New Books in Technology
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Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Oct 4, 20261h 16m
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Oct 1, 202645 min
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Oct 1, 202625 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
Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s with Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk and Frank Kessler (Brepols, 2026)
Sep 25, 202658 min
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
179* What does the Pope have to teach us about AI? (JP, from Public Books)
Sep 17, 202629 min
Billionaire Backlash
Sep 16, 202630 min
Writing Against the Machine: On Artistic Culture in the AI Age with Matthew Gasda
Sep 16, 202651 min
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Sep 12, 202636 min
Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sep 7, 20261h 9m
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
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
Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
Jul 3, 2026
The Tin Man Model of Running a Company Is Rusty
Jul 2, 202625 min
Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)
Jul 2, 202658 min
Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Jun 28, 20261h 16m
Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 23, 202648 min
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 20261h 8m
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 8, 20261h 11m
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jun 5, 202651 min
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Jun 4, 202641 min
Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jun 2, 20261h 1m
Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
May 30, 20261h 11m
Learning Languages on Social Media
May 26, 202637 min
Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 20261h 13m
Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 15, 20263 min