Podcast: New Left Radio (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Reclaiming Digital Freedom - Interview w/ Jessa LingelPub date: 2021-09-28Fan of the show? Support us on Patreon!Remember the promise of the early internet? It was a network of information sharing that would free us from corporate control, allow for free sharing of ideas and information, and revolutionize the world. Then, through gentrification and copying of capital, it became a vehicle controlled by capital, serving as a tool

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Inside the Facebook FilesPub date: 2021-09-23Today, we’re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem. We’ll be talking about “The Facebook Files”—a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal about Facebook’s failures to mitigate harms on its platform. There’s a lot of critical reporting about Facebook out there, but what makes the Journal’s series different is that

Podcast: New Left Radio (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Reclaiming Digital Freedom - Interview w/ Jessa LingelPub date: 2021-09-28Fan of the show? Support us on Patreon!Remember the promise of the early internet? It was a network of information sharing that would free us from corporate control, allow for free sharing of ideas and information, and revolutionize the world. Then, through gentrification and copying of capital, it became a vehicle controlled by capital, serving as a tool

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)Pub date: 2021-09-27In this episode I am in conversation with artist and author Vanilla Beer about her 2019 book Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics. While he got is start in the academic world, it was in industry where Stafford Beer made is most recognized contributions. Beer is best known

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)Pub date: 2021-09-27In this episode I am in conversation with artist and author Vanilla Beer about her 2019 book Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics. While he got is start in the academic world, it was in industry where Stafford Beer made is most recognized contributions. Beer is best known

Podcast: Democracy Works (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: How Amazon is disrupting democracyPub date: 2021-09-20As we've said many times on this show, democracy is long and slow, which is the exact opposite of the ethos that Amazon has pushed into our culture through quick shipping, easily accessible entertainment, its takeover of cloud computing, and more.Amazon's expansion across America, from distribution facilities to data centers, is exacerbating regional inequities and

Podcast: Democracy Works (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: How Amazon is disrupting democracyPub date: 2021-09-20As we've said many times on this show, democracy is long and slow, which is the exact opposite of the ethos that Amazon has pushed into our culture through quick shipping, easily accessible entertainment, its takeover of cloud computing, and more.Amazon's expansion across America, from distribution facilities to data centers, is exacerbating regional inequities and

Podcast: Inside Scoop (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Gig Economy w/ Oxford Internet Institute, With Takes on Fiverr and UpworkPub date: 2021-09-21The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. At Avory we calculate that there is roughly $700B in paid workers that could move some or all of their work to online platforms. We brought Fabian Stephany from the Oxford Internet Institute "OII" at the University of Oxford to discuss this revolution. iLabour

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Pub date: 2021-09-20As governments and corporations mine our “entrenched culture of sharing” to invade privacy (down to Target creating an algorithm to figure out which shoppers are in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy) what happens to democracy? Can democracy survive with no (or very little privacy)? What

Podcast: Inside Scoop (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Gig Economy w/ Oxford Internet Institute, With Takes on Fiverr and UpworkPub date: 2021-09-21The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. At Avory we calculate that there is roughly $700B in paid workers that could move some or all of their work to online platforms. We brought Fabian Stephany from the Oxford Internet Institute "OII" at the University of Oxford to discuss this revolution. iLabour

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Pub date: 2021-09-20As governments and corporations mine our “entrenched culture of sharing” to invade privacy (down to Target creating an algorithm to figure out which shoppers are in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy) what happens to democracy? Can democracy survive with no (or very little privacy)? What

Podcast: Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 228: The Past and Future of Big TechPub date: 2021-09-08Join us for the official relaunch of the No Jargon Podcast! For our first episode since our eleven-month hiatus, we take on Big Tech and government. Tech giants like Amazon and Facebook have been in the news a lot lately, especially after the House Judiciary Committee approved several antitrust bills this past summer that aim to curb the power

Podcast: Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 228: The Past and Future of Big TechPub date: 2021-09-08Join us for the official relaunch of the No Jargon Podcast! For our first episode since our eleven-month hiatus, we take on Big Tech and government. Tech giants like Amazon and Facebook have been in the news a lot lately, especially after the House Judiciary Committee approved several antitrust bills this past summer that aim to curb the power

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Indigenous AI 101 with Jason Edward LewisPub date: 2021-09-08What is Indigenous AI and how might it drive our technology design and implementation? To answer this question and more in this episode we interview Jason Edward Lewis about Indigenous AI Protocols and a paper he co-authored entitled “Position Paper on Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence.” Jason Edward Lewis is a Hawaiian and Samoan digital media

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Indigenous AI 101 with Jason Edward LewisPub date: 2021-09-08What is Indigenous AI and how might it drive our technology design and implementation? To answer this question and more in this episode we interview Jason Edward Lewis about Indigenous AI Protocols and a paper he co-authored entitled “Position Paper on Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence.” Jason Edward Lewis is a Hawaiian and Samoan digital media

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #56 - China's War on Big Tech in 2021 - w/ Rogier CreemersPub date: 2021-09-06Rogier Creemers of Leiden University joins Nicolas Wittstock to discuss the recent efforts by Chinese policymakers to regulate its digital technology industry. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: What Happens Next? (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Is AI a Little Too Human?Pub date: 2021-09-02Humans have long dreamed of artificial intelligence and smart machines that can help us make better decisions or even just cut down on our own chores. What was once a sci fi fantasy is now a reality – AI is an increasing presence in our day-to-day lives. But AI is built by humans, and its algorithms are sometimes guided by very human biases. The more we rely on automated

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #56 - China's War on Big Tech in 2021 - w/ Rogier CreemersPub date: 2021-09-06Rogier Creemers of Leiden University joins Nicolas Wittstock to discuss the recent efforts by Chinese policymakers to regulate its digital technology industry. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Washington, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: What Happens Next? (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Is AI a Little Too Human?Pub date: 2021-09-02Humans have long dreamed of artificial intelligence and smart machines that can help us make better decisions or even just cut down on our own chores. What was once a sci fi fantasy is now a reality – AI is an increasing presence in our day-to-day lives. But AI is built by humans, and its algorithms are sometimes guided by very human biases. The more we rely on automated

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Entrenches US Power w/ Michael KwetPub date: 2021-09-02Paris Marx is joined by Michael Kwet to discuss how digital technologies are used to entrench the power of the United States and its dominant corporations at the expense of the Global South.Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He got his PhD in Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa. Follow Michael on