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
Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, …
00:51:46 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
Joanna Guldi, "The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (Cambridge UP, 2022) celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. How…
01:07:40 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-sh…
00:44:34 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Daniel P. Ott, "Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Cyrus McCormick invented the revolutionary mechanical reaper in 1831...right? At least, that's how the story has been told for decades. In Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, a…
01:04:19 |
Mon 20 May 2024
Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution transformed Britain from an agricultural and artisanal economy to one dominated by industry, ushering in unprecedented growth…
00:53:36 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two princi…
01:11:51 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Catherine D'Ignazio, "Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action" (MIT Press, 2024)
What isn't counted doesn't count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. …
00:53:42 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others?
The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast re…
00:56:24 |
Wed 15 May 2024
Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to discuss their new book with CEU Press entitled, The …
00:23:41 |
Sun 12 May 2024
Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever passive acts. In fact, readers of social media are …
00:56:48 |
Sat 11 May 2024
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
Listen to this interview of Courtney Miller, PhD student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about her paper "Did You Miss My Comment or What?" Understanding Toxicity in Op…
01:02:39 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Press, 2024), Tiziano Bonini, Associate Professor in S…
00:39:38 |
Fri 10 May 2024
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MC Forelle, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Society at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Virginia, about their research…
01:14:27 |
Mon 06 May 2024
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental fi…
00:54:32 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the BA (Hons) Arts Management at the University of th…
00:56:30 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancin…
00:19:34 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-ranging interests and work. The pair start by discussi…
01:07:54 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnatio…
00:29:42 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability.
Using measurement technology as a lens, and exami…
00:28:47 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we?
Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are ev…
00:38:59 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
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