Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: (Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett TomlinPub date: 2022-05-19Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week’s crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will finally force regulators to take action on cryptocurrency.Bennett Tomlin is a co-host of Crypto Critics’ Corner and writer of the FUD Letter. Follow Bennett on Twitter at @BennettTomlin.Tech Won’t Save Us

Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance BennettPub date: 2022-05-15Prof. Lance Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Washington, discusses the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. We reflect on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy. We also discuss theories

Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Who owns the internet?Pub date: 2022-05-16What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course! From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few

Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance BennettPub date: 2022-05-15Prof. Lance Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Washington, discusses the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. We reflect on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy. We also discuss theories of

Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Who owns the internet?Pub date: 2022-05-16What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course! From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few

Podcast: What's Left? (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Work of the Internet (w/ Justin E.H. Smith)Pub date: 2022-05-17In this wide-ranging discussion, Oliver talks to philosophy and history professor Justin E.H. Smith about his new book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is. Suggested Reading Smith, "It's All Over," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-over/ "It's All Just Beginning," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/ "The Internet Is

Podcast: What's Left? (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Work of the Internet (w/ Justin E.H. Smith)Pub date: 2022-05-17In this wide-ranging discussion, Oliver talks to philosophy and history professor Justin E.H. Smith about his new book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is. Suggested Reading Smith, "It's All Over," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-over/ "It's All Just Beginning," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/ "The Internet Is

Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of EthicsEpisode: Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online ProtestPub date: 2022-05-05Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest by Centre for Ethics, University of TorontoThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-05-10In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem has spawned to reveal how its conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global

Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of EthicsEpisode: Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online ProtestPub date: 2022-05-05Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest by Centre for Ethics, University of TorontoThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-05-10In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem has spawned to reveal how its conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global

Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: North Korean digital controlPub date: 2022-05-10North Korea is known as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Yet, there are North Koreans who have access to some of the same kind of technologies that are available to the rest of the world, albeit with severe restrictions. A new report suggests that some even hack their smartphones to get around the stringent digital controls. The authors of the report looked at

Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: North Korean digital controlPub date: 2022-05-10North Korea is known as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Yet, there are North Koreans who have access to some of the same kind of technologies that are available to the rest of the world, albeit with severe restrictions. A new report suggests that some even hack their smartphones to get around the stringent digital controls. The authors of the report looked at

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #77 - Silicon Valley and the Origins of US Big Tech - w/ Margaret O'MaraPub date: 2022-05-02In this episode, Prof. Margaret O'Mara of the University of Washington discusses the origins and workings of the US Tech industry - in reference to her 2019 book: The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its

Podcast: Matrix PodcastEpisode: Digital Transformations in Global Land, Housing, and PropertyPub date: 2022-05-03Recorded on April 27, 2022, this panel discussion brought together members of the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix Research Team on Digital Transformations in Property and Development to discuss how state, corporations, and grassroots actors are employing digital technologies to remake global land, housing, and property. Panelists included Hilary Faxon, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #77 - Silicon Valley and the Origins of US Big Tech - w/ Margaret O'MaraPub date: 2022-05-02In this episode, Prof. Margaret O'Mara of the University of Washington discusses the origins and workings of the US Tech industry - in reference to her 2019 book: The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its

Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi MalatjiEpisode: Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy PerrigoPub date: 2022-04-29Today we welcome Billy Perrigo to discuss the exploitation of African workers performing content moderation for Facebook. Billy is a staff writer at TIME covering social media companies, with a focus on content moderation and responsible AI. In this episode, we cover Billy's article at TIME, "Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop", which exposes how Facebook outsources

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Worldcoin: Where Techno-Optimism Meets Techno-ColonialismPub date: 2022-04-24There is a growing literature and practice around how to equitably collaborate with traditionally marginalized communities to build better technology. A pair of investigative reports into Worldcoin’s launch may well serve as the basis for an instructive case study in what not to do.The first report, by Richard Nieva and Aman Sethi at BuzzFeed News, was

Podcast: Near Future Laboratory Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: N°34 — Genevieve Bell from Cybernetics to Meta(verse)Pub date: 2022-04-25My guest Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, AO FAHA FTSE is an Australian anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technological development. She taught Anthropology at Stanford before being recruited to Intel in 1998 to build out their social-science research program in their advanced R&D

Podcast: War Machine (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Andrew McLuhan /// Techno-MaelstromPub date: 2022-04-25Wherein Justin Pearl, Matt Valler, and Matt Baker speak with Andrew McLuhan, grandson of Marshall McLuhan, son of Eric McLuhan, and the founder of the McLuhan institute. We touch on media ecology, what ‘the medium is the message’ is all about, understanding media as activism, and more. McLuhan Institute: https://themcluhaninstitute.com YouTube: