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
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
Communication researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt talks about her book, The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication, as well as some of her recent and forthcoming pieces on the digital technology industry wi…
01:08:13 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It…
01:04:36 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)
Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History (Routledge, 2022) is a complete handbook to help pre-service teachers, current teachers, and teacher educators use historical video games…
00:49:29 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping (Manchester UP, 2023), Christiaan De Beukela…
00:47:59 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology
Journalist and STS graduate student Gemma Milne talks about her book, Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book examines…
01:11:31 |
Sun 05 Feb 2023
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with Peopl…
01:23:04 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – and created energy - for the first time. It was clea…
00:34:21 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
Computers, Information, and Decision-Making
Samantha Kleinberg, an associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about a book she’s been writing on how we can (and can’t) use information to make better decis…
01:04:03 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, should we…
00:46:23 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered b…
01:26:32 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
Inventing American Telecommunications
Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Network Na…
01:19:21 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 2022) opens a window onto a fascinating and understudie…
00:48:33 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speaking truth to power.” Today, however, online network…
00:29:46 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture, with Peoples …
01:15:14 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
Microchips are both important and in short supply. So how important? And what can be done to make them more plentiful? Also, what are the geopolitical implications of having the production of microch…
00:46:18 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
The History of Electricity in Mexico
In her detailed cultural history of technological change, Electrifying Mexico, Diana Montaño argues that ordinary Mexicans became electrifying agents who actively negotiated the extent and manner ele…
01:12:25 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
The Archaeology of Innovation
Catherine Frieman, an associate professor of European Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, talks about her recent book, An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change …
01:13:10 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "violent" could jeopardize the future of disruptive …
00:23:42 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. Banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, …
00:51:11 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Deafness “Cures” in History
Jaipreet Virdi talks about her book Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book details the long history of attempts to “fix” deaf people, including a…
01:00:57 |
Sun 22 Jan 2023
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