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Technology
Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.
October 30, 2024
Tech Agnostic
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every …
October 26, 2024
Averting the Digital Dark Age
In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-last…
October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
It’s the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we r…
October 23, 2024
Edward Duffield
Edward Duffield (1730–1803) was a colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, whose elegant brass, mahogany, and walnut timekeepers stand proudly in major Ameri…
October 21, 2024
Emotional Rescue
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power‘…
October 21, 2024
Electrifying Indonesia
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politic…
October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…
October 15, 2024
The Tech Coup
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power …
October 8, 2024
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024) by John Withington illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from…
October 7, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…
October 6, 2024
Brexit, Tweeted
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristol…
October 5, 2024
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mom…
October 3, 2024
Screening Big Data
Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy (Routledge, 2024) examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big dat…
September 26, 2024
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Why do we assume that computers always get it right? Today’s book is: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press, 20…
September 26, 2024
Video Game of the Year
Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of video game history, ther…
September 25, 2024
Ethical Machines
Join us as we discuss Dr. Reid Blackman’s new book: Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI (Harvard …
September 23, 2024
AI Hype
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics pr…
September 22, 2024
Censorship from Plato to Social Media
In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering…
September 16, 2024
Hey, Robot!
Today, we’re playing with voice assistants and thinking about the role of voices in gaming with our guest, game designer and NYU professor Frank Lantz…
September 8, 2024
TikTok Broadway
Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the c…