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Episode 348
Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomi…
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Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 128
Robert Willim's new book Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary (Bristol University Press, 2024), takes the reader on a journey throu…
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Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 168
Listen to this interview of Emma Frances Bloomfield, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. We talk abo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 90
The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWER…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 363
Our privacy is besieged by tech companies.
Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and cou…
2 years, 1 month ago
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 446
Global adoption of the Internet has exploded, yet we are only beginning to understand the Internet's profound political consequences. Authoritarian s…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
Episode 140
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Gabriele Mazzini, a lawyer and officer of the European Commission and …
2 years, 1 month ago
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Episode 67
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner…
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George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
Episode 229
A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new …
2 years, 1 month ago
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 127
The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age—and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.
I…
2 years, 1 month ago