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Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
72 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2024
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2024
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
74 hours 5 mins; July 26, 2024
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
75 hours 41 mins; July 17, 2024
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
71 hours 31 mins; July 15, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
41 mins; July 14, 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
60 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
66 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2024
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; July 10, 2024
Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
22 mins; July 06, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; July 05, 2024
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
51 mins; July 04, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
61 hours 58 mins; June 24, 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
31 mins; June 24, 2024
Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
51 mins; June 21, 2024
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
56 mins; June 19, 2024
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
75 hours 31 mins; June 17, 2024
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; June 15, 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
47 mins; June 13, 2024
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
71 hours 29 mins; June 10, 2024
AI and the Humanities: Nina BeguĆĄ DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
49 mins; June 03, 2024
Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)
51 mins; June 01, 2024
Joanna Guldi, "The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 40 mins; May 28, 2024
Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
64 hours 19 mins; May 20, 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 20, 2024
Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
71 hours 51 mins; May 18, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
53 mins; May 18, 2024
Catherine D'Ignazio, "Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action" (MIT Press, 2024)
53 mins; May 17, 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 15, 2024
Per Högselius and Achim KlĂŒppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
23 mins; May 12, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
56 mins; May 11, 2024
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
62 hours 39 mins; May 11, 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; May 10, 2024
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
74 hours 27 mins; May 06, 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; May 04, 2024
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
56 mins; April 27, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 mins; April 24, 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
67 hours 54 mins; April 22, 2024
HĂ©ctor BeltrĂĄn, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/MĂ©xico Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; April 21, 2024
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
38 mins; April 20, 2024
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
28 mins; April 20, 2024
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
67 hours 25 mins; April 19, 2024
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
44 mins; April 13, 2024
Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
18 mins; April 05, 2024
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; April 03, 2024
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
69 hours 21 mins; April 02, 2024
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
69 hours 8 mins; April 01, 2024
Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
39 mins; March 30, 2024
Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
36 mins; March 30, 2024
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
103 hours 19 mins; March 29, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
27 mins; March 28, 2024
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; March 26, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
43 mins; March 25, 2024
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
86 hours 22 mins; March 25, 2024
On Bloomsbury's "Object Lessons" Series: A Discussion with Christopher Schaberg
38 mins; March 25, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
68 hours 0 mins; March 24, 2024
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
58 mins; March 22, 2024
Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 44 mins; March 16, 2024
Once More--What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to be Generative?
60 hours 55 mins; March 16, 2024
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
60 hours 34 mins; March 15, 2024
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
22 mins; March 15, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
91 hours 13 mins; March 11, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
91 hours 13 mins; March 11, 2024
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
102 hours 35 mins; March 10, 2024
Hsuan L. Hsu, "Air Conditioning" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
44 mins; March 08, 2024
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
74 hours 28 mins; March 04, 2024
Verity Harding, "AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; March 01, 2024
Carol Beggy, "Pencil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; February 28, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
52 mins; February 26, 2024
What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to Generate?
57 mins; February 24, 2024
Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
32 mins; February 24, 2024
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 23, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; February 21, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
66 hours 47 mins; February 20, 2024
Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
55 mins; February 19, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 14, 2024
Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
62 hours 53 mins; February 11, 2024
Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)
54 mins; January 29, 2024
Paddy Walker and Peter Roberts, "War's Changed Landscape?: A Primer on Conflict's Forms and Norms" (Howgate, 2023)
88 hours 39 mins; January 27, 2024
Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
22 mins; January 19, 2024
What Decision Means
60 hours 27 mins; January 19, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
64 hours 55 mins; January 17, 2024
James C. Goodall, "Nautilus to Columbia: 70 Years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines" (Osprey, 2023)
54 mins; January 15, 2024
Can A.I. Mean?
52 mins; January 13, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; December 31, 2023
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
46 mins; December 24, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
90 hours 41 mins; December 23, 2023
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
28 mins; December 23, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Seven Myths of Military History" (Hackett Publishing, 2022)
67 hours 3 mins; December 23, 2023
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 13 mins; December 22, 2023
Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
33 mins; December 18, 2023
Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
33 mins; December 10, 2023
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
30 mins; December 09, 2023
Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle
45 mins; December 07, 2023
Using History For User Research (UX): A Discussion with Larry McGrath
45 mins; December 07, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
58 mins; December 04, 2023
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