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At its core, China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a book about power, journalism, g...
Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges (Fordham, 2025) investigates the consequences of unfolding catastrophes across the wor...
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing...
American pop culture loves newsies. The children who bawled out headlines and sold newspapers on city streets in the late nineteenth and ear...
The idea of civility goes back to classical Rome and the ways in which citizens engaged one another within the republic. The term itself is...
Elisa Tamarkin, an English prof of high repute (Anglophilia and Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance) at UC Berkeley...
It is impossible to talk about the City of Angels without talking about its movie business. The history of American cinema is so intertwined...
Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos,1910-1930 (Ohio UP, 2026) is a survey of the history and development of Yo...
Steven Herman spent 1990-2006 in Japan, most of those years with Voice of America. He served as South East Asia Bureau Chief as well as Nort...
Taiwanese cinema is internationally celebrated for the auteurs of the Taiwan New Cinema. Yet over the past fifteen years, ghosts, demons, cu...
We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault...
Are you a scholar sitting on a manuscript that you think could be a book — but you have no idea where to start? In this episode of The Publi...
This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print...
What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Jo...
Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnifi...
Since its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative media franchises in the world. In Next T...
Media Matters in Landscape Architecture (Applied Research & Design, 2025) goes behind the scenes to consider how media technologies that hav...
The centerpiece of Melodrama as Provocateur (Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studie...
In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke S...
For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, ind...