Considers three national approaches to knowledge about communications and technology. Includes an invitation to listeners to respond to the podcast series.

9 minutes, 55 seconds
Published: 11/21/2007

Some thoughts on the interpretation and use of groupware and social software. Includes a discussion of the invisible web.


7 minutes, 29 seconds
Published: 11/13/2007

This is the second of two podcasts exploring Marshall McLuhan's ideas about information and communications technologies. Includes an explanation of the importance of the human body in McLuhan's...

10 minutes, 24 seconds
Published: 11/7/2007

First of two podcasts on the contributions of Marshall McLuhan to our understanding of the changes introduced into the social world by new technologies. Includes a description of how McLuhan’s ...

5 minutes, 59 seconds
Published: 10/29/2007

Discusses the means by which social software brings together demand and production in a market. Includes a comment on James Beniger's concept of the "soft" control of society through technology...

10 minutes, 12 seconds
Published: 10/22/2007

Thoughts about image technologies and their capacity to help shape social identity. Includes a description of how the abundance of images on the Internet helps to support propaganda.

8 minutes, 14 seconds
Published: 10/15/2007

Considers how radio broadcasting has been used historically to develop regional social identities. Includes a description of the Internet as an effect of the launch in 1957 of the Russian satel...

7 minutes, 40 seconds
Published: 10/9/2007

Explains the invention of the telephone in relation to the creation of a new market, using historical examples involving the early telephone companies and the contemporary example of local dere...

7 minutes, 59 seconds
Published: 9/27/2007

Discussion of changes in the organization of time and space after the invention of the telegraph. Includes a discussion of ethanol production as an example of unintended consequences.

10 minutes, 02 seconds
Published: 9/21/2007

More about Winston's model of technological change and some thoughts about disruptive technologies. Includes an analysis of the iPod as an innovation that became disruptive by performing at the...

6 minutes, 02 seconds
Published: 9/17/2007