About Marci Mazzarotto

Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Her research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of academic theory and artistic practice with a focus on mass media, popular culture and avant-garde art.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Marci:

Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)

April 5, 2023

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism

Patrick Bixby
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Patrick Bixby's book Nietzsche and Irish Modernism (Manchester UP, 2022) demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a c…

Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

February 18, 2023

Unaccompanied Traveler

Patrick Bixby
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . .…

Patrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)

January 19, 2023

License to Travel

Patrick Bixby
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to de…

Donald A. Barclay, "Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

May 17, 2022

Disinformation

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 Pos…

Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)

April 15, 2022

The World Computer

Jonathan Beller
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodif…

Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)

October 29, 2021

Hate Speech

Caitlin Ring Carlson
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the m…

Elizaveta Friesem, "Media Is Us: Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

October 27, 2021

Media Is Us

Elizaveta Friesem
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk ab…

Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)

May 6, 2021

Silicon Values

Jillian C. York
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond th…

John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)

March 26, 2021

Action at a Distance

John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger, and Christina Vagt
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality o…

Aaron Tugendhaft, "The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

March 25, 2021

The Idols of ISIS

Aaron Tugendhaft
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. T…

Nathaniel Greenberg, "How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)

February 12, 2021

How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

Nathaniel Greenberg
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London pub…

Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" (Robinson, 2021)

December 10, 2020

Smoke and Mirrors

Gemma Milne
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media…

Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)

December 3, 2020

The Twittering Machine

Richard Seymour
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. …

John Durham Peters, "Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

November 5, 2020

Promiscuous Knowledge

Kenneth Cmiel and John Durham Peters
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however…

Yves Citton, "Mediarchy" (Polity, 2019)

September 28, 2020

Mediarchy

Yves Citton
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences s…

Donald A. Barclay, "Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)

June 5, 2020

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

Donald A. Barclay
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour…

Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)

May 25, 2020

Mind over Memes

Diana Senechal
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

In Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Diana Senechal examines words, …

Ruth Palmer, "Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight" (Columbia UP, 2017)

March 18, 2020

Becoming the News

Ruth Palmer
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

In her book, Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Columbia University Press, 2017), Ruth Palmer argues that understa…

Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)

March 3, 2020

Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation

Erika Engstrom
Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto

Erika Engstrom is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her latest book, Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s …