Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick CouldryPub date: 2024-10-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the power it grants them resembles a much older form of exploitation: colonialism.Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-FeudalismPub date: 2024-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart 1. Fascism, History, and EducationGuest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing

Podcast: Tactics&Practice [podcast]Episode: The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]Pub date: 2024-08-28Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? Can you use games to make players reflect on ethics, politics and the economy? Since 2003, MOLLEINDUSTRIA

Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal AroraPub date: 2024-10-03The news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines talk about how algorithms control and oppress people. There are fears that AI could harm democracy, damage our social connections, or even cause human extinction. While these fears come from real

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic)Pub date: 2024-09-15We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support-- Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic. Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson)Pub date: 2024-09-08We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support-- Today we explore the digital transformation of and in education. My guest is Ben Williamson who argues that we are witnessing a new digital infrastructure being built beneath

Podcast: Diasporas SpeakingEpisode: Episode Three: Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural ObjectsPub date: 2024-09-15In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meaning-making can reproduce and reshape memory, revealing a complex relationship between knowledge production in the diaspora and the culture of origin. This process is dynamic, reflecting

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn FriesenPub date: 2024-09-05Paris Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate consolidation.Taylor Welling is a producer and union member at OneBGS and Kathryn Friesen is quest designer and member of the World of

Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The End of Google As We Know It?Pub date: 2024-08-15This week we're taking a quick summer break, but in the meantime, we wanted to re-share a special episode that is relevant in the news again. With the recent federal court ruling that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of internet searches, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share our episode with lawyer Dina Srinivasan. She's an expert in the field of

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi SchubinerPub date: 2024-08-29Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it.Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner are former Google software engineers and organizers with No Tech for Apartheid.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-LiuPub date: 2024-08-01Cole Stangler talks about the monumentally inconclusive French elections. David Palumbo-Liu explores the Silicon Valley world that launched J. D. Vance as a politician. Plus: a brief bit from the late Jane McAlevey on power.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AIPub date: 2024-07-24Alissa Starzak, head of public policy at Cloudflare, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss the promises and perils of AI in the cybersecurity context. Frazier, who interned with Cloudflare while in law school, and Starzak cover the novel

Podcast: The Michael Steele Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve)Pub date: 2024-07-18Michael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." The pair discuss how internet subcultures have contributed to

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?Pub date: 2024-07-18Global media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content. In this program we get an update on Meta's ban on Canadian news content, specifically how it's impacted production of serious news and what's been the public reaction. We also get a reality check on just how interested the giant

Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Pub date: 2024-07-14A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death

Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet HaugsbøPub date: 2024-07-02In this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø, president of Norway-based tech union Tekna, to discuss her journey in engineering, the importance of cybernetics, digital surveillance, and how to stay resilient in the age of AI. They also explore

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: How China Regulates TechPub date: 2024-06-23Angela Zhang is the author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, published this year by Oxford University Press. With a career in the practice of law and in teaching it, Zhang has held roles King’s College London and at New York University School of Law, and most recently served as Director ofPhilip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law at the University of

Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-PacificPub date: 2024-06-18Undersea cables underpin global communication and the digital economy, with between 95-99% of data for international banking, e-commerce, video calls, and intelligence sharing travelling via these largely hidden transoceanic routes. However, this critical multi-billion-dollar infrastructure faces increasing risks from shipping accidents, natural disasters,

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2024-06-13Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2024-06-13Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of