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Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 25 mins; January 07, 2023
Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self
15 mins; January 07, 2023
Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; January 05, 2023
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 04, 2023
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
80 hours 59 mins; January 02, 2023
Ethical AI
22 mins; December 31, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
66 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2022
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
55 mins; December 24, 2022
John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
44 mins; December 22, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
58 mins; December 22, 2022
Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
57 mins; December 21, 2022
Jenny L. Davis, "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things" (MIT Press, 2020)
36 mins; December 20, 2022
Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
61 hours 59 mins; December 19, 2022
Renee M. P. Teate, "SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
42 mins; December 19, 2022
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
36 mins; December 17, 2022
The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
44 mins; December 17, 2022
Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)
42 mins; December 17, 2022
Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)
70 hours 54 mins; December 16, 2022
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
34 mins; December 15, 2022
Yasmine Ali, "Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America" (Citadel Press, 2023)
44 mins; December 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
39 mins; December 13, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
65 hours 33 mins; December 10, 2022
Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; December 09, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
51 mins; December 09, 2022
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 06, 2022
Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
52 mins; December 04, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
78 hours 58 mins; December 01, 2022
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
46 mins; December 01, 2022
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
46 mins; November 30, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; November 30, 2022
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
65 hours 38 mins; November 29, 2022
Tim Walker and Lucian Morris, "The Handbook of Banking Technology" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
82 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
45 mins; November 23, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 22, 2022
Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
53 mins; November 21, 2022
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2022
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
47 mins; November 15, 2022
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
42 mins; November 15, 2022
Ernest M. Valea, "Artificial Intelligence, Reincarnation, and Resurrection: An Inquiry Into the Ultimate Fulfillment of Human Nature" (Resource Publications, 2021)
42 mins; November 14, 2022
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)
29 mins; November 14, 2022
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
63 hours 32 mins; November 11, 2022
Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
56 mins; November 11, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
49 mins; November 10, 2022
Veronica Kirin, "Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't" (2018)
54 mins; November 09, 2022
Gerd Gigerenzer, "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms" (MIT Press, 2022)
67 hours 10 mins; November 03, 2022
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
109 hours 22 mins; November 03, 2022
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
48 mins; November 01, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; November 01, 2022
Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)
77 hours 19 mins; November 01, 2022
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; October 31, 2022
Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; October 28, 2022
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; October 26, 2022
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
44 mins; October 25, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
64 hours 16 mins; October 21, 2022
Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, "Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future" (HBR Press, 2022)
35 mins; October 20, 2022
Seeing Truth in Data
22 mins; October 20, 2022
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
51 mins; October 19, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 3: Technocracy in the Private Sector
65 hours 27 mins; October 19, 2022
Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
61 hours 23 mins; October 19, 2022
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
90 hours 31 mins; October 18, 2022
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
50 mins; October 17, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 13, 2022
Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
31 mins; October 11, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
68 hours 28 mins; October 10, 2022
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
38 mins; October 06, 2022
Elizabeth Ellcessor, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" (NYU Press, 2022)
57 mins; October 05, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise
67 hours 31 mins; October 01, 2022
Social Media and Political Participation in the Philippines
26 mins; September 29, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
62 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
40 mins; September 28, 2022
Digital Lethargy
15 mins; September 27, 2022
Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; September 22, 2022
The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
61 hours 5 mins; September 20, 2022
Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy" (Rupa Publications, 2019)
54 mins; September 20, 2022
Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
22 mins; September 19, 2022
Stefan Höltgen, "Open History: The Archaeology of Retrocomputing" (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021)
47 mins; September 16, 2022
Felicia Wu Song, "Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
23 mins; September 14, 2022
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
36 mins; September 13, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
56 mins; September 05, 2022
J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
59 mins; September 05, 2022
LucĂ­a FernĂĄndez-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)
35 mins; September 05, 2022
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and Trucking
79 hours 48 mins; September 05, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; September 01, 2022
Property Technology
22 mins; August 30, 2022
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
50 mins; August 29, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
78 hours 11 mins; August 26, 2022
Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
34 mins; August 26, 2022
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
46 mins; August 25, 2022
Cassidy Puckett, "Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
66 hours 58 mins; August 25, 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
59 mins; August 24, 2022
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
51 mins; August 24, 2022
Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
65 hours 15 mins; August 24, 2022
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
78 hours 56 mins; August 23, 2022
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
61 hours 23 mins; August 23, 2022
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
68 hours 13 mins; August 22, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law
and Changed American Jurisprudence
61 hours 9 mins; August 22, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; August 17, 2022
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