Looking at wealth of case studies among Amazon reviewers, redditors, and established journals, "Update Culture" is a deep diver into the many factors that contribute to the circulation of a digital text

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?

The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.

Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...

Hilty and her co-authors expand on concepts and practices important to maintaining and restoring land connectivity...

Tong looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks...

In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...

Magnusson provides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing...

This book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development...

Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...

Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory...

Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...

Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...