Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOrit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019)
Episode 183
What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?
Betraying Dignity: The Toxic Seduction of Social Media, Shaming, an…
5 years, 10 months ago
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Episode 266
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hearing an awful lot about the fraught relationship between science and media. In his book, News from Ma…
5 years, 10 months ago
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street" (UNC Press, 2018)
Episode 93
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expressi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
Episode 207
James West speaks with Jerry Gershenhorn, Julius L. Chambers Professor of History at North Carolina Central University, about Louis Austin and the Ca…
5 years, 10 months ago
Katherine Stewart, "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 83
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex mar…
5 years, 11 months ago
James M. Lundberg, "Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Episode 179
During his nearly four decades as a newspaper editor and politician, Horace Greeley embraced a range of controversial causes. In his book Horace Gree…
5 years, 11 months ago
Leticia Bode et al., "Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign" (Brookings, 2020)
Episode 444
Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign (Brookings Institution Press, 2020) comes out of a broader col…
5 years, 11 months ago
Robert Samet, "Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Episode 66
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world.
In Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela (U…
5 years, 11 months ago
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Episode 121
New mothers face a barrage of confounding decisions during the life-cycle of early motherhood which includes... Should they change their diet or mind…
5 years, 11 months ago
Donald A. Barclay, "Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Episode 51
Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hou…
6 years ago