This is an author interview with Slavko Splichal, the author of The Gig Public Q: ‘The Gig Public’ is an unusual title. Some might say it sounds more like a book about precarious work than about public life. Why insist on the word ‘gig’? A: That tension is exactly the point. The word ‘gig’ originally […]

This is an interview by John V. Pavlik, author of Journalism and the Metaverse Q1. What exactly is the Metaverse? Answer: There is no single, agreed-upon definition of the Metaverse. Nor is there agreement about how it will be designed and built (Takahashi, 2022; Green & Works, 2022). However, one useful definition is the Metaverse […]

This is a guest post by Anthem Press author Steve Fuller, University of Warwick. His new book, Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game, is now available. Steve recently spoke to the BBC. Check out his interview here: — In Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, I argue that the post-truth condition was first understood by Plato nearly 2500 […]

This is a guest post by Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow. She is an editorial board member for Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture.   What does “middlebrow” mean? Is it a label for a particular kind of book, film or artwork – one that is unchallenging, conventional, perhaps mediocre, yet with visible […]

It was a humid Monday evening in early June 2009 when I visited my informant Amparo at her home in Park 7. It was my first time visiting her house, as our previous chats were held in the more easily accessible basketball court, which functions as a makeshift town plaza where neighbours meet and gossip. […]