New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2514 Episodes

1. Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/16/2025
3. Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/15/2025
4. Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/15/2025
5. Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/14/2025
6. Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)

   Published: 2/13/2025
7. Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/10/2025
8. Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/10/2025
9. Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)

   Published: 2/10/2025
10. Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

    Published: 2/8/2025
11. Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)

    Published: 2/4/2025
12. Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)

    Published: 2/3/2025
13. Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)

    Published: 2/1/2025
14. Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 1/31/2025
15. Understanding Disinformation

    Published: 1/30/2025
16. A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy

    Published: 1/28/2025
17. Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/28/2025
18. James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/27/2025
19. Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication

    Published: 1/27/2025
20. Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/26/2025