Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 68
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominate…
2 years, 8 months ago
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
Episode 124
In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once …
2 years, 9 months ago
Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)
Episode 31
Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way…
2 years, 9 months ago
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
Episode 55
Richard Hirsh, Professor of History at Virginia Tech, talks about his book, Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification …
2 years, 9 months ago
Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 11
In The Other Side of Empathy (Duke UP, 2023), Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on techn…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 346
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a ma…
2 years, 9 months ago
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 391
From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 184
Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough st…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 10
Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
Episode 131
Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. …
2 years, 9 months ago