Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 69
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital…
2 years ago
Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 490
Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essenti…
2 years ago
Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 75
In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-las…
2 years ago
Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 389
Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidd…
2 years ago
Thinking 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 …
2 years ago
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 71
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanis…
2 years ago
Thinking 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 …
2 years ago
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
Episode 263
Edward Duffield (1730–1803) was a colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, whose elegant brass, mahogany, and walnut timekeepers stand proudly in major Amer…
2 years 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…
2 years 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 …
2 years ago