Peoples & Things

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Episodes: 71

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Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.

Episode Date
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Apr 22, 2024
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
Apr 08, 2024
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
Apr 02, 2024
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Mar 25, 2024
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Mar 18, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
Mar 11, 2024
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
Mar 04, 2024
The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
Feb 26, 2024
Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
Oct 09, 2023
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Oct 02, 2023
Forty Years of Technology Studies
Sep 18, 2023
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
Sep 11, 2023
The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
Aug 28, 2023
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
Aug 21, 2023
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Aug 14, 2023
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Aug 07, 2023
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
Jul 31, 2023
US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
Jul 24, 2023
African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
Jul 17, 2023
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
Jul 10, 2023
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
Jun 26, 2023
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
Jun 19, 2023
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
Jun 12, 2023
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Jun 05, 2023
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Apr 03, 2023
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Mar 27, 2023
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
Mar 20, 2023
Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
Mar 13, 2023
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
Mar 06, 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Feb 27, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
Feb 23, 2023
The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
Feb 20, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
Feb 16, 2023
Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
Feb 15, 2023
The History of Student Loans in the United States
Feb 14, 2023
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Feb 13, 2023
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Feb 12, 2023
ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
Feb 11, 2023
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
Feb 10, 2023
Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
Feb 09, 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Feb 08, 2023
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Feb 07, 2023
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Feb 06, 2023
The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
Feb 05, 2023
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
Feb 04, 2023
Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
Feb 03, 2023
Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract
Feb 02, 2023
Inventing American Telecommunications
Feb 01, 2023
War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Jan 31, 2023
The History of Teletherapy
Jan 30, 2023
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Jan 29, 2023
Business in Socialist Hungary
Jan 28, 2023
The History of Electricity in Mexico
Jan 27, 2023
The Archaeology of Innovation
Jan 26, 2023
Engineering and Social Justice
Jan 25, 2023
The History of Temp Work
Jan 24, 2023
How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Jan 23, 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
Jan 22, 2023
Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future
Jan 21, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
Jan 20, 2023
Automating Finance
Jan 19, 2023
Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
Jan 18, 2023
The Ideology of Innovation in India
Jan 17, 2023
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
Jan 16, 2023
Infrastructure and Inequality
Jan 15, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
Jan 14, 2023
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Jan 13, 2023
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Jan 12, 2023
Understanding Technology Bubbles
Jan 11, 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Jan 10, 2023
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
Jan 09, 2023