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37:11

Steven Herman: Behind the White House Curtain

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/30

Steven Herman spent 1990-2006 in Japan, most of those years with Voice of America. He served as South East Asia Bureau Chief as well as North East Asia Bureau Chief for the Korean Peninsula & Japan. Over his 16 years living in Japan he covered the Kobe Earthquake as well as the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster, which he said was "covering three disasters at the same time.” He also recounts his more recent days as a White House Foreign Correspondent, especially his time as a traveling

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31:42

Corrado Neri, "Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/30

Taiwanese cinema is internationally celebrated for the auteurs of the Taiwan New Cinema. Yet over the past fifteen years, ghosts, demons, curses and haunted screens have become increasingly prominent, turning horror from a marginal genre into an important strand of Taiwan’s popular cinema. Professor Corrado Neri’s new book, Taiwanese Horror Cinema in the 21st Century: Spectral Narratives and Screen Culture(Anthem Press, 2026), explores this transformation. Neri argues that Taiwanese horror

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28:41

Michelle A. Amazeen, "Content Confusion: News Media,...

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2026/08/27

We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault. Not only do news outlets disguise paid content to look like online news articles, a practice called “native advertising,” but new research suggests that this form of advertising even influences the real journalism that appears next to it—both perceptions of the journalism as well as its actual substance. InContent Confusion: News Media, Native Advertising, and

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26:51

How to Write a Book Proposal and Make Your Manuscript...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/26

Are you a scholar sitting on a manuscript that you think could be a book — but you have no idea where to start? In this episode of The Publishing Playbook, host Sarah Russo sits down with Laura Portwood-Stacer, founder of Manuscript Works and author of two books about academic publishing: “The Book Proposal Book” and “Make Your Manuscript Work.” Laura shares what pulled her out of academia and into editorial consulting, and why “publish or perish” no longer guarantees the payoff it once promised

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83:59

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/23

This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one. The serial is everywhere. Commonly identified by the segmented release structure of an ongoing narrative—from installments of Victorian novels to TV episodes to comic books—seriality names the spread of installment-based storytelling across a range of media. However, Ryan Engley argues that seriality

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70:18

Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds,...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/23

What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for?In this episode, Joanne Kuai speaks with Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, authors of Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity, 2027). For decades, journalism has been caught on a “hamster wheel” of acceleration: producing more stories, for more platforms, with fewer resources. AI promises even greater efficiency,but is doing more

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53:58

Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/20

Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad(Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires.This is a tale populated with wondrous characters: tragic

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52:55

Vincent Haddad, "Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing...

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2026/08/18

Since its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative media franchises in the world. InNext Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise(UMinnesota Press, 2026), Dr. Vincent Haddad investigates how the franchise has maintained huge global demand despite its formulaic plotlines. Examining its exhaustive repetition of storytelling forms across comics, TV series, games, and merchandise, Haddad argues that the convergence of play, fandom,

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53:36

Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media...

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2026/08/16

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture(Applied Research & Design, 2025)goesbehind the scenes to consider how media technologies that have emerged in recent decades are shaping the practices of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists. The media infrastructure of climate science and Earth remote sensing, coupled with the increased availability of spatial information and modeling software, provides the context for many of the chapters in that the media and methods employed are designed to

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70:15

Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al.,...

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2026/08/14

The centerpiece ofMelodrama as Provocateur(Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her highly influential work reframed some of cinema’s most neglected or denigrated genres from a feminist perspective, including documentary, pornography, horror, and melodrama. Melodrama is the focus of what would become Williams’s final project. In the last few years of her life, she was working on a

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55:23

Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show...

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2026/08/09

InThe Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette(Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published onThe Patty Duke Show(1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the all-American Patty as well as her staid British counterpart Cathy, who comes to live with Patty's family in Brooklyn. Far from being a frivolous show, the show's use

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59:10

In The Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of...

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2026/08/06

For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, composing, and endless copying.In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship(Princeton UP, 2026)introduces readers to these unsung scribes, assistants, and collaborators, showing how the scholarly enterprise is rarely as solitary as we tend to think. Dr. Blair traces how the learned have relied on helpers since antiquity,

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61:36

Katharina Stevens, "The Ethics of Argumentation"...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/05

The Ethics of Argumentation(Routledge, 2025)offers a new approach to the theory of argumentation that conceptualizes argumentation as a fundamentally ethical activity whose norms are grounded in, and must be selected according to, moral reasons. Current normative approaches to argumentation do not treat ethics as an integral part of argumentation theory. This is at least in part due to a methodological commitment not to address internal states of the arguers, such as intentions and beliefs, which

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49:21

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/03

Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our current data driven world. Author James Cortada argues that fuzzy, hard-to describe information is greater and more, important than just hard facts. What is tacit knowledge? It is what we might consider knowledge that is unable to be fully communicated; knowledge that we understand implicitly, but it is a bit hard to

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43:37

Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/03

Amy Weitzman interviews Emily Sneff on her new bookWhen the Declaration of Independence Was Newsand the graduate school experience.In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of their local newspapers. Stories of the Declaration typically recount the work that took place inside the Continental Congress, focusing on the men tasked with drafting the text. Although Congress declared independence, the work of spreading the news

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57:51

Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting...

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2026/08/03

Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades, with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s identity as the programmes and people that they housed. Borrowing from the

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51:35

Paulina Banas, "Visualizing Egypt: European Travel,...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/02

Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publishing ventures in France and Britain dedicated to the production of albums and travel accounts featuring images of Muslim Egypt and Islamic architecture and catering to a growing European fascination with the East. In her debut book,Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth

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41:46

Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/08/02

Much scholarship has sought to decode the polarization of American culture.Eric O Silva'sanalysis ofthe public discourse on contested realities (immigration, vaccines, electric vehicles, transgender youth medicine, campus protests of Israel, the regulation of AR-15s, and race and police brutality) reveals that Americans are not governed by coherent, diametrically opposed worldviews. U.S. culture is more fractured than dominant narratives of a polarized society would suggest. Moreover, these cultural

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25:28

Siri Carpenter on Why She Self-Published First — and...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/07/30

What does it take to turn a self-published book into a traditional publishing deal? Science writer Siri Carpenter — executive director of The Open Notebook and author ofThe Craft of Science Writing— joins host Sarah Russo on The Publishing Playbook to break down her path from self-publishing to an expanded second edition with University of Chicago Press. Siri shares how she landed an agent after self-publishing, why course adoption became the key to her book’s success, and the design decisions that

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84:03

Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of...

New Books in Communications ·

2026/07/27

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lana Swartz, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-Career at the University of Virginia, where she runs the Digital Cultures and Economies Lab. Swartz is a creative and wide-ranging thinker and researcher. The pair focuses on Swartz's book, New Money: How Payment Became social media, and talks about her recent work on youth money cultures and on the rich business and media dimensions of contemporary nail artists and salons.Learn more

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