New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual He...

Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recently I had a chance to sit down for a long overdue chat with Anthony (Tony) Hodgson. When we last spoke it happened to be for my very first episod...

Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W...

The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about.  Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-autho...

Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive vi...

Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it.  The F-35 has changed allied com...

William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digital...

Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin...

The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at ...

Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Even before the Covid pandemic began in 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis....

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. ...

Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden, "Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France" (Bucknell UP, 2022)

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are joined by Corry Cropper, a Professor of French at Brigham Young University, and one of two authors, alongside Seth Whidden, of Velociped...

Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naive...

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

World War I was the first great general conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities...

AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey talks with economists Luciana Lazzaretti and Stefania Oliva of the University of F...

Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media (British Film Institute, 2023), Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world...

James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A....

Txt

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding l...

Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued about 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the ...

Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Christina Dunbar-Hester, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, talks about her rec...

Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)

07 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is free will an illusion? Is addiction a brain disease? Should we enhance our brains beyond normal? Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science ...

Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is a lot of talk about online learning, and particularly universities going online. Today I talked to Caleb Simmons, Executive Director of Ar...

Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the c...

Ben Whaley, "Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Whaley’s Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (U Michigan Press 2023) examines the pathbreaking engagemen...

Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel....

Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credential...

Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 p...

Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the p...

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, ...

Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unp...

Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms...

Forty Years of Technology Studies

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Barley, professor emeritus at both Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about the long arc of his forty-...

Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market do...

Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transg...

Katie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)

16 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company ...

Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, l...

A Better Way to Buy Books

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...

Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina, talks about his ...

Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ines Prodöhl’s Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900-1950 (Routledge, 2023) is a history of how, why, and where the soy...

Maxim Samson, "Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World" (Profile Books, 2023)

10 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisi...

Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of r...

Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of th...

Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective...

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a p...

Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What ...

Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with p...

Gerald O'Brien, "Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession" (Oxford UP, 2023)

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald O'Brien's book Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession (Ox...

Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transformi...

Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

02 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech in...

The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelati...

Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrit...

Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways’ celebrated seaplane—the Yankee Clipper—took off from New York and island-hopped its way across the A...

Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...

Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 18...

Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as...

Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on...

Stefan Heinrich Simond, "Pixelated Madness: The Construction of Mental Illnesses and Psychiatric Institutions in Video Games" (Hülsbusch, 2023)

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The relationship between madness and video games has been notoriously tense. In an abundance of titles, stereotypes and stigmatisations can be found—...

The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evo...

Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed ...

Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers ...

Net Smart: How to Thrive Online

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal succ...

Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Economist, historian, and author Marc Levinson talks about his book, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas ...

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commo...

Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)

20 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Routledge Handbook of Rewilding (Routledge, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of ‘rewilding’....

Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts...

Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around track...

Networked: The New Social Operating System

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, twe...

Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding a...

Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. C...

Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo...

Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning ...

Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P...

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,...

How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Studi...

The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s...

Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anth...

Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that all organisms including human...

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform wh...

Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2022)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge, 2022) provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context...

Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Philosophy professor Jacob Howland applies the lessons of Greek classics and Jewish scripture to this our curious moment at the inception of Artificia...

Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their pla...

Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in whic...

Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gretchen Sorin, Director and Distinguished Professor of the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York - Oneonta, talks about he...

Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb...

Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex...

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video ga...

Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

05 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbu...

The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor

05 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla...

Robot Futures

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond...

Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and...

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science...

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated...

Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once t...

Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Hirsh, Professor of History at Virginia Tech, talks about his book, Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification ...

Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way ...

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a m...

Jade E. Davis, "The Other Side of Empathy" (Duke UP, 2023)

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The Other Side of Empathy (Duke UP, 2023), Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on tech...

Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, on...

Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough s...

Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, ...