Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 2739
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)
Episode 2738
“If I had been enslaved for a year or two, I might not be able to believe in humanity any more.” “I am a victim of modern slavery.”
These chilling wo…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2737
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Episode 108
In this special livestream edition of Peoples & Things, host Lee Vinsel and very special guest host, danah boyd, formerly of Microsoft Research, pres…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
Episode 2735
Silicon Valley wants to disrupt finance, and it might just succeed. In FinTech Dystopia, professor Hilary Allen offers an accessible, irreverent, and…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
Episode 215
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural A…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
Episode 174
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny speaks with Alex Priou, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universit…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025)
Episode 7
Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts. A whirlpool emerges from water molecules. A living cell from organic m…
1 year ago
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 223
In the fourth edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, drawing on important feminist conce…
1 year ago
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
Episode 2730
How is artificial intelligence transforming journalism as both a profession and an institution? In this episode, Ning Ao speaks to Dr. Joanne Kuai, e…
1 year ago