Peoples & Things is a podcast in which host Lee Vinsel interviews scholars, practitioners, and activists about human life with technology.
New in Season 2, Peoples & Things is a video-first operation, available on the website or YouTube channel, with the audio version on your favorite podcast apps. Episodes are published weekly on Mondays.
Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and is the host of Peoples & Things.
In 2015, he, along with Andrew Russell, started The Maintainers, a global interdisciplinary research network dedicated to the study of maintenance, repair, and mundane work with technology.
He and Russell are the authors of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most, published by Currency in 2020.
You can follow Lee on Twitter @STS_News.
Peoples & Things is a production of Virginia Tech Publishing and is supported by the Center for Humanities and the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. For information about other podcasts from Virginia Tech Publishing, visit publishing.vt.edu.
Podcast transcriptions are published on the website in PDF format.