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Media and Communications
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
March 19, 2026
Against Innocence
In this timely and bold book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (U Chicago Press, 2025), Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that co…
March 18, 2026
Making the Liberal Media
In Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press (Columbia UP, 2026), A.J. Bauer examines the history of the idea of …
March 17, 2026
Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities
Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and th…
March 11, 2026
Against Symbolic Liberalism
In an era of deepening polarization, Sari Hanafi examines how social scientists often reproduce the very injustices they seek to challenge, taking ent…
March 10, 2026
Screen Captures
Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us throu…
March 10, 2026
Forging a Mexican People
Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illust…
March 10, 2026
Stuck
Fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—what does that reveal about American democracy? In Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence …
March 9, 2026
When I Stories
As news reporters, we are in the story-telling business, the eye witnesses to history, writing, it's said, ‘the first draft of history'. The fall o…
March 7, 2026
Sesame Street Around the World
Given the sometimes extraordinary politicization of culture, it is surprising that Sesame Street has gained acceptance and legitimacy in more than fif…
March 2, 2026
Emoji Speak
Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glob…
March 1, 2026
Five Evil Women
Why do certain women become icons of evil? Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Joanna Bourke offers…
February 28, 2026
How the Cold War Broke the News
Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspec…
February 25, 2026
Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Fred T…
February 22, 2026
British Blonde
In the 1950s, American glamour swept into a war-torn Britain as part of a broader transatlantic exchange of culture and commodities. But in this proce…
February 14, 2026
Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a…
February 12, 2026
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Studying Chinese media has never been a stable intellectual enterprise. As Professor Yuezhi Zhao once observed, it often resembles aiming at a target …
February 10, 2026
Behind Caesar's Back
In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling explora…
February 8, 2026
Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lone D…
February 7, 2026
Soviet Samizdat
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomenon…
February 7, 2026
Ballroom
In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the…