Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 112
Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 352
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P…
2 years, 8 months ago
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 130
David Humphrey’s The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan (U Michigan Press, 2023) examines the roles of mediated laughter in the…
2 years, 8 months ago
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
Episode 143
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding …
2 years, 8 months ago
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Episode 142
Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. C…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Episode 73
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s …
2 years, 8 months ago
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 349
From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who g…
2 years, 9 months ago
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
2 years, 9 months ago
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 350
Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their pl…
2 years, 9 months ago
Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 1342
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in whi…
2 years, 9 months ago