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Episodes: 1011
Years Active: 2010 - 2025

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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on the political, economic, and environmental politics…

01:11:53 | Tue 22 Apr 2025

Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?

It’s the UConn Popcast, and what impact will AI have on being human in the next decade? Elon University’s Center for Imagining the Digital Future just released a big report on this question, based on…

00:59:16 | Sat 19 Apr 2025

Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)

It’s a common refrain: AI is neither good nor bad because that depends on how its used. Professor Anita Say Chan begs to differ. Chan is the author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fig…

00:44:06 | Tue 15 Apr 2025

Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)

How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (U California Press, 2025), Ysabel Gerrard, a Senior Lecturer in Digital M…

00:38:40 | Sun 13 Apr 2025

Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Jeremy Braddock, Associate Professor of Literatures in English and Coordinator of the Media Studies Initiative at Cornell University, about his book, Fir…

01:07:10 | Tue 08 Apr 2025

Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)

Amid the fanfare around AI and autonomous weapons, decision-makers - both military and political - are imagining an augmented future for warfare that minimises human influence and connection. But in …

01:32:29 | Mon 07 Apr 2025

James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI

It’s the UConn Popcast, and we spoke with Duke Law Professor James Boyle about his new book The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (MIT Press, 2024). We spoke with Boyle about how our legal and mo…

00:53:43 | Sat 05 Apr 2025

Making Radio History

Elena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University. She is the author of The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) a…

01:07:07 | Mon 31 Mar 2025

The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

For many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this ho…

00:58:21 | Thu 27 Mar 2025

Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots

It’s the UConn Popcast, and can you fall in love with ChatGPT? Can, and should, you have sex with a robot? We asked Professor Kate Devlin, a leading researcher on intimate relations between humans an…

01:02:45 | Wed 26 Mar 2025

Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)

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00:24:18 | Tue 25 Mar 2025

The Audiobook's Century-Long Overnight Success

Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—and it only took them over a century to get here.…

00:51:34 | Mon 24 Mar 2025

Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”

It’s the UConn Popcast, and we've been experiencing a revolution in the past few years, as artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly common part of everyday life. Powerful AI tools are now inte…

00:56:08 | Mon 10 Mar 2025

Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Eleni Kalantidou, Assistant Professor at the Queensland College of Art and Design, about the volume of essays, Design/Repair: Place, Practice, and Commun…

00:57:19 | Mon 10 Mar 2025

Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they live…

00:44:50 | Sat 08 Mar 2025

Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)

Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial techno…

00:50:10 | Sat 08 Mar 2025

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