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Peoples & Things

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About this Podcast:

Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.

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What is Peoples & Things about?

Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.

What has Peoples & Things covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use" (31 August 2026, 24 minutes), "Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture" (17 August 2026, 54 minutes), and "Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money" (27 July 2026, 84 minutes).

How often does Peoples & Things publish?

Peoples & Things publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 74 minutes across 119 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Peoples & Things?

Booking probability for Peoples & Things is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Peoples & Things requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Peoples & Things's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Peoples & Things?

The strongest fits for Peoples & Things are Scientific Research & Development. Peoples & Things has a society audience.

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Peoples & Things is a society podcast with 119 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Peoples & Things

    Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use

    Aug 31, 202624 min

    This special episode features a short talk Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, gave at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event featured a great mix of historians and Science and...

  • Peoples & Things

    Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture

    Aug 17, 202654 min

    Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with writer and researcher, Jehnie I. Burns about her book, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation ( Lexington, 2023). This conversation builds on...

  • Peoples & Things

    Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money

    Jul 27, 20261h 24m

    Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lana Swartz, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-Career at the University of Virginia, where she runs the Digital Cultures and Economies Lab. Swartz is a...

  • Peoples & Things

    The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning

    May 4, 20261h 14mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and special guest host, Melanie Kiechle (Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech), chat with radio producers Chris Hoff and and Sam Harnett about their sound production...

  • Peoples & Things

    Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

    Mar 30, 20261h 1mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Ben Collier, Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Science...

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    Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies

    Feb 25, 20261h 19mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at...

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    Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand

    Dec 8, 20251h 42mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Thomas Haigh, Professor and Chair of History and affiliate of the Department of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, about his forthcoming book on the...

  • Episode #109

    Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact

    Nov 24, 20251h 22mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, chats with Verena Halsmeyer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, about her recent, award-winning book, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact. The...

  • Episode #108

    Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

    Nov 17, 20251h 37mS0

    <p>In this special livestream edition of Peoples & Things, host Lee Vinsel and very special guest host, danah boyd, formerly of Microsoft Research, presently Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University...

  • Episode #108

    How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse

    Nov 10, 20251h 10mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent book, Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. Into a...

  • Episode #107

    Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Oct 27, 20251h 34mS0

    <p>In this episode I sit down with Kate Epstein, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, as she details her research on the intersection of defense contracting, intellectual property, and...

  • Episode #106

    Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern

    Oct 13, 20251h 2mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Whitney Laemmli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, about her forthcoming book, Making Movement Modern...

  • Episode #105

    Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media

    Sep 29, 20251h 20mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Ashleigh Greene Wade, Associate Professor of Digital Studies with a joint appointment in Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, about...

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    Julien Mailland on "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry"

    Sep 15, 20251h 10mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Julien Mailland, Associate Professor of Media Management, Law, and Policy at The Media School of Indiana University Bloomington, about his book, The Game That Never Ends...

  • Episode #103

    Tiia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland

    Sep 1, 20251h 20mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Tiia Sahrakorpi, Visiting Professor at Weber State University, about her interesting book project, Our Land: An Oral History of Energy, which was funded by the Research...

  • Episode #102

    Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower

    Aug 18, 20251h 8mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Mary Bridges, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government...

  • Episode #100

    Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration

    Jul 14, 20251h 3mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with space anthropologist, writer, and Virginia Tech doctoral candidate, Savannah Mandel, about her book, Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration...

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    Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States

    Jun 30, 20251h 33mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Matt Wisnioski, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, about his new book, Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life. The...

  • Peoples & Things

    Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment

    Jun 16, 20251 hourS0

    <p>In this 100th episode (!!!) of Peoples & Things, host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Benjamin H. Snyder, Associate Professor of Sociology at Williams College, about his recent book, Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s...

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    Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

    Jun 2, 20251h 20mS0

    <p>Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian Beth Linker, Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science, about her...

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