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Political Science May 26, 2022

Caricature and National Character

The United States at War

Christopher J. Gilbert

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Dr. Christopher Gilbert, Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, has a new book that examines the understanding of American national character and culture through the works of caricature and …

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Interviews with journalists and scholars of journalism about their new books.

On Religion May 17, 2022

On Covering Religion as a Journalist

A Discussion with Sam Kestenbaum

Sam Kestenbaum

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sam Kestenbaum is an independent religion journalist. He writes for The New York Times and is a contributing editor and former staff writer for The Forward. …
African Studies May 17, 2022

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Late one night, journalist Sally Hayden received an urgent message on Facebook: “Sally, we need your help.” It was from a group of Eritrean refugees who had been held in …
Media May 17, 2022

Disinformation

The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

Donald A. Barclay

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era (Rowman and …
Critical Theory May 11, 2022

Cancel Culture

A Critical Analysis

Eve Ng

Hosted by Louisa Hann
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media studies perspective, as both cancel practices (what people …
Journalism May 9, 2022

I Never Thought of It That Way

How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

Mónica Guzmán

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out …
Sociology May 3, 2022

The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy

After Trump

Robert E. Gutsche Jr.

Hosted by Michael Johnston
In The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump (Routledge, 2022), Dr. Robert E. Gutsche Jr. examines the effects of Donald Trump’s presidency on journalistic practices, rhetoric, and discourses …
Education May 2, 2022

When Communication Became a Discipline

William F. Eadie

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
When Communication Became a Discipline (Lexington, 2021) argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1964 and 1982. They changed the names of their scholarly societies …
Southeast Asian Studies April 15, 2022

Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and Other Authoritarian Regimes

Challenging Information Scarcity

Kris Ruijgrok

Hosted by Nicole Curato
Internet-enabled mobilization begins long before there is a call for protest. In the book Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and other Authoritarian Regimes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Kris Ruijgrok examines …
Science, Technology, and Society April 14, 2022

How Machines Came to Speak

Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech

Jennifer Petersen

Hosted by Austin Clyde
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke UP, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the …
Law April 6, 2022

Free Speech

A History from Socrates to Social Media

Jacob Mchangama

Hosted by Ian Drake
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 Demosthenes of 4th-century BCE Athens to …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones March 29, 2022

The Future of Rational Decision Making

A Discussion with Olivier Sibony

Olivier Sibony

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the future of rational decision making with Professor Olivier Sibony who after 25 years with McKinsey & Company in France, is now at HEC …
Journalism March 23, 2022

Covering Politics in the Age of Trump

Jerry Ceppos

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
As the United States moves on from the Trump era — and perhaps begins to contemplate what a second one might look like — conversations about journalism's relationship to Trump …
African American Studies March 17, 2022

Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr

Popular Black History in Postwar America

E. James West

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America (University of Illinois Press, 2020) reveals the previously hidden impact of Ebony magazine as a major producer and disseminator of …
Critical Theory March 15, 2022

A Strategic Nature

Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism

Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2021), Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force …
Art March 4, 2022

Killing for Show

Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq

Julian Stallabrass

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck that may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed …
Journalism February 24, 2022

Journalism and Jim Crow

White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant …
Ukrainian Studies February 22, 2022

In Isolation

Dispatches from Occupied Donbas

Stanislav Aseyev

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian journalist and writer born in Donetsk, which at present remains occupied by Russia-backed militants. Sometime after the beginning of the occupation, he was captured for …
Political Science February 15, 2022

The Sound of Exclusion

NPR and the Latinx Public

Christopher Chávez

Hosted by Susan Liebell
How is power enacted in everyday broadcast practices? National Public Radio has a “rhetoric of impartiality” but this obscures the ideological work done by the network.” In The Sound of …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel February 15, 2022

In Science We Trust?

An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz

Fran Kritz

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Americans are deeply polarized on many issues, including science and medicine. Where once was widespread agreement, today the differences are sharp: on one hand, posters announce, “I believe in science!” …