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How do inequalities in access to digital technologies persist after everyone gets an iPad and access to a hotspot?
This week, the gang sits down with Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center. Conrad recently authored The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, a report on changes to the religious composition of the world’s countries. We also discuss Twitter fame, the Puerto Rico hurricane death count, and careers […]
This week, The Annex sits down with Clayton Childress from the University of Toronto. Clayton wrote Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel with Princeton University Press. We discuss the process of a fiction book’s conception, development, distribution, and reception, and the degree to which the fiction publishing industry […]
This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans (2016, University of California Press). Also, Twitter’s experiment with 280 character Tweets, China’s crackdown on Uighurs, post-Christianity in Europe, and Chris Hayes’ A Colony and a Nation.
