Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 116
The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completenes…
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Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 216
Honesty is an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships depend upon it. Employers value it in their employe…
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Plagiarism
Episode 133
In this episode of High Theory, Geoffrey Sanborn tells us about Plagiarism. A concept emerged with the idea of originality, plagiarism challenges som…
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Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
Episode 357
The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging…
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Anne Baillot, "From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis" (Open Book Publishers, 2023)
Episode 28
How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future?
In From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text an…
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Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 22
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an…
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Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 688
Political Scientist Boris Heersink’s new book guides the reader through over a century of politics and national parties in the United States. Heersin…
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Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 115
A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly be…
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Joeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Episode 1378
Fake news about the past is fake history.
Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot th…2 years, 5 months ago
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 115
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold.…
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