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Channel Spotlight: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Channel Spotlight: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Caleb Zakarin
Jan 8, 2023
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Every week, we’ll feature an NBN channel, along with a playlist of some of our most popular episodes. This week’s channel is New Books in STS.

  • Website

  • Apple

  • Spotify

Episodes:

  • Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)

  • Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

  • Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, “ Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)” (MIT Press, 2022)

  • Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)

  • Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

  • Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)

  • Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)

  • Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)

  • Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)

  • Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021)

  • Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, "A New History of Modern Computing" (MIT Press, 2021)

  • David Nemer, "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil" (MIT Press, 2022)

  • Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)

  • Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)

  • Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "Objectivity" (Zone Books, 2010)

  • Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

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