Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography: In Conversation with Marta-Marika UrbanikPub date: 2021-06-28As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr. Marta-Marika Urbanik, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, who has written extensively about integrating social

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography: In Conversation with Marta-Marika UrbanikPub date: 2021-06-28As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr. Marta-Marika Urbanik, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, who has written extensively about integrating social

Podcast: SOAS Radio (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Global Digital Futures: Extreme Speech & Content Moderation OnlinePub date: 2021-06-24This week we are joined by Dr. Matti Pohjonen to speak about Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online. For the past 10 years, Matti has developed critical-comparative research approaches for understanding digital cultures globally. This has included work on international news and blogging in India, mobile technology in East Africa, and exploring

Podcast: SOAS Radio (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Global Digital Futures: Extreme Speech & Content Moderation OnlinePub date: 2021-06-24This week we are joined by Dr. Matti Pohjonen to speak about Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online. For the past 10 years, Matti has developed critical-comparative research approaches for understanding digital cultures globally. This has included work on international news and blogging in India, mobile technology in East Africa, and exploring

Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Doorstep: Cryptocurrencies & Global Decentralization, with NYU Stern's David YermackPub date: 2021-06-18Cryptocurrencies are dominating headlines with El Salvador recently announcing Bitcoin as the country's legal tender and Biden and Putin discussing ransomware and crypto at their Geneva meeting this week. NYU Stern’s Professor David Yermack joins Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to

Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Doorstep: Cryptocurrencies & Global Decentralization, with NYU Stern's David YermackPub date: 2021-06-18Cryptocurrencies are dominating headlines with El Salvador recently announcing Bitcoin as the country's legal tender and Biden and Putin discussing ransomware and crypto at their Geneva meeting this week. NYU Stern’s Professor David Yermack joins Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to

Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende's Chile with Raúl EspejoPub date: 2021-06-14Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of  the Cybersyn project in Allende's Chile, the founder of Syncho Research  and the president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics  for a conversation. We discuss Raul's experiences, his current projects,  and what he thinks socialists should learn about Cybernetics in today's  world,

Podcast: Keen On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: George Zarkadakis on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Post-Pandemic WorldPub date: 2021-06-14In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by George Zarkadakis, the author of "Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines", to discuss his plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable.George Zarkadakis is a writer of fiction and

Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende's Chile with Raúl EspejoPub date: 2021-06-14Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of  the Cybersyn project in Allende's Chile, the founder of Syncho Research  and the president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics  for a conversation. We discuss Raul's experiences, his current projects,  and what he thinks socialists should learn about Cybernetics in today's  world,

Podcast: Keen On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: George Zarkadakis on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Post-Pandemic WorldPub date: 2021-06-14In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by George Zarkadakis, the author of "Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines", to discuss his plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable.George Zarkadakis is a writer of fiction and

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 1347: The CIA and surveillance tech / Mara HvistendahlPub date: 2021-06-07Journalist Mara Hvistendahl on her article "Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China." for The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/oracle-social-media-surveillance-protests-endeca/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Is Hell!, which is the property of its owner and

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Defining the World of Crypto and the Digital Commons with Rohan GreyPub date: 2021-06-05If you’re a crypto-phobe, or simply bored by fintech and all those “coins,” don’t let it stop you from listening to this episode. Rohan Grey places these topics within the context of our history, political economy, the law, MMT, policy, and today’s progressive movement. The fact that technology changes the world is nothing new. It affects

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, "Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access" (MIT Press, 2020)Pub date: 2021-05-31Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, editors of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (published open access by MIT in 2020). We talk

Podcast: Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economy (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?Pub date: 2021-05-25Robots v Covid-19: the future of work? Rate, review and download our podcast “Telecommuting”, “quaranteams”, “doomscrolling”, “upperwear” and curating one’s Zoom background have all become a part of our new remote working reality. If we were unnerved by the way digital technology was transforming our world

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Feminist AI 101 with Eleanor Drage and Kerry MackerethPub date: 2021-06-02What is Feminist AI and how and why should we design and implement it? To answer this question and more in this episode we interview Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth about the ins and outs of Feminist AI. Eleanor and Kerry are both postdoctoral researchers who are working on the “Gender and Technology” research project at the “University of

Podcast: What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial PipelinePub date: 2021-05-21Last week, a hacker group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. Gas prices skyrocketed, people started hoarding gas, and DarkSide walked away with over $4 million in Bitcoin. How did they do it? And what makes this hack different from those we’ve seen

Podcast: Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: What’s behind the semiconductor shortage and how long could it last?Pub date: 2021-05-24A global shortage of semiconductors has created serious anxiety in some industries and even caused automakers to halt production in several factories across North America. What led to this shortage, and is there anything manufacturers or the Biden administration can do to meet demand? David Dollar is joined by

Podcast: Data & Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Becoming Data Episode 2: Data & LaborPub date: 2021-05-24Scholar Shaka McGlotten and activist Chris Ramsaroop join our host, Natalie Kerby, to discuss data in the context of labor. The episode addresses the historical ways that data has been used to organize labor, the labor of making ourselves visible to data-centric systems, and the different ways that people, and more specifically workers, are resisting datafication.Shaka

Podcast: New Books in TechnologyEpisode: Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)Pub date: 2021-05-19The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of the smart city and shows the revolution in urban technology that is currently taking place in large metropolitan areas around the United States. Technology has

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fund Drive Special: Technology as a Ruling Class WeaponPub date: 2021-05-18How should we on the left regard technology? Is it something neutral that we can shape for our own purposes? Is it a weapon of social control? Automation and the perilousness of life under capitalism have brought those debates back, but they’re not new. Marxist scholar Gavin Mueller discusses technology, capitalism, and the left. The post Fund