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New Books in Communications

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Digital Cultures
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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Today I’m speaking with Ramona Liberoff and Liz Fried, cofounders of the new publisher, Gist Books. Gist allows readers to pick the topics they want, creating a unique and up-to-date collection of topics in a personalized volume. Gist is positioning ... more

Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space (Routledge, 2025) explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country and g... more

In Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press (Columbia UP, 2026), A.J. Bauer examines the history of the idea of a “liberal media bias.” Rather than trying to show whether or not “liberal media bias” is an accurat... more

Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and the emergence of liberal democratic institutions in Western and postcolonial societies. Cultural histo... more

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Sari Hanafi
Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut
Episode: Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Stephen Lee Naish
Author and New Books Network host
New Star Books; New Books Network
Episode: Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
Maya Kornberg
Author of Stuck, How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Episode: Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Pablo Zavala
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Loyola University, New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans
Episode: Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Glen Oglaza
author, journalist and poet
Episode: Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
Tamara Kay
Professor at University of Pittsburgh; author
University of Pittsburgh
Episode: Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jieun Kiaer
Professor of Korean Linguistics at University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Episode: Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Joanna Bourke
Professor and author of Five Evil Women, Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker
Episode: Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)
Fred Turner
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
Stanford University
Episode: Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host known for her contributions to discussions on communications and media, facilitating insightful dialogues with experts across various topics.

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 18 ratings
  • Please improve sound!

    Great content but the sound quality is so bad, I stopped listening (very hard to focus!!)

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    Hugivida
    Switzerland6 years ago
  • Great podcast

    but I don’t see the cover

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Борнхайм
    Russia8 years ago
  • Excellent and wide ranging

    The 'New Books Network' is remarkable for its cogent, easy-to-listen-to author interviews, but the NBN Communications podcast is excellent. It's just getting started, but the future looks bright.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Wignall
    United States13 years ago
  • 5 Stars: It's great

    Jefferson Pooley's fantastic interview style invites readers and illuminates the ideas of authors. A must-listen for communication students and professionals. As an expert in the field of the history of communication, Pooley contextualizes the subject within the larger field, providing tremendous depth to the podcast.

    Apple Podcasts
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    scrtagent101
    United States13 years ago

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Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Q: What is the most practical reform to make dialogical liberalism a lived reality?
Invest in shared spaces, social housing, inclusive public services, and institutions that encourage everyday encounters across diverse communities, while maintaining respect for rights and public reason.
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Q: Can you tell us what you mean by symbolic liberalism and dialogical sociology?
Symbolic liberalism describes people who defend liberal rights yet act in illiberal ways when challenged; dialogical sociology seeks to embed sociology in civil society with mediation and normative advocacy to broaden dialogue and protect marginalized groups.
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Q: What are the legal implications of using emoji in digital vs. physical media?
Legal implications arise when emoji usage intersects with copyright and IP rights, especially when artworks or branded icons are involved; courts may confront cases where emojis are used in ways that imply specific meanings or endorsements, making it essential to understand digital-to-physical translation and to consult IP lawyers, given that some platforms and companies guard their emoji assets.
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Q: How does Unicode relate to emoji creation and representation across cultures?
Unicode acts as a central repository and standardizing platform for emoji, enabling broad compatibility across devices, but it cannot perfectly represent every culture; as a result, regional adaptations and user-generated emoji persist, which can lead to differences in meaning and potential marginalization if not all cultural nuances are included.
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Q: What counts as an emoji, and how are the terms emoji, emoticon, and meme used in your framework?
Emoji are image-based symbols used in digital communication; emoticon and meme are related concepts, with the book positioning emoji as an overarching image-based word that can be used as a noun or a verb, distinct from traditional letter words. The term usage varies across cultures and evolves with technology and platform conventions, and the distinctions matter for how we interpret meaning in intercultural and intergenerational contexts.

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