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New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books

New Books Network

2,900 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 2,900 episodes. That works out to over 2600 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 1h 6m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 136 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 435 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,900
Running
2010–2026 · 16y
Median length
55 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Jun 28, 20261h 16m

Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)

Jun 28, 202649 min

Elizabeth Cotton, "UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health" (Policy Press, 2025)

Jun 27, 202650 min

Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Jun 26, 202647 min

Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Jun 23, 202650 min

Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)

Jun 21, 20261h 3m

Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Jun 20, 2026

Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

Jun 16, 20261h 8m

John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)

Jun 14, 202643 min

AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota

Jun 12, 2026

Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)

Jun 9, 202645 min

Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)

Jun 9, 20261h 1m

Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory

Jun 8, 20261h 11m

Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan

Jun 8, 2026

Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)

Jun 6, 202635 min

Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)

Jun 6, 202633 min

Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Jun 5, 202651 min

Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)

Jun 2, 20261h 1m

Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

May 30, 202649 min

Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)

May 30, 20261h 11m
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