Why should we care about having true beliefs? Why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them🎙️Renee Garfinkel has @cailinmeister on the podcast to discuss THE MISINFORMATION AGE ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/cailin-oconnor…

Targeting a variety of terms, MIND OVER MEMES: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (@RLPGBooks) examines words, concepts & phrases that demand reappraisal. Tune in as Marci Mazzarotto interviews Diana Senechal on the podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/diana-senechal…

FAKE NEWS, PROPAGANDA, and PLAIN OLD LIES (@RLPGBooks) shows us how to identify deceptive info and seek out trustworthy sources in order to inform decision-making in our personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Donald A. Barclay fills us in ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/donald-a-barcl…

Employing concepts from anthropology, sociology, media studies and communications, (INTER)FACING DEATH (Media, Cultural and Communication Studies) examines diverse phenomena where death and digital culture meet. Give author Sam Han's NBN interview a listen 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/sam-han-interf…

We live in an age where catastrophe not only functions as a dominant organizing rhetoric but also as an appealing and unifying force for many communities across America. Luke Winslow, author of AMERICAN CATASTROPHE (The Ohio State University Press), joins Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/luke-winslow-a…

What is spam? In MEDIA DISTORTIONS (Peter Lang USA), Dr. Pinkeee👩‍💻@[email protected] takes this simple category that seems ever present in our online lives to explain corporate power, regulation, and the social world. Tune in as Carmi joins Dave O'Brien on the podcast ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/elinor-carmi-m…

In ISLES of NOISE (@uncpressblog), @alebronf traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in #Haiti, #Jamaica, and #Cuba during the first half of the 20th century. Don't miss her discussion with Sharika D. Crawford on the podcast ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/alejandra-bron…

With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner. Tune in as Doron Galili, author ofSEEING by ELECTRICITY (Duke University Press), discusses the emergence of broadcast TV ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/doron-galili-s…

On this episode Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade and Creshema Murray discuss LEADERSHIP THROUGH the LENS (@RLPGBooks), an edited collection of television case studies about how the medium impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy. Listen in!👇 newbooksnetwork.com/creshema-r-mur…

After WWI many people tried to use radio as a tool for world peace, believing that it could promote understanding across national boundaries. Tune in as Simon Potter discusses his new book, WIRELESS INTERNATIONALISM and DISTANT LISTENING (@OUPHistory) 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/s-j-potter-wir…

Essential listening (& one of the best Critical Race Theory books of the year) Francesca Sobande talks to NB Critical Theory 📚 about The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain newbooksnetwork.com/francesca-soba…

What are the possibilities and what are the inequalities of the digital world? THE DIGITAL LIVES of BLACK WOMEN in BRITAIN (Palgrave Culture & Media) explores Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media. Tune in as Francesca Sobande joins Dave O'Brien ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/francesca-soba…

Adaptation doesn't just constitute the afterlife of the adapted work; it forms part of the dynamic process that brings the work to life. Lisette Lopez Szwydky discusses TRANSMEDIA ADAPTATION in the NINETEENTH CENTURY (The Ohio State University Press) w/@middleagedwitch👇 newbooksnetwork.com/lissette-lopez…

What's the relationship between race, technology & sound? How did Latin Americans in the 19th & early 20th centuries think about, and importantly, hear, race? @alebronf interviews Dylon Robbins, author of AUDIBLE GEOGRAPHIES in LATIN AMERICA (Palgrave Macmillan)👇 newbooksnetwork.com/dylon-robbins-…

ARE YOU ENTERTAINED? (Duke University Press) offers an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity and presidential politics. Co-editor Simone Drake joins @gorenlj ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/simone-c-drake…

"If it bleeds it leads," has been supplemented by a new dictum, "If it's outrageous, it's contagious." 🎙️Victor Pickard joins Bruce Wark to discuss DEMOCRACY WITHOUT JOURNALISM? (@OUPPolitics), a new book that details the core failures of American news media. newbooksnetwork.com/victor-pickard…

Not too long ago, newspapers were exclusively physical objects made out of paper. DEAD TREE MEDIA (Hopkins Press) details how newspapers acquired timber lands, chopped down trees, and managed international supply chains. 🎙️Michael Stamm joins Dexter Fergie ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/michael-stamm-…

Begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend john durham peters, PROMISCUOUS KNOWLEDGE (UChicagoPress) provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. Peters is our guest on the podcast👇 newbooksnetwork.com/john-durham-pe…

IRONY and OUTRAGE: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States (Oxford Academic), looks at two genres of communication—irony and outrage—and their respective appeals to liberals and conservatives. Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 joins Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade👇 newbooksnetwork.com/irony-and-outr…