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Marshall Poe

March 03, 2023

Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.[1][2] He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian and World history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught courses on new media and online collaboration.[3]

Marshall Poe
Poe in 2016
Born (1961-12-29) December 29, 1961 (age 61)
Huntsville, Alabama
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, history professor
Known forBooks on Russian history, Communications theories, Commentary on Wikipedia

Poe is the author or editor of a number of books on early modern Russia. He has also published A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet, a book that examines how various communications media shape social practices and values.[1]

In 2005, Poe founded the now-defunct MemoryArchive, a universal wiki-type archive of contemporary memoirs. It encouraged people to contribute written accounts of their personal memories that would be part of a searchable, online database.[4] There he contributed numerous personal accounts of his own, from playing basketball with Barack Obama,[5] to stumbling onto a crime scene of Dennis Rader's, the BTK serial killer.

In 2006, Poe wrote an influential commentary on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, while serving as a writer, researcher and editor at The Atlantic magazine.[1][6]

Education and academic career

Marshall Poe was born in Huntsville, Alabama on December 29, 1961. His early schooling was hampered by what he has called "pretty severe dyslexia." As a result, he did not learn to read until the second or third grade in primary school.[7]

Poe graduated from Wichita Southeast High School in 1980 and earned his B.A. in 1984 at Grinnell College where he was named outstanding student in history. He earned his M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986 and his Ph.D in history at Berkeley in 1992.[3]

He taught at Harvard University from 1989 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2002, during which time he was appointed Allston Burr Senior Tutor at Harvard's Lowell House where he managed a college of 600 undergraduate students and 50 tutors and staff. He also taught at New York University (1999), American University (2005), the University of Iowa (2007-2013) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013-2014).[3]

He has held fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; and the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University.[1]

At the Institute for Advanced Study, Poe played guitar and sang in a loud rock and roll band called "Do Not Erase," consisting entirely of fellows at the institute. The name of the band is taken from what mathematicians write under their long theorems and proofs on chalk boards, so that janitors won't erase them, especially if their equations have discovered something new.[8]

Writing

Marshall Poe's writing ranges from academic articles and books to magazine and Internet pieces intended for wider audiences. He has written extensively on Russian history as well on communications, the Internet and Wikipedia.

Russian history

Poe is the co-founder and a former editor of the academic journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. He is the author or editor of several books on Russia including A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography (2000) and The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (2004).[1] The Russian Moment in World History (2006) is a brief, 116 page book that was written for the general public. It provides an overview of more than 1,400 years of Russian history beginning in the 6th to 9th centuries with the migration of Slavs from central Europe to the northeast. It ends with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.[9]

Poe argues the Soviet Union did not collapse because of the failure of Communism as many pundits assert. Rather, he contends that the Communist Party lost faith in the traditional path that had not only preserved Russian independence for almost five centuries, but had also enabled the country to build a huge empire. That path included a reliance on autocratic leadership, a command economy, tight controls on debate in the public sphere and a state-engineered military. "Using these means," Poe writes, "the Russian elite was able to take a primitive, premodern state and transform it in the course of two centuries into one of the most powerful enterprises on earth. It is difficult to see how such a thing could be seen as a failure."[9]

Poe's work on Russian history has brought back from obscurity the writings of the 16th-century Austrian diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein, who was one of the first European ethnographers of Russia.[10]

The Atlantic

From 2003 to 2005, Poe conducted research for The Atlantic magazine and co-wrote the regular feature "Primary Sources.".[3] A typical one, in the magazine's July/August 2005 edition, provided information on a variety of studies and reports supported by online links. For example, it included a study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences warning about the security risks posed by pools of spent fuel from nuclear power plants; a report from a Brussels-based think tank noting that in spite of fears expressed by U.S. officials, Iran did not appear to be much of a threat to Iraq and a report from the Pew Hispanic Centre showing that increased security measures since 9/11 had not stopped the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S.[11]

Poe has also written a number of articles for The Atlantic including "Life on Mars" (2004);[12] "How to Beat a Drug Test" (2005);[13] and "Colleges Should Teach Religion to Their Students" (2014).[14]

Wikipedia: Common Knowledge

Poe became known for his commentary on Wikipedia following the publication of his article "The Hive" in The Atlantic.[6] With Wikipedia "taking off" in 2005, he thought its history could be interesting, so he wrote the piece "on spec". His gamble paid off when the editors published it in the summer of 2006.[15]

Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known.

– Marshall Poe.[6]

Poe's article traces the history of how the co-founders of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, gradually moved from their original idea for an online encyclopedia called Nupedia, written and edited by experts, to one in which any online user could contribute. He concludes that Wikipedia's "communal regime" permitted rapid growth as well as organization and improvement. "The result of this difference is there for all to see," he writes, "much of the Internet is a chaotic mess and therefore useless, whereas Wikipedia is well ordered and hence very useful."[6]

Poe's position on Wikipedia is that it's not an encyclopedia that imparts expert knowledge, but a repository of common knowledge. During an interview with Andrew Keen, he argued that through a collaborative group, great things can be accomplished. "Wikipedia is in a sense kind of public utility now. It's much more like the electric company or the water company or the public library than it is anything else and there's no reason it shouldn't exist and continue to expand alongside all kinds of other commercial ventures because it is basically built for free. I mean it's just — it's a utility that is provided to the public at almost no public cost."[16]

Communications: Pull and Push

In 2011, Poe published A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet, a 337-page book that analyzes how media networks originate, how they function and how they shape social practices and values.[1] Poe explains in the book's introduction that he is seeking to expand and refine the communications theories of the late Canadian scholar Harold Innis. In his 1950 book Empire and Communications, Innis conducted a sweeping historical survey of how various media influenced the rise and fall of empires from ancient to modern times.[17]

Poe advances the idea that new media are developed by inventors and tinkerers, but are not "pulled" into broad use until "organized interests" recognize their need for these new communications tools. He argues, for example, that audiovisual media such as radio, telephone, television and film were developed well before they were taken up by industrial capitalists who needed more effective ways to market the goods they produced. Audiovisual media also served the interests of bureaucrats and politicians who gained popularity by giving citizens access to modern conveniences. "Modern states are welfare states," Poe writes, "and welfare states make sure their citizens have things to listen to and watch."

In turn, audiovisual media shaped social practices and values. They "pushed" societies into a hedonistic pursuit of private entertainment justified by people's need for relaxation in an otherwise stressful society. And, since evolutionary psychology suggests that human beings find it easier to listen and watch than to read and write, audiovisual media caught on rapidly. "When faced with reading a good book," Poe writes, "or watching an awful TV show, most people will watch the awful TV show."[1]

Poe writes about five periods in media history: the age of speech, the age of manuscripts, the age of print, the age of audiovisual media and the age of the Internet. He provides a detailed analysis of each under eight headings: accessibility, privacy, fidelity, volume, velocity, range, persistence and searchability. Poe writes, for example, that in the 150,000 years during which speech was the only medium or network, its accessibility was high because nearly everyone could speak and listen. Privacy, however, was low in such face-to-face communication and so too was fidelity because speech can convey only sounds, not pictures or other direct sensory information. Volume and range were also low because the unaided human voice can't carry very far or to many people, but velocity was high because speech travels at the speed of sound. Poe notes that speech is not a persistent medium because it fades away instantly, but it is searchable because what is said can remain in people's memories. He draws many conclusions from this analysis including his theory that societies dominated by speech tended to be democratized and egalitarian, but also distrustful of strangers because as a medium, speech is suited to small, tightly knit groups.[1]

New publishing model

In his 2002 essay "Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model," published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Poe questioned the viability of the old academic publishing model, arguing in favor of self-publishing and print on demand. He explained how he did this with one of the two volumes of his prosopographical study of the Russian elite in the early modern period. "Shortly after I sent the book for review", he writes, "a very worried journal editor contacted me. He was upset that I hadn't included a copyright page on the e-book I sent him. Without a copyright page, he explained, any reader could copy my book, send it all over the world, or use it in the classroom — all without my permission. That, I responded, was the point. (I'm not sure he got it.)"[18]

New Books Network

Marshall founded New Books in History in 2007, and the New Books Network in 2011; in 2014 resigning his tenured professorship to work on it full time.[7] The network describes itself as "a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences."[19] At first, Poe himself interviewed the authors of new non-fiction books for the website that was then called New Books in History. At the beginning of 2020, NBN had 104 channels, publishing 60 interviews a week, with over a million downloads a month. In December 2021 NBN podcasts were downloaded 4.77 million times. Listennotes rank NBN in the top 1% of podcasts worldwide.[20] NBN had published more than 9,500 interviews by the end of 2020.[21] devoted to new books on subjects ranging from African-American studies and economics to philosophy and sports.[22] Poe invites volunteers who are knowledgeable about a subject to conduct "radio interviews" with authors of new books in that subject area. "It's premised on the idea that while most people won't read serious books, they might listen to the authors of those books talk about the ideas in them," Poe told an interviewer. "Reading is hard and inconvenient; listening is easy and convenient. We interview authors with new books, make 'radio shows' out of them, and distribute them on the web as podcasts." In August, 2020, the NBN closed a seed funding round with a group of international investors."[23] In October 2020 NBN starting producing a podcast series in partnership with Princeton University Press called the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast.[24] In 2021 NBN started a series with Oxford University Press called In Conversation: An OUP Podcast.,[25] and launched in Spanish. In 2022 The New Books Network announced that was going to start paying its hosts, and engaged former BBC World Service journalist Owen Bennett-Jones to produce a series called "The Future of".[26] In 2022 NBN started a series with Cambridge University Press called Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast,[27] and a partnership with Columbia University Press called "Off the Page".[28] In August 2022 NBN published its 15,000th podcast, stating that this made it "one of the largest podcast networks in the world".[29]. On the 3rd January 2023 the NBN informed hosts that the network had 17500 podcasts published, 4000 in 2022 alone. .[30]

Selected bibliography

  • "Russian despotism" : the origins and dissemination of an early modern commonplace. Thesis (Ph.D. in history). University of California, Berkeley, 1993.
  • Foreign descriptions of Muscovy: an analytic bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1995
  • A people born to slavery: Russia in early modern European ethnography, 1476–1748. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000
  • (Ed.) The military and society in Russia: 1450-1917, edited by Eric Lohr and Marshall Poe. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill, 2002.
  • Marshall Poe (2003). The Russian moment in world history. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12606-2.
  • (Ed.) The resistance debate in Russian and Soviet history, edited by Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, Marshall Poe. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers, 2003
  • (Ed.) Early exploration of Russia, edited by Marshall Poe. New York: Routledge, 2003.
  • (Ed.) Modernizing Muscovy: reform and social change in seventeenth-century Russia, edited by Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe. New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
  • The Russian elite in the seventeenth century. Vol. 1, The consular and ceremonial ranks of the Russian "Sovereigns court" 1613–1713. (Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Sarja Humaniora, 322, ISSN 1239-6982). Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004
  • The Russian elite in the seventeenth century. Vol. 2, A quantitative analysis of the "Duma ranks" 1613–1713. (Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Sarja Humaniora, 323) Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. Electronic edition (PDF) available from Harvard University here[permanent dead link] (, at Michigan State University library)
  • How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History of History (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2018).

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Poe, Marshall T. (2011) A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Marshall Poe". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  4. ^ Maughan, Christopher. "The Web's newest thing total recallArchive is about 'storytelling,' creator says; A historian creates a 'Memory Archive,' Wikipedia- style," Toronto Star, September 3, 2006, p. D1.
  5. ^ Poe, Marshall. . MemoryArchive. Archived from the original on July 10, 2008. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
  6. ^ a b c d Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. from the original on September 27, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  7. ^ a b Nappi, Carla. "New Books in Media and Communication". New Books Network. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  8. ^ "DNE's Final Report". Department of Mathematics, University of Utah. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
  9. ^ a b Poe, Marshall. (2006) The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  10. ^ Rothenberg Gritz, Jennie. "Common Knowledge". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  11. ^ Douthat, Ross and Poe, Marshall. "Primary Sources". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-14.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  12. ^ Poe, Marshall. "Life on Mars". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  13. ^ Poe, Marshall. "How to Beat a Drug Test". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  14. ^ Poe, Marshall. "Colleges Should Teach Religion to Their Students". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  15. ^ Poe, Marshall. "Meme Weaver". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  16. ^ Keen, Andrew. , interview with Marshall Poe, AfterTV, August 24, 2006. Retrieved from the Wayback Machine on 19 January 2013
  17. ^ Innis, Harold. (2007) Empire and Communications. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
  18. ^ "Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model", The Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan Press, December 2001, Volume 7, Issue 2, retrieved July 13, 2008.
  19. ^ "New Books Network". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  20. ^ "New Books Network".
  21. ^ "Have Content will Travel: Author-Interview Podcasts for Scholarly Books". 29 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  22. ^ "Become a Host". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  23. ^ . No Shortage of Work. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  24. ^ "Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  25. ^ "In Conversation: An OUP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  26. ^ "Owen Bennett-Jones". 25 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  27. ^ "Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  28. ^ "Off the Page: A Columbia UP Podcast". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  29. ^ "Largest podcast network in the world?". Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  30. ^ "New Year message". Retrieved 2023-01-03.

External links

  • New Books in History, a podcast occasionally hosted by Poe featuring historians with newly issued books.
  • Mechanical Icon, a collection of "video essays" on historical photographs produced by Poe.
  • Collection of book reviews written by Poe for the journal Azure.
  • Carla Nappi interviews Poe on "New Books in Communications"
  • Have Content will Travel: Author-Interview Podcasts for Scholarly Books, an interview with Poe published by The Scholarly Kitchen about the New Books Network.

March 03, 2023
marshall, marshall, tillbrook, born, december, 1961, american, historian, writer, editor, founder, books, network, online, collection, podcast, interviews, with, wide, range, fiction, authors, taught, russian, european, eurasian, world, history, various, unive. Marshall Tillbrook Poe born December 29 1961 is an American historian writer editor and founder of the New Books Network an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non fiction authors 1 2 He has taught Russian European Eurasian and World history at various universities including Harvard Columbia University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts Amherst He has also taught courses on new media and online collaboration 3 Marshall PoePoe in 2016Born 1961 12 29 December 29 1961 age 61 Huntsville AlabamaNationalityAmericanOccupation s Writer history professorKnown forBooks on Russian history Communications theories Commentary on WikipediaPoe is the author or editor of a number of books on early modern Russia He has also published A History of Communications Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet a book that examines how various communications media shape social practices and values 1 In 2005 Poe founded the now defunct MemoryArchive a universal wiki type archive of contemporary memoirs It encouraged people to contribute written accounts of their personal memories that would be part of a searchable online database 4 There he contributed numerous personal accounts of his own from playing basketball with Barack Obama 5 to stumbling onto a crime scene of Dennis Rader s the BTK serial killer In 2006 Poe wrote an influential commentary on Wikipedia the online encyclopedia while serving as a writer researcher and editor at The Atlantic magazine 1 6 Contents 1 Education and academic career 2 Writing 2 1 Russian history 2 2 The Atlantic 2 3 Wikipedia Common Knowledge 2 4 Communications Pull and Push 2 5 New publishing model 3 New Books Network 4 Selected bibliography 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksEducation and academic career EditMarshall Poe was born in Huntsville Alabama on December 29 1961 His early schooling was hampered by what he has called pretty severe dyslexia As a result he did not learn to read until the second or third grade in primary school 7 Poe graduated from Wichita Southeast High School in 1980 and earned his B A in 1984 at Grinnell College where he was named outstanding student in history He earned his M A from the University of California Berkeley in 1986 and his Ph D in history at Berkeley in 1992 3 He taught at Harvard University from 1989 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2002 during which time he was appointed Allston Burr Senior Tutor at Harvard s Lowell House where he managed a college of 600 undergraduate students and 50 tutors and staff He also taught at New York University 1999 American University 2005 the University of Iowa 2007 2013 and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 2013 2014 3 He has held fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey and the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University 1 At the Institute for Advanced Study Poe played guitar and sang in a loud rock and roll band called Do Not Erase consisting entirely of fellows at the institute The name of the band is taken from what mathematicians write under their long theorems and proofs on chalk boards so that janitors won t erase them especially if their equations have discovered something new 8 Writing EditMarshall Poe s writing ranges from academic articles and books to magazine and Internet pieces intended for wider audiences He has written extensively on Russian history as well on communications the Internet and Wikipedia Russian history Edit Poe is the co founder and a former editor of the academic journal Kritika Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History He is the author or editor of several books on Russia including A People Born to Slavery Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography 2000 and The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century 2004 1 The Russian Moment in World History 2006 is a brief 116 page book that was written for the general public It provides an overview of more than 1 400 years of Russian history beginning in the 6th to 9th centuries with the migration of Slavs from central Europe to the northeast It ends with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 9 Poe argues the Soviet Union did not collapse because of the failure of Communism as many pundits assert Rather he contends that the Communist Party lost faith in the traditional path that had not only preserved Russian independence for almost five centuries but had also enabled the country to build a huge empire That path included a reliance on autocratic leadership a command economy tight controls on debate in the public sphere and a state engineered military Using these means Poe writes the Russian elite was able to take a primitive premodern state and transform it in the course of two centuries into one of the most powerful enterprises on earth It is difficult to see how such a thing could be seen as a failure 9 Poe s work on Russian history has brought back from obscurity the writings of the 16th century Austrian diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein who was one of the first European ethnographers of Russia 10 The Atlantic Edit From 2003 to 2005 Poe conducted research for The Atlantic magazine and co wrote the regular feature Primary Sources 3 A typical one in the magazine s July August 2005 edition provided information on a variety of studies and reports supported by online links For example it included a study by the U S National Academy of Sciences warning about the security risks posed by pools of spent fuel from nuclear power plants a report from a Brussels based think tank noting that in spite of fears expressed by U S officials Iran did not appear to be much of a threat to Iraq and a report from the Pew Hispanic Centre showing that increased security measures since 9 11 had not stopped the flow of illegal immigrants into the U S 11 Poe has also written a number of articles for The Atlantic including Life on Mars 2004 12 How to Beat a Drug Test 2005 13 and Colleges Should Teach Religion to Their Students 2014 14 Wikipedia Common Knowledge Edit Poe became known for his commentary on Wikipedia following the publication of his article The Hive in The Atlantic 6 With Wikipedia taking off in 2005 he thought its history could be interesting so he wrote the piece on spec His gamble paid off when the editors published it in the summer of 2006 15 Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known Marshall Poe 6 Poe s article traces the history of how the co founders of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger gradually moved from their original idea for an online encyclopedia called Nupedia written and edited by experts to one in which any online user could contribute He concludes that Wikipedia s communal regime permitted rapid growth as well as organization and improvement The result of this difference is there for all to see he writes much of the Internet is a chaotic mess and therefore useless whereas Wikipedia is well ordered and hence very useful 6 Poe s position on Wikipedia is that it s not an encyclopedia that imparts expert knowledge but a repository of common knowledge During an interview with Andrew Keen he argued that through a collaborative group great things can be accomplished Wikipedia is in a sense kind of public utility now It s much more like the electric company or the water company or the public library than it is anything else and there s no reason it shouldn t exist and continue to expand alongside all kinds of other commercial ventures because it is basically built for free I mean it s just it s a utility that is provided to the public at almost no public cost 16 Communications Pull and Push Edit In 2011 Poe published A History of Communications Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet a 337 page book that analyzes how media networks originate how they function and how they shape social practices and values 1 Poe explains in the book s introduction that he is seeking to expand and refine the communications theories of the late Canadian scholar Harold Innis In his 1950 book Empire and Communications Innis conducted a sweeping historical survey of how various media influenced the rise and fall of empires from ancient to modern times 17 Poe advances the idea that new media are developed by inventors and tinkerers but are not pulled into broad use until organized interests recognize their need for these new communications tools He argues for example that audiovisual media such as radio telephone television and film were developed well before they were taken up by industrial capitalists who needed more effective ways to market the goods they produced Audiovisual media also served the interests of bureaucrats and politicians who gained popularity by giving citizens access to modern conveniences Modern states are welfare states Poe writes and welfare states make sure their citizens have things to listen to and watch In turn audiovisual media shaped social practices and values They pushed societies into a hedonistic pursuit of private entertainment justified by people s need for relaxation in an otherwise stressful society And since evolutionary psychology suggests that human beings find it easier to listen and watch than to read and write audiovisual media caught on rapidly When faced with reading a good book Poe writes or watching an awful TV show most people will watch the awful TV show 1 Poe writes about five periods in media history the age of speech the age of manuscripts the age of print the age of audiovisual media and the age of the Internet He provides a detailed analysis of each under eight headings accessibility privacy fidelity volume velocity range persistence and searchability Poe writes for example that in the 150 000 years during which speech was the only medium or network its accessibility was high because nearly everyone could speak and listen Privacy however was low in such face to face communication and so too was fidelity because speech can convey only sounds not pictures or other direct sensory information Volume and range were also low because the unaided human voice can t carry very far or to many people but velocity was high because speech travels at the speed of sound Poe notes that speech is not a persistent medium because it fades away instantly but it is searchable because what is said can remain in people s memories He draws many conclusions from this analysis including his theory that societies dominated by speech tended to be democratized and egalitarian but also distrustful of strangers because as a medium speech is suited to small tightly knit groups 1 New publishing model Edit In his 2002 essay Note to Self Print Monograph Dead Invent New Publishing Model published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing Poe questioned the viability of the old academic publishing model arguing in favor of self publishing and print on demand He explained how he did this with one of the two volumes of his prosopographical study of the Russian elite in the early modern period Shortly after I sent the book for review he writes a very worried journal editor contacted me He was upset that I hadn t included a copyright page on the e book I sent him Without a copyright page he explained any reader could copy my book send it all over the world or use it in the classroom all without my permission That I responded was the point I m not sure he got it 18 New Books Network EditMarshall founded New Books in History in 2007 and the New Books Network in 2011 in 2014 resigning his tenured professorship to work on it full time 7 The network describes itself as a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences 19 At first Poe himself interviewed the authors of new non fiction books for the website that was then called New Books in History At the beginning of 2020 NBN had 104 channels publishing 60 interviews a week with over a million downloads a month In December 2021 NBN podcasts were downloaded 4 77 million times Listennotes rank NBN in the top 1 of podcasts worldwide 20 NBN had published more than 9 500 interviews by the end of 2020 21 devoted to new books on subjects ranging from African American studies and economics to philosophy and sports 22 Poe invites volunteers who are knowledgeable about a subject to conduct radio interviews with authors of new books in that subject area It s premised on the idea that while most people won t read serious books they might listen to the authors of those books talk about the ideas in them Poe told an interviewer Reading is hard and inconvenient listening is easy and convenient We interview authors with new books make radio shows out of them and distribute them on the web as podcasts In August 2020 the NBN closed a seed funding round with a group of international investors 23 In October 2020 NBN starting producing a podcast series in partnership with Princeton University Press called the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast 24 In 2021 NBN started a series with Oxford University Press called In Conversation An OUP Podcast 25 and launched in Spanish In 2022 The New Books Network announced that was going to start paying its hosts and engaged former BBC World Service journalist Owen Bennett Jones to produce a series called The Future of 26 In 2022 NBN started a series with Cambridge University Press called Exchanges A Cambridge UP Podcast 27 and a partnership with Columbia University Press called Off the Page 28 In August 2022 NBN published its 15 000th podcast stating that this made it one of the largest podcast networks in the world 29 On the 3rd January 2023 the NBN informed hosts that the network had 17500 podcasts published 4000 in 2022 alone 30 Selected bibliography Edit Russian despotism the origins and dissemination of an early modern commonplace Thesis Ph D in history University of California Berkeley 1993 Foreign descriptions of Muscovy an analytic bibliography of primary and secondary sources Columbus Ohio Slavica 1995 A people born to slavery Russia in early modern European ethnography 1476 1748 Ithaca NY Cornell University Press 2000 Ed The military and society in Russia 1450 1917 edited by Eric Lohr and Marshall Poe Leiden Boston MA Brill 2002 Marshall Poe 2003 The Russian moment in world history Princeton University Press ISBN 0 691 12606 2 Ed The resistance debate in Russian and Soviet history edited by Michael David Fox Peter Holquist Marshall Poe Bloomington Ind Slavica Publishers 2003 Ed Early exploration of Russia edited by Marshall Poe New York Routledge 2003 Ed Modernizing Muscovy reform and social change in seventeenth century Russia edited by Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe New York RoutledgeCurzon 2004 The Russian elite in the seventeenth century Vol 1 The consular and ceremonial ranks of the Russian Sovereigns court 1613 1713 Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia Sarja Humaniora 322 ISSN 1239 6982 Helsinki Academia Scientiarum Fennica 2004 The Russian elite in the seventeenth century Vol 2 A quantitative analysis of the Duma ranks 1613 1713 Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia Sarja Humaniora 323 Helsinki Academia Scientiarum Fennica 2004 Electronic edition PDF available from Harvard University here permanent dead link alternative link at Michigan State University library How to Read a History Book The Hidden History of History Winchester UK Zero Books 2018 See also Edit United States portal Biography portal History portalWikipedia Signpost 2011 09 19References Edit a b c d e f g h Poe Marshall T 2011 A History of Communications Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet Cambridge Cambridge University Press New Books Network Archived from the original on 2018 08 29 Retrieved 2018 08 29 a b c d Marshall Poe Academia edu Retrieved 2014 07 15 Maughan Christopher The Web s newest thing total recallArchive is about storytelling creator says A historian creates a Memory Archive Wikipedia style Toronto Star September 3 2006 p D1 Poe Marshall Playing B Ball with Barack Obama 1988 1989 MemoryArchive Archived from the original on July 10 2008 Retrieved 2014 07 19 a b c d Poe Marshall September 2006 The Hive The Atlantic Monthly Archived from the original on September 27 2006 Retrieved February 24 2023 a b Nappi Carla New Books in Media and Communication New Books Network Retrieved 2014 07 15 DNE s Final Report Department of Mathematics University of Utah Retrieved 2014 07 19 a b Poe Marshall 2006 The Russian Moment in World History Princeton NJ Princeton University Press Rothenberg Gritz Jennie Common Knowledge The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 14 Douthat Ross and Poe Marshall Primary Sources The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 14 a href Template Cite magazine html title Template Cite magazine cite magazine a CS1 maint uses authors parameter link Poe Marshall Life on Mars The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 14 Poe Marshall How to Beat a Drug Test The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 14 Poe Marshall Colleges Should Teach Religion to Their Students The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 14 Poe Marshall Meme Weaver The Atlantic Retrieved 2014 07 13 Keen Andrew Everyone knows everything interview with Marshall Poe AfterTV August 24 2006 Retrieved from the Wayback Machine on 19 January 2013 Innis Harold 2007 Empire and Communications Toronto Dundurn Press Print Monograph Dead Invent New Publishing Model The Journal of Electronic Publishing University of Michigan Press December 2001 Volume 7 Issue 2 retrieved July 13 2008 New Books Network Retrieved 2018 08 29 New Books Network Have Content will Travel Author Interview Podcasts for Scholarly Books 29 August 2018 Retrieved 2018 08 29 Become a Host Retrieved 2018 08 29 New Books Network No Shortage of Work Archived from the original on 2014 05 29 Retrieved 2014 07 13 Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast Retrieved 2020 10 15 In 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