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Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Episode Date
Radiophilia
Apr 28, 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2025
Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 23, 2025
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Apr 22, 2025
Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
Apr 19, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
Apr 08, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Apr 07, 2025
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
Apr 05, 2025
Making Radio History
Mar 31, 2025
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Mar 27, 2025
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
Mar 26, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Mar 25, 2025
The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success
Mar 24, 2025
Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”
Mar 10, 2025
Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
Mar 10, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 08, 2025
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 08, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 07, 2025
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 07, 2025
Sonic AI
Mar 03, 2025
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 03, 2025
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 02, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 01, 2025
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
Feb 26, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Feb 24, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Feb 21, 2025
Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 19, 2025
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
Feb 10, 2025
Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
Feb 08, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 04, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
Feb 03, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
Feb 01, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 31, 2025
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
Jan 28, 2025
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
Jan 27, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 27, 2025
Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 23, 2025
Special Episode: Mike Secasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
Jan 20, 2025
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
Jan 20, 2025
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
Jan 19, 2025
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 14, 2025
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 12, 2025
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
Jan 11, 2025
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 09, 2025
Why Teachers Turn to AI
Jan 07, 2025
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
Jan 06, 2025
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jan 04, 2025
AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales
Dec 26, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024
Bug
Dec 07, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
Dec 01, 2024
Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Tim Harris, "In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
Nov 08, 2024
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
Nov 05, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
Nov 04, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Nov 02, 2024
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Oct 31, 2024
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
Oct 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Oct 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Oct 23, 2024
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Oct 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Oct 21, 2024
Emotional Rescue
Oct 21, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
Oct 08, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Oct 07, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Oct 06, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 05, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
Sep 26, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Sep 26, 2024
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
Sep 25, 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
Sep 23, 2024
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
Sep 22, 2024
Hey, Robot!
Sep 16, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 08, 2024
Sarah Malanowski and Nicholas R. Baima, "Why It's Ok to Be a Gamer" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Books, 2024)
Sep 01, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
John V. Pavlik, "Journalism and the Metaverse" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
Aug 28, 2024
Directions of Peer Review in Software Engineering
Aug 27, 2024
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
Aug 26, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Aug 07, 2024
Mark Walker, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Aug 05, 2024
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 17, 2024
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
Jul 15, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 14, 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
Jul 13, 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
Jul 06, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 05, 2024
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Jul 04, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 02, 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
Jun 24, 2024
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024
Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Jun 19, 2024
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Jun 17, 2024
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Jun 13, 2024
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2024
AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
Jun 03, 2024
Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Jun 01, 2024
Joanna Guldi, "The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 28, 2024
Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
May 20, 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 20, 2024
Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
May 18, 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
May 18, 2024
Catherine D'Ignazio, "Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 17, 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024
Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
May 12, 2024
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
May 11, 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
May 11, 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 10, 2024
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
May 06, 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 04, 2024
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 27, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 24, 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Apr 22, 2024
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
Apr 20, 2024
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2024
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
Apr 20, 2024
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 13, 2024
Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 03, 2024
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
Apr 02, 2024
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2024
Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Mar 30, 2024
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 26, 2024
On Bloomsbury's "Object Lessons" Series: A Discussion with Christopher Schaberg
Mar 25, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
Mar 25, 2024
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Mar 25, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2024
Lisa Messeri, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke UP, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024
Once More--What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to be Generative?
Mar 16, 2024
Nick Jones, "Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 15, 2024
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
Mar 11, 2024
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Hsuan L. Hsu, "Air Conditioning" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 08, 2024
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
Mar 04, 2024
Verity Harding, "AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 01, 2024
Carol Beggy, "Pencil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 28, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024
Paul Scharre, "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (Norton, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024
What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to Generate?
Feb 24, 2024
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
Feb 23, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 21, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
Feb 19, 2024
Jenna Ng, "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Feb 14, 2024
Markus Krajewski, "The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque" (Yale UP, 2018)
Feb 11, 2024
Chen-Pang Yeang, "Transforming Noise. A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955" (2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Paddy Walker and Peter Roberts, "War's Changed Landscape?: A Primer on Conflict's Forms and Norms" (Howgate, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024
Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
What Decision Means
Jan 19, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
James C. Goodall, "Nautilus to Columbia: 70 Years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines" (Osprey, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Can A.I. Mean?
Jan 13, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 31, 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)
Dec 24, 2023
John D. Hosler, "Seven Myths of Military History" (Hackett Publishing, 2022)
Dec 23, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Dec 23, 2023
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
Dec 09, 2023
Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle
Dec 07, 2023
Using History For User Research (UX): A Discussion with Larry McGrath
Dec 07, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
Nov 26, 2023
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Nov 18, 2023
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 18, 2023
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
Nov 14, 2023
Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?
Nov 10, 2023
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
Nov 10, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
Nov 09, 2023
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 07, 2023
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 02, 2023
Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023
William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 26, 2023
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Oct 24, 2023
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
Oct 21, 2023
Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
Oct 16, 2023
Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
Txt
Oct 13, 2023
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Oct 02, 2023
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Forty Years of Technology Studies
Sep 18, 2023
Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023
Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
Sep 11, 2023
Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
Sep 07, 2023
Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 06, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 02, 2023
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 29, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing
Aug 22, 2023
Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
Aug 19, 2023
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
Aug 19, 2023
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
Aug 18, 2023
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
Aug 17, 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Aug 16, 2023
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Networked: The New Social Operating System
Aug 15, 2023
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Aug 14, 2023
Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Aug 12, 2023
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
Aug 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)
Aug 10, 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Aug 07, 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Aug 06, 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Aug 05, 2023
Robot Futures
Aug 04, 2023
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
Aug 03, 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Aug 02, 2023
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)
Jul 31, 2023
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
Jul 31, 2023
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 30, 2023
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Jul 29, 2023
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 17, 2023
Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jul 15, 2023
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
Jul 10, 2023
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Jun 30, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Jun 29, 2023
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jun 28, 2023
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
Jun 26, 2023
Metadata
Jun 26, 2023
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
Jun 25, 2023
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 25, 2023
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Jun 24, 2023
Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
Jun 23, 2023
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Jun 22, 2023
Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
Jun 20, 2023
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
Jun 19, 2023
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)
Jun 18, 2023
Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Doctor Ex Machina: AI in Medicine and its Pitfalls
Jun 13, 2023
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
Jun 12, 2023
Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 12, 2023
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Drone: Remote Control Warfare
Jun 07, 2023
Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jun 06, 2023
Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell, "The Smartness Mandate" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 04, 2023
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 04, 2023
Elizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 02, 2023
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
May 31, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2023
Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
May 26, 2023
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 24, 2023
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
May 21, 2023
Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 4: George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism
May 17, 2023
Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
May 13, 2023
Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 11, 2023
Barbara Penner et al., "Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
May 08, 2023
Jason C. Cash and Craig T. Olsen, "The World of Final Fantasy VII: Essays on the Game and Its Legacy" (McFarland, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
May 06, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
May 05, 2023
Collaborative Society
May 03, 2023
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 02, 2023
Spatial Computing
May 01, 2023
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023
Computer Graphics
Apr 27, 2023
Technologies of the Human Corpse
Apr 25, 2023
Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)
Apr 21, 2023
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 06, 2023
Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 04, 2023
Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)
Apr 03, 2023
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Apr 03, 2023
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 01, 2023
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 28, 2023
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 28, 2023
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 28, 2023
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Mar 27, 2023
Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
Mar 26, 2023
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
Mar 20, 2023
The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson
Mar 18, 2023
Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 17, 2023
Computer Music and Human Computer Interaction
Mar 15, 2023
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
Mar 14, 2023
Jessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023
James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 08, 2023
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Mar 04, 2023
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Mar 03, 2023
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
Mar 02, 2023
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 02, 2023
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
Mar 02, 2023
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 01, 2023
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
Feb 27, 2023
Seeing Truth in Photographs
Feb 23, 2023
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
Feb 23, 2023
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Feb 18, 2023
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 18, 2023
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
The Politics of Bicycling
Feb 16, 2023
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
Feb 16, 2023
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023
American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D
Feb 13, 2023
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Feb 12, 2023
James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
Feb 10, 2023
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
Feb 10, 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Feb 08, 2023
Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
Feb 05, 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Feb 05, 2023
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
Feb 04, 2023
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
Feb 04, 2023
Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
Feb 03, 2023
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2023
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
Inventing American Telecommunications
Feb 01, 2023
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023
Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
Jan 30, 2023
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Jan 29, 2023
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
Jan 28, 2023
The History of Electricity in Mexico
Jan 27, 2023
The Archaeology of Innovation
Jan 26, 2023
Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
Jan 26, 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
Jan 22, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
Jan 20, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
Jan 19, 2023
Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 19, 2023
Automating Finance
Jan 19, 2023
Spiritual Machines: Transhumanism and Religion
Jan 19, 2023
Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History
Jan 18, 2023
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
Jan 16, 2023
Infrastructure and Inequality
Jan 15, 2023
Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023
Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jan 14, 2023
The Politics of Digital Technology
Jan 14, 2023
Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)
Jan 13, 2023
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Jan 13, 2023
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023
Understanding Technology Bubbles
Jan 11, 2023
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
Jan 09, 2023
Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self
Jan 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 07, 2023
Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 05, 2023
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 04, 2023
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jan 02, 2023
Ethical AI
Dec 31, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Dec 24, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Dec 22, 2022
John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Jenny L. Davis, "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things" (MIT Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2022
Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022
Renee M. P. Teate, "SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
Dec 19, 2022
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
Dec 17, 2022
Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Yasmine Ali, "Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America" (Citadel Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Dec 09, 2022
Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 09, 2022
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
Dec 06, 2022
Melissa Kagen, "Wandering Games" (MIT Press, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
Dec 01, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Nov 30, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022
Tim Walker and Lucian Morris, "The Handbook of Banking Technology" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
Nov 28, 2022
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Nov 15, 2022
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
Nov 15, 2022
Ernest M. Valea, "Artificial Intelligence, Reincarnation, and Resurrection: An Inquiry Into the Ultimate Fulfillment of Human Nature" (Resource Publications, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
Veronica Kirin, "Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't" (2018)
Nov 09, 2022
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Gerd Gigerenzer, "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 03, 2022
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
Oct 31, 2022
Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, "Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022
Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022
Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022
Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, "Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future" (HBR Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022
Seeing Truth in Data
Oct 20, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 3: Technocracy in the Private Sector
Oct 19, 2022
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
Oct 10, 2022
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Oct 06, 2022
Elizabeth Ellcessor, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 05, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise
Oct 02, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Social Media and Political Participation in the Philippines
Sep 29, 2022
Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
Sep 28, 2022
Digital Lethargy
Sep 27, 2022
Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Amber Sinha, "The Networked Public: How Social Media is Changing Democracy" (Rupa Publications, 2019)
Sep 20, 2022
The Future of Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan
Sep 20, 2022
Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 19, 2022
Stefan Höltgen, "Open History: The Archaeology of Retrocomputing" (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021)
Sep 16, 2022
Felicia Wu Song, "Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022
Esther Wright, "Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Truck Nuts: The Political History of Trucks and Trucking
Sep 05, 2022
Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
Sep 05, 2022
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Property Technology
Aug 30, 2022
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
Aug 26, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Cassidy Puckett, "Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
Aug 25, 2022
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
Aug 24, 2022
Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2022
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
Aug 23, 2022
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
Aug 22, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Aug 22, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Aug 16, 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
Aug 12, 2022
Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
Aug 11, 2022
Christian Wolmar, "British Rail: A New History" (Michael Joseph, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022
Minh-Ha T. Pham, "Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property" (Duke UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
Sébastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, "Toxique: Enquête sur les essais nucléaires français en Polynésie" (Companyédition PUF/Disclose, 2021)
Aug 08, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
Aug 05, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
Aug 04, 2022
Ellis Jones, "DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 03, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
Aug 02, 2022
Lost Utopias: A History of World’s Fairs
Aug 01, 2022
Stuart Ellis-Gorman, "The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Nic Maclellan, "Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests" (ANU Press, 2017)
Jul 27, 2022
James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 27, 2022
Felix Schniz, "Genre and Video Game: Introducing an Impossible Taxonomy" (Springer, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022
Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022
Nicole Erin Morse, "Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Cultures in the United States" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Roberto J. González, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)
Jun 24, 2022
Drone Life
Jun 22, 2022
Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
Jun 17, 2022
Andrew Simon, "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Jun 15, 2022
Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Thomas J. Misa, "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
Margie Meacham, "AI in Talent Development: Capitalize on the AI Revolution to Transform the Way You Work, Learn, and Live" (ASTD, 2020)
Jun 02, 2022
Jessamyn Abel, "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Adam M. Romero, "Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture" (U California Press, 2021)
May 30, 2022
Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?
May 30, 2022
Aniket Aga, "Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
May 18, 2022
Elena Esposito, "Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 18, 2022
Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
May 17, 2022
Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 15, 2022
Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
May 10, 2022
Computational Creativity
May 06, 2022
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 27, 2022
Nicole Starosielski, "Media Hot and Cold" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 20, 2022
Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
Apr 20, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2022
David Nemer, "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 19, 2022
Kris Ruijgrok, "Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and Other Authoritarian Regimes" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Robert A Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 13, 2022
Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
Apr 07, 2022
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 05, 2022
Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021))
Mar 30, 2022
Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)
Mar 30, 2022
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
Mar 29, 2022
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Mar 28, 2022
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
Mar 22, 2022
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022
Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022
Ori Schwarz, "Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes That Bind Us Together" (Polity Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022
Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2022
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2022
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 04, 2022
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 03, 2022
Shameen Prashantham, "Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups" (Wiley, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 15, 2022
Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 11, 2022
Kevin Coe and Joshua M. Scacco, "The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022
Rashmi Sadana, "The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Feb 08, 2022
Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021)
Feb 07, 2022
Where the Wild Things Are: Reimagining the More-Than-Human City
Feb 04, 2022
Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 28, 2022
Stephanie A. Martin, "Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump" (U Alabama Press, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik)
Jan 27, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Thomas Huckle and Tobias Neckel, "Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science" (SIAM, 2019)
Jan 17, 2022
Janneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT Press, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021
Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)
Dec 22, 2021
Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 20, 2021
Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021
Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)
Dec 09, 2021
Herbert Lin, "Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
Nov 19, 2021
68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
Nov 18, 2021
Gabriella Lukács, "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2021
Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 10, 2021
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021
Yuri Kostenko, "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History" (HURI, 2020)
Nov 09, 2021
67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon
Nov 04, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
Roberto J. González, "Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Ashley Hinck, "Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World" (LSU Press, 2019)
Oct 22, 2021
Rebecca L. Stein, "Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2021
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2021
Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 07, 2021
Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
Oct 06, 2021
Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 06, 2021
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 05, 2021
Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 27, 2021
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021
Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 10, 2021
Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Angelica Malin, "She Made It: The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital Age" (Kogan Page, 2021)
Sep 09, 2021
Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 07, 2021
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
Aug 27, 2021
Craig Robertson, "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Matthew Flisfeder, "Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
James W. Cortada, "IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon" (MIT Press, 2019)
Aug 18, 2021
P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021
Rahul Mukherjee, "Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021
John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 19, 2021
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Jul 06, 2021
Sandeep Mertia, "Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India" (Institute of Networked Cultures, 2020)
Jul 05, 2021
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021
Javier Guerrero C., "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021
S. Livingstone and A. Blum-Ross, "Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2021
Carla Diana, "My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human" (Harvard Business, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Amy D. Finstein, "Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-interstate America" (Temple UP, 2020)
Jun 02, 2021
Mikiya Koyagi, "Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Zahi Zalloua, "Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
May 31, 2021
Alex Wellerstein, "Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Ellen Helsper, "The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities" (Sage, 2021)
May 21, 2021
Rob Kitchin, "Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World" (Policy Press, 2021)
May 20, 2021
L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 19, 2021
Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Zoetanya Sujon, "The Social Media Age" (Sage, 2021)
May 18, 2021
Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 17, 2021
Tetyana Lokot, "Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
May 10, 2021
T. Sanders et al., "Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
May 10, 2021
Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
May 06, 2021
Daniel Greene, "The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope" (MIT Press, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021
Joel Waldfogel, "Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 21, 2021
Carolyn J. Heinrich, et al., "Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K-12 Education" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
Apr 20, 2021
Jürgen P. Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 15, 2021
David Wills, "Prosthesis" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 15, 2021
Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail
Apr 15, 2021
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are" (HarperCollins, 2017)
Apr 15, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021
Edward Ashford Lee, "The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 02, 2021
Katherine E. Standefer, "Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life" (Little, Brown Spark, 2020)
Mar 30, 2021
John Durham Peters et al., "Action at a Distance" (Meson Press, 2020)
Mar 26, 2021
Gascia Ouzounian, "Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts" (MIT Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2021
Evan Friss, "The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Mar 05, 2021
Roland T. Rust and Ming-Hui Huang, "The Feeling Economy: How Artificial Intelligence Is Creating the Era of Empathy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Mar 04, 2021
Teresa Berger, "@Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds" (Routledge, 2018)
Feb 26, 2021
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
Feb 26, 2021
L. Vinsel and A. L. Russell, "The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most" (Currency, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021
Nicole Perlroth, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Feb 18, 2021
Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 16, 2021
James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution" (Brookings, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021
Michael Fisch, "An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network" (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
Jan 08, 2021
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder" (Duke UP, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020
Jeremy Black, "Tank Warfare" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Matthew H. Rafalow, "Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 10, 2020
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
Nov 05, 2020
Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World" (Part 2) (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 04, 2020
Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" (U London Press, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020
Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Anthony Hodgson, "Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World: A Search for New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
Oct 07, 2020
Jon Lindsay, "Information Technology and Military Power" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Oct 07, 2020
Angèle Christin, "Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 14, 2020
J. Kim and E. Maloney, "Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education and The Low-Density University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Aug 21, 2020
T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)
Aug 20, 2020
C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, "Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Aug 18, 2020
Katie Day Good, "Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education" (MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Nadia Eghbal, "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" (Stripe Press, 2020)
Aug 12, 2020
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Personalization, Identity, and Everyday Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 07, 2020
Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019)
Aug 07, 2020
Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jul 29, 2020
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2020
Philip Reid, "The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 20, 2020
Jeffery R. Young, "Beyond the MOOC Hype: A Guide to Higher Education’s High-Tech Disruption" (CHE, 2013)
Jul 16, 2020
Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
Jul 13, 2020
Doron Galili, "Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 02, 2020
Ainissa Ramirez, "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2020
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (Emerald, 2019)
Jun 22, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Nick Prior, "Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society" (SAGE, 2018)
May 18, 2020
Paul Harkins, "Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies" (Routledge, 2019)
May 14, 2020
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
May 01, 2020
Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Apr 30, 2020
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 27, 2020
Thor Magnusson, "Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020
Theodora Varbouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 14, 2020
Paul Nahin, "Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 03, 2020
Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 03, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Neil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Polity, 2019)
Mar 27, 2020
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "Übermensch: Plädoyer Für Einen Nietzscheanischen Transhumanismus" (Schwabe, 2019)
Mar 19, 2020
Jacob Turner, "Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Mar 12, 2020
Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Mar 05, 2020
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Feminism" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 03, 2020
Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom" (New English Review, 2019)
Mar 02, 2020
David J. Gunkel, "Robot Rights" (MIT Press, 2018)
Feb 27, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
Feb 20, 2020
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" (NYU Press, 2020)
Feb 14, 2020
Francesca Minerva, "The Ethics of Cryonics: Is It Immoral to be Immortal" (Palgrave, 2018)
Feb 13, 2020
Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 2020
Shannon Vallor, "Technology and the Virtues" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Feb 06, 2020
Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities" (MIT Press, 2019)
Feb 03, 2020
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Jan 31, 2020
Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves" (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 30, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jan 24, 2020
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, "Re-Engineering Humanity" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jan 23, 2020
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 2020
James Schwartz, "The Ethics of Space Exploration" (Springer, 2016)
Jan 16, 2020
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications" (MIT Press, 2017)
Jan 09, 2020
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 02, 2020
Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Dec 27, 2019
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017)
Dec 26, 2019
Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2019
Steve Fuller, "The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Dec 19, 2019
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Dec 12, 2019
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
Dec 10, 2019
Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 09, 2019
Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, 2016)
Dec 05, 2019
Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
Dec 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Nov 25, 2019
Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)
Nov 19, 2019
Jonathan Rees, "Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Nov 14, 2019
J. Yates and C. N. Murphy, "Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019
Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformation of China" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Oct 28, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Jul 26, 2019
David Beer, “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception“ (Sage, 2019)
Jul 02, 2019
Kerim Yasar, "Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945" (Columbia UP, 2018)
May 28, 2019
Gökçe Günel, "Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi" (Duke UP, 2019)
May 24, 2019
Martin Collins, "A Telephone for the World: Motorola, Iridium, and the Making of a Global Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
May 23, 2019
Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019)
May 07, 2019
Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019)
May 02, 2019
Crystal Abidin, "Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online" (Emerald Publishing, 2018)
Apr 29, 2019
Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018)
Apr 18, 2019
Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future" (Brookings, 2019)
Mar 27, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Kartik Hosanagar, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives" (Viking, 2019)
Mar 12, 2019
James Schwoch, "Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Mar 06, 2019
Joy Lisi Rankin, "A People’s History of Computing in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2018).
Feb 19, 2019
Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Feb 06, 2019
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 04, 2019
Jan English-Lueck, "Cultures@SiliconValley: Second Edition" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Jan 28, 2019
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina Rini
Jan 22, 2019
Megan Finn, "Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters" (MIT Press, 2018)
Jan 08, 2019
Pamela E. Klassen, "The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Dec 24, 2018
A. G. Holloway and J. W. White, "Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War" (Kent State UP, 2018)
Dec 19, 2018
Paola Bertucci, "Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France" (Yale UP, 2018)
Dec 06, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Chris Horrocks, “The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television” (Reaktion Press, 2017)
Nov 08, 2018
Raymond Boyle, “The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways” (Palgrave, 2018)
Nov 06, 2018
J. Obert, A. Poe, A. Sarat, eds., “The Lives of Guns” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 01, 2018
N. M. Sambaluk, “The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security” (Naval Institute Press, 2015)
Oct 29, 2018
Lee Humphreys, “The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life” (MIT Press, 2018)
Oct 19, 2018
Wade Roush, ed., “Twelve Tomorrows” (MIT Press, 2018)
Oct 18, 2018
Rachel Z. Arndt, “Beyond Measure” (Sarabande Books, 2018)
Oct 12, 2018
Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Oct 04, 2018
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Oct 02, 2018
Ben Epstein, “The Only Constant is Change: Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation Over Time” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 22, 2018
Julie A. Cohn, “The Grid: Biography of an American Technology” (MIT Press, 2017)
Aug 15, 2018
Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)
Jun 14, 2018
Jacob N. Shapiro, “Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jun 07, 2018
Larry Cuban, “The Flight of a Butterfly or the Path of a Bullet? Using Technology to Transform Teaching and Learning” (Harvard Education Press, 2018)
Jun 06, 2018
Hala Auji, “Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut” (Brill, 2016)
Jun 05, 2018
B.J. Mendelson, “Privacy: And How to Get It Back” (Curious Reads, 2017)
May 03, 2018
Yutao Sun and Seamus Grimes, “China and Global Value Chains” (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 30, 2018
George Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite, “Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies” (Georgetown UP, 2017)
Apr 18, 2018
Stephen Monteiro, “The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender” (MIT Press, 2017)
Apr 06, 2018
Alex Wade, “Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Mar 23, 2018
Christopher J. Lee, “Jet Lag” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Jennifer Hart, “Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation” (Indiana UP, 2016)
Feb 23, 2018
Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018)
Feb 20, 2018
Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016)
Feb 15, 2018
Andrew Keen, “How To Fix The Future” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018)
Feb 06, 2018
Nick Montfort, “The Future” (MIT, 2017)
Jan 29, 2018
Leo Coleman, “A Moral Technology: Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi” (Cornell UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 2018
Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)
Jan 09, 2018
Liss C. Werner, “Cybernetics: State of the Art” (Tech Uni of Berlin Press, 2017)
Jan 09, 2018
Chelsea Schelly, “Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Dec 28, 2017
Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll, “Minitel: Welcome to the Internet” (MIT Press, 2017)
Dec 21, 2017
Alfie Bown, “The Playstation Dreamworld” (Polity, 2017)
Dec 20, 2017
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
Dec 15, 2017
Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017
Eileen Le Han, “Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Jul 12, 2017
Simone Muller, “Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Jul 10, 2017
Thomas Hazlett, “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology” (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 30, 2017
Andre Sirois, “Hip-Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization” (Peter Lang, 2016)
Jun 13, 2017
Marilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016)
May 26, 2017
Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
May 18, 2017
James Poyner, “Trump Tweets: His Social Media Phenomenon” (Wilkinson Publishing, 2017)
May 18, 2017
Willliam Rankin, “After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
May 17, 2017
Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
May 13, 2017
Helen Anne Curry, “Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
May 08, 2017
Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)
May 04, 2017
Democracy and Dialogue Online with Joshua Cohen
Apr 20, 2017
Donna Freitas, “The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 18, 2017
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT, 2014)
Apr 18, 2017
Democracy and Social Media with Michael Lynch
Apr 05, 2017
Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (Routledge, 2016)
Mar 27, 2017
Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)
Feb 09, 2017
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017
Dave Karpf, “Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 09, 2017
Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)
Jan 06, 2017
Heather Dowd, “Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces” (EdTechTeam, 2016)
Jan 05, 2017
Carroll Pursell, “From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Dec 29, 2016
Alecia Swasy, “How Journalists Use Twitter: The Changing Landscape of U.S. Newsrooms” (Lexington Books, 2016)
Nov 12, 2016
Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Sep 30, 2016
Milton Chen, “Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools” (Jossey Bass, 2012)
Sep 26, 2016
Marc Raboy, “Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 21, 2016
E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Sep 21, 2016
Mary Chayko, “Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life” (SAGE, 2016)
Sep 13, 2016
George Couros, “The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity” (Dave Burgess Consulting, 2015)
Sep 13, 2016
Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)
Aug 29, 2016
Daniel Kreiss, “Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 29, 2016
James Rodger Fleming, “Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology” (MIT Press, 2016)
Aug 26, 2016
Benjamin Peters, “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” (MIT Press, 2016)
Jul 16, 2016
Ronald R. Kline, “The Cybernetics Moment: Or, Why We Call Our Age the Information Age” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Jul 08, 2016
Greg Jenner, “A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from Stone Age to Phone Age” (St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
Jun 26, 2016
Mark Carrigan, “Social Media for Academics” (Sage, 2016)
Apr 27, 2016
Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)
Apr 18, 2016
Benjamin Castleman, “The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Apr 03, 2016
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, “Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America” (MIT Press, 2016)
Mar 14, 2016
David R. Brake, “Sharing our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Feb 29, 2016
Jeffery Pomerantz, “Metadata” (MIT, 2015)
Feb 22, 2016
Finn Brunton, “Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet” (MIT Press, 2013)
Feb 16, 2016
Paul R. Josephson, “Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Jan 29, 2016
Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin, “Enjoying Machines” (MIT 2015)
Jan 06, 2016
Nathan Altice, “I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer-Entertainment System Platform” (MIT Press, 2015)
Dec 23, 2015
Megan Prelinger, “Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age” (Norton, 2015)
Nov 19, 2015
John Durham Peters, “The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 17, 2015
Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015
Gillian Isaacs Russell, “Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” (Karnac, 2015)
Oct 13, 2015
Joseph M. Reagle, “Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web” (MIT Press, 2015)
Oct 02, 2015
Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, “Using Technology, Building Democracy: Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 28, 2015
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Aug 19, 2015
Alexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)
Aug 10, 2015
Janet Vertesi, “Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Aug 10, 2015
Jonathan Coopersmith, “Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Jul 17, 2015
Christian Fuchs, “Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media” (Routledge, 2015)
Jun 28, 2015
Jenifer Van Vleck, “Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Jun 14, 2015
Charis Thompson, “Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research” (MIT Press, 2013)
Jun 08, 2015
John Sharp, “Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art” (MIT Press, 2015)
Jun 01, 2015
Greg Siegel, “Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity” (Duke UP, 2014)
May 26, 2015
Jon L. Mills, “Privacy in the New Media Age” (University Press of Florida, 2015)
May 25, 2015
Myles W. Jackson, “The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race” (MIT Press, 2015)
May 18, 2015
Naomi S. Baron, “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World” (Oxford UP, 2015)
May 01, 2015
Christine L. Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World” (MIT Press, 2015)
Apr 20, 2015
Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 2015
Casey O’Donnell, “Developer’s Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators” (MIT Press, 2014)
Apr 06, 2015
Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke, “Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming” (MIT, 2014)
Mar 07, 2015
Thomas Leitch, “Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
Mar 04, 2015
Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford, “The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance” (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
Jan 01, 2015
Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 24, 2014
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, “Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe” (MIT Press, 2014)
Dec 14, 2014
Johanna Drucker, “Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Dec 11, 2014
James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014)
Dec 04, 2014
Carolyn L. Kane, “Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Dec 03, 2014
Victor Pickard, “America’s Battle for Media Democracy” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Nov 25, 2014
Alon Peled, “Traversing Digital Babel: Information, E-Government, and Exchange” (MIT Press, 2014)
Nov 07, 2014
Ethan Zuckerman, “Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection” (Norton, 2013)
Nov 06, 2014
John Tresch, “The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
Oct 30, 2014
Don Lincoln, “The Large Hadron Collider” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
Oct 09, 2014
Hugh F. Cline, “Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation” (Routledge, 2014)
Oct 09, 2014
Jeremy Lipschultz, “Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law, and Ethics” (Routledge, 2014)
Sep 07, 2014
John Tresch, “The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Sep 05, 2014
Tim Anderson, “Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy” (Routledge, 2014)
Aug 23, 2014
Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Aug 16, 2014
Josh Lerner, “Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics” (MIT Press, 2014)
Jul 28, 2014
Ronen Shamir, “Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Jul 23, 2014
Judith Donath, “The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online” (MIT Press, 2014)
Jul 19, 2014
Amit Prasad, “Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India” (MIT Press, 2014)
Jul 09, 2014
Lisa Gitelman, “Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents” (Duke UP, 2014)
Jul 09, 2014
Payal Arora, “The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0” (Routledge, 2014)
Jul 02, 2014
Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova, “Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis” (MIT, 2014)
Jun 19, 2014
Lori Emerson, “Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound” (University of Minnesota, 2014)
Jun 12, 2014
David Nemer, “Favela Digital: The Other Side of Technology” (GSA Editora e Grafica, 2013)
Jun 05, 2014
Vincent Mosco, “To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World” (Paradigm Publishers, 2014)
May 29, 2014
Lawrence Goldstone, “Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies” (Ballentine, 2014)
May 18, 2014
danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (Yale UP, 2014)
May 12, 2014
Michael Saler, “As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality” (Oxford UP, 2012)
May 12, 2014
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 05, 2014
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Apr 18, 2014
Paul-Brian McInerney, “From Social Movement to Moral Market: How the Circuit Riders Sparked an IT Revolution and Created a Technology Market” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Apr 14, 2014
Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)
Apr 11, 2014
Adam Thierer, “Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom” (Mercatus Center, 2014)
Apr 04, 2014
Andrew L. Russell, “Open Standards in the Digital Age” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Mar 27, 2014
Robert Neer, “Napalm: An American Biography” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Feb 13, 2014
Thomas Bey William Bailey, “Unofficial Release: Self-Released and Handmade Audio in Post-Industrial Society” (Belsona Books, 2012)
Nov 22, 2013
Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell, “How to Watch Television” (NYU Press, 2013)
Nov 16, 2013
William J. Clancey, “Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers” (MIT Press, 2012)
Nov 03, 2013
Aaron S. Moore, “Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Oct 26, 2013
Jonathan Sterne, “MP3: The Meaning of a Format” (Duke UP, 2012)
Oct 10, 2013
Ian Samson, “Paper: An Elegy” (Harper Collins, 2012)
Sep 24, 2013
David Munns, “A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy” (MIT Press, 2012)
Jul 29, 2013
John O. McGinnis, “Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Jul 10, 2013
Nicco Mele, “The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
Jun 24, 2013
Clive Hamilton, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jun 20, 2013
Dominic Pettman, “Human Error” (UMinnesota, 2011)/”Look at the Bunny” (Zero Books, 2013)
May 31, 2013
Douglas Rushkoff, “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” (Current, 2013)
May 21, 2013
Joseph November, “Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
May 14, 2013
Paul Barrett, “Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun” (Broadway, 2013)
May 02, 2013
David Hochfelder, “The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
Apr 23, 2013
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
Apr 04, 2013
C.W. Anderson, “Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age” (Temple UP, 2013)
Mar 03, 2013
Alec Foege, “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great” (Basic Books, 2013)
Jan 17, 2013
Alec Foege, "The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great" (Basic Books, 2013)
Jan 17, 2013
Ines Mergel, “Social Media in the Public Sector: A Guide to Participation, Collaboration and Transparency in the Networked World” (Jossey-Bass 2012)
Dec 16, 2012
David Wolman, “The End Of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers, and the Coming Cashless Society” (Da Capo Press, 2012)
Jun 08, 2012
Barry Kernfeld, “Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
May 17, 2012
Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Mar 01, 2012
Peter-Paul Verbeek, “Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Feb 15, 2012
Daqing Yang, “Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883-1945” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Nov 15, 2011
Kimbrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling” (Duke University Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)” (U. California Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Louis Siegelbaum, “Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile” (Cornell UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2011
Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)
Jul 06, 2011
Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky, “Search and Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google” (Telescope Books, 2011)
Jun 20, 2011
Dagmar Schaefer, “The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
May 31, 2011
Brian Christian, “The Most Human Human: A Defense of Humanity in the Age of the Computer” (Penguin, 2011)
May 23, 2011
Robert Goldberg, “Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit” (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
Mar 18, 2011
Joel Wolfe, “Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Mar 19, 2010