Podcast: Near Future Laboratory Podcast (LS 34 · 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:

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)Pub date: 2022-04-14In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)Pub date: 2022-04-14In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of

Podcast: Stadtbibliothek StuttgartEpisode: The Asset in the MachinePub date: 2022-04-06NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) are ghosts of property, fictitious experiences of ownership glancing back at us through our screens. Starting from this proposition, Geraldine Juárez will discuss ideas around her luddite essay The Ghostchain (or taking things for what they are) in relation to art, artworkers and institutions, packets and websites, content and platforms, assets and blockchains.The podcast and artwork

Podcast: Machines Like Us (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: All Eyes on CryptoPub date: 2022-04-14In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Ephrat Livni, a lawyer and journalist who reports from Washington on the intersection of business and policy for DealBook at The New York Times. One of Livni’s focuses has been how cryptocurrencies have moved from the periphery of the financial world into the mainstream. The cryptocurrency movement originated with a commitment to the

Podcast: Stadtbibliothek StuttgartEpisode: The Asset in the MachinePub date: 2022-04-06NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) are ghosts of property, fictitious experiences of ownership glancing back at us through our screens. Starting from this proposition, Geraldine Juárez will discuss ideas around her luddite essay The Ghostchain (or taking things for what they are) in relation to art, artworkers and institutions, packets and websites, content and platforms, assets and blockchains.The podcast and artwork

Podcast: Big Tech (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: All Eyes on CryptoPub date: 2022-04-14In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Ephrat Livni, a lawyer and journalist who reports from Washington on the intersection of business and policy for DealBook at The New York Times. One of Livni’s focuses has been how cryptocurrencies have moved from the periphery of the financial world into the mainstream. The cryptocurrency movement originated with a commitment to the

Podcast: Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Pressure and Freedom: Technology and Formations of Public and Private Health Care in Phnom PenhPub date: 2022-04-07In this talk, Drs Jones and Legerwood talk with Dr Grant and explore how medical imaging participates in the re-configuration of public and private health care in Phnom Penh. Dr Grant consider different concepts to help parse the organization of care when Cambodia’s political economy

Podcast: Techdirt (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Algorithmic DestructionPub date: 2022-04-12People often talk about some kind of "right to deletion" as an approach to fixing online privacy issues. This construct can create problems, as we've seen with Europe's version, but newer proposals don't seem to consider these lessons. A recent paper by law professor Tiffany Li looks at another angle on the issue: how data deletion impacts algorithms and AI-trained models. This week, Tiffany

Podcast: Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Pressure and Freedom: Technology and Formations of Public and Private Health Care in Phnom PenhPub date: 2022-04-07In this talk, Drs Jones and Legerwood talk with Dr Grant and explore how medical imaging participates in the re-configuration of public and private health care in Phnom Penh. Dr Grant consider different concepts to help parse the organization of care when Cambodia’s political economy

Podcast: Techdirt (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Algorithmic DestructionPub date: 2022-04-12People often talk about some kind of "right to deletion" as an approach to fixing online privacy issues. This construct can create problems, as we've seen with Europe's version, but newer proposals don't seem to consider these lessons. A recent paper by law professor Tiffany Li looks at another angle on the issue: how data deletion impacts algorithms and AI-trained models. This week, Tiffany

Podcast: etui.podcastEpisode: The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan DrahokoupilPub date: 2022-04-11The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of

Podcast: etui.podcastEpisode: The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan DrahokoupilPub date: 2022-04-11The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of

Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: /252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi AccettiPub date: 2022-04-05On the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the same time? How does this distinguish our age from a more ideological age in the

Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: /252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi AccettiPub date: 2022-04-05On the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the same time? How does this distinguish our age from a more ideological age in the

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Precarity of Tech’s Shadow WorkforcePub date: 2022-04-01Earlier this year, a nonprofit organization called the TechEquity Collaborative released the results of its Contract Worker Disparity Project, an investigation into the “shadow workforce” that powers many tech firms. The culmination of a year of research into the disparities in contract work, the report features survey data and first-hand accounts from contract workers

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly WhitePub date: 2022-04-01Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and what Molly’s years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with web3’s vision of total commercialization.Molly White is a software engineer and the creator of web3 is going just great. Follow Molly on

Podcast: Publicly SitedEpisode: The Mediated City 09: Platform UrbanismPub date: 2022-03-13If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing arranged through Airbnb or TripAdvisor; your local travels

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The ECASH Act with Rohan GreyPub date: 2022-03-28In this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas  (@billysaas)  and Maxximilian Seijo  (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the "ECASH" or "Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware" Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services' Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey's research on