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    New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

    New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

    New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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    1073 episodes
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    English
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    Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
    Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
    Language:
    English
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    Episodes1 - 10 of 1073 episodes

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    Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better

    Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by soc...

    39 minutes
    		Apr 24, 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...

    19 minutes
    		Apr 24, 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 For...

    67 minutes
    		Apr 22, 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), Héc...

    29 minutes
    		Apr 21, 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...

    38 minutes
    		Apr 20, 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 fo...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 20, 2024

    Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)

    In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the f...

    67 minutes
    		Apr 20, 2024

    Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to sa...

    77 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

    The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and pr...

    80 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The end...

    84 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024