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Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital …

9/22/2026 • 47 min

We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory technologies—are increasingly implicated in democratic erosion. The Discursive-Digital Link offers a critical framework for understanding the entangled relationships between discourse, digital media, and the hidden dynam… Play episode

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future F…
Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century E…
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of …
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial…
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New S…
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise…
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and t…
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the…
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revol…
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Me…
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Arch…
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Cent…
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in th…
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine w…
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Archit…
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhsta…
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postw…
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authorit…
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformat…
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime i…
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landsca…
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home …
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identificatio…
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Con…
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Com…
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Pr…
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy wit…
Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minneso…
Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemi…
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainab…
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technolo…
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital…
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language…
Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)

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