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Science, Technology, and Society
Interviews with scholars of science, technology and society about their new books.
July 26, 2024
Beyond Ukraine
War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Univers…
July 26, 2024
The Virus Touch
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global…
July 24, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed …
July 24, 2024
Nothing But Nets
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria contr…
July 22, 2024
Arts and Minds
Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way ima…
July 21, 2024
On Task
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this sh…
July 19, 2024
Archiving the Commons
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its …
July 19, 2024
Playing American
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an a…
July 17, 2024
Consuming Landscapes
What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure. For better or worse, windshields hav…
July 15, 2024
Middle Tech, Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen,…
July 15, 2024
Adverse Events
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,…
July 14, 2024
The Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but w…
July 13, 2024
AI and Music
It’s the UConn Popcast, and recently UConn’s Center for the Study of Popular Music hosted a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence and the Future…
July 12, 2024
American Madness
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media. In contrast, conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and eve…
July 10, 2024
The AI Mirror
There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and de…
July 10, 2024
The Secret Life of Data
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is…
July 10, 2024
Model Cases
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resear…
July 9, 2024
The Northeast Corridor
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far bey…
July 8, 2024
Contraception
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding o…
July 8, 2024
Dark Data
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand…