Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 283
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media s…
4 years ago
Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)
Episode 64
Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see …
4 years ago
Robert E. Gutsche Jr., "The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 226
In The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump (Routledge, 2022), Dr. Robert E. Gutsche Jr. examines the effects of Donald T…
4 years, 1 month ago
William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)
Episode 164
When Communication Became a Discipline (Lexington, 2021) argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1…
4 years, 1 month ago
Kris Ruijgrok, "Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and Other Authoritarian Regimes" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 99
Internet-enabled mobilization begins long before there is a call for protest. In the book Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and other Authoritaria…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 315
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of ho…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
Episode 155
Jacob Mchangama, founder and director of the think tank Justitia, has written a one-volume history of freedom of thought, which ranges from the lone…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
Episode 6
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the future of rational decision making with Professor Olivier Sibony who after 25 years with McKinsey & …
4 years, 2 months ago
Jerry Ceppos, "Covering Politics in the Age of Trump" (LSU Press, 2021)
Episode 63
As the United States moves on from the Trump era — and perhaps begins to contemplate what a second one might look like — conversations about journali…
4 years, 2 months ago
E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 283
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America (University of Illinois Press, 2020) reveals the previously hidden im…
4 years, 2 months ago