Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchData Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census with danah boyd (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 2970
In this episode, danah discusses proposed changes to the census that could lead to population undercounts, distort congressional apportionment, and h…
6 hours ago
Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media with Niall Docherty (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 2969
We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self…
6 hours ago
Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 2968
In Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke UP, 2025), Vivian Y. Choi examines how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fostered new f…
3 days, 6 hours ago
AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2967
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, an…
3 days, 6 hours ago
Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use
Episode 2966
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah chats with Dr. Priyanka Bose. Priyanka is a lecturer in English Literacy Educatio…
1 week, 1 day ago
In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 2964
At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be human, Fuc…
1 week, 4 days ago
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2963
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future.
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth In…
1 week, 6 days ago
Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 2962
Social media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emulating pu…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hernández and Baruch Vergara
Episode 2961
This is the first episode in a series that explores the intersections of science and the humanities in university life. In today’s conversation, Jef…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 2960
What does it mean to learn when algorithms increasingly shape how knowledge is produced, organized, and interpreted? Editors Elizabeth de Freitas, Ma…
3 weeks, 1 day ago