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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

2,965 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 2,965 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 yesterday, with 201 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 435 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
2,965
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

Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

Oct 7, 202643 min

Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely

Oct 4, 20261h 16m

The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders

Oct 1, 202625 min

Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)

Oct 1, 202635 min

Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)

Oct 1, 202645 min

How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos

Sep 30, 20261h 4m

“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?

Sep 27, 202637 min

The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul

Sep 25, 20261h 11m

Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

Sep 24, 202639 min

Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)

Sep 22, 202647 min

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Sep 21, 202647 min

Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS

Sep 18, 20261h 23m

R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

Sep 12, 202636 min

Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)

Sep 8, 202648 min

Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Sep 4, 202655 min

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)

Sep 3, 20261h 2m

Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Sep 2, 202640 min

Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use

Aug 31, 202624 min

Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" (U Virginia Press, 2025)

Aug 24, 202634 min

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
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