New Books Network Podcast

Comics and Graphic Novels December 8, 2023

Comics as Communication

A Functional Approach

Paul Fisher Davies

Hosted by Elizabeth Woock

Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for …

Political Science December 7, 2023

Violent Exceptions

Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Wendy S. Hesford

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty

Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure …

Game Studies December 7, 2023

Playing the Middle Ages

Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games

Robert Houghton

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst

The Middle Ages have provided rich source material for physical and digital games from Dungeons and Dragons to Assassin's Creed. Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games …

Popular Culture December 5, 2023

Ballroom

A People’s History of Dancing

Hilary French

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing …

Journalism December 4, 2023

How the News Feels

The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Hosted by James Kates

In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode of journalistic storytelling dating back nearly two centuries. Literary journalism …

Indian Ocean World December 4, 2023

Beyond Colonial Rupture

Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia

Nur Sobers-Khan, Layli Uddin, and Priyanka Basu

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the development of North Indian Muslim publics (Dubrow, 2018; Robb, 2020), ʿulama and Islamic jurisprudence …

Asian American Studies December 3, 2023

Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Kimberly D. McKee

Hosted by Julia Lee

In Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (Ohio State UP, 2023), Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at …

Scholarly Communication December 2, 2023

Too Much Communication?

A Conversation with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.2 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The …

Media December 1, 2023

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

Jeff Jarvis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority …

Military History December 1, 2023

The Book at War

Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Andrew Pettegree

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books …

Psychology November 30, 2023

Honesty

The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue

Christian B. Miller

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

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Honesty is an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships depend upon it. Employers value it in their employees. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have said very …

High Theory November 28, 2023

Plagiarism

A Discussion with Geoffrey Sanborn

Geoffrey Sanborn

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu

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In this episode of High Theory, Geoffrey Sanborn tells us about Plagiarism. A concept emerged with the idea of originality, plagiarism challenges some of our most deeply held notions of …

Science, Technology, and Society November 28, 2023

The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication

Rhonda McEwen, Andrea L. Guzman and Steve Jones (eds.)

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes

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The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging in new research in this fast-developing field. Chapters provide a …

Library Science November 26, 2023

From Handwriting to Footprinting

Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis

Anne Baillot

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future? In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of …

Digital Humanities November 25, 2023

Voidopolis

Kat Mustatea

Hosted by Nathan Moore

Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante's …

Political Science November 23, 2023

National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics

The Democratic and Republican National Committees, 1912-2016

Boris Heersink

Hosted by Lilly Goren

Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersink’s work is both qualitative and quantitative and …

Media November 19, 2023

Propaganda in Autocracies

Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly believe otherwise, a dictator's power is …

General History November 18, 2023

Fake History

101 Things That Never Happened

Jo Teeuwisse

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the …

Buddhist Studies November 18, 2023

Saving Time

Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

Hosted by Tricycle Magazine

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold. Now, she takes …

Science, Technology, and Society November 18, 2023

The Switch

An Off and On History of Digital Humans

Jason Puskar

Hosted by Nathan Moore

From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency. The Switch: An Off and On History of …