New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unpreceden…
00:55:38 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda campaigns, incitement of violence on the internet, and, in particular, sp…
00:42:14 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
Property Technology
In this episode of High Theory, Erin McElroy talks with Nathan Kim about Property Technology. This is the first episode in the High Theory in STEM series, that tackles topics in science, technology, …
00:22:50 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide (Canadian Scholars, …
00:49:44 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on computer-generated imagery to enhanc…
01:17:11 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Don’t Hate the Player: The World of E-Sports
On this episode of Darts and Letters, we took a personal journey into virtual sport. Listen in as guest host (and regular lead producer) Jay Cockburn gets ready to enter the world of e-sports, with a…
00:34:47 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Enter the Zuckerverse: On the Metaverse and its Corporatization
The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corporations want to sell you. Strap on some VR goggles and…
00:46:54 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
Cassidy Puckett, "Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Picture a typical computer geek. Likely white, male, and someone you’d say has a “natural instinct” for technology. Yet, after six years teaching technology classes to first-generation, low-income mi…
01:04:58 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
Setting goals for the new year? Learning a language? Going for a run? Delivering food? Picking packages off a warehouse shelf for delivery? There’s a game for that. Or, at least, a gamified system de…
00:51:27 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
In Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets (Harper Business, 2022), Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech requires “cl…
01:04:15 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
We are in the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited…
00:58:30 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Save the Whales: The Addictive Psychology Behind Video Games
We’ll save the Moby Dick puns for the episode itself, but suffice it to say that sinister game developers are on a whale hunt. This episode, originally published last fall, is about the sophisticated…
01:01:23 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than at probably any other time in history. Meanwhile, mi…
01:17:56 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Moral Kombat: How Mortal Kombat Caused Moral Outrage
You can learn much about a media and political culture by examining when it panics, and who it panics about. And we’ve always panicked about video games, from the early arcades until this very day. W…
01:08:13 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) focuses on the US Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. It is hard to exaggerate the extent to …
01:00:09 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Johanna Drucker provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of schol…
00:58:19 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021) provides a cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial…
00:39:26 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
There is no shortage of words written about climate change and the goal of reaching net zero - but there is a shortage of practical suggestions about to get to net zero. Even governments committed to…
00:45:48 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in the 20th century: the growth of the climate killing…
01:37:37 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
This is part 2 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters.
For the final episode of our “Activism & Academia”-themed week of programming, we’re returning to Cited’s series o…
00:45:45 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
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