New Books Network Podcast

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 …

Anthropology November 13, 2023

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

Emily H. C. Chua

Hosted by Yadong Li

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China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to …

Political Science November 6, 2023

Wrong

How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Hosted by Susan Liebell

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Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters from the two parties have become increasingly distinct and …

Finance November 4, 2023

Number Go Up

Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew …

Public Policy October 31, 2023

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America

Dara Z. Strolovitch

Hosted by Ursula Hackett

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A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the climate crisis to the opioid crisis to the Coronavirus …

Sociology October 31, 2023

The Authenticity Industries

Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics

Michael Serazio

Hosted by Michael Johnston

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In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after …

Media October 31, 2023

Magazine

Jeff Jarvis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Magazine (Bloomsbury …

Law October 24, 2023

Liar in a Crowded Theater

Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation

Jeff Kosseff

Hosted by Daniel Moran

Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to enjoy this right. When commentators and politicians …

Middle Eastern Studies October 12, 2023

Laughing Matters

Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey

Valentina Marcella

Hosted by Reuben Silverman

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Valentina Marcella's Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino 2022) focuses on the production of political cartoons in Turkey in the context of …

Popular Culture October 9, 2023

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics

Johannes C.P. Schmid

Hosted by Elizabeth Woock

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In Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Johannes Schmid’s new book considers documentary comics in relationship to framing, that is both the strategic use of communication to encourage …

Women's History October 3, 2023

Yours, for Probably Always

Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949

Janet Somerville

Hosted by Jane Scimeca

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Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives …

General History October 3, 2023

Extremely Online

The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Taylor Lorenz

Hosted by Michael Vann

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Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off …

Peoples & Things October 2, 2023

Twenty Years After “The New Economy”

A Conversation with Doug Henwood

Doug Henwood

Hosted by Lee Vinsel

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Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “The New Economy” was a catchphrase that became …

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 23, 2023

The Engaged Scholar

Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

Andrew J. Hoffman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information …

Academic Life September 14, 2023

The Other Side of the Desk

A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello

Emily Costello

Hosted by Christina Gessler

How can writing for the general public help scholars to democratize education? Today, The Conversation editor Emily Costello takes us behind the scenes of a “typical” day at her editor’s …

The Vault August 25, 2023

The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

A Lecture by Betty Medsger

Betty Medsger

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities

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In this 2014 episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Betty Medsger. Medsger was a Washington Post reporter in March 1971, and received a cache of stolen FBI files …

Nordic Asia Podcast August 25, 2023

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

A Conversation with Hugo Pinto

Hugo Pinto

Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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How did the first newspaper in Macau come into being? What was the first foreign language newspaper on Chinese soil about? How was the dynamic between the Chinese and Portuguese …

Women's History August 21, 2023

Undaunted

How Women Changed American Journalism

Brooke Kroeger

Hosted by Jane Scimeca

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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work …

African American Studies August 20, 2023

Becoming Justice Thomas

A Discussion with Joel Anderson of Slate, Hang Up and Listen, and Slow Burn

Joel Anderson

Hosted by Adam McNeil

On today’s podcast, we are changing things up a bit. Instead of interviewing the author of a recent book, I am interviewing another podcaster about their recent narrative podcast season …

Military History August 4, 2023

The War Came To Us

Life and Death in Ukraine

Christopher Miller

Hosted by AJ Woodhams

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer …