Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
Episode 18
It’s the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we …
1 year, 6 months ago
Emotional Rescue
Episode 27
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power…
1 year, 6 months ago
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 375
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Episode 83
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent …
1 year, 6 months ago
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 29
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and …
1 year, 6 months ago
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 208
Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological record is spotty, with only very recent advanceme…
1 year, 6 months ago
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1491
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. Thes…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
Episode 118
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticulously curated selection of 40 maps that spans th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
1 year, 6 months ago
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Episode 374
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continu…
1 year, 6 months ago