New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Episodes
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global economic "shutdown" in March 2020, our supply chains began to fail, and out-of-stocks and delivery delays b...
Spatial Computing
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold, authors of Spatial Computing, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, discuss the reach, risks and importan...
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving forc...
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalists around the world agree that autonomy is central to their work, but what exactly is it journalists should be autonomous from, and for what ...
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Jan Recker, Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, Germany and author of ...
Extraterrestrials
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Wade Roush, author of Extraterrestrials, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. Are we alone in the universe? If not, wher...
Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. In The Magick of Physics: ...
Michael W. Hankins, "Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia (Cornell UP, 2021) brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when...
Collaborative Society
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska about Collaborative Society (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and how netw...
The History of Contraception
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Donna J. Drucker, author of Contraception, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. We discuss reproductive justice, the his...
Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal. Around 2.5 million people die this way each year. So if any kind of medicine ...
Technologies of the Human Corpse
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse and the Director of The Center for Death and Society at The U...
Wendy Lynne Lee, "This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Lynne Lee's This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons, 2022) provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introd...
Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Abel’s The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji (U of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a history of our relationships...
Computer Graphics
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan talks with us about computer graphics. Emerging from tools for sailing and warmaking, like...
Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not all atheists are New Atheists, but thanks in large part to the prominence and influence of New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Danie...
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are science and spirituality incompatible? From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to that question... Gaz...
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” were the infamous words U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1927. In Buck v...
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Consumers and policy makers have unprecedented choices to make in the years to come about how and what we eat. If we continue down our current path of...
Quantitative Science Studies: A Discussion with Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) is a newly launched open access journal that was born out of a collaboration between the International Society for...
John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D...
Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is digital politics? What new creative and experimental tools can we use to study digital politics historically and analyse and create future ima...
Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arleen Marcia Tuchman’s book, Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease (Yale UP, 2020), tells the American history of a disease that continues to ...
How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Van der Stigchel discusses how we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with...
The Making of "Ways of Hearing"
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus to the Ways of Hearing podcast and book A behind-the-scenes conversation with the creators of Ways of Hearing, the podcast and book. Hosted by...
Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An abolitionist approach to STS and the history of the life sciences: this is the model that Cristina Mejia Visperas offers in her book, Skin Theor...
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rajesh Veeraraghavan’s Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2022) offers the first ethn...
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees)....
The Cooperative Extension System
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Karl Dudman tells us about the Cooperative Extension System. Formed in 1914 as an extension of the Land Grant Universi...
Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social scientists have long studied the ways in which smartphone use can distract us from the proper performance of means-ends tasks, such as driving ...
Tiago Forte, "Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential" (Atria Books, 2022)
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Tiago Forte about his new book Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Pote...
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nostalgia for the 1980s is in the air. From Stranger Things to the relaunch of 80s franchises like Top Gun, the American entertainment industry cas...
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Dr. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its f...
Seeing Truth in Physics
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen...
Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the Un...
Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, ...
Has Peer Review Hit a Point of No Return?
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vivian Berghahn joins to discuss what is broken with the peer review system in general, how it impacts book publishing, and some creative solutions f...
Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. The hype around cryptocurrencies and blockchain art ...
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies at MIT’...
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a foren...
Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet plays a central role in how we communicate, share information, disseminate ideas, maintain social connections, and conduct business. The ...
Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptional...
Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we sit down with Dr. Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History at Utah State University to discuss The Age of the Gas Mask: How British...
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human di...
Life Extension Therapies
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Fountain of Youth is as old as history itself. Herodotus, the father of ancient Greek history, wrote of a mythical spring that extend...
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels be...
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Intern...
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures wil...
The Science of Security
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Cormac Herley, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. We talk about the science of security and as well, about the c...
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicl...
Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Felix Zimmermann about his book Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten: ...
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League an...
David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press, 2020), David J. Halperin explores the phenomena of UFO's throug...
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after Wor...
Gordon Barrett, "China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the early decades of the Cold War, the People’s Republic of China remained far outside mainstream international science — right? Gordon B...
Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance" (HarperOne, 2023)
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hos...
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past three decades, digital technologies like smartphones and laptops have transformed the way we work in the US. At the same time, workers a...
The Challenge of AI to Publishing: A Discussion with Sally Wilson
18 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Wilson, VP of Publishing at Emerald opens up about the challenges publishers are facing in contending with the onset of the mass adoption of AI ...
John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Philosophy of Tattoos (British Library, 2021) by Dr. John Miller presents an impressively broad yet personal account, exploring tattooing as a un...
Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the launch of the Space Shuttle were mere sideshows, d...
Eric Porter, "A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport" (U California Press, 2023)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can an airport tell us about a city? Quite a bit, according to UC-Santa Cruz history professor Eric Porter in A People's History of SFO: The M...
Computer Music and Human Computer Interaction
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Gurevich, lecturer at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at the Queen’s University, Belfast School of Music and Sonic Arts, serves as guest edit...
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s common to feel that technology removes the magic of the world, but Hindu worshippers in Bangalore have shown that it's all in the approach. G...
Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mia Bay, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about her book Traveling Black: A Sto...
Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do scientists ever reject science? Research data on the controversial topic of extraterrestrial life has met with resistance from some in the scientif...
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was th...
Jessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could h...
James W. Cortada, "Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments and Businesses" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Rev...
Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini clarif...
Seeing Truth in the Lab
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they are...
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whe...
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Martin Erwig show us how we can find computational concepts inside some of our favorite stories. Picture a computer scientist, starin...
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence that has life-or-death consequences. Should we trust it? GUEST Alan Gouddis is a Partner with S...
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’...
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris Gondek interviews author John Palfrey about how diversity and free expression can coexist on a modern campus. Safe spaces, trig...
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital revolution. One strong continuity betw...
Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren maps...
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While ...
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Chris Gondek interviews Ed Finn, author of the new book What Algorithms Want. Tune in for an interesting discussion on algorithm dis...
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Ant...
Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for m...
Measure for Measure Episode 1: Fathom
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We love a good chart or graph but we think measurement is more complex and interesting than the data points. The fathom is a measure of depth from the...
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, author Ryan Milner talks to Chris Gondak about the rise of the internet meme, and the five logics that factor into the foundation, gr...
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism,...
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some...
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt: A Conversation with Andrew Simon
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette C...
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, a...
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a famous Vietnamese businesswoman hosted a three-hour long Facebook livestream, in which she named and shamed celebrities for their controver...
Seeing Truth in Photographs
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Penelope Umbrico talks about her work, images as currency, and how technology and various platforms herd images. And is photography tyrannical?...
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...
Pete Millwood, "Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger;...
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossi...
Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What will the future bring? The ancient astrologer turned the impulse to answer this question into something meaningful by mapping the night skies and...
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a m...
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. I...
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investi...
Alan Meades, "Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade" (MIT Press, 2022)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present. Amusement arcades are an important part of British culture, yet discussions...
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical...
A Primer for Teaching Digital History
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2022), which is a guide for those who are teaching digital...
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s actually going on in a cell–or on the spiky outside of an invading virus? Gael McGill, Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center ...