Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: This is the Voice, The Voice CatchersPub date: 2021-08-27Have you ever heard a recording of your own voice and thought, “Is this what I sound like?” Our voices are so unique, with their own tones and inflections, and they reveal a lot more than you might think. In his new book, This is the Voice, journalist and author JOHN COLAPINTO explains the amazingly complex organs that produce our vocal sounds and argues that these distinct

Podcast: The Know Show Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Digital Inequalities: The Role of Digital Media in the Everyday Life of Disadvantaged Social Groups and Vulnerable Individuals - Prof. Ellen HelsperPub date: 2021-08-25https://www.patreon.com/user?u=31723331 Prof. Ellen Helsper is a Professor of Digital Inequalities in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Politics. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast, we discuss the digital

Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism ft. Meredith BroussardPub date: 2021-08-24Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism featuring Meredith BroussardThis month, Jack and Shobita discuss the recent IPCC report on climate change and the politics of vaccine "hesitancy", and puzzle over the lure of technological fixes to solve complex problems. And Jack

Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: This is the Voice, The Voice CatchersPub date: 2021-08-27Have you ever heard a recording of your own voice and thought, “Is this what I sound like?” Our voices are so unique, with their own tones and inflections, and they reveal a lot more than you might think. In his new book, This is the Voice, journalist and author JOHN COLAPINTO explains the amazingly complex organs that produce our vocal sounds and argues that these distinct

Podcast: The Know Show Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Digital Inequalities: The Role of Digital Media in the Everyday Life of Disadvantaged Social Groups and Vulnerable Individuals - Prof. Ellen HelsperPub date: 2021-08-25https://www.patreon.com/user?u=31723331 Prof. Ellen Helsper is a Professor of Digital Inequalities in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Politics. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast, we discuss the digital

Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism ft. Meredith BroussardPub date: 2021-08-24Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism featuring Meredith BroussardThis month, Jack and Shobita discuss the recent IPCC report on climate change and the politics of vaccine "hesitancy", and puzzle over the lure of technological fixes to solve complex problems. And Jack

Podcast: LekhEpisode: Pradip Ninan Thomas - The Politics of Digital IndiaPub date: 2021-08-17In the eighteenth episode, I speak to Pradip Ninan Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, about his recent book The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The book situates and locates Digital India in a global and local context by identifying the pressures, local and transnational, affecting India’s

Podcast: The Drayton DiscourseEpisode: Juliet Schor on Consumerism, the Platform Economy and the Social Media AgePub date: 2021-08-23Could the platform/gig economy become sustainable? To what extent can the education system help people lower their consumption levels? In our 3rd episode of The Drayton Discourse, we are proud to host Prof Juliet Schor, a sociologist at Boston University. Hear her talk on her career shift from economics to sociology, the challenges of the platform economy, and the

Podcast: Digital Sociology Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 25: Scott Timcke, algorithms, politics, capitalism & racismPub date: 2021-08-11In this episode I spoke to Scott Timcke who is a comparative historical sociologist, with an interest in race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and a fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for African

Podcast: The Drayton DiscourseEpisode: Juliet Schor on Consumerism, the Platform Economy and the Social Media AgePub date: 2021-08-23Could the platform/gig economy become sustainable? To what extent can the education system help people lower their consumption levels? In our 3rd episode of The Drayton Discourse, we are proud to host Prof Juliet Schor, a sociologist at Boston University. Hear her talk on her career shift from economics to sociology, the challenges of the platform economy, and the

Podcast: Digital Sociology Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 25: Scott Timcke, algorithms, politics, capitalism & racismPub date: 2021-08-11In this episode I spoke to Scott Timcke who is a comparative historical sociologist, with an interest in race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and a fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for African

Podcast: The Vocal Fries (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Me Myself and AIPub date: 2021-08-02Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP.We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and

Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 206 - Wrecked by TechPub date: 2021-08-01This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by labor and tech reporter extraordinaire Edward Ongweso Jr., a staff writer at Vice’s Motherboard and cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast about the political economy of tech.  Ed shares a bit about his own history as an organizer, which saw him involved in the successful campaign to pass the country's first ride-hail

Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 162: The New Lords of Creation w/ Corey PeinPub date: 2021-07-30“Though there was much sheer rascality in the Wall Street of the nineteen-twenties, much sheer greed roaming at large, and a widespread betrayal of the fiduciary principle, it may be that none of these things did as much damage to the country, in the sum total, as the sheer irresponsibility of men who, possessing vast

Podcast: The Vocal Fries (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Me Myself and AIPub date: 2021-08-02Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP.We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and

Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 206 - Wrecked by TechPub date: 2021-08-01This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by labor and tech reporter extraordinaire Edward Ongweso Jr., a staff writer at Vice’s Motherboard and cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast about the political economy of tech.  Ed shares a bit about his own history as an organizer, which saw him involved in the successful campaign to pass the country's first ride-hail

Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 162: The New Lords of Creation w/ Corey PeinPub date: 2021-07-30“Though there was much sheer rascality in the Wall Street of the nineteen-twenties, much sheer greed roaming at large, and a widespread betrayal of the fiduciary principle, it may be that none of these things did as much damage to the country, in the sum total, as the sheer irresponsibility of men who, possessing vast

Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Episode 18: Risk, Freedom, and the Power of Tech Labor ft. Ben TarnoffPub date: 2021-07-26Jack and Shobita talk about her recent experiences giving Congressional testimony about equity in energy innovation, question the meaning of Freedom Day in the UK, puzzle over the FDA's recent approval of a new Alzheimer's drug, and interview Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine, about tech worker organizing.- House Committee on

Podcast: Priv8 Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Facebook Effect and the Rise of the Data Economy with Kean BirchPub date: 2021-07-21A great interview with Kean Birch, an expert in technoscience and professor at York University. We take a deep dive into the Facebook effect, the rise of the data economy, and how private data changes the game of capitalism.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Orchid Labs, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with

Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Episode 18: Risk, Freedom, and the Power of Tech Labor ft. Ben TarnoffPub date: 2021-07-26Jack and Shobita talk about her recent experiences giving Congressional testimony about equity in energy innovation, question the meaning of Freedom Day in the UK, puzzle over the FDA's recent approval of a new Alzheimer's drug, and interview Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine, about tech worker organizing.- House Committee on