New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford University Press, 2024) edited by Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H…
01:12:05 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure.
For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman wo…
01:13:41 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, about her recent book, Middle Tech:…
01:09:31 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trai…
00:39:02 |
Sun 14 Jul 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
It’s the UConn Popcast, and recently UConn’s Center for the Study of Popular Music hosted a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Music. The panel featured Dr. Mitchell Green,…
00:58:34 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords.
In The AI Mirr…
01:06:36 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert, "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" (MIT Press, 2024)
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is used by other people in other times and places? …
00:39:27 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Jeremy Black, "A World History of Rail: From the Steam Regime to Today" (Amberley Publishing, 2023)
There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key theme in railway history. In the First World War, the London and North West Railway transported 32…
00:22:17 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Tara Ward reveals how Instagram shifts long-estab…
00:42:14 |
Fri 05 Jul 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)
The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. If there’s one universal trait…
00:51:00 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford UP, 2024), Jas…
00:47:09 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China? What mental tac…
00:31:10 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultures of prediction.
The ability to make reliable p…
01:01:58 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on…
00:51:56 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie …
00:56:44 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetow…
01:15:31 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requir…
00:31:00 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a …
00:47:14 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp contrast, today's artificial neural networks – de…
01:11:29 |
Mon 10 Jun 2024
AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš DIscusses "Artificial Humanities"
In this debut conversation, we speak to Dr. Nina Beguš, a researcher at UC Berkeley and the founder of InterpretAI who holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Listen to learn a…
00:49:26 |
Mon 03 Jun 2024
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