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How to Be Wrong August 10, 2022

Twitter, Intellectual Discourse, and Humility

A Conversation with Biochemist and Social Media Influencer George Styles

George Styles

Hosted by John Traphagan
For this episode of How To Be Wrong, I speak with George Styles, a biochemist and author of the book Contemplation. George is also what we describe these days as …

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

General History July 8, 2022

Vaccine: The Human Story

A Chat with Historian and Podcaster Annie Kelly

Annie Kelly

Hosted by Michael Vann
“Vaccine: The Human Story” is a podcast and video series that tells the story of the global fight against smallpox, from its earliest history as a folk demon, to the …
High Theory June 27, 2022

WikiVictorian

A Discussion with Helena DiGiusti

Helena DiGiusti

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Helena DiGiusti talks about @WikiVictorian, the Twitter account that she runs. More than a traditional wiki, it embodies the randomness and miscellaneous nature of so much of Victorian cultures. She …
Literary Studies June 27, 2022

Cut/Copy/Paste

Fragments from the History of Bookwork

Whitney Trettien

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Whitney Trettien whose book Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork was published through the University of Minnesota Press in 2022. Trettien is a Professor of English …
Critical Theory June 24, 2022

Automated Media

Mark Andrejevic

Hosted by Reuben Niewenhuis
In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. Automated Media (Routledge …
African American Studies June 10, 2022

Black Ephemera

The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Mark Anthony Neal

Hosted by Gummo Clare
We are living in an era of unprecedented access to popular culture: contemporary digital infrastructure provides anyone with an internet connection access to a dizzying array of cultural objects past …
Art June 7, 2022

Politigram and the Post-Left

Joshua Citarella

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember that the Sanders campaign tried to master the …
Film June 6, 2022

Radical Documentary and Global Crises

Militant Evidence in the Digital Age

Ryan Watson

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by advocating for a particular outcome. Ryan Watson calls this "militant evidence." In …
Art June 3, 2022

When Art Isn’t Real

The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation

Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven University Press, 2022), Dr. Andrew Shortland and Dr. Patrick Degryse examine how an initially valueless object becomes …
Music June 3, 2022

Virtual Music

Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era

Shara Rambarran

Hosted by Bradley Morgan
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go…' Technology has revolutionized …
Scholarly Communication May 30, 2022

Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?

A Conversation with Ana Guerberof Arenas

Ana Guerberof Arenas

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Should academic scholars trust machine translation for the publication of their academic articles? In this episode, Avi Staiman and Prof. Ana Guerberof Arenas discuss the evolution of machine translation and …
Critical Theory May 27, 2022

Heritage and Nationalism

Understanding Populism through Big Data

Chiara Bonacchi

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text …
High Theory May 25, 2022

Distant Reading

A Discussion with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Kim talks with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu about distant reading. Ama Bemma provides her Global Poetics Project as an awesome example of distant reading. She also references Franco …
Scholarly Communication May 24, 2022

How to Start a Successful Academic Podcast

A Discussion with Sean Guillory

Sean Guillory

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Sean Guillory. Sean did something pretty remarkable (and hard): He started a successful academic podcast. It's called the SRB Podcast and deals with Russian and Eurasian affairs. In …
Education May 11, 2022

A Guide to Academic Podcasting

Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo
A Guide to Academic Podcasting is a practical guidebook introducing scholars to the multiverse of podcasting. It’s an open-source publication made by Amplify Podcast Network, written by Stacey Copeland and …
High Theory May 6, 2022

Computational Creativity

A Discussion with Tuhin Chakrabarty

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results fair. (Saronik messes up the word …
Media April 27, 2022

Media Disrupted

Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars

Amanda D. Lotz

Hosted by Gummo Clare
Has the internet really been the main culprit behind the upheaval of the contemporary media industries? In Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars (MIT Press, 2021), Professor Amanda Lotz …
Intellectual History March 14, 2022

Permanent Crisis

The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at the mercy of modernizing and …
Digital Humanities March 9, 2022

Unlocking the Colonial Archive in Latin America

Albert A. Palacios

Hosted by Marcus Golding
In this new episode about Digital Humanities at the New Books Network podcast channel we talk about digital projects, the use of Machine Learning technologies, and how they intersect with …
Education March 3, 2022

Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World

Trena M. Paulus and Jessica N. Lester

Hosted by Pengfei Zhao
Whether you like it or not, the pandemic has pushed us to make many changes in our life, from working from home to following all the mitigation measures. In the …