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Podcast: The Last QuestionEpisode: Disinformation In Warfare with Olga TokariukPub date: 2023-09-30How is Russia deploying disinformation following its full scale invasion of Ukraine? What's the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda? Can memes win wars? Check out this fascinating interview with Olga Tokariuk - journalist and disinformation researcher - to find out.Olga Tokariuk is an independent journalist, non-resident fellow at CEPA (Center for European Policy

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Problem with the "Big" in Big TechPub date: 2023-09-17Today’s episode features two segments, both of which consider the scale of technology platforms and their power over markets and people. In the first, Rebecca Rand delivers a conversation with University of Technology Sydney researcher Dr. Luis Lozano-Paredes about a community of drivers in Colombia who have hacked together a way to preserve their power alongside the

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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Chatter: Geopolitics and the Rise of the English Language with Rosemary SalomonePub date: 2023-08-31The English language has recently developed a historically unique dominance in the global marketplace--a situation that brings plenty of benefits and just as many downsides. Rosemary Salomone, Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St. John's University, has researched and analyzed various perspectives on English's supremacy in

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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)Pub date: 2023-09-07We are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: How Do We Assure Social Security to Gig Workers?Pub date: 2023-08-04The State of Rajasthan recently passed a law on social security for platform-based gig workers. Under the law, a 1-2 percent welfare cess will be levied on the value of every online transaction and the amounts will go into a welfare fund to be used for the benefit of gig workers. In this episode, Anupam Manur & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya discuss the drawbacks of

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: How Do We Assure Social Security to Gig Workers?Pub date: 2023-08-04The State of Rajasthan recently passed a law on social security for platform-based gig workers. Under the law, a 1-2 percent welfare cess will be levied on the value of every online transaction and the amounts will go into a welfare fund to be used for the benefit of gig workers. In this episode, Anupam Manur & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya discuss the drawbacks

Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied InformationPub date: 2023-08-02The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)Pub date: 2023-07-30Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new

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Podcast: The Irish Tech News PodcastEpisode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol CaudevillaPub date: 2023-07-24An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs

Podcast: The Irish Tech News PodcastEpisode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol CaudevillaPub date: 2023-07-24An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)Pub date: 2023-07-18Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)Pub date: 2023-07-18Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work