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01: The Future of Social Media
Season 2 · Episode 1

01: The Future of Social Media

A conversation between Kurt Andersen and Sinan Aral

The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging

August 24, 202149m 46s

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Show Notes

Host of this season’s The World as You’ll Know It, Kurt Andersen, speaks with Sinan Aral, professor at MIT and author of “The Hype Machine,” about the promise and peril of social media, and the ways it tricks our brains into wanting more. 


SINAN ARAL is the David Austin Professor of Management, Marketing, IT, and Data Science at MIT; director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; and head of MIT’s Social Analytics Lab. He is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the author of “The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and How We Must Adapt.”


A transcript of this episode is available at Aventine.org

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