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Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
73 hours 25 mins; December 10, 2021
Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)
31 mins; December 09, 2021
Herbert Lin, "Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons" (Stanford UP, 2021)
53 mins; November 22, 2021
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
88 hours 33 mins; November 22, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
28 mins; November 19, 2021
68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
43 mins; November 18, 2021
Gabriella Lukács, "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy" (Duke UP, 2020)
58 mins; November 18, 2021
Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
63 hours 51 mins; November 15, 2021
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
72 hours 48 mins; November 11, 2021
Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 22 mins; November 11, 2021
Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)
66 hours 16 mins; November 10, 2021
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
41 mins; November 10, 2021
Yuri Kostenko, "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History" (HURI, 2020)
31 mins; November 09, 2021
67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon
44 mins; November 04, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 10 mins; October 29, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 10 mins; October 29, 2021
Roberto J. González, "Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network" (U California Press, 2020)
66 hours 59 mins; October 26, 2021
Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
59 mins; October 25, 2021
Ashley Hinck, "Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World" (LSU Press, 2019)
58 mins; October 22, 2021
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
63 hours 11 mins; October 20, 2021
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)
63 hours 17 mins; October 19, 2021
Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
58 mins; October 19, 2021
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
37 mins; October 18, 2021
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 50 mins; October 13, 2021
Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)
47 mins; October 08, 2021
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
61 hours 9 mins; October 07, 2021
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
61 hours 54 mins; October 06, 2021
Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
47 mins; October 06, 2021
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021)
61 hours 43 mins; October 05, 2021
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
26 mins; October 01, 2021
Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)
80 hours 42 mins; September 28, 2021
Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
84 hours 13 mins; September 27, 2021
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
47 mins; September 24, 2021
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
65 hours 56 mins; September 21, 2021
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
47 mins; September 20, 2021
Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
52 mins; September 10, 2021
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; September 09, 2021
Angelica Malin, "She Made It: The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital Age" (Kogan Page, 2021)
33 mins; September 09, 2021
Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
49 mins; September 07, 2021
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
58 mins; August 27, 2021
Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 20, 2021
Craig Robertson, "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
60 hours 43 mins; August 20, 2021
Matthew Flisfeder, "Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
88 hours 33 mins; August 20, 2021
James W. Cortada, "IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon" (MIT Press, 2019)
42 mins; August 18, 2021
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
65 hours 38 mins; August 17, 2021
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
74 hours 26 mins; July 30, 2021
Rahul Mukherjee, "Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty" (Duke UP, 2020)
59 mins; July 23, 2021
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
68 hours 11 mins; July 19, 2021
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
80 hours 57 mins; July 09, 2021
Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
54 mins; July 06, 2021
Sandeep Mertia, "Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India" (Institute of Networked Cultures, 2020)
83 hours 1 min; July 05, 2021
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; June 30, 2021
Javier Guerrero C., "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020)
38 mins; June 14, 2021
S. Livingstone and A. Blum-Ross, "Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; June 03, 2021
Carla Diana, "My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human" (Harvard Business, 2021)
36 mins; June 03, 2021
Amy D. Finstein, "Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-interstate America" (Temple UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 02, 2021
Mikiya Koyagi, "Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway" (Stanford UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 01, 2021
Zahi Zalloua, "Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
48 mins; May 31, 2021
Alex Wellerstein, "Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
61 hours 56 mins; May 24, 2021
Ellen Helsper, "The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities" (Sage, 2021)
46 mins; May 21, 2021
Rob Kitchin, "Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World" (Policy Press, 2021)
55 mins; May 20, 2021
L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)
69 hours 16 mins; May 19, 2021
Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
66 hours 1 min; May 19, 2021
Zoetanya Sujon, "The Social Media Age" (Sage, 2021)
43 mins; May 18, 2021
Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)
64 hours 8 mins; May 17, 2021
Tetyana Lokot, "Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
57 mins; May 10, 2021
T. Sanders et al., "Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
78 hours 22 mins; May 10, 2021
Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
55 mins; May 07, 2021
Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)
62 hours 25 mins; May 06, 2021
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
43 mins; May 06, 2021
Daniel Greene, "The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope" (MIT Press, 2021)
66 hours 58 mins; May 03, 2021
Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
50 mins; April 23, 2021
Joel Waldfogel, "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture" (Princeton UP, 2020)
47 mins; April 21, 2021
Carolyn J. Heinrich, et al., "Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K-12 Education" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
63 hours 49 mins; April 20, 2021
David Wills, "Prosthesis" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
69 hours 23 mins; April 15, 2021
Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail
45 mins; April 15, 2021
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are" (HarperCollins, 2017)
54 mins; April 15, 2021
Jürgen P. Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
38 mins; April 15, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
72 hours 5 mins; April 13, 2021
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
48 mins; April 12, 2021
Edward Ashford Lee, "The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" (MIT Press, 2020)
71 hours 20 mins; April 02, 2021
Katherine E. Standefer, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life" (Little, Brown Spark, 2020)
38 mins; March 30, 2021
John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)
72 hours 19 mins; March 26, 2021
Gascia Ouzounian, "Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts" (MIT Press, 2021)
77 hours 23 mins; March 16, 2021
Evan Friss, "The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
56 mins; March 05, 2021
Roland T. Rust and Ming-Hui Huang, "The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
35 mins; March 04, 2021
Teresa Berger, "@Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds" (Routledge, 2018)
31 mins; February 26, 2021
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
63 hours 35 mins; February 26, 2021
L. Vinsel and A. L. Russell, "The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most" (Currency, 2020)
53 mins; February 24, 2021
Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
59 mins; February 18, 2021
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
41 mins; February 16, 2021
James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution" (Brookings, 2020)
80 hours 49 mins; January 28, 2021
Michael Fisch, "An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network" (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
83 hours 2 mins; January 08, 2021
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
77 hours 17 mins; December 29, 2020
Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
76 hours 40 mins; December 24, 2020
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
61 hours 54 mins; December 23, 2020
Jeremy Black, "Tank Warfare" (Indiana UP, 2020)
52 mins; December 16, 2020
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
63 hours 13 mins; December 09, 2020
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It" (FSG Originals, 2020)
47 mins; December 07, 2020
James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020)
75 hours 49 mins; December 07, 2020
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