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Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
98 hours 37 mins; August 16, 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
47 mins; August 16, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
40 mins; August 16, 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
45 mins; August 12, 2022
Christian Wolmar, "British Rail: A New History" (Michael Joseph, 2022)
49 mins; August 11, 2022
Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 10, 2022
SĂ©bastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, "Toxique: EnquĂȘte sur les essais nuclĂ©aires français en PolynĂ©sie" (CompanyĂ©dition PUF/Disclose, 2021)
63 hours 35 mins; August 08, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
58 mins; August 05, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
53 mins; August 04, 2022
Ellis Jones, "DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
91 hours 12 mins; August 03, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
57 mins; August 02, 2022
Lost Utopias: A History of World’s Fairs
72 hours 53 mins; August 01, 2022
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
53 mins; July 28, 2022
James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
62 hours 58 mins; July 27, 2022
Nic Maclellan, "Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests" (ANU Press, 2017)
107 hours 53 mins; July 27, 2022
Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
83 hours 25 mins; July 26, 2022
Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
58 mins; July 21, 2022
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
55 mins; July 15, 2022
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
47 mins; July 13, 2022
Nicole Erin Morse, "Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art" (Duke UP, 2022)
64 hours 31 mins; July 13, 2022
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)
37 mins; July 11, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
42 mins; July 11, 2022
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
66 hours 27 mins; July 11, 2022
Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
44 mins; July 08, 2022
Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
51 mins; July 08, 2022
Roberto J. GonzĂĄlez, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
63 hours 15 mins; July 01, 2022
Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)
109 hours 14 mins; June 24, 2022
Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
66 hours 24 mins; June 22, 2022
Drone Life
19 mins; June 22, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
24 mins; June 17, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; June 17, 2022
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
73 hours 49 mins; June 16, 2022
John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
56 mins; June 15, 2022
Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022)
61 hours 56 mins; June 15, 2022
Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; June 14, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
56 mins; June 06, 2022
Thomas J. Misa, "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
75 hours 28 mins; June 06, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
64 hours 35 mins; June 03, 2022
Jessamyn Abel, "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford UP, 2022)
64 hours 43 mins; June 02, 2022
Margie Meacham, "AI in Talent Development: Capitalize on the AI Revolution to Transform the Way You Work, Learn, and Live" (ASTD, 2020)
49 mins; June 02, 2022
Aniket Aga, "Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 30, 2022
Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?
43 mins; May 30, 2022
Adam M. Romero, "Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture" (U California Press, 2021)
43 mins; May 30, 2022
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
57 mins; May 20, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
53 mins; May 18, 2022
Elena Esposito, "Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
54 mins; May 18, 2022
Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
48 mins; May 17, 2022
Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
69 hours 19 mins; May 15, 2022
Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
47 mins; May 10, 2022
Computational Creativity
20 mins; May 06, 2022
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 42 mins; May 04, 2022
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
45 mins; May 02, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
75 hours 47 mins; April 27, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
57 mins; April 20, 2022
Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
75 hours 30 mins; April 20, 2022
Nicole Starosielski, "Media Hot and Cold" (Duke UP, 2021)
62 hours 9 mins; April 20, 2022
David Nemer, "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022)
43 mins; April 19, 2022
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
59 mins; April 15, 2022
Kris Ruijgrok, "Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and Other Authoritarian Regimes" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
34 mins; April 15, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
61 hours 52 mins; April 15, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
61 hours 52 mins; April 15, 2022
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
70 hours 37 mins; April 13, 2022
Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
40 mins; April 07, 2022
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; April 05, 2022
Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
49 mins; March 30, 2022
Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021))
44 mins; March 30, 2022
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
53 mins; March 29, 2022
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
55 mins; March 28, 2022
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
66 hours 40 mins; March 22, 2022
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
56 mins; March 21, 2022
Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
50 mins; March 16, 2022
Ori Schwarz, "Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes That Bind Us Together" (Polity Press, 2021)
30 mins; March 16, 2022
Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
42 mins; March 15, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2022
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; March 08, 2022
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; March 04, 2022
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; March 03, 2022
Shameen Prashantham, "Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups" (Wiley, 2021)
33 mins; February 17, 2022
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
65 hours 41 mins; February 16, 2022
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
54 mins; February 16, 2022
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)
66 hours 55 mins; February 15, 2022
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
26 mins; February 11, 2022
Kevin Coe and Joshua M. Scacco, "The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; February 10, 2022
Rashmi Sadana, "The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 46 mins; February 09, 2022
Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
34 mins; February 08, 2022
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
40 mins; February 07, 2022
Where the Wild Things Are: Reimagining the More-Than-Human City
25 mins; February 04, 2022
Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
44 mins; February 03, 2022
Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; January 28, 2022
Stephanie A. Martin, "Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump" (U Alabama Press, 2021)
50 mins; January 27, 2022
73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)
20 mins; January 27, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
63 hours 39 mins; January 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
48 mins; January 20, 2022
Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)
64 hours 6 mins; January 17, 2022
Janneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT Press, 2021)
57 mins; December 22, 2021
Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)
59 mins; December 21, 2021
Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
63 hours 11 mins; December 20, 2021
Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
46 mins; December 14, 2021
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