Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMelissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza, "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 269
In A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2021), Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza exami…
4 years, 2 months ago
Julian Stallabrass, "Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Episode 90
In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck that may have had a weapon attached to its f…
4 years, 3 months ago
Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Episode 62
White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War…
4 years, 3 months ago
Stanislav Aseyev, "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas" (HURI, 2022)
Episode 2
Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian journalist and writer born in Donetsk, which at present remains occupied by Russia-backed militants. Sometime after t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Christopher Chávez, "The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public" (U Arizona Press, 2021)
Episode 581
How is power enacted in everyday broadcast practices? National Public Radio has a “rhetoric of impartiality” but this obscures the ideological work d…
4 years, 3 months ago
In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
Episode 68
Americans are deeply polarized on many issues, including science and medicine. Where once was widespread agreement, today the differences are sharp: …
4 years, 3 months ago
Paula Lynn Ellis et al., "News for US: Citizen-Centered Journalism" (Cognella, 2021)
Episode 61
In the midst of the disruptions and distrust that have plagued traditional media in recent years, and a degree of polarization rarely seen in America…
4 years, 4 months ago
Lisa Jane Disch, "Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 53
The common-sense way of thinking about what representatives should do in democracies tends to revolve around the concept of responsiveness: represent…
4 years, 4 months ago
Matt Carlson et al., "News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 60
Political scientists have argued that Donald Trump exacerbated long-simmering changes in polarization, populism, and other aspects of politics. In th…
4 years, 4 months ago
Marshall Poe: The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network
Episode 47
This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have incre…
4 years, 4 months ago