Podcast: Teneo Insights Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Cryptocurrencies and the Future of MoneyPub date: 2022-02-24Crypto and digital currencies are rapidly changing the nature of money itself and continue to be a disruptive threat to the global financial system. As businesses and governments embrace the possibilities of transformative financial technologies, how will this reshape the global economy and how will the threat of macroeconomic instability be contained? J

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)Pub date: 2022-02-16Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of different online experiences

Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less PolarizingPub date: 2022-02-23Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs thePolarization Lab. A leader in the emerging field of computational social science, Bail’s research examines fundamental questions of social psychology, extremism, and political polarization using social media data, bots, and the

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)Pub date: 2022-02-16Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of different online experiences

Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: 2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James KilgorePub date: 2022-02-17Emma hosts James Kilgore, Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, to discuss his recent book Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration, on the technological advancements in the surveillance state at the hands of

Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James KilgorePub date: 2022-02-17Emma hosts James Kilgore, Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, to discuss his recent book Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration, on the technological advancements in the surveillance state at the hands of

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathonsPub date: 2022-02-14Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss gender, memes and hackathons: What exactly is a meme? Do geeks have toxic masculinity? How does gender and

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathonsPub date: 2022-02-14Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss gender, memes and hackathons: What exactly is a meme? Do geeks have toxic masculinity? How does gender and

Podcast: Nothing is Foreign (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: El Salvador's Bitcoin ExperimentPub date: 2022-02-11Can a nation — and economy — of 6.5 million people run on bitcoin? That's the real-time experiment playing out in El Salvador, where the country's tech bro president has made the cryptocurrency legal tender. We'll take you inside El Salvador and hear from locals to see how the promise of a cryptocurrency paradise by a self-professed 'world's coolest dictator' is running up

Podcast: Nothing is Foreign (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: El Salvador's Bitcoin ExperimentPub date: 2022-02-11Can a nation — and economy — of 6.5 million people run on bitcoin? That's the real-time experiment playing out in El Salvador, where the country's tech bro president has made the cryptocurrency legal tender. We'll take you inside El Salvador and hear from locals to see how the promise of a cryptocurrency paradise by a self-professed 'world's coolest dictator' is running

Podcast: Meet The Education Researcher (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Automated surveillance in education (Chris Gilliard)Pub date: 2022-02-07Chris Gilliard (@hypervisible) is a leading critic of surveillance technology, digital privacy, and the problematic ways that tech intersects with race and social class. We talk about the automated forms of surveillance that are coming into schools and colleges – from ‘online examination proctoring’ to the use of ‘Alexa’ in classrooms. Why

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: *Unlocked* – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)Pub date: 2022-02-08Because it was so damn good, we’re unlocking part two of our discussion with Nick Chavez, focusing on the possibilities and limitations of reengineering capitalist forces of production for communist social relations. We discuss the need for epistemic luddism—or breaking the way we understand and use technologies—and why militancy at

Podcast: Meet The Education Researcher (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Automated surveillance in education (Chris Gilliard)Pub date: 2022-02-07Chris Gilliard (@hypervisible) is a leading critic of surveillance technology, digital privacy, and the problematic ways that tech intersects with race and social class. We talk about the automated forms of surveillance that are coming into schools and colleges – from ‘online examination proctoring’ to the use of ‘Alexa’ in classrooms. Why

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: *Unlocked* – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)Pub date: 2022-02-08Because it was so damn good, we’re unlocking part two of our discussion with Nick Chavez, focusing on the possibilities and limitations of reengineering capitalist forces of production for communist social relations. We discuss the need for epistemic luddism—or breaking the way we understand and use technologies—and why militancy at

Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Episode 75 - A Cybernetic FuturePub date: 2022-02-07Cybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more to the picture than just computers. This episode we are

Podcast: Global Digital CulturesEpisode: Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus UitermarkPub date: 2022-02-03In this episode, we had drinks with Justus Uitermark at Cafe Droog, where we discussed the theories, methods, and work processes driving his and John Boy’s upcoming book: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. Justus Uitermark is professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. He studies cities from a comparative

Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Episode 75 - A Cybernetic FuturePub date: 2022-02-07Cybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more to the picture than just computers. This episode we are

Podcast: Global Digital CulturesEpisode: Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus UitermarkPub date: 2022-02-03In this episode, we had drinks with Justus Uitermark at Cafe Droog, where we discussed the theories, methods, and work processes driving his and John Boy’s upcoming book: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. Justus Uitermark is professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. He studies cities from a comparative

Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The social life of programmersPub date: 2022-01-26Computer applications dominate contemporary social life, but who are the programmers who build these applications and what cultural values do they share? Combining the knowledge of programming with training in anthropology is one way of trying to understand the social life of programmers. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Gui Heurich. Gui studied anthropology in Brazil. In 2016 he

Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The social life of programmersPub date: 2022-01-26Computer applications dominate contemporary social life, but who are the programmers who build these applications and what cultural values do they share? Combining the knowledge of programming with training in anthropology is one way of trying to understand the social life of programmers. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Gui Heurich. Gui studied anthropology in Brazil. In 2016 he