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New Books in Technology

New Books in Technology

Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books

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1,125 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Technology has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 1,125 episodes. That works out to roughly 980 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 40 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 80 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 216 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
1,125
Running
2010–2026 · 16y
Median length
52 min
Cadence
Weekly

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/technology

Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027)

Aug 23, 20261h 10m

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

Aug 20, 202653 min

Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture

Aug 17, 202654 min

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

Aug 15, 202632 min

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought

Aug 9, 202658 min

Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital" (Verso, 2025)

Aug 8, 20261h 15m

James W. Cortada, "Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Aug 3, 202649 min

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

Jul 31, 202656 min

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

Jul 30, 2026

Re-Evaluating CX in the AI Era

Jul 30, 202642 min

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

Jul 29, 202651 min

Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control

Jul 23, 2026

David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

Jul 22, 202642 min

Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)

Jul 21, 20261h 2m

Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)

Jul 20, 202627 min

Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)

Jul 17, 202651 min

Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)

Jul 14, 20261h 6m

The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz

Jul 12, 20261h 0m

Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

Jul 10, 202643 min

Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics

Jul 8, 2026
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