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About Marci Mazzarotto
Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair of 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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Marci:
April 5, 2023
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism
Patrick Bixby's book Nietzsche and Irish Modernism (Manchester UP, 2022) demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a c…
February 18, 2023
Unaccompanied Traveler
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 . . .…
January 19, 2023
License to Travel
This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to de…
May 17, 2022
Disinformation
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…
April 15, 2022
The World Computer
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodif…
October 29, 2021
Hate Speech
Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the m…
October 27, 2021
Media Is Us
Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk ab…
May 6, 2021
Silicon Values
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…
March 26, 2021
Action at a Distance
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…
March 25, 2021
The Idols of ISIS
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…
February 12, 2021
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring
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…
December 10, 2020
Smoke and Mirrors
Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media…
December 3, 2020
The Twittering Machine
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. …
November 5, 2020
Promiscuous Knowledge
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…
September 28, 2020
Mediarchy
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…
June 5, 2020
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies
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…
May 25, 2020
Mind over Memes
In Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Diana Senechal examines words, …
March 18, 2020
Becoming the News
In her book, Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Columbia University Press, 2017), Ruth Palmer argues that understa…
March 3, 2020
Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation
Erika Engstrom is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her latest book, Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s …