New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

The Politics of Bicycling

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po...

Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that tradit...

Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From Gail Borden’s meat biscuit to John Harvey Kellogg’s peptogenic foods for race betterment and Fleishmann’s yeast as both technology of empir...

Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesize...

Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s podcast we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Dr. Lee D. Baker’s book From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and ...

American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Hintz, a historian and fellowship coordinator with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution’...

Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Di...

Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’:...

James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from th...

The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather o...

Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted refo...

The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What would happen if microchips suddenly disappeared from our world? From phones to cars, medical equipment to heating units, they are crucial for the...

The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Communication researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt talks about her book, The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication, as well as some of her recent and forthco...

Seeing Truth in the Archives

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joel Sweimler, Exhibition Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about his career at the museum, working on Seeing Truth, and w...

How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning:...

Jeremiah McCall, "Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History" (Routledge, 2022)

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History (Routledge, 2022) is a complete handbook to help pre-service teachers, current teachers...

“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff t...

Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee....

The Promises and Perils of Hype in Science and Technology

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist and STS graduate student Gemma Milne talks about her book, Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It, with Peo...

Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shi...

The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequali...

Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our co-hosts Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang discusses t...

The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How useful will nuclear fusion be? In a major breakthrough last year at the National Ignition Facility in California, 192 lasers achieved fusion – a...

Amy S. Bruckman, "Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as ...

Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the different functions and ...

Computers, Information, and Decision-Making

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Samantha Kleinberg, an associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about a book she’s been writing on how we c...

Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today Recall this Book welcomes Zachary Horton, Associate Professor of Literature and director of the Vibrant Media Lab at University of Pittsburgh...

Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, ...

Inventing American Telecommunications

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, w...

Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 202...

Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have usually relied on public intellectuals to provide facts, ideas, and cultural leadership--though not all have lived up to the ideal of “speak...

The History of Teletherapy

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Scienc...

Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we fac...

Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Art...

The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microchips are both important and in short supply. So how important? And what can be done to make them more plentiful? Also, what are the geopolitical...

Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists ...

The History of Electricity in Mexico

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In her detailed cultural history of technological change, Electrifying Mexico, Diana Montaño argues that ordinary Mexicans became electrifying age...

Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists ...

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America,...

Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "vi...

Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For almost a year now, we have been absorbing news and information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are a variety of different, or competin...

The Archaeology of Innovation

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Frieman, an associate professor of European Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, talks about her recent book, An Archaeology of Innovat...

Engineering and Social Justice

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Donna Riley, professor and head of the school of engineering education at Purdue University, talks about her path, her work, and her 2008 book, Engine...

Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare....

Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Human-caused climate change is real and growing in impact. Yet many Americans see climate change as a belief that they can opt out of. Two belief stru...

Deafness “Cures” in History

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jaipreet Virdi talks about her book Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book details the long hist...

Amy Kohout, "Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The US military didn't just conquer its way across the US West and the Pacific - it also collected and categorized across these spaces too. In Taking...

Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Devon Powers, a professor of advertising, media, and communication at Temple University, talks about her book, On Trend: The Business of Forecasting t...

Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more th...

The Thought of Ivan Illich

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Author L. M. Sacasas talks about the life, thought, and legacy of the Catholic priest, philosopher, and social critic Ivan Illich with Peoples & Thing...

Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our Books in Dark Times series offered John this 2021 chance to speak with Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. ...

Spiritual Machines: Transhumanism and Religion

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re...

Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democracy and how it operates in different spaces. Fore...

BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A special bonus episode. Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks about the podcast’s recent move to the New Books Network and plans the Peoples & Thi...

Automating Finance

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engi...

Shoddy: Recycled Textiles in History

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Hanna Rose Shell, a professor at University of Colorado, Boulder, talks about her book Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rag...

South Korea, Technology, and Globalization

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Chung, assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks about his research on the rise of shipping and manufacturing in Sou...

Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of I...

Infrastructure and Inequality

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Armanios, associate professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his work on infrastructure and inequa...

Christopher Bartel, "Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But sh...

Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that wide...

The Politics of Digital Technology

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the po...

Harald Koberg, "Free Play: Digital Gaming and the Longing for Effectiveness" (Büchner-Verlag, 2021)

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into the digital space say about the social realities ...

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Data journalist Meredith Broussard talks about her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, with Peoples & Things host ...

The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in terms of the global poor, the last 20 years have ...

Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1974, India surprised the world with “Smiling Buddha”: a secret underground nuclear test at Pokhran, Rajasthan. India called it a “peaceful n...

Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Jewett is the author of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (2020) and Science, Democracy, and the America...

Understanding Technology Bubbles

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Goldfarb and David Kirsch, professors of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, talk ...

Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” wi...

Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ciara Breathnach's book Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on the evolution o...

The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan talks about her book, More Work for Mother, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book examines the history of how ...

Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

16th-century glass mirrors and 21st-century camera phones actually share a lot in common; they both are technologies that shaped new forms of the self...

Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Moog synthesizer ‘bent the course of music forever’ Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Ei...

Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)

07 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A collection of 42 essays meditating on both California’s natural gifts and its natural disasters, Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Plan...

Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules:...

Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial re...

Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Samantha Muka, Assistant Professor of Science, Te...

Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode from the Vault is a lecture by May Berenbaum about why insects are so scary. Professor Berenbaum is an American entomologist whose resear...

John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place ...

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Juan Llamas-Rodriguez discusses the book The Digital...

Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke UP, 2022), Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling...

Paul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Nelles (Carleton University) and Rosa Salzberg (University of Trento) talk about early modern culture, travel and the joys of editing their new v...

Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Felicity M. Turner's Proving Pregnancy: ...

Ethical AI

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which...

Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Sarah Willen talks about her part in creating the Pandemic Journaling Project and how that has morphed into a series of visual exhibitions...

Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagn...

Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, autom...

Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against a...

Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s appro...

Neurasthenia

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks with Saronik about neurasthenia. A disease that no longer exists, neurasthenia was a nineteenth century Amer...

John D. Wong, "Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s-1998" (Harvard UP, 2022)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On July 6, 1998, the last flight took off from Kai Tak International Airport, marking the end of an era for Hong Kong aviation. For decades, internati...

Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than dri...

Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur an...

Jenny L. Davis, "How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things" (MIT Press, 2020)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Tec...

Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Kn...

Renee M. P. Teate, "SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Economists and other social scientists are used to working with data that comes nicely organized into a table with a series of variable names across t...

The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you read the business pages of most newspapers, they are filled with stories about the sort of companies that people do business with – airlines,...

Kelly I. Aliano, "The Performance of Video Games: Enacting Identity, History and Culture Through Play" (McFarland, 2022)

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of both actor and spectator, watching and influencing a...

Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast ar...

Shelley Fraser Mickle, "Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality" (Imagine, 2020)

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, an...