Public Books 101
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Public Books 101 takes a scholarly look at a world worth studying. In each mini-series, world-class scholars and writers join our host to examine a single topic from many angles, opening a window into the conversations that experts are having with one another about the urgent issues and problems facing us today.
Public Books 101 is a production of Public Books, a magazine of arts, scholarship, and ideas. Visit www.publicbooks.org/podcast for more information about the show, including a reading list designed by our guests.
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Episodes
Introducing Season 2: The Novel Now
February 25, 2021 15:57 - 2 minutes - 2.84 MBIn the age of Twitter, TikTok, and streaming TV, why are people still turning to the novel, a centuries-old cultural technology? Season 2 of Public Books 101 is hosted by Nicholas Dames, a cultural critic, professor of English, and editor in chief of Public Books. Nick joins novelists, scholars, and medical doctors to explore [...] Read More...
Silicon Valley and Beyond (with Meredith Broussard & Margaret O’Mara)
August 17, 2020 14:14 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBHow did Silicon Valley become such a historically and globally significant hub of technological innovation? What—and who—gets left out of the stories people tell about Silicon Valley? What are the limits of technology, and how can we create more equitable technologies for the future? Guests: Meredith Broussard is a data journalist, an associate professor [...] Read More...
Cultures Online (with Lauren Michele Jackson & Richard Jean So)
August 10, 2020 14:07 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBWhat new cultural forms are developing in the vast universe of the internet? How can observers and scholars keep up with the accelerated pace of human creativity online? And how do racial aesthetics, money, and power play out in internet cultures? Guests: Lauren Michele Jackson teaches in the departments of English and African American [...] Read More...
Societies Online: Privacy & Power (with Alice E. Marwick)
August 03, 2020 14:16 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBIn this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at both the affordances and dangers of large platforms like Facebook, Google, and Reddit. In this episode, Alice Marwick breaks down what actually happens when companies collect and sell the data that [...] Read More...
Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)
August 03, 2020 14:12 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at both the affordances and dangers of large platforms like Facebook, Google, and Reddit. In this episode, Siva Vaidhyanathan breaks down the global power of Facebook: what it provides in a positive [...] Read More...
Individuals Online (with Amanda Hess & Jenny Odell)
July 27, 2020 13:09 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBWhat exactly are we doing when we’re spending time online? Who profits from our presence there? And how has being on the internet changed the experience of being human? Two high-profile writers who cover internet culture meditate on the experience of being human in the internet age. Social media has presented new phenomena—such as [...] Read More...
Origins of the Internet (with Charlton McIlwain and Fred Turner)
July 20, 2020 13:34 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBWhere did the internet come from? Who gets left out of dominant stories about its origins? And what can history teach us about how to make the internet better? In our first episode, two leading scholars of internet history—Charlton McIlwain of NYU and Fred Turner of Stanford—delve into the stories you might not have [...] Read More...
Welcome to Public Books 101
July 14, 2020 20:35 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBPublic Books 101 turns a scholarly eye to a world worth studying. In each miniseries, world-class scholars and writers join our host to examine a single topic from many angles, opening a window into the conversations that experts are having with one another about the urgent issues and problems facing us today. Subscribe to listen, and learn more at http://publicbooks.org/podcast. [...] Read More...