Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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2025-02-15
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Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
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2025-02-14
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Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
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2025-02-13
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Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
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2025-02-10
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Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
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2025-02-10
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Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
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2025-02-10
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Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
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2025-02-08
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Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
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2025-02-04
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Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
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2025-02-03
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Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
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2025-02-01
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Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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2025-01-31
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Understanding Disinformation
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2025-01-30
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A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
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2025-01-28
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Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
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2025-01-28
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James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
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2025-01-27
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Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
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2025-01-27
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Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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2025-01-26
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Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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2025-01-26
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Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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2025-01-25
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Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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2025-01-23
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