New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-08 19:19
- last episode published
- 2025-03-08 09:00
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- 2.07 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-08 | Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refi... |
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| 2025-03-08 |
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024) Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and moved. Railroads rewrote not only world geograp... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025) Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of digital technologies and AI. With the rapid rise of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence, ... |
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| 2025-03-07 | In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life: The Commercialization of Biology, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a background as a molecular biologist turned patent attorney, Goldstein offer... |
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| 2025-03-07 | Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology (University of California Press, 2024) reveals that, in... |
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| 2025-03-05 |
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024) The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences (Brepols, 2024) by Dr. Simona Valeriani takes one of London’s most iconic buildings and deconstructs it to offer new insights into the society that produced it. As part of the new cultural quarter b... |
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| 2025-03-04 | If you had some free time and a Windows PC in the 1990s, your mouse probably crawled its way to Minesweeper, an exciting watch-where-you-click puzzle game with a ticking clock and a ton of “just one more game” replayability. Originally sold as part of ... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Games with a medieval setting are commercially lucrative and reach a truly massive audience. Moreover, they can engage their players in a manner that is not only different, but in certain aspects, more profound than traditional literary or cinematic fo... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Today we hear two scholars reading their recent work on artificial intelligence. Steph Ceraso studies the technology of “voice donation,” which provides AI-created custom voices for people with vocal disabilities. Hussein Boon contemplates the future o... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025) Revolutions in technology are fundamentally transforming what it means to be human. Or are they? As Webb Keane points out, before humans consulted ChatGPT, they propitiated oracles. Before they fell in love with robot boyfriends, they ventured into the... |
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