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Radiophilia
70 hours 31 mins; April 28, 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
57 mins; April 26, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
52 mins; April 24, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
33 mins; April 23, 2025
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
74 hours 53 mins; April 22, 2025
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
61 hours 16 mins; April 19, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
40 mins; April 13, 2025
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
70 hours 10 mins; April 08, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
96 hours 29 mins; April 07, 2025
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
53 mins; April 05, 2025
Making Radio History
67 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
60 hours 21 mins; March 27, 2025
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
65 hours 45 mins; March 26, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
25 mins; March 25, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
60 hours 19 mins; March 10, 2025
Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”
58 mins; March 10, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 08, 2025
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 08, 2025
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
78 hours 56 mins; March 07, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; March 07, 2025
Sonic AI
37 mins; March 03, 2025
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 03, 2025
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
77 hours 33 mins; March 02, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 01, 2025
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
46 mins; February 26, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
96 hours 9 mins; February 24, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
72 hours 16 mins; February 21, 2025
Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
49 mins; February 19, 2025
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
86 hours 48 mins; February 10, 2025
Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
65 hours 53 mins; February 08, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 04, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
55 mins; February 03, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
65 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; January 31, 2025
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
10 mins; January 28, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
74 hours 47 mins; January 27, 2025
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
79 hours 35 mins; January 27, 2025
Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; January 23, 2025
Special Episode: Mike Secasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
83 hours 51 mins; January 20, 2025
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
81 hours 33 mins; January 20, 2025
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
50 mins; January 19, 2025
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
36 mins; January 14, 2025
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; January 12, 2025
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
71 hours 8 mins; January 11, 2025
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 09, 2025
Why Teachers Turn to AI
33 mins; January 07, 2025
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
90 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2025
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 04, 2025
AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales
67 hours 3 mins; December 26, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
90 hours 1 min; December 23, 2024
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
48 mins; December 21, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2024
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted BarbieÂŽ" (MIT Press, 2024)
35 mins; December 14, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
29 mins; December 10, 2024
Bug
17 mins; December 07, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; December 01, 2024
Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; November 22, 2024
Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
35 mins; November 22, 2024
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
Tim Harris, "In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor, 2024)
68 hours 55 mins; November 11, 2024
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
25 mins; November 08, 2024
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 05, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
81 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
33 mins; November 02, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
89 hours 57 mins; October 30, 2024
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 26, 2024
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
29 mins; October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
29 mins; October 23, 2024
Emotional Rescue
35 mins; October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
76 hours 3 mins; October 21, 2024
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
68 hours 26 mins; October 21, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
60 hours 1 min; October 08, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
71 hours 40 mins; October 07, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; October 05, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
68 hours 10 mins; October 03, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
50 mins; September 26, 2024
Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
17 mins; September 26, 2024
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
52 mins; September 25, 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
71 hours 58 mins; September 23, 2024
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
50 mins; September 22, 2024
Hey, Robot!
28 mins; September 16, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; September 08, 2024
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
24 mins; September 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
78 hours 38 mins; September 03, 2024
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
41 mins; August 30, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
68 hours 22 mins; August 30, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
54 mins; August 28, 2024
Directions of Peer Review in Software Engineering
70 hours 34 mins; August 27, 2024
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
71 hours 56 mins; August 26, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 25, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
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