New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-08 19:00
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- 2025-03-08 09:00
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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 | 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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| 2025-03-07 |
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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| 2025-03-03 |
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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| 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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| 2025-03-02 |
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022) How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography (MIT Press, 2022), Christos Lynteris ex... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024) My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her research examines race, video games, and the political economy of the video game industry. Srauy’s work a... |
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| 2025-02-26 |
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times co... |
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| 2025-02-24 |
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Aure Schrock, an interdisciplinary technology scholar and writing coach and editor at Indelible Voice, about their book, Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America (MIT Press, ... |
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