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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:

Media 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 crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly …
Media February 18, 2023

Unaccompanied Traveler

The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy

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 . . . insofar …
Media January 19, 2023

License to Travel

A Cultural History of the Passport

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 define the modern world. In License to Travel …
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 …
Media April 15, 2022

The World Computer

Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism

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 commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed …
Media October 29, 2021

Hate Speech

Caitlin Ring Carlson

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Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to target the Muslim …
Media October 27, 2021

Media Is Us

Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame

Elizaveta Friesem

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Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk about media as something people should be …
Media May 6, 2021

Silicon Values

The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

Jillian C. York

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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 the control of money or …
Media 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 of transmission. Action at a Distance …
Media March 25, 2021

The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

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. The Idols of …
Media February 12, 2021

How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia

Nathaniel Greenberg

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On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with …
Media December 10, 2020

Smoke and Mirrors

How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

Gemma Milne

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Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media, or grab the attention of investors, or convince …
Media December 3, 2020

The Twittering Machine

Richard Seymour

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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. We write to the …
Media November 5, 2020

Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

Kenneth Cmiel and John Durham Peters

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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, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in …
Media 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 shaped by the media …
Media June 5, 2020

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

Donald A. Barclay

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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 news cycles? Fake News, Propaganda, and …
Media May 25, 2020

Mind over Memes

Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies

Diana Senechal

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In Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Diana Senechal examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal. Targeting a variety …
Media March 18, 2020

Becoming the News

How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight

Ruth Palmer

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In her book, Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Columbia University Press, 2017), Ruth Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who …
Media 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 Parks and Recreation (Peter Lang, 2017), analyzes …