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Megan Finn, "Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters" (MIT Press, 2018)
56 mins; January 08, 2019
Pamela E. Klassen, "The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
52 mins; December 24, 2018
A. G. Holloway and J. W. White, "Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War" (Kent State UP, 2018)
48 mins; December 19, 2018
Paola Bertucci, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France" (Yale UP, 2018)
55 mins; December 06, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)
38 mins; November 08, 2018
Raymond Boyle, “The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways” (Palgrave, 2018)
40 mins; November 06, 2018
J. Obert, A. Poe, A. Sarat, eds., “The Lives of Guns” (Oxford UP, 2018)
33 mins; November 01, 2018
N. M. Sambaluk, “The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security” (Naval Institute Press, 2015)
86 hours 57 mins; October 29, 2018
Lee Humphreys, “The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life” (MIT Press, 2018)
2 mins; October 19, 2018
Wade Roush, ed., “Twelve Tomorrows” (MIT Press, 2018)
40 mins; October 18, 2018
Rachel Z. Arndt, “Beyond Measure” (Sarabande Books, 2018)
31 mins; October 12, 2018
Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
73 hours 10 mins; October 04, 2018
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
50 mins; October 02, 2018
Ben Epstein, “The Only Constant is Change: Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation Over Time” (Oxford UP, 2018)
46 mins; August 22, 2018
Julie A. Cohn, “The Grid: Biography of an American Technology” (MIT Press, 2017)
22 mins; August 15, 2018
Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)
60 hours 33 mins; June 14, 2018
Jacob N. Shapiro, “Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict” (Princeton UP, 2018)
55 mins; June 07, 2018
Larry Cuban, “The Flight of a Butterfly or the Path of a Bullet? Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning” (Harvard Education Press, 2018)
34 mins; June 06, 2018
Hala Auji, “Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut” (Brill, 2016)
51 mins; June 05, 2018
B.J. Mendelson, “Privacy: And How to Get It Back” (Curious Reads, 2017)
47 mins; May 03, 2018
Yutao Sun and Seamus Grimes, “China and Global Value Chains” (Routledge, 2018)
44 mins; April 30, 2018
George Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite, “Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies” (Georgetown UP, 2017)
54 mins; April 18, 2018
Stephen Monteiro, “The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender” (MIT Press, 2017)
27 mins; April 06, 2018
Alex Wade, “Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
50 mins; March 23, 2018
Christopher J. Lee, “Jet Lag” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
50 mins; February 27, 2018
Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)
24 mins; February 27, 2018
Jennifer Hart, “Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation” (Indiana UP, 2016)
59 mins; February 23, 2018
Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018)
55 mins; February 20, 2018
Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
61 hours 16 mins; February 15, 2018
Andrew Keen, “How To Fix The Future” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018)
60 hours 50 mins; February 06, 2018
Nick Montfort, “The Future” (MIT, 2017)
32 mins; January 29, 2018
Leo Coleman, “A Moral Technology: Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi” (Cornell UP, 2017)
52 mins; January 19, 2018
Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)
136 hours 51 mins; January 09, 2018
Liss C. Werner, “Cybernetics: State of the Art” (Tech Uni of Berlin Press, 2017)
76 hours 44 mins; January 09, 2018
Chelsea Schelly, “Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
34 mins; December 28, 2017
Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll, “Minitel: Welcome to the Internet” (MIT Press, 2017)
58 mins; December 21, 2017
Alfie Bown, “The Playstation Dreamworld” (Polity, 2017)
43 mins; December 20, 2017
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
56 mins; December 15, 2017
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
54 mins; September 19, 2017
Eileen Le Han, “Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
53 mins; July 12, 2017
Simone Muller, “Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks” (Columbia UP, 2016)
54 mins; July 10, 2017
Thomas Hazlett, “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology” (Yale UP, 2017)
45 mins; June 30, 2017
Andre Sirois, “Hip-Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization” (Peter Lang, 2016)
59 mins; June 13, 2017
Marilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016)
61 hours 32 mins; May 26, 2017
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
68 hours 16 mins; May 18, 2017
James Poyner, “Trump Tweets: His Social Media Phenomenon” (Wilkinson Publishing, 2017)
80 hours 18 mins; May 18, 2017
Willliam Rankin, “After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
42 mins; May 17, 2017
Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
71 hours 52 mins; May 13, 2017
Helen Anne Curry, “Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
35 mins; May 08, 2017
Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)
61 hours 11 mins; May 04, 2017
Democracy and Dialogue Online with Joshua Cohen
36 mins; April 20, 2017
Donna Freitas, “The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost” (Oxford UP, 2017)
24 mins; April 18, 2017
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT, 2014)
58 mins; April 18, 2017
Democracy and Social Media with Michael Lynch
26 mins; April 05, 2017
Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (Routledge, 2016)
50 mins; March 27, 2017
Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)
31 mins; February 09, 2017
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
64 hours 38 mins; January 23, 2017
Dave Karpf, “Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
32 mins; January 09, 2017
Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)
47 mins; January 06, 2017
Heather Dowd, “Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces” (EdTechTeam, 2016)
33 mins; January 05, 2017
Carroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
50 mins; December 29, 2016
Alecia Swasy, “How Journalists Use Twitter: The Changing Landscape of U.S. Newsrooms” (Lexington Books, 2016)
27 mins; November 12, 2016
Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
47 mins; September 30, 2016
Milton Chen, “Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools” (Jossey Bass, 2012)
50 mins; September 26, 2016
Marc Raboy, “Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
66 hours 44 mins; September 21, 2016
E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
54 mins; September 21, 2016
Mary Chayko, “Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life” (SAGE, 2016)
36 mins; September 13, 2016
George Couros, “The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity” (Dave Burgess Consulting, 2015)
54 mins; September 13, 2016
Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)
41 mins; August 29, 2016
Daniel Kreiss, “Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
33 mins; August 29, 2016
James Rodger Fleming, “Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology” (MIT Press, 2016)
64 hours 26 mins; August 26, 2016
Benjamin Peters, “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” (MIT Press, 2016)
63 hours 52 mins; July 16, 2016
Ronald R. Kline, “The Cybernetics Moment: Or, Why We Call Our Age the Information Age” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
60 hours 18 mins; July 08, 2016
Greg Jenner, “A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from Stone Age to Phone Age” (St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
70 hours 8 mins; June 26, 2016
Mark Carrigan, “Social Media for Academics” (Sage, 2016)
42 mins; April 27, 2016
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)
31 mins; April 18, 2016
Benjamin Castleman, “The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
58 mins; April 03, 2016
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)
46 mins; March 14, 2016
David R. Brake, “Sharing our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
46 mins; February 29, 2016
Jeffery Pomerantz, “Metadata” (MIT, 2015)
42 mins; February 22, 2016
Finn Brunton, “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet” (MIT Press, 2013)
59 mins; February 16, 2016
Paul R. Josephson, “Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
61 hours 49 mins; January 28, 2016
Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin, “Enjoying Machines” (MIT 2015)
34 mins; January 06, 2016
Nathan Altice, “I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer-Entertainment System Platform” (MIT Press, 2015)
38 mins; December 23, 2015
Megan Prelinger, “Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age” (Norton, 2015)
69 hours 25 mins; November 19, 2015
John Durham Peters, “The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
64 hours 48 mins; November 17, 2015
Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)
38 mins; November 15, 2015
Gillian Isaacs Russell, “Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” (Karnac, 2015)
55 mins; October 13, 2015
Joseph M. Reagle, “Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web” (MIT Press, 2015)
32 mins; October 02, 2015
Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, “Using Technology, Building Democracy: Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship” (Oxford UP, 2015)
24 mins; September 28, 2015
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
56 mins; August 19, 2015
Alexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
70 hours 22 mins; August 10, 2015
Janet Vertesi, “Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
67 hours 24 mins; August 10, 2015
Jonathan Coopersmith, “Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
62 hours 48 mins; July 17, 2015
Christian Fuchs, “Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media” (Routledge, 2015)
56 mins; June 28, 2015
Jenifer Van Vleck, “Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy” (Harvard UP, 2013)
37 mins; June 14, 2015
Charis Thompson, “Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research” (MIT Press, 2013)
73 hours 48 mins; June 08, 2015
John Sharp, “Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art” (MIT Press, 2015)
39 mins; June 01, 2015
Greg Siegel, “Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity” (Duke UP, 2014)
67 hours 27 mins; May 26, 2015
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