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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

2,946 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 2,946 episodes. That works out to over 2700 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 earlier today, with 182 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 435 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,946
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

Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)

Aug 23, 202645 min

Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Aug 22, 202654 min

Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)

Aug 21, 20261h 10m

Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Aug 20, 202655 min

A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now

Aug 20, 202628 min

Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture

Aug 17, 202654 min

Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Architecture" (Applied Research & Design, 2025)

Aug 16, 202653 min

Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)

Aug 15, 202632 min

Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

Aug 14, 20261h 0m

The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller

Aug 13, 202645 min

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Aug 9, 202658 min

Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future

Aug 8, 202633 min

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

Aug 7, 2026

Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)

Aug 3, 202657 min

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Aug 1, 202656 min

Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Jul 31, 202656 min

The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

Jul 31, 202634 min

The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond

Jul 30, 2026

Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Jul 28, 202651 min

Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money

Jul 27, 20261h 24m
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