New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism (Oxford UP, 2025) by Dr. Meegan Kennedy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a…
00:41:03 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might cybercrime have on p…
00:28:47 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as investors, and how do dog breeds bec…
00:57:20 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
In this episode, New Books Network host Nina Bo Wagner talks to Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling about his recently published book The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wreck…
01:03:51 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Matt Wisnioski, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, about his new book, Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a …
01:33:16 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
In The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games (MIT Press, 2025), Elliot Lichtman will teach you some of computer science’s most powerful concept…
00:46:46 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Carly A. Kocurek and Matthew Payne, "Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Ultima and World-Building in the Computer Role-Playing Game (Amherst College Press, 2024) is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing …
00:27:12 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Trans Technologies
How can technology creates new possibilities for transgender people? How do trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology?
Trans Technologies, (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Oliver L…
01:03:27 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
In this 100th episode (!!!) of Peoples & Things, host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Benjamin H. Snyder, Associate Professor of Sociology at Williams College, about his recent book, Spy Plane: Inside Baltim…
00:59:34 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
An interview with Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis about Power On!
A diverse group of teenage friends learn how computing can be personally and politically empowering and why all students need access to …
00:55:40 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success (MIT Press, 2023) offers a roadmap to help leaders predict, understand, and react to their competitor…
01:39:13 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
In Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Alex Davies tells the enlightening and significant story of the effort to create driverless cars and the intense competition…
01:21:49 |
Tue 27 May 2025
From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
Today we learn how computers learned to talk with Benjamin Lindquist, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture program. Ben is the author “The Art of Text to Sp…
00:54:27 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal (Oxford UP, 2023) tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American u…
00:46:29 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, democratic principles, and the foundation of the p…
01:05:45 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by what was known as the Radio Craze. Listen In: How R…
00:50:57 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
A tech insider explains how capitalism and software development make for such a dangerous mix.
Software was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replace…
01:06:28 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
We're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network.
In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a…
01:10:44 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Radiophilia
Today’s guest is Carolyn Birdsall, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. If you’re a scholar of sound or radio, you likely know her work, particularly her monograph Nazi Soun…
01:10:31 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
Uncle Sam is watching, whether you like it or not. And the surveillance program the United States is building has as its foundation immigrants who have crossed the nation's southern border. In Data B…
00:55:00 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
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