New publication out today in Book History, "Farm to Table Reading: Industrial Agriculture and Media Materiality in the Twentieth Century." This one is about how some inventors and entrepreneurs aimed to make cornstalks replace trees as the primary raw materials from which to manufacture paper to print newspapers.

#paperology #bookhistory #bookstodon

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976870

Fall colors are fading in these parts.

#gravel #gravelcycling

CFP: Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

30 June - 1 July 2026
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

This international conference aims to move beyond the traditional understanding of press-radio relations. As the two main information media in the 20th century, their relationship has often been reduced in literature to one of simple institutional competition. This conference seeks to investigate the complexity of their relations.

https://impresso.github.io/radio-and-newspapers-conference/

#mediahistory

New publication out today talking about, among other things, how we learned to sit six feet from the TV:

"Waves and Radiation: Television Sets and the Fear of Biological Harm in the Cold War"

Open access!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439685.2025.2482293

#television #mediahistory

Nice mention of Dead Tree Media / Les médias des arbres morts in Le Monde this week. The article is an excellent account of the current tenor of US-Canada relations.

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/le-michigan-s-inquiete-de-la-guerre-commerciale-avec-le-canada_6583635_3210.html

#Canada