Sociology Technology

Product List
    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • By: Trenor Williams MD, Anita Samarth
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This helpful, plain-English guide provides need-to-know information on how to choose the right system, assure patients of the security of their records, and implement an EHR in such a way that it causes minimal disruption to the daily demands of a hospital or clinic....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

    Regular price: $14.61 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.61 or 1 credit

    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
    • By: Scott Galloway
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,418 ratings
    • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. They're wrong....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer, Randy Pausch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,549 ratings
    • When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with cancer....

    Regular price: $14.81 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.81 or 1 credit

    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

    Regular price: $24.30 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.30 or 1 credit

    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • A gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • The 10 Trends Shaping Today's Young People - and the Nation
    • By: Jean M. Twenge Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010 ratings
    • An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors....

    Regular price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit

    • Further Updated and Expanded
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 27 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 981 ratings
    • When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war....

    Regular price: $33.74 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $33.74 or 1 credit

    • How Algorithms Flattened Culture
    • By: Kyle Chayka
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices....

    Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • The Surrender of Culture to Technology
    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 688 ratings
    • In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it....

    Regular price: $13.22 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.22 or 1 credit

    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity....

    Regular price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.75 or 1 credit

    • How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
    • By: Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    • Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
    • By: Jane McGonigal
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 963 ratings
    • In today’s society, games are fulfilling real human needs in ways that reality is not.....

    Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    • Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
    • By: Christian Rudder
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    • Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In TechGnosis, Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication....

    Regular price: $40.46 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $40.46 or 1 credit

    • How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
    • By: Nathaniel Popper
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets....

    Regular price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit

    • How and Why Constant Connectivity Is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It
    • By: Mari K. Swingle
    • Narrated by: Lisa Bunting
    • Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world. The way we use technology is affecting our health and happiness....

    Regular price: $31.16 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $31.16 or 1 credit