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Podcast: Near Future Laboratory Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: N°34 — Genevieve Bell from Cybernetics to Meta(verse)Pub date: 2022-04-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, AO FAHA FTSE is an Australian anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technological development. She taught Anthropology at Stanford before being recruited to Intel in 1998 to build out their social-science research program in their advanced R&D labs. There, Bell and colleagues helped orient Intel to a more market-inspired and experience-driven approach, establishing Intel's UX competency and, indeed, introducing the viability of UX research within high technology. Together with Paul Dourish, she wrote the book 'Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing', an exploration of the social and cultural components of ubiquitous computing. In 2017 she returned to Australia, appointed as Entrepreneurial Fellow and distinguished professor at Australian National University's College of Engineering and Computer Science where she directs the School of Cybernetics and the Autonomy, Agency & Assurance Institute. In our conversation I refer to her recent paper in the MIT Technology Review, 'The metaverse is a new word for an old idea' I mention this short documentary “You’ve Never Been Completely Honest” by Joey Izzo. (Trigger warnings apply — read the interview with Izzo before watching to figure out if you really want to watch it.) Genevieve mentions an audio recording of Gregory Bateson called "Versailles to Cybernetics" and a recording Stewart Brand made with Bateson and Margaret Meade that is in a kind of annotated transcript here: "For God's Sake Margaret!" "Cybernetic Serendipity" is the exhibition she mentions curated by Jasia Reichardt. Please consider supporting this podcast! You can do so over here at patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory. You can also buy me a "coffee" over at ko-fi.com/bleeckerj Thank you for your support!The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Julian Bleecker, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: War Machine (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Andrew McLuhan /// Techno-MaelstromPub date: 2022-04-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWherein Justin Pearl, Matt Valler, and Matt Baker speak with Andrew McLuhan, grandson of Marshall McLuhan, son of Eric McLuhan, and the founder of the McLuhan institute. We touch on media ecology, what ‘the medium is the message’ is all about, understanding media as activism, and more. McLuhan Institute: https://themcluhaninstitute.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMcLuhanInstitute Polidicks EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8jBveJd744 The Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Music for this episode: Exhausted Divinity, by Niky Nine Two Swords Technique, by Photek Nomad's Theme, by Matt BakerThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Baker, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)Pub date: 2022-04-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008.From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google.Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economicsThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marshall Poe, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Stadtbibliothek StuttgartEpisode: The Asset in the MachinePub date: 2022-04-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNFTs (Non-Fungible Token) are ghosts of property, fictitious experiences of ownership glancing back at us through our screens. Starting from this proposition, Geraldine Juárez will discuss ideas around her luddite essay The Ghostchain (or taking things for what they are) in relation to art, artworkers and institutions, packets and websites, content and platforms, assets and blockchains.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Machines Like Us (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: All Eyes on CryptoPub date: 2022-04-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Ephrat Livni, a lawyer and journalist who reports from Washington on the intersection of business and policy for DealBook at The New York Times. One of Livni’s focuses has been how cryptocurrencies have moved from the periphery of the financial world into the mainstream. The cryptocurrency movement originated with a commitment to the decentralization of money and the removal of intermediaries and government to enable person-to-person financial transactions. Early on, governments viewed cryptocurrency as a tool for illicit criminal activity and a threat to institutional power. In the last two years, cryptocurrency has moved into the mainstream, with sporting arenas named after crypto companies and flashy celebrity endorsements and Super Bowl ads. Crypto markets are extremely volatile with great interest from retail investors and venture capitalists. There’s a lot of enthusiasm about crypto, but not a lot of information.With crypto moving into the mainstream, companies that wish to create trust with their customers must be more transparent, accept regulations and act more like the institutions they initially sought to disrupt. As Livni and Owen discuss, this is not a sector that regulators can ignore: it is complicated, fast-changing, multinational, and demanding a great deal of thought about how best to proceed. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Globe and Mail, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Pressure and Freedom: Technology and Formations of Public and Private Health Care in Phnom PenhPub date: 2022-04-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this talk, Drs Jones and Legerwood talk with Dr Grant and explore how medical imaging participates in the re-configuration of public and private health care in Phnom Penh. Dr Grant consider different concepts to help parse the organization of care when Cambodia’s political economy evades captions such as “socialism” or “free market capitalism.” Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology and medical humanities; feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies; visual anthropology; and Southeast Asia Studies. Her work includes participatory filmmaking, ethnographic and historical analysis of medical imaging, and community-based inquiry of archival images.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Eric Jones, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Techdirt (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Algorithmic DestructionPub date: 2022-04-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPeople often talk about some kind of "right to deletion" as an approach to fixing online privacy issues. This construct can create problems, as we've seen with Europe's version, but newer proposals don't seem to consider these lessons. A recent paper by law professor Tiffany Li looks at another angle on the issue: how data deletion impacts algorithms and AI-trained models. This week, Tiffany joins us on the podcast to discuss this concept of "algorithmic destruction", and how policy makers are ignoring it. "Algorithmic Destruction" paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066845The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Techdirt, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: etui.podcastEpisode: The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan DrahokoupilPub date: 2022-04-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of the Internet and Platform work survey conducted in fourteen EU countries in Spring 2021.  The platform economy in Europe, Results from the second ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey (IPWS) - Agnieszka Piasna, Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ETUI, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: /252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi AccettiPub date: 2022-04-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the same time? How does this distinguish our age from a more ideological age in the past? And what can be done to make politics ideological again? Part 2, which includes the rest of the interview, and the After Party where Alex, George and Phil debate why politics are toxic today, is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64729183/ Readings: The Age of Technopopulism? George Hoare, Damage Alex's thread on consensus-through-dissensus The Berlusconi - cocktail recipe The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bungacast, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly WhitePub date: 2022-04-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and what Molly’s years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with web3’s vision of total commercialization.Molly White is a software engineer and the creator of web3 is going just great. Follow Molly on Twitter at @molly0xFFF.🎉 This month is the show’s second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at $5/month or above to bring on a producer to help make the show. Help us hit our goal by joining on Patreon. You can also follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode: Molly and a bunch of other crypto critics put together an (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto. You can read Kevin Roose’s original Latecomer’s Guide here. Molly wrote about the $625 million Axie Infinity hack and harassment on the blockchain. Interest in NFTs and their values have plummeted in recent months. Tech Won’t Save Us has a new website. Check it out at techwontsave.us. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Publicly SitedEpisode: The Mediated City 09: Platform UrbanismPub date: 2022-03-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing arranged through Airbnb or TripAdvisor; your local travels negotiated with the help of Google Maps or Citymapper; rides hailed through Uber or Lyft; evening meal delivered via Grubhub or Just Eat. When you are in your own city or locale, you probably use some of these platforms, alongside many others. What exactly constitutes a platform, in general, and in relation to urban life specifically, is somewhat up for grabs. In this episode, we explore different perspectives on platforms as new forms of urban media, whether that be as a form of communication, a type of service, a business model, an infrastructure, or even an institution. The popularity of such platforms is clear, and it is not a stretch to say residents and visitors alike find such media useful for grappling with urban complexities. But platforms have disrupted cities too, whether that be their housing markets, transportation services or local businesses. And this disruption seems to brought forth a situation in which platforms are becoming indispensable infrastructures, and maybe even emerging institutions, of urban life. Thinkers discussed: Sarah Barns (Negotiating the Platform Pivot: From Participatory Digital Ecosystems to Infrastructures of Everyday Life / Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities); Anne Helmond (The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready); Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards and Christian Sandvig (Infrastructure Studies meet Platform Studies in the Age of Google and Facebook); Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism); Shoshana Zuboff (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power); José van Dijck, Thomas Poell and Martijn de Waal (The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World); Emily West (Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly); Frank Pasquale (From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon); Jathan Sadowski (Who Owns the Future City? Phases of Technological Urbanism and Shifts in Sovereignty); Lizzie Richardson (Platforms, Markets, and Contingent Calculation: The Flexible Arrangement of the Delivered Meal); Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham (The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction); John Bull (Schrodinger’s Cab Firm: Uber’s Existential Crisis); Niels van Doorn (A New Institution on the Block: On Platform Urbanism and Airbnb Citizenship); Douglass C. North (Institutions); Benjamin Bratton (The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty). Music: ‘The Mediated City Theme’ by Scott Rodgers License: CC BY-NC (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scott Rodgers, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The ECASH Act with Rohan GreyPub date: 2022-03-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas (@billysaas) and Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the "ECASH" or "Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware" Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services' Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey's research on electronic currency, the ECASH Act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash. Recognizing the United States Treasury as an institution ideally suited to managing a digital U.S. dollar, the Act treats monetary inclusion and privacy as a political rights and public goods, while at the same time eschewing the exclusionary and ecologically destructive effects of crypto currencies that rely on blockchain technologies. The ECASH Act is co-sponsored by Rep.'s Jesús G. “Chuy” García (IL-04), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Alma Adams (NC-12) of the Committee on Financial Services, and endorsed by Americans for Financial Reform, Demand Progress, the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), and Public Money Action.Rohan Grey is Assistant Professor of Law in the College of Law at Willamette University.Full text of the E-CASH BillE-CASH websiteVisit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula: www.nahneenkula.comThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Money on the Left, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Amelia Winger-Bearskin on the Metaverse, DAOS, Gaming, NFTs and Indigenous CulturePub date: 2022-03-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) origin who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our communities and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is also the inventor of Honor Native Sky, and founded the award winning podcast Wampum.Codes an ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. She was awarded a MacArthur/Sundance Institute fellowship for her collaborative 360 video immersive installation and has been awarded other prestigious prizes for her VR/AR projects. CONTRIBUTEA note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week. The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.  I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor. Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)Best, LevThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Correction Team, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily PughPub date: 2022-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPaul B. Jaskot (Duke University) speaks with Hubertus Kohle (professor of art history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany) and Emily Pugh (an art historian and the Digital Humanities Specialist for The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles) on the relation between the digital humanities and the potential for art history. They reflect on how we work as scholars in terms of accessing and documenting archives and data, and the difference in scale between transferable computational methods as opposed to project-specific solutions. Both guests discuss how engagement with the digital might grant us distance to see our discipline anew, or reveal biases within the history of art, while also expressing some concern about a plateau in innovation, or a resistance in art history to collaborating with practitioners from adjacent fields who might open new directions within the digital. Throughout, the conversation circles around the question of how computational approaches may equip us to become more critical art historians. This fourth season of In the Foreground is a special series of five roundtable conversations dedicated to “the Grand Challenges” – a phrase frequently adopted in the sciences to refer to the great unanswered questions that represent promising frontiers – of bringing together digital and computational methods and the social history of art. This series grows out of a colloquium on this topic convened by Anne Helmreich (Associate Director of the Getty Foundation) and Paul B. Jaskot (Professor of Art History at Duke University) at the Clark’s Research and Academic Program in April 2019. Anne and Paul serve as the guest interviewers for this podcast series, for which they have invited back colloquium participants to reflect further on how digital art history might help us explore social history of art’s future, and which digital methods might be effective at analyzing large scale structural issues and modes of visual expression. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Caro Fowler, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.Pub date: 2022-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJosef Nguyen’s THE DIGITAL IS KID STUFF questions constructions of creativity, childhood, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, toggling between techno-pessimism and techno-utopianism in the process. The book narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from playing Minecraft, to DIY innovation with Make magazine, to selfies on Instagram, to the Creative Science Foundation and imagining technological innovations using design fiction. Nguyen is joined here in conversation by Carly Kocurek and Patrick LeMieux.Josef Nguyen (he/him) is assistant professor of critical media studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.Carly Kocurek (she/her) is associate professor of digital humanities and media studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology.Patrick LeMieux (he/him) is a media artist, game designer, electronic musician, and associate professor of cinema and digital media at the University of California, Davis.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Minnesota Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor this episode, I met historian and writer Dr. Lydia Pyne. She is author of Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network (Reaktion, 2021).. Postcards is a global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively.Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is a consultant, historian, and digital editor. Editor New Books Network en español. Edita CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociologyThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New Books Network, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskeyPub date: 2022-03-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This fourth season of In the Foreground is a special series of five roundtable conversations dedicated to “the Grand Challenges” – a phrase frequently adopted in the sciences to refer to the great unanswered questions that represent promising frontiers – of bringing together digital and computational methods and the social history of art. This series grows out of a colloquium on this topic convened by Anne Helmreich (Associate Director of the Getty Foundation) and Paul B. Jaskot (Professor of Art History at Duke University) at the Clark’s Research and Academic Program in April 2019. Anne and Paul serve as the guest interviewers for this podcast series, for which they have invited back colloquium participants to reflect further on how digital art history might help us explore social history of art’s future, and which digital methods might be effective at analyzing large scale structural issues and modes of visual expression. In this episode, Anne Helmreich speaks with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskey, professor of art history at the University of Pittsburgh and a specialist of twentieth-century German art, on the role of social art history in a digital world. Paul and Barbara consider the simultaneous emergence of both computational methods and social art history in the 1970s and reflect on what drew them personally to both approaches. They discuss the centrality of collaboration and the role played by institutional and disciplinary expectations for how scholarship is produced. Throughout, the conversation turns to questions of scale and sociality, and the speakers ponder the blind spots, limitations, or dangers of the digital as well as the ways in which both social art history and the digital have – and have not – fulfilled their promises.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Caro Fowler, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: #74 - The Promise of Access - w/ Daniel GreenePub date: 2022-03-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this Episode, Prof. Daniel Greene of the University of Maryland speaks about his book "The Promise of Access", which evaluates the attraction of simple technological fixes to complicated social problems like poverty in the United States.  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: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David GolumbiaPub date: 2022-03-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe co-hosts interview David Golumbia, author of The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism. They discuss cyber-libertarian ideology and how the rise of Bitcoin has made it mainstream. David argues that many supposedly non-ideological Bitcoin enthusiasts have been influenced by cyber-libertarianism. He and the co-hosts also discuss what Bitcoin is, whether it is money, whether it is decentralized, and blockchain technology. David fact-checks and theory-checks a good deal of the nonsense said about Bitcoin. The episode’s current-events segment is on the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign’s statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Russian imperialism.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MHI, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On Caste and The Digital (Feat Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)Pub date: 2022-03-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow does caste get articulated on the internet? Or where does caste creep in to our studies of media and technology? Can you dismantle Hindutva without dismantling caste? Black women organizers like Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie have emphasized police abolition in their work with survivors of sexual atrocities in the US, what are the overlaps and distinctions in how Dalit women activists are engaging with these political projects in the Indian context. This inaugural episode of season 4 for the We Be Imagining podcast interweaves commentary from Riya Singh, the founder of Dalit Women Fight, Murali Shanmugavelan, resarcher at Data and Society alongside some provocations from Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs and the concluding plenary of the Dismantling Hindutva conference. Please write us at [email protected] with feedback on this episode or to share your perspective on caste and the digital :)**Please note, there are some descriptions of sexual violence and killings within the episode due to the realities of caste violence and brahminism. Riya Singh is a doctoral researcher in Women & Gender Studies at Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. She is a part of Core Leadership Group in India’s single and largest Dalit women-led collective, Dalit Women Fight. She works on ground with the survivors of caste based atrocities of Dalit community  in six states of Northern India.Murali Shanmugavelan isa Faculty Fellow, Race and Technology at Data and Society. He researches caste in media and communication studies and digital cultures. Murali is currently working on the re-manifestation of caste and social hierarchies in digital cultures such as hate speech and platform economies. At Data & Society, Murali’s work will scrutinise communication and technology studies from (anti)caste perspectives. His work will analyse everyday casteism on the Internet and develop actionable policy recommendations and build pedagogic content about caste in communications and technology studies.Lightly Edited Transcript Available here and you can find out more about We Be Imagining on our website or @WeBeImagining on Twitter and IG. IG + Twitter: @WeBeImaginingSupport Us: On PatreonHost: J. Khadijah Abdurahman Music: Drew LewisLinks for Episode:Dalit Women FightEQUALITY LABSCaste-hate speech Report by Murali ShanmugavelanDismantling Global HindutvaDGH: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Closing StatementHow to write anti-caste solidarity textsCast(e)ing Indian Media: Unsettling Secular MythologiesPractice of Caste in USA - Series#1- Q&A with Dr. Balmurli Natrajan & Dr. Murali ShanmugavelanAdvocacy Group Fights India Caste System Discrimination in Silicon ValleyTrapped in Silicon Valley's Hidden Caste System | WIREDOpinion | California's lawsuit against Cisco shines a light on caste discrimination in the US and around the world - The Washington PostScheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The American Assembly, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)Pub date: 2022-03-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMany have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison. Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economicsThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marshall Poe, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and DemocracyPub date: 2022-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the future and potential of Artificial Intelligence and our Democracy with Aurna Mukherjee. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, Wires in Ancient Walls are like Grape Vines in Cell Towers. Aurna Mukherjee is a sophomore at Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) High School, graduating in 2024. She is part of the Women+ in Computer Science club at the school, and is interested in ethics and Artificial Intelligence.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This is Democracy, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Uncommon Wisdom PodcastEpisode: #16 | Michael Munger | Crony Capitalism & The Platform EconomyPub date: 2022-02-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Michael and I discuss the ethics of price gouging, the tendency of democratic capitalist societies toward cronyism, the platform economy, the distinction between directionalism and destinationism in politics, and much more.Michael C. Munger Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program. His primary research focus is on the functioning of markets, regulation, and government institutions. He is the author, most recently, of The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises. Get full access to Uncommon Wisdom at jimmyalfonsolicon.substack.com/subscribeThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jimmy Alfonso Licon, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Teneo Insights Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Cryptocurrencies and the Future of MoneyPub date: 2022-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCrypto and digital currencies are rapidly changing the nature of money itself and continue to be a disruptive threat to the global financial system. As businesses and governments embrace the possibilities of transformative financial technologies, how will this reshape the global economy and how will the threat of macroeconomic instability be contained? J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and author of “CrypotoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money,” joins our host Kevin Kajiwara for a compelling discussion on the rise of digital and crypto currencies, how they are impacting the financial sector, and the role of central banks and governments in managing the future of money.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Teneo, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less PolarizingPub date: 2022-02-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationChris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A leader in the emerging field of computational social science, Bail’s research examines fundamental questions of social psychology, extremism, and political polarization using social media data, bots, and the latest advances in machine learning.Bail is the recipient of Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships. His research appears in top journals, such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Sociological Review. ContributeA note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week. The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.  I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor. Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)Best, LevThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Correction Team, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)Pub date: 2022-02-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHave you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of different online experiences. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream. No tech company worth its salt (or its share price) would dare make major changes to its platform without first running experiments to understand how they would influence user behavior. In The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World (MIT Press, 2021), Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision-making in a data-driven world.Luca and Bazerman describe the central role experiments play in the tech sector, drawing lessons and best practices from the experiences of such companies as StubHub, Alibaba, and Uber. Successful experiments can save companies money—eBay, for example, discovered how to cut $50 million from its yearly advertising budget—or bring to light something previously ignored, as when Airbnb was forced to confront rampant discrimination by its hosts. Moving beyond tech, Luca and Bazerman consider experimenting for the social good—different ways that governments are using experiments to influence or “nudge” behavior ranging from voter apathy to school absenteeism. Experiments, they argue, are part of any leader's toolkit.In this show, Peter Lorentzen interviews economist Michael Luca about this new book on how organizations—including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook—learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Michael Luca, a professor of business administration at Harvard University, is an expert on the design of online platforms and the use of data to inform managerial and policy decision-making.Host Peter Lorentzen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new digital economy-focused Master's program in Applied Economics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economicsThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marshall Poe, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James KilgorePub date: 2022-02-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEmma hosts James Kilgore, Research Scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, to discuss his recent book Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration, on the technological advancements in the surveillance state at the hands of unregulated big tech, and the role the state and its neoliberal practices play in that. James begins by walking Emma through his personal experiences with the surveillance state, living as a federal fugitive from the US for 27 years while working for social justice and liberation movements in South Africa and Zimbabwe, before his eventual extradition in 2002 for federal possession of explosive charges stemming from the ‘70s, where he then spent over 6 years in prison, and lived with an ankle monitor tracking his every movement in his later house arrest. This brings us to James’ inspiration to start his research, as he began to explore the regulations on deployment and information extraction, as well as the breakdown of who it is used on, and how it cycles people back through the prison pipeline. He and Emma then take on neoliberalism’s transition to data as the new raw material for making money, allowing for incredible specificity when it comes to the state’s deployment of bio-power, and the role of deregulated big tech in developing and disseminating this surveillance throughout society, garnering just massive swaths of data on citizens worldwide with absolutely no accountability for where it goes. After touching on the mythology of technology and its development over the last two decades, painting a picture of technocratic development that works outside of human biases despite all data suggesting it is deeply ingrained within these systems of prejudice, they look to the sanitization of the US prison system, presenting e-surveillance as an alternative TO, rather than an alternative form OF, incarceration, before James emphasizes the role of US policymakers in actively funding contracts and work with and by these surveillance tech agencies. They wrap up the interview by diving into the global impact of these investments by US officials, looking at how electronic tech adds to the already insanely brutal surveillance of Palestinians, deeply expressing the nature and goal of these systems of control and dominance. Working off of this, Emma also covers the recent revelations on the horrors taking place on an Amazon-owned deportation plane service, before she runs through the positive outlook on the upcoming PA Senate race and John Fetterman’s progressive candidacy. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon as they remember the Cosby show, Amber from Northern VA dives into her state’s general assembly, and Binder finds the elusive Charlie Kirk’s original Twitter account, managed by him, of his all-white basketball team, and the incredible boost it gave to his AAU stock! They also dive into the Canadian trucker convoy, walking through Dave Rubin’s identification with “both sides” of the Holocaust, misinformation and how it led to Ilhan Omar’s recent comments, and Nick from Manitoba calls in for a bit of a Canadian perspective. Brandon from TX dives into states across the country trying to manipulate the defund movement that never occurred to boost police funding and Kowalski gives his own updates, plus, your calls and IMs! Purchase tickets for the live show in Boston on May 15th HERE: https://thewilbur.com/artist/majority-report/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt’s other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack’s upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathonsPub date: 2022-02-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss gender, memes and hackathons: What exactly is a meme? Do geeks have toxic masculinity? How does gender and femininity get marginalized in tech spaces? And how do fedoras lead down the road to incels?You can follow Siân Brooke on Twitter @SianJMBrooke, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4Other articles by Siân:Siân's Website: https://www.sianbrooke.com/Siân's Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:76f836bf-880b-4902-9226-8d668726f4cfTrouble in Programmers Paradise: gender-biases in sharing and recognising technical knowledge on Stack Overflow: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1962943“There are no girls on the Internet”: Gender performances in Advice Animal memes: https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9593Further ReadingOII's Anti-Racists Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/146XaYuhUAng6rGV9mChDkvWdYIfwpSXlle1RUxUaBUE/edit?usp=sharingHacking Diversity by Dunbar Hester: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversityProgrammed Inequality by Mar Hicks: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequalityNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alina Utrata, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Nothing is Foreign (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: El Salvador's Bitcoin ExperimentPub date: 2022-02-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCan a nation — and economy — of 6.5 million people run on bitcoin? That's the real-time experiment playing out in El Salvador, where the country's tech bro president has made the cryptocurrency legal tender. We'll take you inside El Salvador and hear from locals to see how the promise of a cryptocurrency paradise by a self-professed 'world's coolest dictator' is running up against the reality of regular people just trying to survive. Featuring investigative reporter Nelson Rauda with El Faro. Note: this episode contains explicit language.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBC, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Meet The Education Researcher (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Automated surveillance in education (Chris Gilliard)Pub date: 2022-02-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationChris Gilliard (@hypervisible) is a leading critic of surveillance technology, digital privacy, and the problematic ways that tech intersects with race and social class. We talk about the automated forms of surveillance that are coming into schools and colleges – from ‘online examination proctoring’ to the use of ‘Alexa’ in classrooms. Why do people in EdTech seem reluctant to call out the harms arising from these technologies? Can we ever trust ‘big tech’ companies like Amazon? What hope is there for grassroots resistance against oppressive technologies in education?The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Meet The Education Researcher, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: *Unlocked* – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)Pub date: 2022-02-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBecause it was so damn good, we’re unlocking part two of our discussion with Nick Chavez, focusing on the possibilities and limitations of reengineering capitalist forces of production for communist social relations. We discuss the need for epistemic luddism—or breaking the way we understand and use technologies—and why militancy at points of production is absolutely crucial. What comes first? Which one gives us the other? Radical machines or radical society? The dialectical answer is, of course, why not both! Some stuff we reference: ••• The Present and Future of Engineers | Nick Chavez | Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2021/10/field-notes/THINKING-ABOUT-COMMUNISM ••• Error | Endnotes 5 https://endnotes.org.uk/file_hosting/EN5_Error.pdf ••• How to Make a Pencil | Aaron Benanav https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Machine Kills, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 75 - A Cybernetic FuturePub date: 2022-02-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more to the picture than just computers. This episode we are looking at Project Cybersyn, an attempt to automate Chile's economy via cybernetics. To talk about this specific case we are going to dive deep into the history of cybernetics itself. Selected Sources: https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/286788 - Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology https://sci-hub.se/10.1057/jors.1984.2 - The Viable System Model, by Beer https://web.archive.org/web/20181222110043/http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/Platform/platform.pdf - Beer on Cybersyn https://web.archive.org/web/20200619033457/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf - Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation, by Eden MedinaThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Haas, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Global Digital CulturesEpisode: Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus UitermarkPub date: 2022-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, we had drinks with Justus Uitermark at Cafe Droog, where we discussed the theories, methods, and work processes driving his and John Boy’s upcoming book: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. Justus Uitermark is professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. He studies cities from a comparative and historical perspective, looking at how power relations are expressed in the built environment: which groups and interests prevail and which are pushed into the background?The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global Digital Cultures, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: S1 E5 The social life of programmersPub date: 2022-01-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationComputer applications dominate contemporary social life, but who are the programmers who build these applications and what cultural values do they share? Combining the knowledge of programming with training in anthropology is one way of trying to understand the social life of programmers. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Gui Heurich. Gui studied anthropology in Brazil. In 2016 he joined UCL Social Anthropology with a British Academy Newton International Fellowship. In 2019 he retrained as a professional software engineer. But in 2020 Gui returned to UCL with a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science-domain-podcasts Date of episode recording: 2021-11-17 Duration: 00:21:05 Language of episode: English Presenter: Lili Golmohammadi Guests: Gui Heurich Producer: Cerys BradleyThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from UCL, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Who is Amazon?Pub date: 2022-01-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial empire? Is Amazon Alexa really recording everything you say? How was AWS cloud computing invented? And why is the Library of Alexandria such a good origin story for the Amazon Alexa?You can follow Rowena Squires on Twitter @RowenaSquires, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4Articles mentioned in this episode:Business reporter Brad Stone's 2013 book “The Everything Store” and the 2020 follow-up “Amazon Unbound”Alec MacGillis’s book “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” The US House Judiciary Report on Monopolies Franklin Foer’s deep-dive into Jeff Bezos’s brain in the AtlanticCharles Duhigg’s “Is Amazon Unstoppable?” For the rest of the articles mentioned in this episode, visit bit.ly/3kuGM5XNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alina Utrata, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: DeepMacro: Future of FinanceEpisode: Crypto, The Uberization of Money, and Why Central Banks Want Digital CurrenciesPub date: 2022-02-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJeff Young spoke with Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He recently published the book The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, where he looks at Bitcoin and the transformative potential of the blockchain, the pros and cons of central bank digital currencies, and the international nature of and adoption of cryptocurrencies.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from DeepMacro, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)Pub date: 2022-01-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday I talked to Helga Nowotny about her new book In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (Polity, 2021).One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us.At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care.As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociologyThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New Books Network, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James MuldoonPub date: 2022-01-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by James Muldoon to discuss his vision for platform socialism and the different ways we could reorganize platforms to serve the public good over corporate profit.James Muldoon is the author of Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech. He’s also a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and the Head of Digital Research at Autonomy. Follow James on Twitter at @james_muldoon_.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode: James wrote about why web3 won’t save the internet. Paris wrote about what’s wrong with discourses about decentralization and why we should nationalize Amazon. Francesca Bria was interviewed by Crypto Syllabus about web3, decentralization, and her experience with municipal tech projects. Facebook’s Project Amplify ensured users saw positive stories about the company. Antonio Negri and Dalla Costa were among the Italian Autonomist Marxists thinking about the social factory. Karl Marx wrote about the concept of surplus value. G.D.H. Cole wrote about guild socialism. James also mentions the work of Otto Neurath. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.