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Episode 145
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tw…
2 years, 10 months ago
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 70
Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first to chart the global diversity of colophons b…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jieun 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago