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Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; June 04, 2023
Elizabeth Reddy, "ÂĄAlerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)
52 mins; June 02, 2023
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 28, 2023
Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
49 mins; May 26, 2023
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; May 24, 2023
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 21, 2023
Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
41 mins; May 18, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 4: George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism
34 mins; May 16, 2023
Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
26 mins; May 13, 2023
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
34 mins; May 11, 2023
Barbara Penner et al., "Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
62 hours 27 mins; May 08, 2023
Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
42 mins; May 07, 2023
Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
46 mins; May 06, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
44 mins; May 05, 2023
Collaborative Society
30 mins; May 03, 2023
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
61 hours 8 mins; May 02, 2023
Spatial Computing
32 mins; May 01, 2023
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
66 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2023
Computer Graphics
16 mins; April 27, 2023
Technologies of the Human Corpse
32 mins; April 25, 2023
Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)
50 mins; April 21, 2023
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
49 mins; April 21, 2023
Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
59 mins; April 10, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
45 mins; April 07, 2023
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
49 mins; April 06, 2023
Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)
22 mins; April 04, 2023
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
98 hours 56 mins; April 03, 2023
Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)
79 hours 16 mins; April 03, 2023
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 39 mins; April 01, 2023
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
22 mins; March 31, 2023
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 28, 2023
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
29 mins; March 28, 2023
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
26 mins; March 28, 2023
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
96 hours 39 mins; March 27, 2023
Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (BĂźchner-Verlag, 2023)
35 mins; March 26, 2023
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
80 hours 2 mins; March 20, 2023
The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson
46 mins; March 18, 2023
Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)
47 mins; March 17, 2023
Computer Music and Human Computer Interaction
19 mins; March 15, 2023
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
16 mins; March 14, 2023
James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
51 mins; March 12, 2023
Jessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)
29 mins; March 12, 2023
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 13 mins; March 08, 2023
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
26 mins; March 04, 2023
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
54 mins; March 03, 2023
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
39 mins; March 02, 2023
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
44 mins; March 02, 2023
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
23 mins; March 02, 2023
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
49 mins; March 01, 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
67 hours 56 mins; February 27, 2023
Seeing Truth in Photographs
43 mins; February 23, 2023
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
24 mins; February 23, 2023
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
93 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2023
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; February 18, 2023
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
31 mins; February 18, 2023
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
70 hours 55 mins; February 18, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
91 hours 3 mins; February 16, 2023
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
37 mins; February 16, 2023
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 15, 2023
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
59 mins; February 13, 2023
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
86 hours 9 mins; February 12, 2023
James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 55 mins; February 11, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
23 mins; February 10, 2023
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
69 hours 13 mins; February 10, 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
65 hours 36 mins; February 08, 2023
Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
51 mins; February 07, 2023
The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
72 hours 31 mins; February 05, 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
48 mins; February 05, 2023
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
84 hours 4 mins; February 04, 2023
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
36 mins; February 04, 2023
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; February 03, 2023
Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
65 hours 3 mins; February 03, 2023
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
87 hours 32 mins; February 02, 2023
Inventing American Telecommunications
80 hours 21 mins; February 01, 2023
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 30, 2023
Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
29 mins; January 30, 2023
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
76 hours 14 mins; January 29, 2023
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
48 mins; January 28, 2023
The History of Electricity in Mexico
73 hours 25 mins; January 27, 2023
Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
23 mins; January 26, 2023
The Archaeology of Innovation
74 hours 10 mins; January 26, 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
52 mins; January 24, 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
61 hours 57 mins; January 22, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
85 hours 55 mins; January 20, 2023
Automating Finance
57 mins; January 19, 2023
Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; January 19, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
12 mins; January 19, 2023
Spiritual Machines: Transhumanism and Religion
30 mins; January 19, 2023
Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
55 mins; January 18, 2023
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
62 hours 26 mins; January 16, 2023
Infrastructure and Inequality
63 hours 45 mins; January 15, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
75 hours 6 mins; January 14, 2023
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 14, 2023
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
46 mins; January 14, 2023
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (BĂźchner-Verlag, 2021)
59 mins; January 13, 2023
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
62 hours 32 mins; January 13, 2023
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
39 mins; January 12, 2023
Understanding Technology Bubbles
77 hours 46 mins; January 11, 2023
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
74 hours 12 mins; January 09, 2023
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