2024
Millennial Jewish Stars
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi…
July 23, 2024
British Cinema
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Bri…
July 19, 2024
Archiving the Commons
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its …
July 19, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co…
July 19, 2024
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an…
July 19, 2024
Playing American
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an a…
July 17, 2024
Revolutionary Becomings
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, Re…
July 15, 2024
A Book Unbound
What would it be like if scholars presented their research in sound rather than in print? Better yet, what if we could hear them in the act of their r…
July 14, 2024
The Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but w…
July 13, 2024
New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next…
July 12, 2024
The Enclosure of Knowledge
The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agra…
July 12, 2024
American Madness
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media. In contrast, conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and eve…
July 11, 2024
Curating Community Collections
A primary question for many librarians, directors, and board members is how to evaluate diversity in a collection on an ongoing basis. Curating Commun…
July 10, 2024
The Secret Life of Data
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is…
July 10, 2024
Take This Hammer
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also un…
July 7, 2024
Library 2035
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining t…
July 7, 2024
Rated A
In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema…
July 5, 2024
Appreciation Post
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. …