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Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self

Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self

FromNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society


Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self

FromNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

16th-century glass mirrors and 21st-century camera phones actually share a lot in common; they both are technologies that shaped new forms of the self.
Guests

Ian Mortimer, historian and author of Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years

Ilan Stavans, professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and author of I Love My Selfie


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Released:
Jan 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books