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Looks Like New is the podcast that asks old questions about new technology. Each month, we speak with someone who works with technology in ways that challenge conventional narratives and dominant power structures.

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 24, 2026

    How do we pay attention to music? (opens the original)

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    This month on Looks Like New, we have a special episode featuring Steve Lamos, recorded by Looks Like New's previous producer, Alexander Lipka. Steve is a scholar and educator at the University of Colorado Boulder and drummer for the band American Football, whose work spans music, writing, and pedagogy. His literary work includes Interests and Opportunities: Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction and Notebooking Resonances in Music. In this conversation, Alexander and Steve explore how

  2. Episode · Jul 23, 2026

    Who gets to make the rules online? (opens the original)

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    From subreddit rule pages to Mastodon server blocklists, the internet is full of quiet governance decisions most of us never see. On this episode of Looks Like New, Júlia Martins Rodrigues talks with Sohyeon Hwang about who's making them and what it would take to share this power. Sohyeon is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, about how everyday people build real power over the technologies shaping their lives. Hwang studies the "governance

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