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    Sports and data science - syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021 29:44


    How are sports teams using data science?   This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data.   In this episode, the journal's Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale (formerly Carnegie Mellon University) and Kirk Goldsberry, NBA analyst at ESPN and author of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New era of the NBA.   If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.

    Disinformation and data science - syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 43:31


    Can data science help us combat disinformation?   This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data.   In this episode, the journal's Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss fake news, disinformation, and misinformation with Scott Tranter, CEO and founder of Optimus Analytics, and Hany Farid, a professor from UC Berkeley who specializes in the analysis of digital images and is the author of two MIT Press books: Fake Photos and Photo Forensics.   If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.  

    Art auctions and data science -- syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 38:26


    What does data science tell us about art auctions?  This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data. In this episode, the journal's Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss art auctions with art curator Dan Cameron and Artnome's Jason Bailey. If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.

    Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton: Gender and equality in art and exploration

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 13:41


    Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue “Cosmos and Chaos:” Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Listen as these authors discuss the connection between art and science, the flawed idea of the hero, exploration of both land and space, and the complexities of being a woman in male dominated fields.

    Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner & Marcus Gilroy-Ware: Understanding a Broken Media Landscape

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 48:16


    Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here. 

    Joy White & Dhanveer Singh Brar: Sonic Ecologies of Contemporary Black Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 42:27


    Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Tariq Goddard & Victoria Nelson: Literature of the Occult

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 55:18


    Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her forthcoming book Neighbor George.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Matt Colquhoun & Thomas Moynihan: Extinction, Apocalypse, and Desire

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 51:31


    Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Marko Ilić and Anthony Gardner: Contemporary Art in Yugoslavia

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 51:10


    Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning Fire, which documents Yugoslavia's cultural output throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Jon Peterson and Peter Bebergal: The Eldritch Roots of D&D

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 56:47


    Dungeons and Dragons expert Jon Peterson (The Elusive Shift, Game Wizards) speaks with Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Too Much to Dream) about his new book Appendix N; an anthology of writing which takes its name from the list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The Gentrification of Queer Desire

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 58:09


    Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship.   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

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    Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley: Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 55:01


    This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in the fields of art, architecture, and visual culture, as part of our virtual attendance of the 2021 College Art Association Conference.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha: Black Film, British Cinema

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 41:06


    Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha discuss their forthcoming book Black Film, British Cinema II (publishing in March with Goldsmiths Press), a book which brings together scholars, thinkers and practitioners to consider the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles: Black Artists in 1980s Britain

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2021 41:00


    Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain offered by the collection of artworks, essays, and conversations found in the book.   Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Cathi Unsworth and Jenny Hval: Horror, Murder, and Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 47:07


    Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recent book Girls Against God. 

    Rose Simpson and Damon Krukowski: On Life in the Incredible String Band

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2021 64:55


    Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews Rose Simpson, about her book Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden.  Rose is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin, and percussion.   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

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    Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 56:49


    The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and author of Epidemic Illusions discuss COVID, colonialism and Critical Zones.   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Michael Truscello: On the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 48:11


    Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Tai Shani and Amy Hale: On the Occult Feminism of Ithell Colquhoun

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2020 57:08


    Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun to celebrate the publication of Amy’s book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

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    Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 95:28


    An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl.)    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux  

    Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark: Autotheory as Feminist Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020 44:15


    Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her forthcoming book with writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl.)    An extended version of this conversation will be publishing later this week.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2020 46:01


    In the final episode of this series, Brandon Terry, political theorist and African American Studies scholar at Harvard discusses the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.  Terry is the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK, published in 2018 by MIT Press and Boston Review and co-edited

    America & Democracy Ep. 4: George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2020 34:15


    Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the political debate. At the same time, economic inequality is increasing dramatically; digital technologies have created a new class of super-rich entrepreneurs. Automation threatens to transform the free economy into a zero-sum game in which capital wins and labor loses. But is this digital dystopia inevitable?  In our final discussion before the election, George Zarkadakis, author of Cyber Republic, reflects on the long term technological challenges and opportunities facing democracy.  George Zarkadakis leads Future of Work at Willis Towers Watson in Great Britain, a global risk and human capital consulting firm. The author of In Our Own Image: The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence and other books, he has written extensively on science and technology for publications including Aeon and Wired.   Hosted by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 42:31


    On November 3rd, America chooses its next president and in this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political landscape of today.    In this episode Carol A. Stabile discusses her book The Broadcast 41 (published in April of last year by Goldsmiths Press.)   In her book, Carol traces the history of forty-one women who were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s as part of a censorship program often referred to as the Red Scare. She explains their broad and nuanced political beliefs and how an FBI-backed program of state censorship invoked the paranoia of another American revolution to try and destroy their careers.   We discuss how the cause of anti-communism, g-man masculinity and censorship destroyed a potential television landscape that reflected the reality of post-war America in favor of a white, straight, patriarchal world of white picket fences and eager beavers. We also discuss what the history of these women might tell us about current debates on free-speech and ‘cancel-culture’.   Carol is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. She’s also the author of Feminism and the Technological Fix, White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture, among other books.   You can find more resources related to the book, including FBI files released since the book's publication, at https://broadcast41.com/ 

    America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020 39:41


    On November 3rd, America chooses its next president and in this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political landscape of today.   The second episode of this series features a discussion with the author of Anti-vaxxers, Jonathan M. Berman. Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccination movement, featuring celebrity activists including actress Jenny McCarthy, talk-show host Bill Maher, and presidential hopeful Kanye West.    How do we address those with views that might be deemed absurd and confusing? How do we ensure that the public sphere is based upon evidenced and good faith arguments? And what might be redeemed from world-views built upon misinformation?    Jonathan M. Berman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Basic Sciences at NYITCOM–Arkansas. An active science communicator, he served as national cochair of the 2017 March for Science.   Hosted by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 33:16


    On November 3rd, America chooses its next president and in this series of interviews from the MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political landscape of today.  In this, the first episode, Robert I. Rotberg  (author of Anticorruption) discusses corruption - what is it? where is it? And is it getting worse? He explains the long history of corruption in the USA, as well as the measures that can be taken to eradicate it. We also explore issues of corruption across the globe, including the Lava Jato case in Brazil, the authoritarian anti-corruption of Rwanda and the ways in which corporate elites shape politics in countries like the US and the UK.     Robert I. Rotberg is President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft, Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness in the Twenty-First Century, Transformative Political Leadership, and numerous other books.   Hosted by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

    Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4: Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 65:05


    Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary onto LSD, managed to fundamentally influenced modern drug culture whilst remaining virtually anonymous in popular culture at large. In this episode, biographer Andy Roberts talks us through the life of a key character in psychedelic history. 

    Pharmacological Histories Ep. 3: Bita Moghaddam on Ketamine

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2020 30:35


    In this episode Bita Moghaddam discusses the emergence of ketamine as a combat anesthetic in the Vietnam war, its transformation into a recreation drug central to club culture, and its current transition into a treatment for depression.

    Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 33:13


    This episode offers an insight into the work of leading cancer specialist and author of When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael A. Sekeres. 1 in 2 people will develop cancer in their lifetime, but thankfully treatment for the disease is rapidly changing and improving. I ask Mikkael about the drugs that allow people to beat cancer and live better with it.

    Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 42:53


    Drawing on interviews with approximately sixty advocates, drug users, former users, friends, families, witnesses, clinicians, and scientists; Nancy D Campbell has drawn together a history of a defining tragedy of contemporary life; the overdose. I ask her about the reality of drug overdoses and one of the tools being used by activists to prevent more deaths; Naloxone.

    Race and Art with C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 25:04


    C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp read from Saturation, a book that offers an analysis of racial representation and controversy in the art world. 

    Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 with Amy Brand and Vilas Dhar

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 10:49


    Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 brings together urgency and scientific rigor so the world’s researchers can quickly disseminate new discoveries that the public can trust. Amy Brand (Director, The MIT Press) and Vilas Dhar (Trustee, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation) discuss this new overlay journal, its innovative goals, and its role as a proof-of-concept for new models of peer-review and rapid publishing.

    Carceral Capitalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2020 24:09


    Conor Rose reads from Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism. This extract, taken from the opening of the book, offers insight into the Black Lives Matter movement as well as new forms of predatory policing, informed by the 2008 financial crash.  Please use this link to support Black Lives Matter. 

    Media, Forensics, and Evidence with Susan Schuppli

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 24:46


    Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her book, Material Witnesss, her research is an exploration of the evidential role of matter in contexts including the natural disaster, climate change, and conflict zones. In this interview she discusses her work as a writer, artist and educator. 

    Semiotext(e) with Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 46:00


    Best known for its introduction of French theory to American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America's most influential independent presses since its inception more than three decades ago. Publishing works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.  In this interview Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti, who run Semitext(e) alongside Sylvère Lotringer, discuss the history of the press. 

    Radical Psychiatry with Lucas Richert

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 32:19


    In Break On Through, Lucas Richert explores Anti-psychiatry, psychedelics, and radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. In this interview Lucas discusses the issues that run through the sixties and seventies and how they're forming debates about mental health today. 

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    Image Politics with David Levi Strauss

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2020 21:22


    In Co-Illusion, writer and critic David Levi Strauss, tracks the rise of Donald Trump and the media landscape that warped around him. In this interview he discusses the language of Trump, the forthcoming election, and the changing relationship between image and truth. 

    Collaborative Society with Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 30:00


    An interview with Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska about Collaborative Society (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and how networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.

    Spatial Computing with Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 32:31


    Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold, authors of Spatial Computing, fromThe MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, discuss the reach, risks and importance of spatial computing in confronting COVID-19.

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    COVID Weirdness with Erik Davis

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 55:35


    Author of High Weirdness, Erik Davis discusses psychedelic politics, media paranoia, conspiracy theories, and consensus reality in the time of COVID-19.

    Extraterrestrials with Wade Roush

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020 16:07


    An interview with Wade Roush, author of Extraterrestrials, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? And which might be more meaningful?  Soundtrack produced by artist and author of High Static, Dead Lines (Strange Attractor Press, December 2018) Kristen Gallerneaux.

    The History of Contraception with Donna J Drucker

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2020 15:55


    An interview with Donna J. Drucker, author of Contraception, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. We discuss reproductive justice, the history of contraceptive technology and how the future of contraception can offer more choice and more freedom for every kind of person. 

    Technologies of the Human Corpse with John Troyer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 32:05


    In this episode we hear from John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse and the Director of The Center for Death and Society at The University of Bath. We discuss the way technology is blurring the distinctions between life and death, the emergence of death studies from the 70s social and political milieu and how his own experiences of bereavement inform his research.

    Haunted Bauhaus with Elizabeth Otto

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 32:25


    In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history. 

    Free Will with Mark Balaguer

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2020 14:21


    A discussion with the the author of Free Will (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) and Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem, Mark Balaguer, in which we discuss the scientific arguments for and against the possibility of free will.  

    GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS Celebrates 20 Years of Success

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 19:17


    The journal of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) has hit a tremendous milestone in 2020—celebrating its 20 years of publication with the MIT Press! In this episode, two of the journal’s Co-Editors Matthew Hoffmann and Erika Weinthal reflect on the origins and goals of GEP, its immeasurable impact on the discussions of relationships between global political forces and environmental change, and the thought process behind the journal’s upcoming 20th-anniversary volume.

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    Citizenship with Dimitry Kochenov

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 11:35


    A discussion with the the author of Citizenship (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), Dimitry Kochenov, in which we discuss the glorification of citizenship and the structures of power underlying this supposedly positive concept.  Featuring an incredible new soundtrack produced by artists and author of High Static, Dead Lines (Strange Attractor Press, December 2018) Kristen Gallerneaux.

    New Beginnings: A Conversation with Ludo Waltman

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 17:15


    Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) is a newly launched open access journal that was born out of a collaboration between the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and the MIT Press. In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Ludo Waltman discusses the origins of QSS, its growing inaugural issue, and its future as a publishing outlet run for and by the scientometric community.

    Strong Ideas from MIT Libraries and the MIT Press

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 17:28


    In this episode, Gita Manaktala, Editorial Director at the MIT Press, and Ellen Finnie, Co-Interim Associate Director for Collections at MIT Libraries, discuss the Ideas series: a hybrid print and open access book series for general readers, that provides fresh, strongly argued, and provocative views of the effects of digital technology on culture, business, government, education, and our lives. Learn more about the full series: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/strong-ideas

    Experiments in Open Peer Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 22:25


    The authors of Data Feminism (forthcoming in Spring 2020), Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein, along with Catherine Ahearn, Content Lead at PubPub, discuss the value and process of open peer review, share experiences and best practices, and explore issues surrounding peer review transparency. Learn more: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism.

    How Attention Works

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2019 14:20


    Stefan Van der Stigchel discusses how we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.

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