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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Jon Penney
Legal scholar and social scientist at Osgoode Hall Law School; associate professor and research chair at AI, data governance, and the law
Osgoode Hall Law School; Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Episode: Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Emily Doucet
Writer, editor, and researcher focused on photography and technology's cultural life
Framing Devices / Duke University Press book project
Episode: Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Margaret O'Mara
Scott and Dorothy Bullet Chair of American History at the University of Washington
University of Washington
Episode: Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Ralph Jones
Author of Microphone (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Bloomsbury
Episode: Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Phil Gilbert
Executive who led IBM's transformation program (Hallmark design initiative)
IBM
Episode: Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Rahul Mukherjee
Associate Professor of TV and New Media and Graduate Chair in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Episode: Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
Pedro Domingos
Author of The Master Algorithm
University of Washington (Professor Emeritus)
Episode: Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
Yeong Ju Lee
Academic in the Department of Linguistics and the School of Education at Macquarie University
Macquarie University
Episode: Learning Languages on Social Media
Gerald F. Davis
Author of Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century
University of Michigan
Episode: Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

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Gregory McNiff
Host associated with New Books Network, often leading interview segments and book-focused discussions.

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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Q: What is the role of experimentation and patents in Nadar's story?
Patents record ideas and potential applications rather than fully realized technologies, and the public demonstration of ideas often serves as proof of concept, even if the technology is not yet fully realized.
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Q: So what exactly do you mean by the 'first' in these contexts?
The first is not a fixed, singular moment but a contested, assembled narrative that develops over decades through journals, patents, exhibitions, and how different communities record and contest the event.
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: How has the microphone impacted accessibility and inclusion beyond performance?
Microphones have dramatically improved accessibility through hearing aids and real-time communication technologies, connecting deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to broader conversations and communities.
Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: We've expanded the definition of Chilling Effects from its very narrow legalistic terms through privacy and it's now a pretty broad framework. Can you walk us through how to conceptualize Chilling Effects in its broadest sense?
Chilling Effects should be understood through both a rational, policy-relevant lens and a behavioral, social-science lens. Beyond legal self-censorship, the framework must account for privacy threats, surveillance, social influence, and the way threats can produce both repressive and productive forms of behavior, such as conformity within groups and broader societal polarization. This broader view helps explain real-world phenomena like online harassment, disinformation, and predictive surveillance, and it guides a comprehensive public policy response across surveillance, uncertainty, personalization, and power.
Learning Languages on Social Media
Q: So talk to us about the difference between learning a language formally versus informally, and what got you interested in studying this contrast?
Formal learning is classroom-based, structured, and teacher-led, while informal learning happens through self-directed activities on social media, often driven by authentic, real-life language, which sparked my interest during the COVID period when TikTok emerged as a global phenomenon.

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Across episodes, conversations center on how technology, society, and culture intersect, with deep dives into artificial intelligence, language learning in social platforms, corporate power and governance, media ecosystems, and the legal/regulatory framework surrounding the internet. Guests range from book authors and researchers to policy thinkers, exploring how emerging tech reshapes work, education, governance, and everyday life. Noteworthy threads include careful, scholarly analyses of AI's trajectory, the anatomy of platform power, reparative and community-based media, and the ethics of AI in libraries, museums, and GLAM institutions. The show often pairs rigorous, idea-driven inquiry with accessible storytelling, making it useful for ... more

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