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Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
47 mins; October 02, 2023
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 30 mins; September 29, 2023
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
37 mins; September 28, 2023
Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 42 mins; September 27, 2023
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40 mins; September 27, 2023
Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
66 hours 29 mins; September 27, 2023
Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 26, 2023
Forty Years of Technology Studies
116 hours 55 mins; September 18, 2023
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
55 mins; September 17, 2023
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
55 mins; September 17, 2023
Katie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; September 16, 2023
Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
32 mins; September 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
51 mins; September 11, 2023
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
53 mins; September 11, 2023
Maxim Samson, "Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
67 hours 8 mins; September 10, 2023
Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (BĂŒchner-Verlag, 2023)
48 mins; September 07, 2023
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)
48 mins; September 06, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 06, 2023
Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)
40 mins; September 06, 2023
Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
28 mins; September 05, 2023
Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)
29 mins; September 05, 2023
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 05, 2023
Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
76 hours 18 mins; September 04, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 02, 2023
The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine
70 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2023
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 31, 2023
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 30, 2023
Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)
71 hours 6 mins; August 30, 2023
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 mins; August 29, 2023
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
52 mins; August 28, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; August 27, 2023
Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (HĂŒlsbusch, 2023)
30 mins; August 23, 2023
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
17 mins; August 23, 2023
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
20 mins; August 22, 2023
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
38 mins; August 22, 2023
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
62 hours 55 mins; August 21, 2023
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
15 mins; August 21, 2023
Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
35 mins; August 20, 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
18 mins; August 20, 2023
Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
43 mins; August 19, 2023
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
47 mins; August 19, 2023
Networked: The New Social Operating System
16 mins; August 19, 2023
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
14 mins; August 18, 2023
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
17 mins; August 17, 2023
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
19 mins; August 16, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2023
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
22 mins; August 16, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2023
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
80 hours 4 mins; August 14, 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
52 mins; August 12, 2023
Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
53 mins; August 12, 2023
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
78 hours 50 mins; August 11, 2023
Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; August 10, 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
43 mins; August 10, 2023
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
70 hours 45 mins; August 10, 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
43 mins; August 09, 2023
Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)
76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; August 07, 2023
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
40 mins; August 07, 2023
Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
53 mins; August 06, 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
15 mins; August 06, 2023
Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
31 mins; August 05, 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
42 mins; August 05, 2023
Robot Futures
14 mins; August 04, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
18 mins; August 03, 2023
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
16 mins; August 02, 2023
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 mins; August 01, 2023
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
19 mins; July 31, 2023
Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)
54 mins; July 31, 2023
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
73 hours 59 mins; July 31, 2023
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
48 mins; July 30, 2023
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
37 mins; July 30, 2023
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
75 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2023
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
38 mins; July 28, 2023
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 26, 2023
The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
75 hours 17 mins; July 26, 2023
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
57 mins; July 25, 2023
US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
52 mins; July 24, 2023
Yi-Tang Lin, "Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
48 mins; July 21, 2023
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 21, 2023
Usha Raman and Sumana Kasturi, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)
37 mins; July 21, 2023
Aaron A. Reed, "50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon" (2023)
40 mins; July 19, 2023
Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; July 17, 2023
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 17, 2023
African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
56 mins; July 17, 2023
Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
50 mins; July 16, 2023
Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
28 mins; July 15, 2023
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
44 mins; July 15, 2023
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
53 mins; July 13, 2023
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 12, 2023
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
91 hours 42 mins; July 10, 2023
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
40 mins; July 07, 2023
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
34 mins; July 04, 2023
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
16 mins; July 01, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
19 mins; June 30, 2023
Mary BeltrĂĄn, "Latino TV: A History" (NYU Press, 2022)
48 mins; June 29, 2023
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
46 mins; June 28, 2023
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
36 mins; June 27, 2023
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
65 hours 16 mins; June 26, 2023
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