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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 7: Meredith Broussard, Author of "More than a Glitch"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 4: Douglas Rushkoff, Author of "Survival of the Richest"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 3: Kelly Weill, Author of "Off the Edge"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 1: Carolyn Chen, Author of "Work Pray Code"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 5: Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and Jon Fasman, Author of "We See It All"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

"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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 6: Cory Doctorow, Author of "Chokepoint Capitalism"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 2: Alec MacGillis, Author of "Fulfillment"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 8: Nita Farahany, Author of "The Battle for Your Brain"

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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Techtonic Season 1 Episode 9: Internet Addiction and the ITAA: Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous

From: WFMU
Series: Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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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In the Country of Facebook. Hey, Wait a Minute. Facebook Is Not a Country!

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "There should be a way so that everybody could know everybody.", Credit: Susan Cook

On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...

The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Shouldn't Facebook Be Accountable for their Exploitation of Anonymity - the Faceless- by FacebookTrolling?

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Enough is Enough. , Credit: Susan Cook

Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...

Teaching A Computer to Find You- A Citizen's Guide

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The Early primitive hacker, a Scottish lady in Accounts, deleted your data for late payment. , Credit: Susan Cook

Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...

The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Is Apple's Refusal to Open the I-phone An Egocentric Worldview

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

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 ...

Apple and The 15 Year old's Myopic World View

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The worldview of fifteen year olds is often very very small. , Credit: Susan Cook

So we now know that Apple has made the extraordinary contribution called ‘Enter the wrong password 10 times and all the data on your way-too-expens...

Episode 4 ~ Online Gaming Communities

From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design

Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.

Computer Talk Radio (May 14, 2011 - May 20, 2011)

From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)

Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting May 14, 2011. This weeks program covers a variety of items from the weeks news in techno...