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Back to SearchMarga Ortigas, "God's Ashes: Apocrypha" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 201
Climate change. The refugee crisis. The rise of social media.
These big social questions—and others—inspired journalist Marga Ortigas in the creation …
1 year, 9 months ago
Eric Hoyt, "Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 78
For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat …
1 year, 9 months ago
Nora Stone, "How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 210
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2023) provides a more comprehensive and meaningful periodization of…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 282
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising playe…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 12
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Globa…
1 year, 10 months ago
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Episode 65
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 30
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bill Lascher, "A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Episode 195
Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from …
1 year, 10 months ago
Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 535
Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geogr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Nimmagadda Bhargav, "Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 77
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic…
1 year, 11 months ago