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IRONY and OUTRAGE: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States (@OUPAcademic), looks at two genres of communicationโ€”irony and outrageโ€”and their respective appeals to liberals and conservatives. @dannagal joins @RhetoricLee๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/irony-anโ€ฆ
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Begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend @jdurhampeters, 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 podcast๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/john-durโ€ฆ
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Not too long ago, newspapers were exclusively physical objects made out of paper. DEAD TREE MEDIA (@JHUPress) details how newspapers acquired timber lands, chopped down trees, and managed international supply chains. ๐ŸŽ™๏ธMichael Stamm joins @DexterFergie โ†™๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/michael-โ€ฆ
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"If it bleeds it leads," has been supplemented by a new dictum, "If it's outrageous, it's contagious." ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ@VWPickard joins @BruceWark to discuss DEMOCRACY WITHOUT JOURNALISM? (@OUPPolitics), a new book that details the core failures of American news media. newbooksnetwork.com/victor-pโ€ฆ
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ARE YOU ENTERTAINED? (@DukePress) offers an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity and presidential politics. Co-editor @SimoneCDrake joins @gorenlj โคต๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/simone-cโ€ฆ
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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)๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/dylon-roโ€ฆ
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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 (@ohiostatepress) w/@middleagedwitch๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/lissetteโ€ฆ
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Essential listening (& one of the best Critical Race Theory books of the year) @Chess_Ess talks to @NewBooksCritThe about The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain newbooksnetwork.com/francescโ€ฆ
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What are the possibilities and what are the inequalities of the digital world? THE DIGITAL LIVES of BLACK WOMEN in BRITAIN (@PalgraveCultMed) explores Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media. Tune in as @Chess_Ess joins @DrDaveOBrien โคต๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/francescโ€ฆ
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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 @simonjpotter discusses his new book, WIRELESS INTERNATIONALISM and DISTANT LISTENING (@OUPHistory) ๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/s-j-pottโ€ฆ
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On this episode @RhetoricLee 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!๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/creshemaโ€ฆ
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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 @alldestroyers, author ofSEEING by ELECTRICITY (@DukePress), discusses the emergence of broadcast TV โ†™๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/doron-gaโ€ฆ
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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 @SharikaCrawfo17 on the podcast โ†™๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/alejandrโ€ฆ
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What is spam? In MEDIA DISTORTIONS (@PeterLangUSA), @Elinor_Carmi 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 @DrDaveOBrien on the podcast โ†™๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/elinor-cโ€ฆ
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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 (@ohiostatepress), joins @RhetoricLee โฌ‡๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/luke-winโ€ฆ
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Employing concepts from anthropology, sociology, media studies and communications, (INTER)FACING DEATH (@Routledge_MandC) examines diverse phenomena where death and digital culture meet. Give author Sam Han's NBN interview a listen ๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/sam-han-โ€ฆ
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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 โ†™๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/donald-aโ€ฆ
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 podcast๐Ÿ‘‡ newbooksnetwork.com/diana-seโ€ฆ
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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 them๐ŸŽ™๏ธ@embracingwisdom has @cailinmeister on the podcast to discuss THE MISINFORMATION AGE โคต๏ธ newbooksnetwork.com/cailin-oโ€ฆ
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