Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili LehdonvirtaPub date: 2023-01-08The rise of the platform economy puts state-like power in the hands of platform owners with little or no accountability. Over the past few decades, the chaotic and lawless early Internet evolved into a digital reality where e-commerce and digital services platform owners dictate

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert HockettPub date:

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)Pub date: 2022-12-21A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and far.Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert HockettPub date:

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)Pub date: 2022-12-21A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and far.Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus

Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer SocialismPub date: 2023-01-03Amelia, Djamil, Christian, and Rudy join for a discussion on the history of Soviet Cybernetics and the use of computers for socialist planning. We discuss the origins of Cybernetics, its role as a reform movement in the sciences, and why cybernetics became attractive to the Soviet academy in the 50s, before moving to the biographies and projects of

Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer SocialismPub date: 2023-01-03Amelia, Djamil, Christian, and Rudy join for a discussion on the history of Soviet Cybernetics and the use of computers for socialist planning. We discuss the origins of Cybernetics, its role as a reform movement in the sciences, and why cybernetics became attractive to the Soviet academy in the 50s, before moving to the biographies and projects of

Podcast: Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of workEpisode: Ep 2: Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ RightsPub date: 2022-12-15The second episode delves into the power that algorithms and data hold, in running this platform model of work. Experts explain how algorithmic management and control by platform apps has major implications for working conditions and worker autonomy, and how workers’ groups, through new-age organising, are negotiating

Podcast: Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of workEpisode: Ep 2: Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ RightsPub date: 2022-12-15The second episode delves into the power that algorithms and data hold, in running this platform model of work. Experts explain how algorithmic management and control by platform apps has major implications for working conditions and worker autonomy, and how workers’ groups, through new-age organising, are negotiating

Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The charm of central bank digital currencies in a polarised worldPub date: 2022-12-0895 percent of the world economy (measured by GDP) is exploring the idea of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and many countries including Nigeria and China are entering into the close-to-launch or fully launched phase. But what is the hype about? In this episode of the Sound of Economics, Maria Demertzis invites Grégory

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Podcast: The Sentience Institute Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: David Gunkel on robot rightsPub date: 2022-12-05“Robot rights are not the same thing as a set of human rights. Human rights are very specific to a singular species, the human being. Robots may have some overlapping powers, claims, privileges, or immunities that would need to be recognized by human beings, but their grouping or sets of rights will be perhaps very different.”David GunkelCan and should robots and

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Regulating AI with Alex EnglerPub date: 2022-12-07Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how the United States intends to wrestle with and regulate the challenges arising from the increasingly common use of artificial intelligence. In recent weeks, the European Union has been wrestling with its

Podcast: Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & PracticeEpisode: S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and developmentPub date: 2022-12-05This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise.Fibre optic internet cables have now connected almost every part of the world into a giant web of networks. Pundits once claimed this infrastructure would allow everyone to raise her voice,

Podcast: The Sentience Institute Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: David Gunkel on robot rightsPub date: 2022-12-05“Robot rights are not the same thing as a set of human rights. Human rights are very specific to a singular species, the human being. Robots may have some overlapping powers, claims, privileges, or immunities that would need to be recognized by human beings, but their grouping or sets of rights will be perhaps very different.”David GunkelCan and should robots and

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Regulating AI with Alex EnglerPub date: 2022-12-07Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how the United States intends to wrestle with and regulate the challenges arising from the increasingly common use of artificial intelligence. In recent weeks, the European Union has been wrestling with its

Podcast: Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & PracticeEpisode: S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and developmentPub date: 2022-12-05This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise.Fibre optic internet cables have now connected almost every part of the world into a giant web of networks. Pundits once claimed this infrastructure would allow everyone to raise her voice,

Podcast: Hagley History HangoutEpisode: Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn with Alexander LiebmanPub date: 2022-11-28Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop of the changes within material practices and technology, but neither do they stand apart from them; the two are intimately entwined in the contingent, intermittent unfolding of history. The challenge

Podcast: Hagley History HangoutEpisode: Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn with Alexander LiebmanPub date: 2022-11-28Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop of the changes within material practices and technology, but neither do they stand apart from them; the two are intimately entwined in the contingent, intermittent unfolding of history. The challenge

Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Art and Religion as TechnologyPub date: 2022-11-25Professor Terrence L. Johnson facilitated a conversation with Professor Anthony Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School for the academic year 2022-23, focused on Professor Pinn’s most recent book, The Interplay of Things. In The Interplay of Things, Pinn