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Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
22 mins; January 19, 2024
What Decision Means
62 hours 12 mins; January 19, 2024
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
26 mins; January 19, 2024
Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
51 mins; January 18, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 40 mins; January 17, 2024
Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences
67 hours 33 mins; January 16, 2024
Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; January 15, 2024
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
34 mins; January 15, 2024
James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)
68 hours 36 mins; January 14, 2024
Can A.I. Mean?
53 mins; January 13, 2024
Thomas DeGloma, "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
60 hours 40 mins; January 11, 2024
Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)
64 hours 0 mins; January 10, 2024
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
47 mins; January 10, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024
Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; January 03, 2024
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
53 mins; January 02, 2024
Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)
57 mins; January 02, 2024
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
30 mins; January 02, 2024
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
44 mins; January 01, 2024
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; December 31, 2023
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
30 mins; December 28, 2023
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
83 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2023
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
46 mins; December 24, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
90 hours 41 mins; December 23, 2023
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
28 mins; December 23, 2023
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 13 mins; December 22, 2023
Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
46 mins; December 20, 2023
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
77 hours 38 mins; December 19, 2023
Skylar Bayer and Gabriela Serrato Marks, "Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias" (Columbia UP, 2023)
38 mins; December 18, 2023
Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
33 mins; December 18, 2023
Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent LariviĂšre
37 mins; December 16, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
51 mins; December 13, 2023
Nettrice R. Gaskins, "Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom" (MIT Press, 2021)
22 mins; December 13, 2023
Jesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)
53 mins; December 11, 2023
Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
33 mins; December 10, 2023
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
32 mins; December 09, 2023
This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
88 hours 25 mins; December 08, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy
45 mins; December 07, 2023
The Use of History in Tech: A Discussion with Larry McGrath
45 mins; December 07, 2023
Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
24 mins; December 05, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; December 04, 2023
Too Much Communication?
52 mins; December 02, 2023
Daniel JĂŒtte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
63 hours 3 mins; December 01, 2023
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 9 mins; December 01, 2023
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
29 mins; November 28, 2023
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
59 mins; November 27, 2023
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 27, 2023
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; November 27, 2023
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
38 mins; November 26, 2023
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
37 mins; November 26, 2023
Anne Baillot, "From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
53 mins; November 26, 2023
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
42 mins; November 25, 2023
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; November 22, 2023
Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)
45 mins; November 22, 2023
Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
49 mins; November 20, 2023
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
85 hours 24 mins; November 18, 2023
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
51 mins; November 18, 2023
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
42 mins; November 18, 2023
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
54 mins; November 17, 2023
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
62 hours 8 mins; November 15, 2023
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
37 mins; November 14, 2023
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
67 hours 17 mins; November 13, 2023
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
65 hours 52 mins; November 13, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
47 mins; November 10, 2023
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
134 hours 43 mins; November 10, 2023
Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?
57 mins; November 10, 2023
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
51 mins; November 09, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
49 mins; November 09, 2023
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
77 hours 4 mins; November 07, 2023
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
46 mins; November 07, 2023
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2023
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
36 mins; November 06, 2023
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
34 mins; November 05, 2023
Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
52 mins; November 05, 2023
Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)
59 mins; November 03, 2023
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 02, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
39 mins; November 01, 2023
Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)
75 hours 5 mins; October 31, 2023
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
73 hours 35 mins; October 29, 2023
William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)
51 mins; October 26, 2023
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 25, 2023
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
42 mins; October 24, 2023
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
50 mins; October 24, 2023
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
70 hours 35 mins; October 21, 2023
Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)
60 hours 48 mins; October 21, 2023
Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
39 mins; October 20, 2023
Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)
43 mins; October 17, 2023
AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
41 mins; October 16, 2023
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 3 mins; October 15, 2023
James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)
46 mins; October 13, 2023
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19 mins; October 13, 2023
Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
55 mins; October 11, 2023
Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
58 mins; October 09, 2023
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 07, 2023
Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online
47 mins; October 04, 2023
Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
59 mins; October 03, 2023
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
68 hours 31 mins; October 02, 2023
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