Lee Vinsel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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WHOOT WHOOT WHOOT. Gang, tomorrow, @OddLetters and I are going to interview and chat with @BigMeanInternet about his recent book, _Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World_. We'd love to hear any questions you'd like to hear asked. We'll fully cite you! https://t.co/10au2n3NNz https://t.co/XdSAP2ddvG

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This week on the Peoples & Things podcast, @DrTechlash talks about her book _The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication_ as well as some of her articles. We also discuss criti-hype around social media and regulation of digital technology companies. https://t.co/opdngEDR5Q https://t.co/lxBgVPnVf8

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Peoples & Things episodes are like my children - I love them all. But I had a blast recording this week's interview with @Greene_DM on his book _The Promise of Access_ and why lousy zombie ideas keep on keeping' on. Get excited. https://anchor.fm/peoplesandthings/episodes/Daniel-Greene-on-The-Promise-of-Access-e1i14rd/a-a7s2o02 https://t.co/rtQzWSZxci

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This week on the Peoples & Things podcast, we chat with @louishyman about his great book, Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary, on the rise of temporary work and what it means for today and tomorrow. https://anchor.fm/peoplesandthings/episodes/Louis-Hyman-on-Temporary-Work-e1d64sp https://t.co/OebenVNTRS

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Season 2 of Peoples & Things kicks off today! We start with an interview with WSJ reporter @KatherineBlunt about her great new book, _California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas And Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid_. https://t.co/TugVFR3buY

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Last but not least, the first episode of Season 3 featured Joe William Trotter, Jr., chatting about his book, _Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America_, which is a very important book to me. I'm going to use it in lots of my teaching. https://t.co/kMjn93DHpH https://t.co/8VFvmCogPE

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Laura Ann Twagira's _Embodied Engineering_. I have podcast interviews with both Diana and Laura Ann on these books, but I'm not sure if they're up on New Books Network yet. If they aren't, they will be by mid-Feb. https://t.co/oiXpjj9vFR

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Doing the most painful thing I've done in a long time: reading Jacques Ellul's _The Technological Society_ from start to finish. Must be some kind of winter break masochism thing.

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Before that, we had on the great @mia__bay to talk about her book _Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance_. I'm often frustrated by how narrow studies of "race and technology" mostly focus on digital technologies. Bay's book is medicine for that. https://t.co/XPCsbxrQdg https://t.co/fcb9epN8KO

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I wondered what Eric Schatzberg said about Ellul in his book _Technology: Critical History of a Concept_. I enjoyed these pages. https://t.co/uZZyQRhBTV