Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

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Interviews with digital humanists and scholars of digital humanities about their new work.

Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)

April 4, 2026

The Cory Arcangel Hack

Eivind Røssaak

The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines of B…

Ian M. Cook, "Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How" (Routledge, 2022)

January 12, 2026

Scholarly Podcasting

Ian M. Cook
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what, …

Suzette van Haaren, "The Digital Medieval Manuscript: Material Approaches to Digital Codicology" (Brill, 2025)

December 22, 2025

The Digital Medieval Manuscript

Suzette van Haaren
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with …

Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI

December 3, 2025

Reading the Bible with AI?

John Kaag
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Rebind combines reading with AI-chat to deepen learning and simulate the experience of conversing with some of the greatest scholars and thinkers. Wit…

Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025)

December 2, 2025

The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last

Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

In my interview with Jimmy Wales, father of Wikipedia, we celebrate his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last …

Elisabetta Ferrari, "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies" (U California Press, 2024)

November 29, 2025

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge

Elisabetta Ferrari
Hosted by Megan Finn

Activists utilize digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. In Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imag…

Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

September 13, 2025

The Magic of Code

Samuel Arbesman
Hosted by Gregory McNiff

In the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that argues code is "a universal force-…

Human Leadership for Humane Technology

September 9, 2025

Human Leadership for Humane Technology

Cornelia C. Walther
Hosted by Nicholas McCay

In this episode, we spoke with Cornelia C. Walther about her three books examining technology's role in society. Walther, who spent nearly two decades…

Andrew Fialka, "Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

August 30, 2025

Hope Never to See It

Andrew Fialka
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War (U Georgia Press, 2025) by Dr. Andrew Fialka illustrates t…

Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic, "The Future of Memory: Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

August 21, 2025

The Future of Memory

Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic
Hosted by Adam Kriesberg

We're pleased to welcome Dr. Jimi Jones and Dr. Marek Jancovic, authors of The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving …

Liz Fischer, "Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques" (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)

August 14, 2025

Network Analysis for Book Historians

Liz Fischer
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Researchers and archivists have spent decades digitizing and cataloguing, but what does the future hold for book history? Network Analysis for Book Hi…

Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)

August 13, 2025

Seeing Like a Platform

Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark
Hosted by Nicholas McCay

In my conversation with Petter Törnberg about Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity (Routledge, 2025) we kept ret…

How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research

July 19, 2025

How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research

Marcus Golding
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with Marcus Golding, historian and Director of Educational Operations at ClioVis. ClioVis is an incredible software and learning t…

Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online

May 15, 2025

Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online

Tyler Neill
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Tyler Neill discusses the new platform Pāṇḍitya, an online graph visualization tool illustrating connections between works and authors in the Pandit P…

Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)

May 5, 2025

Computing Legacies

Peter Krapp
Hosted by Adam Kriesberg

We're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network…

Nothingism

May 5, 2025

Nothingism

Jason Schneiderman

In this episode of High Theory, Jason Schneiderman talks about Nothingism. A term of his own coinage, a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, nothingism is an in…

Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)

April 22, 2025

The Moving Image

Peter B. Kaufman
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Video (television, film, the moving image generally) is today’s most popular information medium. Two-thirds of the world’s internet traffic is video. …

Cosmic Visions in Sound

April 21, 2025

Cosmic Visions in Sound

Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett
Hosted by Mack Hagood

Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we …

Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

March 13, 2025

Reading Audio Readers

Karl Berglund
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor in …

Ashley R. Sanders, "Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

March 2, 2025

Visualizing History’s Fragments

Ashley R. Sanders
Hosted by Shu Wan

Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) combines a methodological guide with an ex…