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Business, Management, and Marketing December 1, 2023

Diversity Dividend

The Transformational Power of Small Changes to De-bias Your Company, Attract Diverse Talent, Manage Everyone Better and Make More Money

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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From entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits. Every leader endeavors to …

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The MIT Press Podcast features exclusive interviews and content that draw on the topics, themes, and trends explored in our books and journals. Subject areas that are covered include art and design, technology, science, information and data science, linguistics, neuroscience, business and management, architecture and urban design, ecology and sustainability, science fiction, and more. The podcast also regularly features high level discussions about open access publishing and knowledge.

Technology November 26, 2023

Lifelines of Our Society

A Global History of Infrastructure

Dirk Van Laak

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strongest global force over government and individual lives …
Digital Humanities November 25, 2023

Voidopolis

Kat Mustatea

Hosted by Nathan Moore
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 an augmented reality book, which retells Dante's …
Literary Studies November 18, 2023

Proto-Science Fiction Classics

Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

Joshua Glenn

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these …
Library Science November 18, 2023

Archive Everything

Mapping the Everyday

Gabriella Giannachi

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday (MIT Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2023), Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally …
Korean Studies November 12, 2023

Constructing Student Mobility

How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul

Stephanie K. Kim

Hosted by Leslie Hickman
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popular image of the international student in the American imagination, an …
Game Studies November 9, 2023

Playing Place

Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst
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An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new …
Political Science November 2, 2023

We, the Data

Human Rights in the Digital Age

Wendy H. Wong

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
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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 We, the Data: Human …
Library Science October 25, 2023

Picture-Work

How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy

Diana Kamin

Hosted by Hallel Yadin
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How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origins of today’s kaleidoscopic digital visual culture are …
German Studies October 22, 2023

Mnemonic Ecologies

Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain

Sonja K. Pieck

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany's largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) by Dr. Sonja …
Animal Studies October 8, 2023

Defending Animals

Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection

Kendra Coulter

Hosted by Kyle Johannsen
Beloved dogs and cats. Magnificent horses and mountain gorillas. Curious chickens. What do we actually do to protect animals from harm—and is it enough? This engaging book provides a unique …
Higher Education September 29, 2023

The Abundant University

Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World

Michael D. Smith

Hosted by John Emrich
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For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this …
Sociology September 26, 2023

Selling the American People

Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

Lee Mcguigan

Hosted by Blyss Cleveland
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How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs" …
Science September 8, 2023

Fascination of Science

60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time

Herlinde Koelbl

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the …
Education September 6, 2023

The Alienation of Fact

Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers

Kenneth J. Saltman

Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior
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Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational …
Library Science August 30, 2023

Ownership of Knowledge

Beyond Intellectual Property

Dagmar Schafer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and …
Science, Technology, and Society August 29, 2023

Fertility Technology

Donna J. Drucker

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe …
Latin American Studies August 6, 2023

Sewer of Progress

Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River

Cindy McCulligh

Hosted by Brad Wright
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 overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic …
Public Policy August 4, 2023

Families on the Edge

Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
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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. Families on the Edge …
MIT Press Podcast July 27, 2023

The Digital Mind

How Science Is Redefining Humanity

Arlindo Oliveira

Hosted by MIT Press
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What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of …