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Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
48 mins; December 07, 2020
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
64 hours 8 mins; December 03, 2020
Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
49 mins; November 30, 2020
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
36 mins; November 25, 2020
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
67 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2020
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
33 mins; November 05, 2020
Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World" (Part 2) (Routledge, 2020)
43 mins; November 04, 2020
Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" (U London Press, 2020)
75 hours 25 mins; October 29, 2020
Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
35 mins; October 12, 2020
Jon Lindsay, "Information Technology and Military Power" (Cornell UP, 2020)
63 hours 16 mins; October 07, 2020
Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World: A Search for New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
47 mins; October 07, 2020
AngÚle Christin, "Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms" (Princeton UP, 2020)
57 mins; September 14, 2020
J. Kim and E. Maloney, "Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education and The Low-Density University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
31 mins; August 21, 2020
T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)
68 hours 40 mins; August 20, 2020
C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, "Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
49 mins; August 18, 2020
Katie Day Good, "Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education" (MIT Press, 2020)
38 mins; August 17, 2020
Nadia Eghbal, "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" (Stripe Press, 2020)
65 hours 50 mins; August 12, 2020
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
36 mins; August 07, 2020
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019)
73 hours 26 mins; August 07, 2020
Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
45 mins; July 29, 2020
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" (MIT Press, 2020)
36 mins; July 27, 2020
Philip Reid, "The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800" (Brill, 2020)
47 mins; July 20, 2020
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
37 mins; July 20, 2020
Jeffery R. Young, "Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education’s High-Tech Disruption" (CHE, 2013)
29 mins; July 16, 2020
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
69 hours 55 mins; July 13, 2020
Doron Galili, "Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939" (Duke UP, 2020)
55 mins; July 02, 2020
Ainissa Ramirez, "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" (MIT Press, 2020)
39 mins; June 25, 2020
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (Emerald, 2019)
43 mins; June 22, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Nick Prior, "Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society" (SAGE, 2018)
71 hours 21 mins; May 18, 2020
Paul Harkins, "Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies" (Routledge, 2019)
46 mins; May 14, 2020
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
45 mins; May 01, 2020
Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
47 mins; April 30, 2020
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
49 mins; April 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
54 mins; April 27, 2020
Thor Magnusson, "Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
77 hours 59 mins; April 15, 2020
Theodora Varbouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground" (Routledge, 2019)
59 mins; April 14, 2020
Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)
52 mins; April 03, 2020
Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 54 mins; April 03, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
52 mins; March 30, 2020
Neil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Polity, 2019)
54 mins; March 27, 2020
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "Übermensch: PlĂ€doyer FĂŒr Einen Nietzscheanischen Transhumanismus" (Schwabe, 2019)
77 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2020
Jacob Turner, "Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
76 hours 42 mins; March 12, 2020
Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
64 hours 10 mins; March 05, 2020
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Feminism" (MIT Press, 2020)
37 mins; March 03, 2020
Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" (New English Review, 2019)
98 hours 54 mins; March 02, 2020
David J. Gunkel, "Robot Rights" (MIT Press, 2018)
89 hours 4 mins; February 27, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
84 hours 39 mins; February 19, 2020
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" (NYU Press, 2020)
51 mins; February 14, 2020
Francesca Minerva, "The Ethics of Cryonics: Is It Immoral to be Immortal" (Palgrave, 2018)
58 mins; February 13, 2020
Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)
52 mins; February 12, 2020
Shannon Vallor, "Technology and the Virtues" (Oxford UP, 2016)
72 hours 17 mins; February 06, 2020
Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities" (MIT Press, 2019)
42 mins; February 03, 2020
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
67 hours 16 mins; January 31, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
37 mins; January 30, 2020
Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves" (Routledge, 2017)
73 hours 24 mins; January 30, 2020
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
40 mins; January 24, 2020
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, "Re-Engineering Humanity" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
89 hours 4 mins; January 23, 2020
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)
33 mins; January 20, 2020
James Schwartz, "The Ethics of Space Exploration" (Springer, 2016)
67 hours 13 mins; January 16, 2020
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications" (MIT Press, 2017)
69 hours 56 mins; January 09, 2020
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work" (Harvard UP, 2019)
69 hours 19 mins; January 02, 2020
Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
32 mins; December 27, 2019
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)
49 mins; December 26, 2019
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017)
61 hours 40 mins; December 26, 2019
Steve Fuller, "The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
91 hours 55 mins; December 19, 2019
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
81 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2019
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
61 hours 22 mins; December 10, 2019
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists" (Oxford UP, 2019)
46 mins; December 09, 2019
Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, 2016)
62 hours 54 mins; December 05, 2019
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
43 mins; December 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
56 mins; November 25, 2019
Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)
54 mins; November 19, 2019
J. Yates and C. N. Murphy, "Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
52 mins; November 14, 2019
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
56 mins; November 14, 2019
Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
54 mins; November 14, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
38 mins; November 03, 2019
Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformation of China" (Harvard UP, 2019)
66 hours 50 mins; October 28, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
30 mins; October 24, 2019
Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
21 mins; July 26, 2019
David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception“ (Sage, 2019)
36 mins; July 02, 2019
Kerim Yasar, "Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945" (Columbia UP, 2018)
90 hours 7 mins; May 28, 2019
Gökçe GĂŒnel, "Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi" (Duke UP, 2019)
42 mins; May 24, 2019
Martin Collins, "A Telephone for the World: Motorola, Iridium, and the Making of a Global Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
53 mins; May 23, 2019
Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019)
39 mins; May 07, 2019
Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019)
54 mins; May 02, 2019
Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)
50 mins; April 29, 2019
Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)
51 mins; April 18, 2019
Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future" (Brookings, 2019)
59 mins; March 27, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019)
55 mins; March 12, 2019
James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
50 mins; March 05, 2019
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2018).
40 mins; February 19, 2019
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
41 mins; February 06, 2019
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
53 mins; February 04, 2019
Jan English-Lueck, "Cultures@SiliconValley: Second Edition" (Stanford UP, 2017)
66 hours 42 mins; January 28, 2019
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina Rini
35 mins; January 22, 2019
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