Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 2895
In Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2025), Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponizat…
4 months, 1 week ago
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Episode 2894
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage …
4 months, 1 week ago
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Episode 2893
In her recent publication, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, scholar Ayala Fader tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories…
4 months, 1 week ago
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2892
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)
Episode 2891
One of the things that stood out in my conversation with John Longhurst about his book Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Fait…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Episode 2890
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for sup…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 2889
The 21st Century in 100 Games (Routledge India, 2024) is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Episode 2888
How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment.
Drawing on sound studies and performance…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
Episode 2886
How queer men in Kazakhstan navigate dating apps in a context of stigma, surveillance, and limited legal protections. It shows how platforms like Gri…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Episode 2887
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago