Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On Social Media and HinduismPub date: 2022-10-25Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual

Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Chip exports and US-China relationsPub date: 2022-10-25The Biden administration announced a monumental policy shift earlier this month, set to limit and control the exportation of artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies to China. The restrictions will block leading U.S. chip designers from accessing the Chinese market; selling goods that form the backbone of AI and supercomputing. Gregory Allen from the Centre

Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On Social Media and HinduismPub date: 2022-10-25Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual

Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6)Pub date: 2022-10-20Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University  joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. The book analyzes how social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities in the

Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6)Pub date: 2022-10-20Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University  joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. The book analyzes how social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities in the

Podcast: Burning PlatformsEpisode: Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlockPub date: 2022-10-16The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us'. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Anti-Fascist Approach to AIPub date: 2022-10-19The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic

Podcast: Burning PlatformsEpisode: Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlockPub date: 2022-10-16The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us' See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Anti-Fascist Approach to AIPub date: 2022-10-19The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)Pub date: 2022-10-13We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too fried to log out of Facebook? We’re addicted to large-scale platforms,

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)Pub date: 2022-10-13We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too fried to log out of Facebook? We’re addicted to large-scale platforms,

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 197. The Limits of Tech InquiryPub date: 2022-10-06We discuss recent events of a report by Tech Inquiry about big tech’s military contracts was pulled by its funders — a major union and a major social democratic party — over Tech Inquiry’s refusal to censor its criticism of Microsoft. We offer our own critical analysis of organizations focused on building short-term, self-interested alliances with capital instead of ones

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)Pub date: 2022-10-11Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games (Lit Verlag, 2022).In light of its immense popularity, a critical examination of the medium of the videogame is due. This particular anthology – Control Machines

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 197. The Limits of Tech InquiryPub date: 2022-10-06We discuss recent events of a report by Tech Inquiry about big tech’s military contracts was pulled by its funders — a major union and a major social democratic party — over Tech Inquiry’s refusal to censor its criticism of Microsoft. We offer our own critical analysis of organizations focused on building short-term, self-interested alliances with capital instead of ones

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)Pub date: 2022-10-11Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games (Lit Verlag, 2022).In light of its immense popularity, a critical examination of the medium of the videogame is due. This particular anthology – Control Machines

Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris MillerPub date: 2022-10-03In Episode 274 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Miller. Chris is Associate Professor of International History at the graduate school of global affairs at Tufts University. He is also the author of Chip War, which chronicles the geopolitical history of a decades-long battle to control the modern world’s most critical

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'KanePub date: 2022-09-29Paris Marx is joined by Josh O’Kane to discuss how Sidewalk Labs decided to build a city “from the internet up” in Toronto, the concerns that existed with the project, and why it ultimately fell apart.Josh O’Kane is an award-winning technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and the author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. Follow Josh on

Podcast: The Future, This Week (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Data is not the new oil with Genevieve BellPub date: 2022-09-29This week: our 300th episode. We’re joined by Professor Genevieve Bell to settle once and for all – if data is not the new oil, then what is it? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week. You can find

Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris MillerPub date: 2022-10-03In Episode 274 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Miller. Chris is Associate Professor of International History at the graduate school of global affairs at Tufts University. He is also the author of Chip War, which chronicles the geopolitical history of a decades-long battle to control the modern world’s most critical

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'KanePub date: 2022-09-29Paris Marx is joined by Josh O’Kane to discuss how Sidewalk Labs decided to build a city “from the internet up” in Toronto, the concerns that existed with the project, and why it ultimately fell apart.Josh O’Kane is an award-winning technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and the author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. Follow Josh on