Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 International Communication Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of communication books, blog posts, and more. Use the promo code ICA22 for 50% off of all of our communication book titles when ordering from our website, May 26-30.

Refresh for the History of Communication Series

Jane Rhodes and Lisa Parks are delighted to build on and invigorate the University of Illinois Press’ History of Communication series, renamed The History of Media and Communication. The books in the series will emphasize technology and infrastructure, the politics of social differences and intersectionality, environmental issues, globalization, and labor as they relate to media and communication. Our ambition is to publish monographs and collections that demonstrate innovative historiographic practices and engage with underexplored archives, sources, sites, voices, and experiences. We encourage greater attention to transnational, postcolonial, and decolonial studies through an historical lens. The series will publish research by scholars in media and communication studies whose work also engages with other fields such as gender and ethnic studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies, and global studies. The goal is to develop original, rigorous, and path breaking books that bring forth the complex pasts of media and communication and that link to contemporary life and near futures. For more information link here.

Featured Books in The History of Media and Communication Series

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More From Our Authors

• Gavin Feller’s Website
• Watch the Journal-isms Roundtable Discussion about Journalism and Jim Crow
• Watch an interview with Kathy Roberts Forde on the Black News Channel
• Read a Q&A with Amanda Frisken
• Watch video introductions to each chapter on Women’s Suffrage and the Media
• “The Fog of the Forever War with a Laugh Track in ‘United States of Al'” by Wazhmah Osman in MERIP
• Listen to an interview with Matthew Ehrlich on The 21st
• Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. in the New York Times
• Building the Black Press, a digital history project
• Read an interview with Andrea Wenzel in the Daily Yonder
• Read a Scholar Spotlight interview with Jennifer McClearen in JCMS
• Watch an interview with Cara Finnegan on WCIA CiLiving