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April 22, 2019 (April 19, 2019)

Celebrating 25 Years of the History of Communication Series

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This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the History of Communication Series! Check out the new anniversary catalog, available here. In the early 1990s Richard Wentworth, the director […]

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August 2, 2018 (August 2, 2018)

Come See Us at #AEJMC18!

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Beginning Monday, August 6, 2018, visit Senior Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset in the exhibit hall at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2018 Conference. Get University of Illinois […]

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August 3, 2017 (August 1, 2017)

The Five Books You Need at AEJMC

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Headed to AEJMC next week? Here are five books to keep on your radar as you peruse the exhibit hall: 1. Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code By Nikki Usher “In Interactive Journalism, […]

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May 1, 2017 (May 1, 2017)

Bilge Yesil on Democracy Now!

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Bilge Yesil, author of Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State appeared on Democracy Now! last week to weigh in on the Turkish referendum, whether Turkey will become a […]

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April 28, 2017 (April 24, 2017)

Contradictory environmental messages in the media commons

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An excerpt from the new book The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses, by Patrick D. Murphy. ….Integrated media systems promote the pursuit of wasteful cultural practices and ecologically unsustainable […]

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March 28, 2017 (March 27, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Jack Benny’s “longest laugh”

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March 28 marks the date of a historic moment in the history of comedy. On that date in 1948, Jack Benny’s popular radio show aired one of the great exchanges […]

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February 7, 2017 (January 12, 2017)

Release Party: Networking China, by Yu Hong

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In recent years, China’s leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation’s next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue […]

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January 19, 2017 (January 20, 2017)

Release Party: Of G-Men and Eggheads

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Back before the FBI was accused of throwing elections, it kept immense files on all sorts of American citizens. Many of these suspicious characters worked as public intellectuals, a class of […]

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January 6, 2017 (January 4, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Four censorship battles

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One might be forgiven for thinking that, given current political trends, a new public affection for censorship is in the offing. After all, history shows that the Americans who loudly […]

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December 9, 2016 (December 8, 2016)

The most important race of their lives

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Excerpted from Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics, by Michael J. Socolow A few hours later, with the Germans having already compiled one […]

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November 14, 2016 (November 14, 2016)

Release Party: Six Minutes in Berlin, by Michael J. Socolow

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The Olympics and geopolitics have gone hand-in-hand since the modern Games emerged in 1896. Michael J. Socolow’s new book examines one of the most controversial Olympiads of all time through […]

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September 21, 2016 (September 20, 2016)

Q&A with The Street is My Pulpit author Mwenda Ntarangwi

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Mwenda Ntarangwi is an associate professor of anthropology at Calvin College. He recently answered some questions about his book The Street Is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya. […]

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