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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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All sorts of systems are getting hacked - in finance, law, and politics, as well as software - usually for the benefit of already-powerful people. ...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media m...
- Added: Jun 07, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 08:21
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
This week we talk about chemical weapons, North Korea, and misspeaking on camera.
We also discuss Yugoslavia, the MOAB, and Aleppo.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 48:15
On this week’s episode we talk about chatbots, social media cheats, and robot lawyers.
We also discuss logic trees, digital familiars, and the Mat...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 45:45
On this week’s episode we talk about fossil fuels, the EPA, and the yoga industry.
We also discuss the Carboniferous period, clean coal, and corpo...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 41:13
This week we talk about terrorism, acronyms, and Doge.
We also discuss memetics, mass surveillance, and the Irish Republican Army.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 42:21
Many people don't know they are breaking federal law when they fly their drone. From casual hobbyists to professional videographers, FAA laws are b...
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 06:26
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 06:29
This week we talk about authenticity, Rookie magazine, and PRIZM.
We also discuss product placement, Jersey Shore, and the two-step flow of commun...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 41:43
This week we talk about blackballing, #DeleteUber, and the spirit of the law.
We also touch on taxes, Freemasons, and ride-share unions.
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 41:52
This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 32:10
The Federal Communications Commission’s Eighth Broadband Progress Report finds approximately 19 million Americans, mostly rural, lack access to hig...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 12:00
This past August, Appalshop’s youth media project, the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), hosted a month-long digital citizenship lab that explored...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 13:51
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 01:14
