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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
June 21, 2026
Audio and Ideas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…
June 20, 2026
Hidden Heretics
In her recent publication, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, scholar Ayala Fader tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories …
June 17, 2026
Audio and Ideas
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On May 13, 2026, Princeton’s Center for Human Values hosted a d…
June 16, 2026
Staging Blackface in Canada
In the early twentieth century, as variety shows flooded Canadian stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the …
June 16, 2026
Inventing Nadar
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of …
June 13, 2026
Wild Tides
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…
June 11, 2026
Can I Say That
Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…
June 6, 2026
Acts of Love
In 1898, vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown joyously embraced in a short silent film titled Something Good—Negro Kiss. The first known …
June 5, 2026
Microphone
Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily li…
June 3, 2026
The Making of China's Post Office
How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China — right at the very end of the empire? In The Maki…
June 2, 2026
Unlimited
Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the fir…
May 31, 2026
Food Porn
Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its o…
May 29, 2026
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures. I…
May 28, 2026
Stories We Wear
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is known for his outfits. Since rising to become India’s head of government in 2014, photographers and journali…
May 27, 2026
Turn Your LinkedIn Profile into a Book Marketing Machine
What if in the age of AI generated content, the most important part of being visible online is just being a human? In this episode of The Publishing P…
May 25, 2026
Archie Bunker for President
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Thi…
May 22, 2026
A Century of Hitchcock
For over a century, Alfred Hitchcock has remained one of cinema's most influential directors. Known as the Master of Suspense, this visionary filmmake…
May 20, 2026
How Film Became History
By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film sti…
May 20, 2026
Saving Our Survivors
How did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust s…
May 20, 2026
Rebooting Inequality
From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with reboo…