In this episode we’re going to talk about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the animated film The Iron Giant (1999), and discuss the relevance of characters and their dilemmas in the story to the concepts of social order and the sociotechnical imagi

Frankensteins

Feb 5th, 2021 1h

In this episode Iris and Dr. Jen nerd out about Volume 2 & 3 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, revisit the notion of sociotechnical imaginaries, and dig more deeply into the concept of social order and its relevance to the sociotechnical imaginar

Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Atomic Histories

Jan 28th, 2021 1h 4m

In this episode we’re going to talk a little about sociotechnical imaginaries and where we borrow that concept from. We also introduce the first volume of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to begin a multi-part episode discussion about how sociotechn

Syllabus Day

Jan 22nd, 2021 55m 30s

In our first episode of all time, we (Iris and Jen) introduce ourselves and explain the origins of the Computer Ethics and Popular Culture course. Oriented to a non-academic and an academic audience, we walk through our approach to studying and

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