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| 2008 Interviews
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Episode 16: Karen Collins
Episode 15: Julia Christensen & Peter Dauvergne
Episode 14: Tyler Volk & Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Episode 13: Jane Margolis & Yasmin B. Kafai
Episode 12: Mel Bochner & Andrea Moro
Episode 11: Rosalind Williams & Nicolás Wey Gómez
Episode 10: David A. Mindell & Bruno S. Frey
Episode 9: Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid
Episode 8: Paul E. Ceruzzi & Joshua M. Greenberg
Episode 7: Elizabeth Farrelly & Rich Ling
Episode 6: Marc Rotenberg & Susan Landau
Episode 5: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum & Catherine Brady
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| 2007 Interviews
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Episode 4: Cretien van Campen & George Baker
Episode 3: Owen J. Flanagan & Christine L. Borgman
Episode 2: Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace, & Paul R. Abramson
Episode 1: Sherry Turkle & Tarleton Gillespie
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EPISODE SIXTEEN (DEC. '08): KAREN COLLINS
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Karen Collins is the author of Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design. Ms. Collins is Canada Research Chair at the Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology, University of Waterloo.
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EPISODE FIFTEEN (NOV. '08): JULIA CHRISTENSEN & PETER DAUVERGNE
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Julia Christensen is the author of Big Box Reuse. Ms. Christensen is an artist whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Preservation Magazine for the National Trust, and other publications; her art has been shown in galleries and museums nationwide. She is Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory. |
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Peter Dauvergne is the author of The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment. Mr. Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (MIT Press, 1997), and the coauthor (with Jennifer Clapp) of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2005).
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EPISODE FOURTEEN (OCT. '08): TYLER VOLK & ALEX (SANDY) PENTLAND
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Tyler Volk is the author of CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge. Mr. Volk is Science Director of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Biology at New York University. He is also the author of Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of the Earth (MIT Press, 2003), Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, and other books. |
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Alex (Sandy) Pentland is the author of Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World. Mr. Pentland is a leading figure at the MIT Media Lab and is a pioneer in the fields of organizational engineering, mobile information systems, and computational social science. He co-directs the Digital Life Consortium, a group of more than twenty multinational corporations exploring new ways to innovate, and oversees the Next Billion Network, established to support aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In 1997 Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.
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EPISODE THIRTEEN (SEPT. '08): JANE MARGOLIS & YASMIN B. KAFAI
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Jane Margolis is the author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing. Ms. Margolis is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. She is the coauthor of the award-winning Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women and Computing (MIT Press). |
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Yasmin B. Kafai is the co-editor of Beyond Barbie® and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming. Ms. Kafai is a Professor of Learning Sciences at the Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused on children's learning as players and designers of educational software, video games, and virtual worlds. She has published Minds in Play (1995) and edited Constructionism in Practice (with Mitchel Resnick, 1996). She lives, plays, and works in Philadelphia.
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EPISODE TWELVE (AUG. '08): MEL BOCHNER & ANDREA MORO
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Mel Bochner is the author of Solar Systems & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007. Mr. Bochner has lived and worked in New York City since 1964. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major museum collections throughout the world. |
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Andrea Moro is the author of The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages. Mr. Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
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EPISODE ELEVEN (JULY '08): ROSALIND WILLIAMS & NICOLÁS WEY GÓMEZ
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Rosalind Williams is the author of Notes on the Underground:
An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, now in a new edition. Ms. Williams is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She is also the author of Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change (MIT Press, 2002). |
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Nicolás Wey Gómez is the author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. Mr. Wey Gómez studies the early modern Hispanic world at Brown University.
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EPISODE TEN (JUN. '08): DAVID A. MINDELL & BRUNO S. FREY
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David A. Mindell is the author of Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. Mr. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is also the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics and War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. |
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Bruno S. Frey is the author of Happiness: A Revolution in Economics. Mr. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Research Director of CREMA (Center for Research in Economics, Management, and the Arts). He is co-editor of Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field (MIT Press, 2007).
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EPISODE NINE (MAY '08): PAUL D. MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
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Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is the editor of Sound Unbound and author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004). Mr. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c (www.21cmagazine.com).
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EPISODE EIGHT (APR. '08): PAUL E. CERUZZI & JOSHUA M. GREENBERG
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Paul E. Ceruzzi is the author of Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005. Mr. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) and other books, and coeditor of The Internet and American Business (MIT Press, 2008). |
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Joshua M. Greenberg is the author of From Betamax to Blockbuster. Mr. Greenberg is Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the New York Public Library.
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EPISODE SEVEN (MAR. '08): ELIZABETH FARRELLY & RICH LING
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Elizabeth Farrelly is the author of Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness. Ms. Farrelly is one of Australia's liveliest and most provocative writers on architecture and the environment. The winner of the CICA International Critics' Award, the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, and the Marion Mahony Griffin Award, she is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, a commentator on Australian television and radio, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney. |
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Rich Ling is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion. Mr. Ling is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor and Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society.
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EPISODE SIX (FEB. '08): MARC ROTENBERG & SUSAN LANDAU
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Marc Rotenberg is co-editor of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape. Mr. Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, and teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center. |
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Susan Landau is co-author of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.
Ms. Landau is Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
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EPISODE FIVE (JAN. '08): MATTHEW G. KIRSCHENBAUM & CATHERINE BRADY
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is the author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Mr. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland. |
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Catherine Brady is the author of Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA.
Ms. Brady is Assistant Professor in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of two collections of short stories, The End of the Class War and Curled in the Bed of Love (a winner of the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction).
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EPISODE FOUR (DEC. '07): CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN & GEORGE BAKER
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Cretien van Campen is the author of The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science.
Mr. van Campen is a social scientist at the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. He is the author of two books on perception and visual art. |
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George Baker is the author of The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.
Mr. Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at October magazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.
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EPISODE THREE (NOV. '07): OWEN J. FLANAGAN & CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN
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Owen J. Flanagan is the author of The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World.
Mr. Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
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Christine L. Borgman is the author of Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet.
Ms. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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EPISODE TWO (OCT. '07): PETER LUDLOW, MARK WALLACE, & PAUL R. ABRAMSON
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Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace are the authors of The Second Life Herald:
The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse.
Mr. Ludlow is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (MIT Press, 2001) and High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (MIT Press, 1996).
Mr. Wallace is a freelance journalist who has written widely on virtual worlds and online games for a variety of publications, including Wired and the New York Times. He is the editor of leading metaverse blog 3pointD.com, and an author of Second Life: The Official Guide.
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Paul R. Abramson is the author of Romance in the Ivory Tower:
The Rights and Liberty of Conscience.
Mr. Abramson is Professor of Psychology at UCLA and the author or coauthor of many books, including Sarah: A Sexual Biography, With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality (with Steve Pinkerton), and Sexual Rights in America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness (with Steve Pinkerton and Mark Huppin).
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EPISODE ONE (SEPT. '07): SHERRY TURKLE & TARLETON GILLESPIE
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Sherry Turkle is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With.
Ms. Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
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Tarleton Gillespie is the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture.
Mr. Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, with affiliations in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Information Science program. He is also a Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
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