New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

2585 Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 1/31/2025
7. Understanding Disinformation

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/26/2025
13. Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/26/2025
14. Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/25/2025
15. Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 1/23/2025
16. Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (1)

    Published: 1/22/2025
17. Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/21/2025
18. Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 1/21/2025
19. Special Episode: Mike Secasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center

    Published: 1/20/2025
20. Listening in the Afterlife of Data

    Published: 1/20/2025