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Back to SearchJonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 72
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode o…
2 years, 6 months ago
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 115
A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly be…
2 years, 6 months ago
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 266
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 683
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the fu…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 113
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 321
In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive v…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 168
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.
From the clima…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 200
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to…
2 years, 7 months ago
Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)
Episode 237
Valentina Marcella's Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino 2022) focuses on t…
2 years, 7 months ago