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Peoples & Things

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  • Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.
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  • Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough

    Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
    Jul 15 2024
    Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, about her recent book, Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton UP, 2024). The pair talk about the art of ethnographic study of software work, and how, maybe, our world could do with a healthy dose of good enough-ness. They also scheme about some potential collaborations here on Peoples & Things, which you should definitely keep an eye out for. (You should also check out Paula’s folk pop group, Paula & Karol, whose music was greatly enjoyed while working on this episode.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems

    Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
    Jun 24 2024
    Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University-Qatar, about Kahle's new project, "Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity," which focuses especially on the labor history of both constructing and maintaining the electricity grid. They also talk about Kahle's forthcoming book, Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century (Columbia UP, 2024), which "traces how modern U.S. social citizenship has been shaped by coal miners and the fuel they extracted." The pair also discuss the emerging field of the "energy humanities" and what it means to take a labor-centered approach to energy history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life

    danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
    Jun 17 2024
    Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University, about her career and work. The pair discuss boyd's the genesis and intellectual background of boyd's now classic text, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Teens (Yale UP, 2014) as well as her more recent work on digital infrastructure and the US Census Bureau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 16 mins
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