Podcast: Publicly SitedEpisode: The Mediated City 09: Platform UrbanismPub date: 2022-03-13If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing arranged through Airbnb or TripAdvisor; your local travels

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The ECASH Act with Rohan GreyPub date: 2022-03-28In this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas  (@billysaas)  and Maxximilian Seijo  (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the "ECASH" or "Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware" Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services' Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey's research on

Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Amelia Winger-Bearskin on the Metaverse, DAOS, Gaming, NFTs and Indigenous CulturePub date: 2022-03-27Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) origin who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our communities and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily PughPub date: 2022-03-22Paul B. Jaskot (Duke University) speaks with Hubertus Kohle (professor of art history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany) and Emily Pugh (an art historian and the Digital Humanities Specialist for The Getty Research Institute in

Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.Pub date: 2022-03-22Josef Nguyen’s THE DIGITAL IS KID STUFF questions constructions of creativity, childhood, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, toggling between techno-pessimism and techno-utopianism in the process. The book narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from playing Minecraft, to DIY innovation with Make magazine, to selfies on Instagram, to the Creative

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily PughPub date: 2022-03-22Paul B. Jaskot (Duke University) speaks with Hubertus Kohle (professor of art history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany) and Emily Pugh (an art historian and the Digital Humanities Specialist for The Getty Research Institute in

Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.Pub date: 2022-03-22Josef Nguyen’s THE DIGITAL IS KID STUFF questions constructions of creativity, childhood, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, toggling between techno-pessimism and techno-utopianism in the process. The book narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from playing Minecraft, to DIY innovation with Make magazine, to selfies on Instagram, to the Creative

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-15For this episode, I met historian and writer Dr. Lydia Pyne. She is author of Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network (Reaktion, 2021).. Postcards is a global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-15For this episode, I met historian and writer Dr. Lydia Pyne. She is author of Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network (Reaktion, 2021).. Postcards is a global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskeyPub date: 2022-03-15 This fourth season of In the Foreground is a special series of five roundtable conversations dedicated to “the Grand Challenges” – a phrase frequently adopted in the sciences to refer to the great unanswered questions that represent promising frontiers –

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #74 - The Promise of Access - w/ Daniel GreenePub date: 2022-03-11In this Episode, Prof. Daniel Greene of the University of Maryland speaks about his book "The Promise of Access", which evaluates the attraction of simple technological fixes to complicated social problems like poverty in the United States. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its owner

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskeyPub date: 2022-03-15 This fourth season of In the Foreground is a special series of five roundtable conversations dedicated to “the Grand Challenges” – a phrase frequently adopted in the sciences to refer to the great unanswered questions that represent promising frontiers –

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #74 - The Promise of Access - w/ Daniel GreenePub date: 2022-03-11In this Episode, Prof. Daniel Greene of the University of Maryland speaks about his book "The Promise of Access", which evaluates the attraction of simple technological fixes to complicated social problems like poverty in the United States. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its owner

Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David GolumbiaPub date: 2022-03-04The co-hosts interview David Golumbia, author of The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism. They discuss cyber-libertarian ideology and how the rise of Bitcoin has made it mainstream. David argues that many supposedly non-ideological Bitcoin enthusiasts have been influenced by

Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On Caste and The Digital (Feat Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)Pub date: 2022-03-07How does caste get articulated on the internet? Or where does caste creep in to our studies of media and technology? Can you dismantle Hindutva without dismantling caste? Black women organizers like Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie have emphasized police abolition in their work with survivors of sexual atrocities in the US, what are the

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-08Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-08Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice

Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and DemocracyPub date: 2022-02-24This week, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the future and potential of Artificial Intelligence and our Democracy with Aurna Mukherjee. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, Wires in Ancient Walls are like Grape Vines in Cell Towers. Aurna Mukherjee is a sophomore at Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) High School, graduating in 2024. She

Podcast: The Uncommon Wisdom PodcastEpisode: #16 | Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism & The Platform EconomyPub date: 2022-02-28In this episode, Michael and I discuss the ethics of price gouging, the tendency of democratic capitalist societies toward cronyism, the platform economy, the distinction between directionalism and destinationism in politics, and more besides.Michael C. Munger Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program. His primary research focus is on the

Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and DemocracyPub date: 2022-02-24This week, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the future and potential of Artificial Intelligence and our Democracy with Aurna Mukherjee. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, Wires in Ancient Walls are like Grape Vines in Cell Towers. Aurna Mukherjee is a sophomore at Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) High School, graduating in 2024. She