The MIT Press Podcast
Episodes
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERT...
Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Brandon Brown, Professor of Physics at the University of San Francisco. We talk about factoring in both message-sender an...
Peter D. McDonald, "Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer" (MIT Press, 2024)
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players. Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their...
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kalpavigyan—science fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religi...
Benjamin J. Pauli, "Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis" (MIT Press, 2019)
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in 2019, Benjamin Pauli’s book, Flint Fights Back offers lasting insights into one of the most important drinking water-caused ...
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and onl...
Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024)
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the e...
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2024), Jacob Ward explains why the privatization of Br...
Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023...
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Richard Detweiler about his new book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment (MIT Press, 202...
Marco Armiero et al., "Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism" (MIT Press, 2022)
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist ...
Lee McIntyre, "On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy" (MIT Press, 2023)
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. I...
David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman, "Mainstreaming and Game Journalism" (MIT Press, 2023)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why games are still niche and not mainstream, and how journalism can help them gain cultural credibility. Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Pres...
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed...
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti'sDeep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) ...
Nettrice R. Gaskins, "Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom" (MIT Press, 2021)
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classr...
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Predictive algorithms are changing the world – that is the claim of Christopher E. Mason who has co-authored (with Igor Tulchinsky) the book The A...
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, "Diversity Dividend" (MIT Press, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusi...
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's stronge...
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of ...
Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from t...
Gabriella Giannachi, "Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday" (MIT Press, 2016)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive int...
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul...
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of ...
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...
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...
Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany's largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservati...
Kendra Coulter, "Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection" (MIT Press, 2023)
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Beloved dogs and cats. Magnificent horses and mountain gorillas. Curious chickens. What do we actually do to protect animals from harm—and is it eno...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an over...
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. F...
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
27 Jul 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
26 Jul 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 ...
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, ...
In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what y...
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysi...
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
23 Jul 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...
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
22 Jul 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...
Networked: The New Social Operating System
21 Jul 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...
Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive di...
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
19 Jul 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
18 Jul 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...
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutte...
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will not find “exposure to burning coal” listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthm...
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
15 Jul 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 ...
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time...
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on educat...
Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of th...
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in...
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
11 Jul 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...
Robot Futures
10 Jul 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...
What Was Contemporary Art?
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art wer...
Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, larg...
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to ...
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of the global creative economy? In Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi (MIT Press, 2023), Robin ...
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
06 Jul 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...
Alelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reput...
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
04 Jul 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...
Why Photography Matters
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works--not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocativ...
Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati An...
Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical s...
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
30 Jun 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...
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presenta...
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely a...
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plag...
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, ban...
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards are mass-produced ...
The Innovators Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organization...
All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A specter is haunting philosophy—the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? Entering from stage left: the philosopher's Hamle...
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible...
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde movements, was born Samuel Rosenstock (or Samueli ...
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of ty...
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the m...
Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games,...
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some co...
The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to le...
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitab...
Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prehension is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we ta...
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies...
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, a...
The Storm of Creativity
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inv...
Metadata
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered ...
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (MIT Press, 2022), edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, t...
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse comm...
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the en...
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American,...
Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's econo...
Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the i...
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual--when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sha...
Tobias Ide, "Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts" (MIT Press, 2023)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been h...
Drone: Remote Control Warfare
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot war...
How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: B...
Can Data Science Help Us Combat Disinformation?
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss fake news, disinformation, and misinformatio...
Art Auctions and Data Science
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does data science tell us about art auctions? This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT...
Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell, "The Smartness Mandate" (MIT Press, 2023)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last half century, "smartness"—the drive for ubiquitous computing—has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, ec...