Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Episode 138
In this episode of Madison's Notes, Jonathan Haidt, renowned social psychologist and author, dives deep into the impact of digital saturation on toda…
1 year, 2 months ago
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 157
Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oce…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 759
As Americans increasingly depend upon their phones, computers, and internet resources, their actions are less private than they believe. Data is rout…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Episode 111
Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How, then, did c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 107
As a rising infrastructure powerhouse, China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Episode 230
The pernicious social impact of social media platforms is a matter of global concern, as this digital technology has become a breeding ground for the…
1 year, 2 months ago
Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 240
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of da…
1 year, 2 months ago
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
Episode 234
“Brain Rot,” the 2024 Oxford word of the year captures the essence of our new podcast that is being created as a special series on the New Books Netw…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
Episode 90
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Ga…
1 year, 2 months ago
Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
Episode 85
Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age (ARC Humanities Press, 2024) e…
1 year, 2 months ago