Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 134
We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever p…
2 years, 1 month ago
"Did You Miss My Comment or What?": Understanding Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
Episode 173
Listen to this interview of Courtney Miller, PhD student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about her paper "Did You Miss…
2 years, 1 month ago
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 453
What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Pres…
2 years, 1 month ago
Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
Episode 120
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the app…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Scientific Attitude
Episode 172
Listen to this interview of Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science (Boston University) and Senior Advisor …
2 years, 1 month ago
Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 55
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its ki…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dead Air
Episode 1
On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions …
2 years, 1 month ago
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
Episode 71
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MC Forelle, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Society at the School of Engineering and Applied Scien…
2 years, 1 month ago
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 715
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dra…
2 years, 1 month ago
John Powers, "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 195
The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies th…
2 years, 1 month ago