Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoseph M. Adelman, "Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Episode 579
During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for pub…
6 years, 9 months ago
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 131
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries? In Women, Inequality and Media Work (Routledge, 2019), Dr Ann…
6 years, 10 months ago
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 46
The American press is older than the United States itself. Ever since its catalytic role in the American Revolution, journalism has evolved to meet c…
6 years, 10 months ago
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 84
American society is deeply divided at this moment—not just on values and opinions but on basic perceptions of reality. In their latest book, One Nati…
6 years, 11 months ago
Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture" (Amethyst Editions, 2019)
Episode 95
When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launch Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebra…
6 years, 11 months ago
Jeremy Black, "The English Press: A History" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Episode 518
In this succinct and brilliantly written one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, premier historian Jeremy Black, the most proli…
6 years, 11 months ago
Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the Neoliberal Turn in US Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 354
Neoliberal policies have been a primary feature of American political economy for decades. In Framing Inequality: News Media, Public Opinion, and the…
7 years ago
John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
Episode 89
In Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), Dr. John Etty explains how Krokodil mag…
7 years ago
Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 46
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs. But Michael A. Cohen and his co-author …
7 years, 1 month ago
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Episode 15
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more d…
7 years, 2 months ago