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How We Live Online

How We Live Online is a pop culture podcast for those of us who are internet-addled and addicted, either by choice or by circumstance. Hosts Christina McBride and Corey Bridges investigate the ways social media and the internet create a smaller world that manages to pull us farther and farther apart.

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Surveillance capitalism drives the online marketplace and we are the raw materials.

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Atlanta's City Council voted to build a "public safety training facility" for American police to train in a fake city built on Atlanta's precious green space. The project will raise the average temperature for nearby neighborhoods and bring throngs of police to the city. Atlanta constituents are fighting hard to move the project to a referendum vote, but the construction already broke ground and is set to be done by December 2024.

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Joanna explains why there's NO PARKING even though there's EIGHT SPOTS PER CAR in the U.S.

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Joanna, Christina, and guest Alexis talk about YA dystopias (The Hunger Games, Uglies, and City of Ember) and their obsession with assigning, sorting, and ranking.

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At least 500 families were displaced to create the Shenandoah National Park.

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Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/10/17/the-dark-side-of-skyline-drive/d72e6151-6b96-483c-ab68-dea952288b6a/

https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/displaced.htm

Consuming Places by John Urry

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NASA's Artemis II mission set for November 2024 will turn the moon into a glorified gas station.

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We've been launching human paraphernalia into space since the 1960s. Aliens: COME TO BRAZIL!

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The Titan submersible implosion carries on the legacy of ultra rich white men taking dangerous voyages for attention.

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Sources:

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/21/23768771/titanic-submarine-missing-oceangate-titan-submersible-search-passengers-dead

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184581187/migrant-deaths-mediterranean-crossing

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142418932/tunisians-risking-their-lives-trying-to-cross-the-mediterranean-to-europe

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/manifest-destiny


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The right to be forgotten allows users to request information to be delisted from Google or erased from the internet. Joanna and Christina wonder: is that really a bad thing?


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Christina and Joanna discuss crowdsourced tastemaking, the educated upper middle class, and share the podcast origin story with a room full of strangers.


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WHY are we obsessed with true crime? We talk to New Yorker contributor Rachel Monroe about crime junkies, scammers, and amateur sleuths.


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Christina tells the story of Elizabeth Bigley, the early 20th century Anna Delvey. Christina and Joanna discuss Manti Te'o's catfish and the heavy press that followed.

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Going down the internet rabbit hole: Avril is dead and raw vegans are literally the scariest people online!


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Joanna walks Christina through aging online: from AIM to cosmetic surgery.

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Generally: food. Viral recipes, MyFitnessPal, and mukbang.

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We chat with Mikala Jamison about all things Fitstagram, personal responsibility in content creation, and the constant quest for nuanced discussions in the health space online.


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Christina is brave and vulnerable. Bella Hadid is still beautiful even when we ask math.

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Life is a movie fr.

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Joanna walks Christina through kitchen trends from the early aughts to Emma Chamberlain's AD profile. They talk fast furniture, contact paper, and celebrate their first ever sponsor!


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In this episode, Christina dives deep into the cult of routine content. What are the historical purposes of rituals? And how has modern ritual been coopted by TikTok and online creators to get their Benjamins?


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Some of us (Joanna) are for the movement. Some of us (Christina) are against it. Are you an Apple Watch person? A step counter? A bullet journaler? A Virgo? This one’s for you.

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Season 2 Finale: Are We Heading to a Second Civil War?

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In this episode we review martinis and Christina's creepy mind is exposed.

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Joanna walks us through the epic saga of Google engineers Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, and Blake Lemoine’s unceremonious ousting from the colossal search engine company. We also discuss the biases of large language models and the silent exploited workers behind them.

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Christina and Joanna talk narratives before recipes on the internet, the latest in a class action lawsuit against Thinx, and Google's Local Year in Search.

Read more about wordy internet recipes on Mashable and Chatelaine

Try out Google's Local Year in Search

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Starving artists BEWARE of the web 3.0 propaganda!

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Sources soon!

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Christina's little sister, Maddie, rants about TikTok parents.  The two discuss their Ulta hauls and social media limitations.

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Joanna explains the blockchain to Christina for the millionth time. A special guest helps talk through women’s role in STEAM and the precarity of crypto currency.

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Sources

bell hooks Feminist theory: From margin to center (1984)

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Is SBF the new Madoff? We asked the former head Madoff prosecutor. | CNN Business

Lie (1995) technology and masculinity: the case of the computer European Journal of Women’s Studies

Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones - ScienceDirect

Trevor McFedries - Building Web 3.0 - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 29] - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Podcast on Spotify

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Ho, ho, ho! Christina and Joanna record IN PERSON for your viewing pleasure!

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Joanna and Christina have seen Gattaca too many times. They talk about genetic modification in both humans and beagles. Enjoy!

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More accessories please.

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Christina and Joanna discuss the current state of American ideological polarization. 

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Joanna and Christina review (and spoil) Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke's movie Do Revenge. Thank you for listening!!!


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Christina and Joanna discuss Joanna's blacklisted iPhone, the Ticketmaster monopoly, and more. They recorded this as Twitter was burning to the ground and did not have time to comment on Elon Musk's failings outside of his new shot glasses.

Thankyouforlisteningpleasesendthistoatrustedfriendorfoe.


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NPR - Ticketmaster 


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207: Part 1: Modern Time


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Christina and Joanna are enneagram-approved compatible. Christina makes fun of her less privileged friends and could be canceled if you decided to do that :/ We’re crowdfunding on Venmo @ChristinaMcBride for Instagram astrology readings. Remember to journal and talk to the elderly. 

Kissesssss, HWLO


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There’s so much CONTENT out there. What’s significant? What’s worth saving? Joanna and Christina talk about archiving the internet and take a trip back to a very important time in pop culture history.

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Joanna and Christina talk about Ozempic, Disneyland’s high crime rate, Olivia Wilde’s salad, and more.

Thank you for listening! We love you!


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Christina describes the sex doll industry to Joanna who is shocked and intimidated.


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Sources

A (Straight, Male) History of Sex Dolls - The Atlantic

A (very) Brief History Of Sex Dolls... Where did they come from?

Silicone Lovers United Kingdom Trademark Information

Matt McMullen - Sex Robot Companion & Future Of AI Speaker


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In the internet cafe, Joanna and Christina talk about Don’t Worry Darling, a recent lawsuit against Amazon, and Chris Pine’s flip phone (the only man who can pull it off).

Send us to a friend! Thanks for listening!


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Chris Pine interview

Amazon suicide kits thread

Amazon suicide kits NPR 


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Christina and Joanna talk about the myth that streaming gives us more choices. They also hope and pray for a free country club membership.

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Christina and Corey talk about the ways they use social media to actually connect. Corey still plays Pokemon Go. Christina says influencing is not an art.

This is the last episode of the first season of How We Live Online. Thank you SO MUCH for listening and stay tuned for season two!! Out Monday October 3rd :)


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Sources

“Gen Z Wants to Ditch Corporate Jobs for Influencing, Social Media Dreams” Jo Constantz for Bloomsburg

“The Case for Reading Fiction” Christine Seifert for Harvard Business Review

“The Age of Instagram Face” Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker

Justin Bieber messing up “Beauty And A Beat”


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Hellooo HWLO listeners! In this epsiode, Christina breaks down the ways in which Instagram is a mall and TikTok is a search engine. She steadfastly believes that Curt Skelton is real, and discusses the phenomena of Lil Miquela, the virtual influencer created by Brud.

Thanks for listening! Share this episode with a friend :)


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Sources

Instagram Shopping

Wired “Instagram's New Shopping Feature Makes It a Digital Mall” Arielle Pardes

News Consumption in the UK

Quotes from Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan

Mashable “For Gen Z, TikTok is more than entertainment. It’s a search engine.” Elena Cavender

Interview with Sara Decou

Interview with Trevor McFedries

NBC News “Computer-Generated Influencers On Social Media Give A Peek Into The Future of Marketing”


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Acacia Brinley expert lurker and friend of the pod, Jillian, joins us to discuss the phenomenon of “Opinion Twitter.”

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What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate

Female Video Game Makers Say Death Threats Forced Them Out Of PAX East


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Christina's Formspring past.... Tune in next week for our episode about internet trolls, hate-watching, and Opinion Twitter.

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Joanna joins the pod again and competes with Christina to make the best album art and movie poster using the DALL-E Mini AI. Christina tells a story about spotting an influencer in the wild.

Let us know what you think about the visual pod!


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DALL-E Mini


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Christina, Corey, and special guest Joanna discuss Corey’s unexpected TikTok results, app interfaces, and how the algorithm is basically a dog.

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Sources

90% of Wikipedia's Editors Are Male—Here's What They're Doing About It - The Atlantic

The Vergecast (Why recommendation algorithms don’t work)

Real-World Algorithms: A Beginner’s Guide by Palos Louridas

How Recommendation Algorithms Run the World

Digital Services Act

@JerusalemDemsas on Twitter


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Christina and Corey listen to three episodes of Emma Chamberlain’s podcast and disagree with almost everything she says :O sksksks

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XOXO, HWLO.


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We listened to these three episodes of Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain:

“there is a culture shift coming (part one: social media)”

“there is a culture shift coming (part two: mainstream celebrities)”

“there is a culture shift coming (part three: trends)”


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In this episode, Christina breaks down the ways influencers make money, the beginning of advertising, and how influencers have changed the marketplace. She might even feel bad for Victoria Paris. Corey isn't like other girls.

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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

The Break on YouTube

The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

Victoria Paris on TikTok


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In episode three, Christina and Corey talk about The Fenty Effect, Michael Jordan, and the impossible maintenance of keeping up a consistent persona. And a little metaverse rant for good measure. 

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XOXO, HWLO.


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Christina's brains are rotten from vlogs and Corey antagonizes BTS stan twitter. The hosts discuss the question: Who watches influencers? And why do people watch them?

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In this first episode, Christina and Corey talk about what makes an influencer. What is “influence” by the internet’s definition? Is it about the spread of ideas or information? Or is it all about the money?

Thanks so much for listening! TTYL!


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