Podcast: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - MediationPub date: 2022-10-05Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how media and technology produce legal and political knowledge to inform public debates on visual literacy, race, and other issues.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Massachusetts

Podcast: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - MediationPub date: 2022-10-05Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how media and technology produce legal and political knowledge to inform public debates on visual literacy, race, and other issues.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Massachusetts

Podcast: Keen On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital AgePub date: 2022-11-18Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.In this episode, Andrew is joined by Heather Ford, author of Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital

Podcast: Keen On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital AgePub date: 2022-11-18Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.In this episode, Andrew is joined by Heather Ford, author of Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital

Podcast: TEC TalksEpisode: Al, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Your (Artificial) ImmutabilityPub date: 2022-11-16How could a personal characteristic like eye movement affect, say, whether you get a loan?Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. She founded and leads OII’s Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects

Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The collapse of the ‘Crypto King’Pub date: 2022-11-15In the last two years, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions of dollars on advertisements with the likes of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David. FTX also sponsored Major League Baseball, the Mercedes Formula One racing team and Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary. Earlier this month, Bloomberg ranked the platform’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried,

Podcast: TEC TalksEpisode: Al, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Your (Artificial) ImmutabilityPub date: 2022-11-16How could a personal characteristic like eye movement affect, say, whether you get a loan?Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. She founded and leads OII’s Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects

Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The collapse of the ‘Crypto King’Pub date: 2022-11-15In the last two years, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions of dollars on advertisements with the likes of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David. FTX also sponsored Major League Baseball, the Mercedes Formula One racing team and Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary. Earlier this month, Bloomberg ranked the platform’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried,

Podcast: Belabored (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Belabored: Courier Class WarPub date: 2022-11-11Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Support the podcast on Patreon. Subscribe and rate on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Tweet at @DissentMag with #Belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Check out the full archive here. Belabored is produced by Colin Kinniburgh. While the pandemic brought turmoil and massive job losses to many

Podcast: Belabored (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Belabored: Courier Class WarPub date: 2022-11-11Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Support the podcast on Patreon. Subscribe and rate on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Tweet at @DissentMag with #Belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Check out the full archive here. Belabored is produced by Colin Kinniburgh. While the pandemic brought turmoil and massive job losses to many

Podcast: Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Episode: The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic PublishingPub date: 2022-11-01One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in the academic publishing sector, whose artificial intelligence tools are creating new forms of control and governance over our daily and professional activities.In this episode, we are joined by

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long DownturnPub date: 2022-11-07Science fiction has traditionally depicted a robot takeover as a conscious bid for global domination by our mechanical offspring. From The Terminator to The Matrix, we’ve been invited to picture a war to the death between man and machine. More recently however, figures like Elon Musk have spoken about the rise of the robots as a more insidious

Podcast: Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Episode: The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic PublishingPub date: 2022-11-01One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in the academic publishing sector, whose artificial intelligence tools are creating new forms of control and governance over our daily and professional activities.In this episode, we are joined by

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long DownturnPub date: 2022-11-07Science fiction has traditionally depicted a robot takeover as a conscious bid for global domination by our mechanical offspring. From The Terminator to The Matrix, we’ve been invited to picture a war to the death between man and machine. More recently however, figures like Elon Musk have spoken about the rise of the robots as a more insidious

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)Pub date: 2022-11-01Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people--in 2020,

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)Pub date: 2022-11-01Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people--in 2020,

Podcast: UO TodayEpisode: UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston CollegePub date: 2022-10-26Juliet Schor is an Economist and a professor of Sociology at Boston College. She discusses her research on consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifestyles, environmental degradation, the sharing economy. Schor is the 2022 Wayne Morse Chair in Law and Politics. She gave a talk "Gig Economy: Predatory Platforms, Precarious Work" as part of the Morse

Podcast: UO TodayEpisode: UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston CollegePub date: 2022-10-26Juliet Schor is an Economist and a professor of Sociology at Boston College. She discusses her research on consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifestyles, environmental degradation, the sharing economy. Schor is the 2022 Wayne Morse Chair in Law and Politics. She gave a talk "Gig Economy: Predatory Platforms, Precarious Work" as part of the Morse

Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized MachinePub date: 2023-05-15Digital assistants, in your home or on your phone, are usually presented as women. In this documentary, IDEAS traces the history of the feminized, non-threatening machine, from Siri and Alexa to the "women computers" of the 19th century. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 26, 2022.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBC, which is the

Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized MachinePub date: 2023-05-15Digital assistants, in your home or on your phone, are usually presented as women. In this documentary, IDEAS traces the history of the feminized, non-threatening machine, from Siri and Alexa to the "women computers" of the 19th century. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 26, 2022.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBC, which is the