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Podcast: Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended Consequences
Pub date: 2024-11-07
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This conversation features an interview with Hilke Schellman, author of "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, Fired, and Why We Need to Fight Back Now." The host, Nola Simon, shares her personal experiences and concerns about AI in hiring processes, which led her to Schellmann's work.
Key points discussed include:
- The increasing use of AI in hiring processes, especially for high-turnover positions.
- Potential biases and inaccuracies in AI hiring tools, such as:
- Favoring certain names or keywords unrelated to job performance
- Misinterpreting data and making incorrect inferences
- Potentially replicating existing workforce inequities
- Lack of transparency and oversight in AI hiring systems, with many companies unaware of how their tools actually make decisions.
- The need for thorough testing and scrutiny of AI hiring tools to ensure fairness and effectiveness.
- Concerns about how AI might disadvantage certain groups, including immigrants, non-native English speakers, and those with speech differences.
- The tension between efficiency in hiring processes and finding the most qualified candidates.
- The importance of accountability and responsible use of AI in hiring practices.
Key Questions Raised:
- How accurate and fair are AI hiring tools really? - What data are these systems using to make decisions? - How can job seekers know if AI is being used to evaluate them? - Are companies doing enough due diligence on the AI tools they use? - How can we ensure AI doesn't perpetuate existing biases in hiring?
Action Steps for Employers:
- Thoroughly test any AI hiring tools before implementation 2. Regularly audit AI systems for biases and inaccuracies 3. Maintain human oversight and don't rely solely on AI rankings 4. Prioritize finding qualified candidates over speed of hiring 5. Be transparent with candidates about use of AI in hiring process
Action Steps for Job Seekers:
- Be aware that AI may be used to evaluate your application 2. Focus on clearly communicating relevant skills and experience 3. Consider how AI might interpret information on your resume 4. Prepare for potential AI-powered video interviews 5. Advocate for transparency in hiring processes
Key Takeaways:
- AI hiring tools often have hidden biases and flaws - More scrutiny and testing of these systems is urgently needed - Job seekers have little visibility into how they're being evaluated - Companies need to balance efficiency with fairness and accuracy - Human oversight remains crucial in hiring processes
Hilke Schellmann, is an Emmy award winning investigative reporter and assistant professor of journalism at New York University.
As a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, Schellmann writes about holding artificial intelligence (AI) accountable. In her book, The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back (Hachette), she investigates the rise of AI in the world of work. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents and real‑world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high‑stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good.
Her four part investigative podcast and print series on AI and hiring for MIT Technology Review was a finalist for a Webby Award.
Her documentary Outlawed in Pakistan, which played at Sundance and aired on PBS FRONTLINE, was recognized with an Emmy, an Overseas Press Club, and a Cinema for Peace Award amongst others. In her investigation into student loans for VICE on HBO, she uncovered how a spigot of easy money from the federal government is driving up the cost of higher education in the U.S. and is even threatening the country’s international competitiveness. The documentary was named a 2017 finalist for the Peabody Awards.
A former Director of Video Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Schellman also spearheaded video coverage as a Multimedia Reporter for the New York section of The Wall Street Journal. Her work has appeared in several publications including The New York Times, VICE, HBO, PBS, TIME, ARD, ZDF, WNYC, National Geographic, The Guardian, Glamour, and The Atlantic.
Schellmann’s work has been generously supported by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, MIT Knight Science Fellowship, The Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Network and the NYU Journalism Venture Capital Fund
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Podcast: The Road to Accountable AI (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Angela Zhang: What’s Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in China
Pub date: 2024-10-31
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This week, Professor Werbach is joined by USC Law School professor Angela Zhang, an expert on China's approach to the technology sector. China is both one of the world's largest markets and home to some of the world's leading tech firms, as well as an active ecosystem of AI developers. Yet its relationship to the United States has become increasingly tense. Many in the West see a battle between the US and China to dominate AI, with significant geopolitical implications. In the episodoe, Zhang discusses China’s rapidly evolving tech and AI landscape, and the impact of government policies on its development. She dives into what the Chinese government does and doesn’t do in terms of AI regulation, and compares Chinese practices to those in the West. Kevin and Angela consider the implications of US export controls on AI-related technologies, along with the potential for cooperation between the US and China in AI governance. Finally, they look toward the future of Chinese AI including its progress and potential challenges.
Angela Huyue Zhang is a Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law of the University of Southern California. She is the author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of the Year by ProMarket in 2021. Her second book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, released in March 2024, has been covered in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Wire China, MIT Tech Review and many other international news outlets.
Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
The Promise and Perils of China's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Angela Zhang’s Website
Want to learn more? Engage live with Professor Werbach and other Wharton faculty experts in Wharton's new Strategies for Accountable AI online executive education program. It's perfect for managers, entrepreneurs, and advisors looking to harness AI’s power while addressing its risks.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry
Pub date: 2024-10-24
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Paris Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the power it grants them resembles a much older form of exploitation: colonialism.
Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego and Nick Couldry is a professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics. They are the co-authors of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back and among the co-founders of the network Tierra Común.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Read an excerpt of Ulises and Nick’s book.
- Ulises has helped advance the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement.
- The World Economic Forum and Accenture published a report on governance of AI.
- Geoffrey Hinton was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Paris wrote about why we shouldn’t trust his assessment of AI.
- Google told the UK Labour government it will be left behind in the AI race if it doesn’t do what the company demands.
- Data centers use 21% of electricity in Ireland, and number that could jump to 31% within the next three years.
- Home building in West London could be restricted until 2035 because data centers have used up the available energy.
- Kenya is being drafted into the US’s anti-China tech alliance, which includes building data centers while ignoring the poor working conditions of data labelers and content moderators.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism
Pub date: 2024-10-16
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Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education
Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.
Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism
Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review.
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Podcast: Tactics&Practice [podcast]
Episode: The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]
Pub date: 2024-08-28
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Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? Can you use games to make players reflect on ethics, politics and the economy? Since 2003, MOLLEINDUSTRIA has been devising “artisanal remedies to the idiocy of mainstream entertainment in the form of short experimental games”. What started as a project to create mordant parodies soon became one of the most iconic pioneering works of critical video games
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Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora
Pub date: 2024-10-03
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The news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines talk about how algorithms control and oppress people. There are fears that AI could harm democracy, damage our social connections, or even cause human extinction. While these fears come from real concerns, it’s also important to recognize the good that technology offers. For young people, tech can provide a unique space for self-growth. In her book “From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech”, award-winning author professor Payal Arora shares a different perspective, especially outside the Western world, where most young people live. In these places, there’s a wave of optimism about technology, especially among marginalized groups. These users see hope in the possibilities that new tech brings. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with professor Payal Arora. Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, consultant, TEDx speaker, and the award-winning author. She is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and is the cofounder of FemLab, a feminist initiative focused on the future of work.We begin by exploring how emerging technologies are transforming education in the Global South in positive ways. These changes are not just reshaping traditional systems but also offering new opportunities that bring hope to more people and foster greater inclusivity. Next, we emphasize the importance of context when evaluating and discussing these new technologies. A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work; instead, the impact of technology can vary greatly depending on cultural, social, and economic circumstances. Take the example of privacy—what privacy means and how it is valued can shift dramatically when considered in different contexts. In some communities, privacy concerns might revolve around data security, while in others, it may be more about social visibility or personal safety. This makes it essential to examine technologies through a local lens.We also delve into the concept of the Global South, both as a geographical term and as a mindset. While the Global South refers to countries typically in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and parts of the Middle East, it is also much more than just a place on the map. It represents a way of thinking and living, shaped by shared histories of colonialism, economic challenges, and rapid adaptation to global forces. It is a concept rich with multiple contexts, where resilience and innovation are key themes.Finally, we explore the sense of hope and optimism that emerging technologies bring to the Global South. In these regions, technology is often seen not as a threat but as a tool for empowerment. People are embracing digital advancements with excitement, seeing them as opportunities to overcome obstacles and build a better future. This contagious optimism is fueled by the ability to leapfrog over outdated systems, creating new paths for social progress, economic growth, and personal empowerment.Complement this discussion with ““Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub” with Robert Buderi” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2023/05/kendall-square-and-the-making-of-a-global-innovation-hub-with-robert-buderi/And then listen to ““The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2023/09/the-good-enough-life-with-dr-avram-alpert/
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic)
Pub date: 2024-09-15
We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support--Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic. Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her new co-written article with Sam Sellar and Kean Birch is “Turning universities into data-driven organizations: seven dimensions of change”, which was published in Higher Education.freshedpodcast.com/368-komljenovic/--Get in touch!Twitter: @FreshEdpodcastFacebook: FreshEdEmail: info@freshedpodcast.comSupport FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson)
Pub date: 2024-09-08
We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support--Today we explore the digital transformation of and in education. My guest is Ben Williamson who argues that we are witnessing a new digital infrastructure being built beneath our feet. The last time Ben joined FreshEd was in February 2020, just one month before the UK went into its first Covid-19 lockdown. When it comes to education and technology, a lot has changed in the past 4.5 years. Ben talks through some of those changes. Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh.freshedpodcast.com/367-williamson/--Get in touch!Twitter: @FreshEdpodcastFacebook: FreshEdEmail: info@freshedpodcast.comSupport FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/
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Podcast: Diasporas Speaking
Episode: Episode Three: Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural Objects
Pub date: 2024-09-15
In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meaning-making can reproduce and reshape memory, revealing a complex relationship between knowledge production in the diaspora and the culture of origin. This process is dynamic, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of identity and belonging.In this episode, we will speak to the Founder of Balkanism, Arbër Qerka-Gashi, about digital archives and explore the nature of memory perseverance in the digital age.Arbër is a London-based Writer, Curator, Researcher, Visual Artist and Events Producer.He holds a BA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London.Arbër writes on LGBT+ themes, Balkan heritage, diaspora experiences, Albanian identity, and Kosovo's cultural expression.He also founded the digital platform Balkanism and co-founded the Balkan London Collective.Intro music: North-Albanian Instrumental.Breaker music: Adelina Ismaili, 'Mos Ma Ndal'.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen
Pub date: 2024-09-05
Paris Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate consolidation.
Taylor Welling is a producer and union member at OneBGS and Kathryn Friesen is quest designer and member of the World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- OneBGS and the World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild each won their union votes in July 2024.
- More video game workers have already been laid off in 2024 than did in all of 2023.
- Microsoft and the Communication Workers of America signed a labor neutrality agreement in 2022, to take effect 60 days after its acquisition of Activision Blizzard closed. In May, that agreement was extended to ZeniMax Studios.
- Microsoft laid off 1,900 gaming workers in January and closed four internal studios in May.
- Blizzard provides swords, shields, and helmets to employees celebrating 5, 10, and 20 years at the company.
- The ZeniMax Workers Union struck an agreement with their employer on the use of AI.
- Nicole Carpenter at Polygon put together a list of video game unions and an explainer on the rise of video game unions.
- Communication Workers of America has more information on unionizing as part of their CODE-CWA campaign.
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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The End of Google As We Know It?
Pub date: 2024-08-15
This week we're taking a quick summer break, but in the meantime, we wanted to re-share a special episode that is relevant in the news again. With the recent federal court ruling that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of internet searches, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share our episode with lawyer Dina Srinivasan. She's an expert in the field of competition policy and a fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University. Google is no stranger to lawsuits and has previously defeated many of them, but now, antitrust experts are optimistic that this case against Google's advertising business is even stronger for the government than the Search case that Google lost just last week.
To simplify the apparent complexity of the case and understand why and how it matters to consumers, the advertising market, the tech industry, and the economy, Luigi conducted a special bonus interview with Srinivasan. Following the interview, Bethany joins Luigi to discuss the implications of this case for consumer harm, the business model of journalism, democracy, and beyond.
Read more on ProMarket: https://www.promarket.org/tag/google-ad-tech-case/
Watch: 2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference | Antitrust Case Studies: Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6-LaVh55U
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner
Pub date: 2024-08-29
Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it.
Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner are former Google software engineers and organizers with No Tech for Apartheid.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Find out more about No Tech for Apartheid from their website. Microsoft workers have also launched No Azure for Apartheid.
- Yuval Abraham reported on the Israeli military’s use of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft’s cloud services and AI in Gaza.
- Mohammad wrote about being fired by Google in The New Arab.
- Gabi refers to JWCC, with is a reference to the Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle.
- Google fired 50 workers earlier this year for organizing over its ties to Israel.
- The Information reported on how many Arab Americans in tech are scared to speak out in support of Palestinians for fear of retaliation.
- In 1970, Polaroid workers under the banner of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement began the first anti-apartheid boycott of a US company by organizing against their employer’s complicity in South African apartheid.
- The IBM Black Workers Alliance was central to the anti-apartheid campaign at that company.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-Liu
Pub date: 2024-08-01
Cole Stangler talks about the monumentally inconclusive French elections. David Palumbo-Liu explores the Silicon Valley world that launched J. D. Vance as a politician. Plus: a brief bit from the late Jane McAlevey on power.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AI
Pub date: 2024-07-24
Alissa Starzak, head of public policy at Cloudflare, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss the promises and perils of AI in the cybersecurity context. Frazier, who interned with Cloudflare while in law school, and Starzak cover the novel threats posed by AI to the integrity of the Internet. The two also discuss privacy laws, AI governance, and recent Supreme Court decisions.
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Podcast: The Michael Steele Podcast (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve)
Pub date: 2024-07-18
Michael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." The pair discuss how internet subcultures have contributed to the rise of white nationalism and the role social media plays in shaping people's thoughts and ideologies. Plus, what it's like confronting white supremecists face-to-face and how young people get sucked into extremist movements.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?
Pub date: 2024-07-18
Global media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content. In this program we get an update on Meta's ban on Canadian news content, specifically how it's impacted production of serious news and what's been the public reaction. We also get a reality check on just how interested the giant US steaming services are in Australian content.
Guests
Aengus Bridgman – Director, Media Ecosystem Observatory (Canada)
Matthew Deaner – CEO, Screen Producers Association
Professor Anna Potter – Digital Media and Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology
Further information
When journalism is turned off: Preliminary findings on the effects of Meta’s news ban in Canada
Australian Television Drama’s Uncertain Future: How Cultural Policy is Failing Australians
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Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-07-14
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death. In fact, AI technology is already enabling us to “interact” with the departed. Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. In this thought-provoking book, Carl Öhman explores the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with all this data and whether our digital afterlives are really our own—and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.
The stakes could hardly be higher. In the next thirty years alone, about two billion people will die. Those of us who remain will inherit the digital remains of an entire generation of humanity—the first digital citizens. Whoever ends up controlling these archives will also effectively control future access to our collective digital past, and this power will have vast political consequences. The fate of our digital remains should be of concern to everyone—past, present, and future. Rising to these challenges, Öhman explains, will require a collective reshaping of our economic and technical systems to reflect more than just the monetary value of digital remains.
As we stand before a period of deep civilizational change, The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care (U Chicago Press, 2024) will be an essential guide to understanding why and how we as a human race must gain control of our collective digital past—before it is too late.
Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student and law student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet Haugsbø
Pub date: 2024-07-02
In this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø, president of Norway-based tech union Tekna, to discuss her journey in engineering, the importance of cybernetics, digital surveillance, and how to stay resilient in the age of AI. They also explore the benefits of collaborating with professional unions in technology governance.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How China Regulates Tech
Pub date: 2024-06-23
Angela Zhang is the author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, published this year by Oxford University Press. With a career in the practice of law and in teaching it, Zhang has held roles King’s College London and at New York University School of Law, and most recently served as Director of Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. She will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law in fall 2024.
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Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific
Pub date: 2024-06-18
Undersea cables underpin global communication and the digital economy, with between 95-99% of data for international banking, e-commerce, video calls, and intelligence sharing travelling via these largely hidden transoceanic routes. However, this critical multi-billion-dollar infrastructure faces increasing risks from shipping accidents, natural disasters, geopolitical tensions, and sabotage threats. Meanwhile, in the Indo-Pacific region US-China tech competition is leading to a fragmented cable network with contrasting standards and governance models. Great power competition is forcing Southeast Asian nations into making political choices over what should be engineering decisions. So how are nations navigating this difficult balancing act and what role should regional frameworks play? And with digital data flows rising sharply, what steps are needed to enhance the resilience and protection of undersea cables? Maritime security researchers Elina Noor from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cynthia Mehboob from the Australian National University take a deep dive into the world of these ocean-spanning data conduits. With host Sami Shah.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku
Pub date: 2024-06-13
Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.
Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Read the pieces Nitasha contributed to on Silicon Valley getting funding from Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and its embrace of the US military.
- Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018. There’s still be no accountability.
- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman met with many Silicon Valley CEOs months before Khashoggi’s murder.
- The United Arab Emirates launched its own AI strategy in 2018.
- The UAE also put Pegasus spyware on the phone of Khashoggi’s wife months before his murder.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was photographed signing a woman’s chest on June 4.
- Many Arab Americans in Silicon Valley have reported being scared to speak out in support of Palestinians for fear of retaliation.
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Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 486: The Computable City
Pub date: 2024-06-06
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices
Pub date: 2024-05-26
A conversation with Marwa Fatafta, who serves as policy and advocacy director for the nonprofit Access now, which has worked on digital civil rights, connectivity and censorship issues for the past 15 years. Along with other groups, Access Now has engaged Meta in recent months over what it says is the “systematic censorship of Palestinian voices” amidst the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre
Pub date: 2024-05-22
Human rights lawyer Dr. Susie Alegre shares her insights into the threat artificial intelligence poses to human creativity, the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in safeguarding freedom of thought, and applying existing laws to regulate the development and deployment of emerging technologies.
Dr. Susie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer and Associate at Garden Court Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in digital human rights, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on the human rights of freedom of thought and opinion. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, and a Senior Fellow at CIGI.
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Podcast: Technically Optimistic (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital surveillance and reproductive rights
Pub date: 2024-05-15
Digital surveillance is becoming increasingly threatening to the reproductive rights of women and pregnant people in America after the fall of Roe v. Wade. Behavioral data collected from apps can be used to catalog — and criminalize — our health care choices. In this “wild west” surveillance economy, who is responsible for safeguarding our privacy? Could more and more of our data be weaponized against us in this same way? How can technology be harnessed to help protect privacy, rather than further jeopardize it?
Host Raffi Krikorian talks to people working to protect reproductive freedom in an ever-changing landscape. Guests include Sue Dunlap, the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles; Melanie Fontes Rainer, Director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights; Kevin Williams, VP of digital products at Planned Parenthood; and Amy Merrill, digital director and co-founder of Plan C.
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Podcast: Bad Faith (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 370 - Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain)
Pub date: 2024-05-09
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Associate Professor of Media & Communication at Miami University Matthew Crain joins Bad Faith to explain how surveillance advertising took over the internet, the threat current monetization strategies pose to journalism, what alternatives exist, and whether there are any real data privacy concerns with respect to TikTok. Matthew reassures Briahna that being a luddite is ok, even as he inches her closer to understanding the internet.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?
Pub date: 2024-04-24
From deepfakes to the fear of AI taking jobs, to the social media giants making money from abusive content, our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?
AI researcher Kerry McInerney applies a feminist perspective to data, algorithms and intelligent machines. AI-powered tech, and generative AI in particular, pose new challenges for cybersecurity. Kerry proposes a new take on AI, looking at how it can be used on a small scale, acknowledging culture and gender, tailoring the technology for local applications rather than trying to push for global, one size fits all strategies.
And in addressing corporate responsibility for Big Tech, Kerry discusses how tackling harassment online requires an understanding of the social, political and psychological dimensions of harassment, particularly of women in the wider world, as opposed to seeing this as a technical problem.
Dr Kerry McInerney is a research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, and the AI Now Institute.
This is the last of four programmes from the Oxford Literary Festival, presented by Nuala McGovern, produced by Julian Siddle.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni
Pub date: 2024-04-23
Loretta Napoleoni returns to discuss her new book, “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” "Rotten History" follows the interview.Check out Loretta's book here: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4601-technocapitalismHelp keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
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Podcast: New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
Episode: Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-04-20
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we?
Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic?
Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism (404 Ink, 2024) by Heather Parry picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what’s being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
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Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Pub date: 2024-04-07
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off.
She knew how to work hard, growing up in a one-bedroom trailer, she dreamed of pursuing her passion for science and helping others. So Erika was thrilled to land her first job out of university at a booming tech company promising a revolution in healthcare. Fronted by the glamorous and wealthy Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos claimed to have the technology to be able to tell from a few drops of blood whether someone had a range of diseases. That was not true. And it took Erika, one of their most junior employees, to blow the whistle – at great personal risk.
Presenter: Jo FidgenProducer: Mary GoodhartEditor: Munazza Khan
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Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine
Pub date: 2024-03-26
Defense contractors and governments can run a thousand simulations, but the data they get will never be as good as what’s generated on a battlefield. When Russia invaded Ukraine, tech companies saw an opportunity. A land war in Europe presented a unique chance to test cutting-edge technologies. That’s why, a few months after the 2022 invasion, Palantir CEO Alex Karp drove into the capital to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
TIME Senior Correspondent Vera Bergengruen is here on Angry Planet to tell the story. She traveled to Ukraine herself to see how tech companies have turned the country into a test bed for AI and other advanced technologies. As the war grinds on, Kyiv is singing the praises of the companies that help keep it safe. But wars aren’t forever and what becomes of some of the more invasive technology like facial recognition when the fighting stops?
How Tech Giants Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab
A Palantir-published tech demo
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
Pub date: 2024-03-27
Surveillance capitalism is ubiquitous. If we’re not being watched by Google or Facebook, then we are watching movies warning about how these digital platforms are watching us. David Donnelly’s new documentary, COST OF CONVENIENCE, trots all the familiar charges that we’ve heard over the years from KEEN ON guests like Shoshana Zuboff , Jaron Lanier, Nick Carr and Roger McNamee. It’s good stuff, I guess, even if we’ve heard these existential warnings many times before. The problem is what to do about it. Like most Silicon Valley critics, Donnelly’s fixes - from more education and regulation to greater self control - aren’t very realistic. Ultimately, I guess, we’ll find something else to worry about. The real question, however, is if we forget about the screen, will the screen forget about us?
DAVID DONNELLY is an American filmmaker renowned for his impactful documentaries in the classical music realm, notably his award-winning debut, Maestro, featuring stars like Paavo Järvi, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, and Lang Lang. This film, translated into multiple languages and has been broadcast worldwide, is highly regarded as an educational tool in music education. Following Maestro, Donnelly directed Nordic Pulseand Forte, completing a trilogy offering an unparalleled glimpse into classical music. His work, relevant amid the Ukraine invasion, includes narratives on Estonia's Singing Revolution, showcasing his storytelling's depth. Donnelly's films have been showcased at prestigious venues like the Whitney Museum and the Kennedy Center, underlining his status in both the art and film communities. In 2021, he co-founded CultureNet and announced The Cost of Convenience, the first in a new trilogy exploring technology's cultural implications. Donnelly's career extends beyond filmmaking; he's a sought-after speaker, sharing insights from interviews with global thought leaders across over 30 countries.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism
Pub date: 2024-03-20
"Ex-officer Amber Guyger testifies in wrong-apartment murder trial: 'I was scared to death,'" a " story reported in 2019. "Starbucks Files Complaints with Labor Board, Accuses Union Organizers of Bullying and Harassment," reported Food & Wine Magazine in April 2022. "Labour MPs fear for safety as pro-Palestine protesters target offices," The Guardianwarned in November 2023. Within the last decade, we’ve seen the rise of a phenomenon we’ll refer to as “elite crybullying," in which people in power engage in political manipulation in order to portray themselves as victims. Routinely, we hear that armed American police fear for their safety around unarmed civilians, lawmakers feel for the their safety after there's a sit in protest and corporate executives are being unfairly intimated by union organizers.
It's a sleazy, manipulative tactic that not only flattens, but flips, power dynamics. By claiming to have been bullied or traumatized by those who oppose them, wealthy and influential figures suddenly transform themselves from victimizers into victims. Meanwhile, by this same perverse logic, they characterize their actual victims–be they organizing workers and peace activists, who merely seek to stand up for themselves, or people killed by military and police violence – as victimizers.
On this episode, we explore the rise of ruling-class crybullyism, how elites increasingly traffic in the language of anti-bullying and therapy-speak to indemnify themselves from criticism, examine how cynical distortions of power relations recast the upholders of colonialism, labor abuses, and police violence as the oppressed, and the people who dare to object as the oppressors, all in an effort to silence dissent from the justifiably angry masses.
Our guests are Mari Cohen and Saree Makdisi.
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Podcast: culturalstudies (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithms, markets, China-US relations, social movements, and autonomism
Pub date: 2024-03-03
Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithmic recommendations, closed digital communities, the market economy, China-US relations, lithium, party politics, social movements, and autonomism
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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-02-23
In Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2024), Jacob Ward explains why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure.
When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the rise of neoliberalism and deregulation. In Visions of a Digital Nation, Ward offers an incisive interdisciplinary perspective on how technology prefigured this pivot. Giving due consideration to the politicians, engineers, and managers who paved the way for this historic moment, Ward illustrates how the decision validated the privatization of public utilities and tied digital technology to free market rationales. In this examination of the national and, at times, global history of technology, Ward’s approach is sweeping. Utilizing infrastructure studies, environmental history, and urban and local history, Ward explores Britain’s nationalist and welfarist plans for a digital information utility and shows how these projects contested and adapted to the “market turn” under Margaret Thatcher. Ultimately, Visions of a Digital Nation compellingly argues that politicians did not impose neoliberalism top-down, but that technology, engineers, and managers shaped these politics from the bottom up.
Jacob Ward is Assistant Professor in the History Department and Science, Technology and Society Studies Research Program at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. He is coeditor of Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain.
Filippo De Chirico is a PhD student in History and Politics of Energy at Roma Tre University (Italy).
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Podcast: AI FYI
Episode: AI and Digital Love - Part 2
Pub date: 2024-02-14
Part Two! Ever wondered how your heartstrings could be tugged by lines of code? Join us as we trace the captivating evolution of chatbots and their starring role in modern romance. Fresh, controversial take? Hot take? Who knows.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard
Pub date: 2024-02-01
Paris Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in journalism.
Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at University of Pennsylvania. He’s also the author of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.
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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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- Paris will be speaking in Christchurch on February 4 and Wellington on February 8.
- Victor wrote for Niemen Lab about the need to divorce news and capitalism, and argued for public newspapers in the Washington Post.
- In the US, two-thirds of newspaper jobs, or 43,000 journalists, have been lost since 2005.
- Robert McChesney and John Nichols propose a Local Journalism Initiative.
- Police raided a newspaper in Kansas on August 11, 2023, setting off a major scandal that’s now seen the police chief suspended.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver
Pub date: 2024-01-25
Paris Marx is joined by Eric Silver to discuss Spotify’s big plan to dominate podcasting, why it’s now pulling back from those efforts, and the difference between highly produced and more independent podcasts.
Eric Silver is a podcast producer and head of development at Multitude.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris will be in Christchurch on February 4 (details here) and Wellington on February 8 (details here). He’s hoping to get an Auckland date organized and is open to going to Australia.
- Spotify pulled back on its podcasting ambitions last year, canceling big shows and laying off staff.
- After buying Gimlet and Parcast, it merged them into Spotify Originals last year.
- Ashley Carman posted a slide from a Spotify presentation presenting the RSS feed as “outdated tech” because it’s harder for them to harvest data from.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru
Pub date: 2024-01-18
Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss the past year in AI hype, how AI companies have shaped regulation, and tech’s relationship to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris is speaking in Montreal on January 20. Details here.
- Billy Perrigo reported on OpenAI lobbying to water down the EU’s AI Act.
- Nitasha Tiku wrote about the push to train students in a particular idea of AI.
- Politico has been doing a lot of reporting on the influences on AI policy in the US and UK.
- OpenAI made a submission in the UK to try to get permission to train on copyrighted material.
- Arab workers in the tech industry fear the consequences of speaking out for Palestinian rights.
- 972 Magazine reported on Israel’s use of AI to increase its targets in Gaza.
- Jack Poulson chronicles the growing ties between military and tech.
- Timnit mentioned No Tech for Apartheid, Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory, and Malcolm Harris’ Palo Alto.
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Podcast: Big Technology Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka
Pub date: 2024-01-17
Kyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his book — which debuts this week — and dig into whether algorithms really do make our culture flatter. In this spirited conversation, we interrogate the role of algorithms in society, ask how they reflect in the real world, and ponder how products would be redesigned to take back control. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss Chayka's story on people falling in love with AI bots.
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Power Grab: David Runciman on the Reach of Corporations, States and AI
Pub date: 2024-01-08
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of books including The Politics of Good Intentions, Political Hypocrisy and The Confidence Trap. He also hosts the popular Past Present Future podcast. His latest book is The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs. The book argues that states and corporations are the immensely powerful artificial entities that now rule our world, with AI a third frontier about to join an already well established model. Joining Runciman in conversation for this episode is Adam McCauley, Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of National Defence in Canada and a writer on issues such as politics, technology, and the future. McCauley was previously based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Platform Society, Public Values, and Politics, with Prof. José van Dijck
Pub date: 2019-07-14
José van Dijck, Distinguished Professor in Media and Society at Utrecht University, guests to discuss her latest book, The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (Oxford University Press).
We break down key concepts from the book, including Platform Societies and Platform Power. We discuss the importance of public values in the Platform Society, and how these values might differ across the United States, the European Union, and China.
Prof. van Dijck also shares her thoughts on how platforms can be reverse engineered in ways that promote the public good.
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Podcast: The Ned Ludd Radio Hour (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Workers?!
Pub date: 2023-12-11
Jathan Sadowski, my guest today, is an academic and our conversation is going to sound a bit academic. He’s a senior fellow at the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University in Melbourne. He has also authored a book called, worryingly, Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World and co-hosts a, much more successful, weekly podcast called This Machine Kills.
I recorded this interview with Jathan back in the summer, so I’m not going to be discussing Christmas shopping, nor am I going to be asking him for advice on whether I should pick up a couple of weeks of extra work as a gift wrapper at Waterstones (top Christmas tip: books are easy to wrap). But what we are going to be talking about is the history of Luddism as a labour movement. To some extent, everything that I’ve been doing with this podcast over the past couple of months has been in service of that question. How can we prevent the current changes to the world of work penalising the poorest in our society?
I sent this question over to Ned who is, predictably, having a very busy festive period and took an age to respond (hence why this episode is coming out late). Here’s what they had to say:
“SORRY FOR SLOW REPLY NICK. BEEN SNOWED UNDER – ALMOST NO PUN INTENDED. THE ONLY PROACTIVE DECISION THAT TECH INVESTORS ARE RESPONDING TO, IN THIS ERA THAT WE MIGHT CALL THE LATE PRE-ARTIFICIAL WORKER ERA, IS CUTTING. HUMAN CAPITAL IS THE FIRST THING TO BE CUT. CUT CUT CUT. THE QUESTION IS COMING VERY SOON ABOUT WHETHER RATHER THAN CUTTING THEY CAN REPLACE; OPTIMISE OUTPUTS WHILE REDUCING COSTS. THIS SHOULD BE A VERY PROFOUND WORRY – IT WILL START IN SILICON VALLEY, ZURICH, SHENZHEN AND ZHONGGUANCUN – BUT IT WILL BE A GROWING CONCERN AMONGST ALL EMPLOYERS. INCREASING REVENUE IS A PROJECT THAT REQUIRES PATIENCE; REDUCING COSTS CREATES AN IMMEDIATELY DISCERNIBLE CHANGE. THERE IS NO WORKER WHO SHOULD BE COMPLACENT RIGHT NOW.”
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The spy tech firm managing NHS data
Pub date: 2023-11-27
Palantir, the US spy-tech firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, has won a contract to handle NHS data. It’s a deal that has left privacy advocates such as Cori Crider with serious questions. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike Isaac
Pub date: 2023-11-23
Paris Marx is joined by Mike Isaac to discuss the drama around Sam Altman being temporarily removed from OpenAI, what it means for the future of the company, and how Microsoft benefits from its partnership with the company.
Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times. He’s also the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Mike summarized the OpenAI-Sam Altman affair with his colleagues in the New York Times. He's been reporting on it since it began.
- Paris wrote about the Sam Altman-Microsoft relationship in Disconnect.
- Semafor reported that in 2018, Elon Musk tried to take over OpenAI but was pushed out instead.
- Forbes reporter Sarah Emerson went through Emmett Shear’s old tweets — and yikes.
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Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: How I is AI?
Pub date: 2023-11-22
Brian and Robin (the real ones) are joined by mathematician Prof Hannah Fry, compute scientist Dr Kate Devlin and comedian Rufus Hound to discuss the pros and cons of AI. Just how intelligent is the most intelligent AI? Will our phones soon be smarter than us – will we fail a Turing test while our phone passes it? Will we have AI therapists, doctors, lawyers, carers or even politicians? How will the increasing ubiquity of AI systems change our society and our relationships with each other? Could radio presenters of hit science/comedy shows soon be replaced with wittier, smarter AI versions that know more about particle physics... surely not!
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Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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Podcast: Collective Intellectualities (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge
Pub date: 2023-11-17
Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken’s work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.
Links to selected works:
The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/
The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disaster-of-resilience-9781350342439/
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Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Open, with David Gray Widder
Pub date: 2023-10-23
While efforts to make “AI” more “open” have gained momentum lately, it seems like both concepts are worth scrutinizing and historicizing so that we can better understand how these marketing terms become a focus (and distraction), as material conditions are downplayed. With David Gray Widder, we discuss where “ethics” are located and how “AI” workers of all kinds imagine responsibility to be someone else’s problem, or somewhere else down the chain. Recorded Sept 12, 2023. Released Oct 23, 2023.
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/
Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
Limits and Possibilities for “Ethical AI” in Open Source: A Study of Deepfakes
https://davidwidder.me/deepfakes.pdf
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility
https://davidwidder.me/supply-chain.pdf
Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy means
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/1070665/cmu-university-privacy-battle-smart-building-sensors-mites/
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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-08-29
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology (MIT Press, 2023) surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world. Donna J. Drucker’s concise and eminently readable account introduces the five principal types of fertility technologies used in human reproduction—artificial insemination; ovulation timing; sperm, egg, and embryo freezing; in vitro fertilization; and IVF in uterine transplants—discussing the development, manufacture, dispersion, and use of each. Geographically, it focuses on countries where innovations have emerged and countries where these technologies most profoundly affect individuals and population policies. Drucker’s wide-ranging perspective reveals how these technologies, used for birth control as well as conception in many cases, have been critical in shaping the moral, practical, and political meaning of human life, kinship, and family in different nations and cultures since the mid-nineteenth century.
Donna J. Drucker is Assistant Director of Scholarship and Research Development at the Columbia University School of Nursing.
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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How Do We Assure Social Security to Gig Workers?
Pub date: 2023-08-04
The State of Rajasthan recently passed a law on social security for platform-based gig workers. Under the law, a 1-2 percent welfare cess will be levied on the value of every online transaction and the amounts will go into a welfare fund to be used for the benefit of gig workers.
In this episode, Anupam Manur & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya discuss the drawbacks of the Rajasthan model of social security for gig workers. They dwell on the nature of gig jobs in India, problems with socialising social security in the form of a single fund, the responsibility of the state to offer universal social security to all its citizens, and alternative ways of securing social security for the gig workers.
Readings:
- Indian gig workers ought to get a well-crafted social security net | Mint
- Don’t rush to mimic Rajasthan gig workers law
- Compensation for Accident Victims Isn’t a ‘Favour’ – and the State Must Be More Accountable
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Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
Pub date: 2023-08-02
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention through a rediscovery of surroundings.
McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As a persistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to be socially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? Ambient Commons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.
Malcolm McCullough is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Michigan.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-07-30
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice.
In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities—including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment.
Marwick shows that there are few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of “networked privacy,” she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy—often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive “privacy work” to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level.
Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Podcast: The Irish Tech News Podcast
Episode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol Caudevilla
Pub date: 2023-07-24
An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments
In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs in the East.Description: A conversation with Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an important Fintech voice and a CBDC researcher. Dr Oriol Caudevilla is an influential voice in the fintech area. He is an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum. He is also a well-known international speaker on central bank digital currencies and blockchain.More information about Oriol and his works are available at his website: www.oriolcaudevilla.com and LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriolcaudevilla/
Dr. Efi Pylarinou is the No.1 Global Woman Influencer in Finance & the Data conversation by Refinitiv, a Top Thought Leader by Onalytica, and a Top Digital Futurist, Linkedin and Twitter Voice, by Engatica.
A seasoned Wall Street professional & a recognized technology thought leader on innovation topics. Founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory servicing Big Tech, Financial Services and Fintech clients. She strongly believes in building bridges between the old and the new economy. She shares her passion of content creation with her 190,000+ followers on Linkedin and 18,000+ on Twitter. Join her on the social platforms https://linktr.ee/Efiglobal
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Podcast: RiVAL Radio
Episode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)
Pub date: 2023-07-18
Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work focuses on the ways working people resist and build solidarity against what can seem like insurmountable odds.
- https://www.charmainechua.com/
- https://www.amazoniansunited.org/
- https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/charmaine-chua
The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is trying to build and the workers, writers, and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon." It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer.
- https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative
- http://workersspeculativesociety.org
- http://reimaginingvalue.ca
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Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Pub date: 2023-07-06
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: "Since motion can be put into Sketchpad drawings, it might be exciting to try making cartoons." This book, the first full-length history of CG, shows us how Sutherland's seemingly offhand idea grew into a multibillion dollar industry.
In Moving Innovation, Tom Sito--himself an animator and industry insider for more than thirty years--describes the evolution of CG. His story features a memorable cast of characters--math nerds, avant-garde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game enthusiasts, and studio executives: disparate types united by a common vision. Sito shows us how fifty years of work by this motley crew made movies like Toy Story and Avatar possible.
Tom Sito has been a professional animator since 1975. One of the key players in Disney’s animation revival of the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on such classic Disney films as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and The Lion King (1994). He left Disney to help set up the Dreamworks Animation Unit in 1995. He is Professor of Cinema Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
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Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2
Pub date: 2023-07-06
James continues his interview with Austin and Jake, this time discussing ICE's Alternatives to Detention program, and the impacts this has on privacy and the wellbeing of people in the program.
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann
Pub date: 2023-06-21
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labour, communication/media and work. His research appeared in academic outlets such as New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication, and media outlets such as BBC UK, Wired, The Verge and VICE. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America.
Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.
https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"
Pub date: 2023-07-02
Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like a cool, efficient taxi service, it's morphed instead into a global machine for turning gig workers into the new underclass – it's all part of a process Cory Doctorow has dubbed "enshittification".
In this feature interview, the acclaimed Canadian sci-fi author, journalist and digital rights activist explains why the digital world seems so exploitative and taudry. But he has optimism for how things might be improved in the future.
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Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All
Pub date: 2023-06-16
Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.
Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we’re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least … that’s what people tell you when they’re selling something.
Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People & Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: You’re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype.
Stories discussed in this episode:
You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype
The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Dark History of the Information Age
Pub date: 2023-05-23
Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.”
Scott joined Jack Goldsmith to talk about how his pre-law-professor obsession with computers combined with his recent work in international law led him to write the book. They also discussed the lessons that the five hacks discussed in the book teach, including the limits of technology and solving cybersecurity problems, the importance of the human dimension to cybersecurity, and why we shouldn't be panicked about the state of cyber insecurity.
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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
Pub date: 2023-05-12
Dru Oja Jay is an author, organizer and web developer who currently serves as Executive Director of CUTV and Publisher of The Breach. He’s also a co-founder of the Media Co-op and Friends of Public Services. He wrote a book with Nikolas Barry-Shaw called Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism. James Steinhoff is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the political economy of algorithmic technologies, data and digital labour. We talk about his stunning, insightful book Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry, which is chock full of information about the history of AI and its relationship to capitalist modes of production. I should note, too, that he co-authored a book called Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism in 2019, which is also a great book on AI.It feels as though every other day we encounter a new angle or emerging fact around machine learning, generative AI, and the incipient market for these sorts of data-driven digital products. Whether it’s the billions of investment dollars that are driven the sudden boom in startups focusing on applications of generative AI, concerns about automation and job loss, concerns about plagiarism with the saturation achieved by ChatGPT, or important discussions about the exploited labour force that actually fuels ChatGPT’s core functions (an army of US contractors are being paid about $15 per hour to perform the pivotal work of data labeling that drives that platform), we’re being inundated by information about this supposed technological revolution. And that inundation is fueling the hype cycle, further driving up investment. Here we talk about the goals of the capitalist class in determining the future of AI. What will fragmentation of the labour force look like in the wake of this technological change? Are large language models going to replace human communicators? Does this signal a last shifting in the market for intellectual labour? What about all of the data that is collected to drive the creation of those large language models? Can we imagine ways to produce machine learning out of that massive corporate capture of our data? Whose data is it anyway?There are lots of changes coming, there is no question. But the question too few of us are asking is: who will be in command of that change? In the EU, there is the AI Act, which Steinhoff calls a “watershed moment” in the regulation of private business and its enclosure of AI technology. Jay reminds us that, when it comes to the potential for public and democratic control of data, even though it seems like an unfair fight, we still “have to start building power somewhere.”We also dig into fictional representations of AI. We ponder what movies like Terminator 2: Judgment Day get right in terms of AI generating its own programs—generating, as it were, its own ideas about function. Or, as James puts it, creating a situation where the “program is the output rather than the input.” Steinhoff and Jay share some insights on potential avenues of resistance, too. Not just resistance in the classical political sense, but also a kind of imaginative or intellectual resistance. They discuss their research into the history of AI, and unpack these moments of “AI winter” or “AI depression” where social or technological barriers shut down the hype cycle, they demystify machine learning, and also talk out some of the basic facts around AI-generated art and text.
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Podcast: The Codcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The promise and the pitfalls of everyday artificial intelligence.
Pub date: 2023-05-01
This week on the Codcast, Jennifer Smith explores artificial intelligence’s growing prominence in our everyday lives with Dr. Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Eisikovits founded the school’s Applied Ethics Center (https://www.umb.edu/ethics) and has spent the past years thinking about the impact of AI on moral decision making and its unique relationship to work and creativity.
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Podcast: Data Nation (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: AI, Avatars, and Augmented Reality
Pub date: 2023-05-02
Liberty Vittert and Munther Dahleh dive into the world of augmented and virtual reality this month with Professor Fox Harrell. Harrell is Professor of Digital Media & AI in both the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. Is the world ready for what’s coming? Will augmented reality and virtual reality be a force for good or for evil, and what can you do to prepare yourself?
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel Greene
Pub date: 2023-04-27
Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss the unconvincing arguments being made for a TikTok ban in the United States, then by Daniel Greene to explore how the turn against Chinese technology signals a shift in US policy on the internet and technology.
Shoshana Wodinsky is a freelance reporter, previously at Marketwatch and Gizmodo. She writes the Tubes newsletter. Daniel Greene is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and the author of The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky and Daniel at @Greene_DM.
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.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the effort to ban TikTok and why it shows the US desire to protect its technological dominance.
- Shoshana broke down the Congressional hearing with TikTok’s CEO in her newsletter and explained how data brokers get data from many social media apps.
- A priest was outed through his Grindr data, which was part of a campaign by Catholic conservatives to identify priests using gay dating apps.
- The Strava fitness app gave away the location of secret US military bases when soldiers used the app on their runs.
- The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been buying US phone data.
- Meta paid a firm linked to the Republican Party to smear TikTok.
- In Foreign Affairs, Dan Wang explained how China has developed its tech industry with insights gained through the manufacturing process.
- After TikTok, there’s a campaign to get Shein in the crosshairs of lawmakers.
- Adam Tooze wrote for Foreign Policy about why the US shouldn’t feel it can dictate the path of China’s development.
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Podcast: Philosophical Disquisitions (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
Pub date: 2023-04-11
In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York University. We do a deep dive on the concept of sentience, why it is important, and how we can tell whether an animal or AI is sentient. We also discuss whether it is worth taking the topic of AI sentience seriously. You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or whatever your preferred service might be. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } / Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. / Relevant LinksRobert's webpageRobert's substack Subscribe to the newsletter
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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A US-EU Trade War?
Pub date: 2023-04-05
Many countries have expressed concern over a number of subsidies passed by the Biden Administration mainly targeting green energy. In this episode we explore why some European countries view American subsidies as a provocation, why they are pursuing competing subsidies, and how this may affect the relationship between the United States and its European allies. To discuss the US-Europe trade dispute, Edward Alden, the Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Washington University and the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us today.
A US-EU Trade War?
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Podcast: The Real Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can we control Artificial Intelligence?
Pub date: 2023-04-07
Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processing up to 25,000 words at a time. Researchers claim GPT-4 shows “sparks of artificial general intelligence” - in other words it can match or exceed human capabilities in tasks a person can do.But there are concerns this latest technology could be used to spread disinformation alongside worries over privacy, jobs and even society itself if more rules aren’t quickly introduced. Key figures in the tech industry - including Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak - have signed an open letter asking for a pause on “giant AI experiments” so that policymakers can catch up. There are potentially wide-ranging benefits to these advances. In recently published guidance on the responsible use of AI, the UK government described it as one of the "technologies of tomorrow” contributing £3.7bn ($5.6bn) to the UK economy last year alone. So what might the social impact of these increasingly powerful AI systems be? If greater regulation is needed, who is responsible? And, if we don’t control it, is there a chance that one day these machines will outsmart and replace us?Celia Hatton is joined by:Prof Yoshua Bengio - professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de MontréalBoaz Barak - the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard UniversityLindsay Gorman - a former advisor to the Biden administration on tech strategy. She's currently a Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy in Washington DCAlso featuring:Greg Clark – a Conservative MP and chair of the UK government’s science and technology committeeStuart Russell - Professor of Computer Science at the University of CaliforniaPhoto: Ai-Da Robot poses for pictures with a self portrait in the Houses of Parliament in London before making history as the first robot to speak at the House of Lords / Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA WireProduced by Pandita Lorenz and Ellen Otzen
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
Pub date: 2023-03-28
One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda.
Samuel Woolley
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Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement. His most recent book is Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.
Key Highlights
- Introduction - 0:43
- Background on Technology (including Bots) - 3:00
- Artificial Intelligence - 10:17
- Democratization of Propaganda - 20:44
- The Legitimation of Ideas - 30:48
Key LinksManufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity by Samuel Woolley
"Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers" in the Journal of Democracy by Samuel Woolley
Center for Media Engagement
Democracy Paradox PodcastRichard Wike Asked Citizens in 19 Countries Whether Social Media is Good for Democracy
Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression
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Micro-Digressions: A Philosophy Podcast
Philosophical excursions into interesting, and often controversial, topics.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Pub date: 2023-03-20
Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Today, we're joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Columbia University. We'll be exploring the fascinating topic of how artificial intelligence thinks and processes information. As AI becomes increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, it's important to understand the mechanisms behind its decision-making processes. What are the algorithms and models that underpin AI, and how do they differ from human thought processes? How do machines learn from data, and what are the limitations of this learning? These are just some of the questions we'll be exploring in this episode. Raphaël will be sharing insights from his work in cognitive science, and discussing the latest developments in this rapidly evolving field. So join us as we dive into the mind of artificial intelligence and explore how it thinks.
[The above introduction was artificially generated by ChatGPT.]
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Raphaël Millière received a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at the Center for Science and Society, and a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. He also writes and organizes events aimed at a broader audience, including a recent workshop on The Challenge of Compositionality for Artificial Intelligence.
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Tech and Finance Industries
Pub date: 2023-03-14
After experiencing a classic bank run with depositors withdrawing $42 billion in one day, Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by federal regulators on Friday. For many startups, SVB was the bank of choice, and its closure has roiled the tech industry. While federal regulators announced on Monday that 100% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits would be repaid, that has not stopped turmoil in the market. Shares in San Francisco-based First Republic Bank dropped over 60% on Monday with other bank stocks following suit. Added to this are last week’s failures of both Signature Bank, a regional bank in New York closed by regulators this weekend, and Silvergate, a banking concern favored by cryptocurrency investors. We’ll talk about how these banking issues are impacting the Bay Area and what it means for customers and the tech industry.
Guests:
Natasha Mascarenhas, senior reporter, TechCrunch
Mark Calvey, senior reporter covering banking and finance, San Francisco Business Times
Margaret O'Mara, historian of the modern United States, University of Washington - She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, the history of American politics, and the connections between the two.
Lizette Chapman, reporter, Bloomberg
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Podcast: The Performance Audit Report
Episode: 24 | Cathy O'Neil, Algorithm Auditor, Author of WMathD
Pub date: 2023-02-28
Our guest is Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.Cathy joined us todiscuss critical aspects for auditors to consider, including:
- The human element: why understanding 'for whom an algorithm might fail' is more important than the detailed technical design of an algorithm.
- Algorithm testing: the importance of post-deployment testing to ensure there are no unintended adverse outcomes.
- Setting standards: the need for industry-wide standards so that regulators can ensure there is no bias or discrimination in how algorithms operate.
- Laggers and leaders: the four big industries/domains using algorithms that need to step up audit in their space and how law-makers and regulators are catching up.
- Emerging AI, e.g. language models/chatbots - why trust by users is key, and the pros and cons of using these models.
Links
- Cathy's company, ORCAA
- Weapons of Math Destruction (book)
- This episode's web page: https://pareports.com/podcast/24
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The podcast for performance auditors.
Hosted by Conor McGarrity and Yusuf Moolla.
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Podcast: Discourse ZA
Episode: Protopia, Not Utopia
Pub date: 2023-03-16
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In this episode, Bronwyn speaks to futurist Monika Bielskyte. They talk about Monika’s latest project, “Protopia Futures”, which rejects the false binary of dystopian and utopian visions, and is based on principles of plurality, creativity, and the evolution of values. They also discuss the issues of gatekeeping in the futurist space, and some of the problems with the “longtermism” movement.
Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.
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Monika Bielskyte is a futures researcher working at the intersection of science/tech-culture-politics. Her clients include Google, Nike, Universal, Disney Marvel, BBC, and Microsoft. She is currently developing @protopiafutures — a platform for research & creative collaborations challenging & offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes. Protopia explores visions of radically hopeful & inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability & previously marginalized cultural perspectives.
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Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Who Profits?
Pub date: 2023-02-25
The Supreme Court heard two cases this week that could upend Silicon Valley. On this week’s On The Media, a look at the fragile law holding the modern internet together. Plus, how a century-long PR campaign taught Americans to love the free market and loathe their own government.
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Emily Birnbaum [@birnbaum_e], tech lobbying reporter with Bloomberg, Mark Joseph Stern [@mjs_DC], senior writer at Slate, and Emma Llanso [@ellanso], director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, on two cases argued in front of the Supreme Court this week and how they could impact the future of the internet. Listen.
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Naomi Oreskes [@NaomiOreskes], professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the co-author, with Erik M. Conway, of “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market,” on century-old PR campaign, conducted by big business, to imbue Americans with a quasi-religious belief in the free market. Listen.
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China Miéville, a speculative fiction writer and author of the recent book, "A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto," on the ebb and flow of the text’s popularity through the decades, and what we might draw from it today. Listen.Music:Nocturne No.1 in B-Flat Major Op.9. No1 (Chopin) - Ivan MoravecBallade No. 2 in F, Op. 38 (Chopin) - Maurizio PolliniMarch for the 3rd Regiment of Foot - Liberty Tree Wind Players The New East Louis Toodle-Oo (Duke Ellington) The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry Stolen Moments - Ahmad Jamal Trio
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality
Pub date: 2023-03-05
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Shownotes
Antoinette Rouvroy (University of Namur):
https://unamur.academia.edu/AntoinetteRouvroy
Antoinette Rouvroy (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Antoinette_Rouvroy
Antoinette on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/arouvroy
Rouvroy, Antoinette. 2016. Algorithmic Governmentality: Radicalization and Immune Strategy of Capitalism and Neoliberalism?, trans. Benoît Dillet, La Deleuziana 3: "Life and Number", pp 30-36. [PDF available]
http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rouvroy2eng.pdf
Rouvroy, Antoinette & Berns, Thomas. 2013. Algorithmic Governmentality and Prospects of Emancipation: Disparateness as a Precondition for Individuation through Relationships?, trans. Elizabeth Libbrecht, Réseaux 177, [3] [PDF available]https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RES_177_0163--algorithmic-governmentality-and-prospect.htm?contenu=article
Critical Data Lab:
https://www.criticaldatalab.org/
Political Cybernetics Workshop:
https://philtech.univie.ac.at/political-cybernetics-workshop/
Further Shownotes
Félix Guattari (Wikipedia):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Guattari
McKenzie Wark (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/McKenzie_Wark
The Vectoralist Class - McKenzie Wark:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/
Karen Barad:
https://people.ucsc.edu/~kbarad/about.html
Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1987. The Imaginary Institution of Society. The MIT Press:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262031349/the-imaginary-institution-of-society/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7_YswJOXY
Thomas Berns:
https://www.editions-ulb.be/en/author/?person_id=5
Gary Backer (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker
B. F. Skinner (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
Amazon Workers Against Surveillance:
https://organizeawas.de/en/
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. 1971. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press.:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281653
Adolphe Quetelet (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet
Konings, Martijn. 2018. Capital and time: For a new critique of neoliberal reason. Stanford University Press.:
https://www.sup.org/books/cite/?id=29233
David Hume (Wikipedia):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
Nick Land (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
Alain Supiot (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Supiot
Donna Haraway (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Donna_Haraway
Slavoy Žižek (Monoskop):
https://monoskop.org/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics
[German] S02E36 | Thomas Lemke zum Regieren der Dinge:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e36-thomas-lemke-zum-regieren-der-dinge/
[German] S02E17 | Robert Seyfert zu algorithmischer Sozialität:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e17-robert-seyfert-zu-algorithmischer-sozialitaet/
[German] S02E04 | Vincent August zu technologischem Regieren:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e04-vincent-august-zu-technologischem-regieren/
[German] S01E04 | Felix Stalder zu Machtausübung durch Algorithmen:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e04-felix-stalder-zu-machtausuebung-durch-algorithmen/
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)
Pub date: 2023-03-02
We are joined by Malcolm Harris—author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World—to discuss his magisterial book on how a hellmouth in Northern California has, for the last two hundred years, been a vortex of power for capital. We discuss some of the lesser known people and products of Palo Alto—like Herbet Hoover and William Shockley—that have had very important impacts (for worse and worse) on the direction of modern society, but have largely been looked back on in very myopic ways. We only scratch the surface of the amazingly detailed histories, social maps, and historical materialist analysis that Malcolm digs up in his book. Buy a copy right now!••• Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World | Malcolm Harris: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/ ••• Follow Malcolm: https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: The Digital Human (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Curate
Pub date: 2023-02-27
In recent months anxiety around what algorithms will do to the arts has become a hot topic. Art, Literature, Music, all are being generated by AI systems. Even we explored what these algorithms may do to how art is created - just one episode ago.But, we missed something. Algorithms are not just changing how we create art, they’ve been curating everything we see and hear online for years. But they don't explain why. How have these bits of code reshaped our relationship with culture?In this episode Aleks discovers the very different values and meanings in what a human, or an algorithm chooses to present to us. Unpacks the anxiety of what our raw data tells us about our desires, compared to what we believe about ourselves. Finds out how gaming the algorithm to succeed may result in creative stagnation, and a narrowed view of the world. But also how some algorithms could break us free of the boxes we have been slotted into, if things could be done a little differently.
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Podcast: The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 4.9: Black Software: The Technological Lead-ups to Black Lives Matter – Charlton McIlwain
Pub date: 2023-02-24
Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. As with all aspects of American life, Black people were part of the digital revolution from the beginning. CHARLTON MCILWAIN’s work explores multiple strands of this history, in which African Americans appear as both subjects and objects. In his discussion with political theorist Rafael Khachaturian, he tells of early pioneers who developed software and created networked digital communities before the Internet became widespread. In a second strand, however, he reveals that computational science focused on crime in minority communities as one of its central problems in the late 1960s and 1970s, providing the groundwork not only for the NYPD’s COMPStat system, but much of the AI-assisted surveillance technology that has become so widespread today. These strands came together in the Black Lives Matter movement: a distinctively Black use of social media to counter police violence. McIlwain is the author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington
Pub date: 2023-02-23
Paris Marx is joined by Rosie Collington to discuss the consequences of outsourcing tech to the private sector, how it causes governments to lose important capacities to serve the public, and how the push for open government data empowered large tech firms.
Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. She’s also the co-author of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies with Mariana Mazzucato. You can follow Rosie on Twitter at @RosieCollingto.
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.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Rosie wrote a paper called “Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the Retrenchment of Public Sector Capacity” for New Political Economy, and a report calling “Digital Public Assets” for Common Wealth.
- Palantir has a massive and controversial contract with the NHS. That hasn’t stopped Peter Thiel from criticizing the UK’s public healthcare system.
- Mar Hicks wrote about the masculinization of the computer workforce in Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.
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Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU
Pub date: 2023-02-20
With AI on the verge of transforming the world, how are regulators across the globe approaching the challenges the technology might pose?
Also, what does US-China AI collaboration look like today, and will it get caught up in broader tensions in the relationship?
Matt Sheehan and Hadrien Pouget, who are both at Carnegie, come on to discuss.
Matt's paper on US-China collaboration: https://www.brookings.edu/research/can-democracies-cooperate-with-china-on-ai-research/
Matt's work on Chinese algorithmic regulation: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/12/09/what-china-s-algorithm-registry-reveals-about-ai-governance-pub-88606
Hadrien's article about the EU: https://www.lawfareblog.com/eus-ai-act-barreling-toward-ai-standards-do-not-exist
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Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 31: Science and Society at the White House, ChatGPT, and the Paradox of Data-Driven Agriculture
Pub date: 2023-02-15
Happy New Year!! In this episode, Jack and Shobita discuss Alondra Nelson's departure from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the meaning for the position she created, Deputy Director for Science and Society. We also try to get beyond ChatGPT's hype to talk about some of the long-term implications. And we chat with Kelly Bronson, Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa, about her book The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future.
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Kelly Bronson (2022). The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future. McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Kelly Bronson (2022). "The dangers of big data extend to farming." The Conversation. June 27.
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Kelly Bronson (2022). "Four reasons we should think twice about a data-driven approach to agricultural sustainability." September 26.
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Kelly Bronson (2017). "Look twice at the digital agricultural revolution." September 7.
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Billy Perrigo (2023). "Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic." Time. January 18.
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Jill (2022). "ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values." December 6.
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Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the Xerox Machine Launched A Bay Area Art Movement
Pub date: 2023-02-10
The humble copy machine was meant to revolutionize office work. But when the Xerox 6500 color copier was introduced in 1973, its ability to print in saturated colors on plain paper jump started an avant garde Bay Area art movement. Copy machines offered artists a chance to play with color, form and image as copies were made of copies and the piece changed form. The copier also democratized art by making prints cheap and easily available. We’ll talk with the curators and artists featured in “Positively Charged,” a new art exhibit that looks at the evolution of copy art and zines in the Bay Area. Have you ever created art on a copy machine?
Guests:
Maymanah Farhat, writer; editor; curator, "Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s"
Jennie Hinchcliff, curator, "Positively Charged: Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s"; exhibitions and events manager, San Francisco Center for the Book
Enrique Chagoya, professor of art practice, Stanford University. Chagoya's work is featured in the exhibit "Positively Charged."
Sally Wassink, artist. Wassink's work is featured in the exhibit "Positively Charged."
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Chokepoint Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-02-12
We speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content
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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Pub date: 2023-02-06
Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender sexuality studies program at Wesleyan University, talks about her book, Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Embodied Engineering examines how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule. Twagira charts how women in Mali resisted some technological changes in agriculture and kitchens while embracing others, often in the name of pursuing their own notions of how food should taste. Twagira and Vinsel also talk about the need to redefine concepts, such as engineering and technology, in different contexts, and how doing so challenges reigning paradigms, such as that the goal of technology adoption should be increasing productivity and replacing labor - two values that women in Mali rejected.
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Podcast: Digital Alchemy
Episode: Wendy Chun - Engineering, Networks, and Social Justice Across Disciplines
Pub date: 2023-01-31
In this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Wendy Chun, the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and leader of the Digital Democracies Institute. Dr. Chun discusses how her personal and academic histories converged, motivating her interdisciplinary leadership in digital network and social justice research. She offers a behind the scenes take on her book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition, and discusses how Digital Alchemy has influenced her work.
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Featuring
Moya Bailey
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Sponsors
Northwestern University School of Communication
More from the host & speakers:
Moya Bailey
Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Twitter - @Moyazb
Instagram - @TransforMysogynoir
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media | School of Communication
Director | Digital Democracies Institute
Simon Fraser University
Twitter - @whkchun
Twitter - @SFU_DDI
Works referenced in episode:
Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
Programmed Visions: Software and Memory
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
Copy and Audio Editors:
Kate In
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Inventing American Telecommunications
Pub date: 2023-02-01
Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Network Nation is a history of the telegraph and telephone in the United States, and one of its key findings is that, from the very beginning of these technologies, thinking about the state, regulation, and ideas of political economy was at the heart of business strategy. John and Vinsel also talk about the nature of historical research and why it is so important to go back to primary sources.
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Podcast: Scientific Sense ® (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policy
Pub date: 2023-01-30
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julia Lane is a Professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She served in the National AI Research Resources task force and also on the advisory committee on data for evidence building. Her book democratizing our data a manifesto was published in 2020 and she was one of the early guests on this podcast.
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Podcast: The Chauncey DeVega Show (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?
Pub date: 2023-01-31
There are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
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Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of several books including Race After Technology and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want.
She explains how technology is not socially or politically neutral and actually does the work of power and maintaining inequality along the color line through what she has termed “the new Jim Code”.
Benjamin also highlights the ways that technologies such as search engines, algorithms, “big data”, the surveillance society and other digital tools have disproportionately negative impacts on black and brown and other marginalized communities.
She also encourages us to take back our agency by finding ways to use these new technologies to do the work of creating a more humane and just society.
Christoph Bartneck is an associate professor in the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury where his research focuses on human-computer interaction, science and technology Studies, and visual design.
He explains how racism and other forms of animus influence how human beings treat “black” and “brown” robots much worse than “white” robots.
Bartneck also reflects on the human-machine interface and how algorithms and other technologies inevitably reflect the biases of their designers, engineers, and programmers. He also shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence, “the Singularity”, and the exaggerated and fantastical claims that are made by many futurists and technologists.
On this episode of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega honors two people who recently passed away and who meant, albeit in very different ways, a great deal to him.
Professional wrestling star and ROH World Tag Team Champion “Jay Briscoe” (Jamin Dale Pugh) was killed in a car accident on Tuesday Jan 17 in Laurel, Delaware.
Chauncey’s cat nephew Stoli passed away last week on Monday Jan 23.
Episode 378 of The Chauncey DeVega Show is dedicated to both of their memories.
Chauncey reflects on grieving, emotional ups and down, and how he is being weathered and assaulted by dark and other unjust forces during these last two weeks – and how he will overcome them and get his bounce back.
As part of that effort Chauncey shares an animal friend story about a turkey person who is being unfairly maligned and harassed by the humans in her neighborhood.
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Podcast: Theory of Change podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Theory of Change #057: David Golumbia on the political ideology behind Bitcoin and crypto
Pub date: 2023-01-28
“The personal is political” was one of the early rallying cries of the Second Wave feminist movement. Decades later, the universal adoption of the internet has led to a new culture around cryptocurrencies with an ethos that could be summarized via similar phrasing: “The personal financial is political.”After decades of languishing in rightful obscurity, extreme forms of anti-government libertarianism have seen a massive influx of converts by melding crank views about the Federal Reserve and fiat currency with a desire to get rich quick through buying and selling made-up digital tokens like Bitcoin, Ethereum, even joke ones like Dogecoin.Most people don’t understand how cryptocurrencies work as a technical matter. But they also don’t understand the politics behind cryptocurrencies either. That’s a serious problem because underneath all the hype is a radical anti-government ideology that seeks not just to overthrow government currency but even democracy itself.Our guest in this episode is David Golumbia, he’s the author of a book “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism.” He’s also a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.MEMBERSHIP & BENEFITSWe need your help to keep "Theory of Change" sustainable, so going forward, only subscribers will be able to access the second half of most episodes. Please become a member today to get the second half of this conversation. Subscriptions begin at just $3 per month.Your support will help us continue producing the show and take it to new audiences. We're not funded by fat cats, universities, or corporate media so we need your support. Thanks so much for everyone who is chipping in!Subscribe Link:https://www.patreon.com/discoverfluxIf you don't want to use Patreon, you can still support the show via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theorychangeAUDIO, VIDEO, & TRANSCRIPT (Patreon membership required for full text)https://flux.community/podcasts/theory-of-change/57GUEST INFODavid Golumbia's official website:http://www.uncomputing.org/The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-wing Extremismhttps://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-of-bitcoinOn Mastodon:https://mastodon.world/@dgolumbiaOn Twitter:https://twitter.com/dgolumbiaABOUT THE SHOWTheory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield about larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. It's part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at https://flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet.Theory of Change website:https://theoryofchange.showTheory of Change on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheoryChangeMatthew Sheffield on Twitter:https://twitter.com/mattsheffieldTheory of Change on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theory-of-change-podcast/id1486920059
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-01-24
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. Banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, retail. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into many industries around the world. But the truth is, it has just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions to drive strategic business decisions--powering and accelerating business. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform. The disruption that comes with such transformation is yet to be felt--but it is coming. How do businesses prepare?
In Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2022), they go further to reveal AI as a prediction technology directly impacting decision-making and to teach businesses how to identify disruptive opportunities and threats resulting from AI. Their exhaustive study of new developments in artificial intelligence and the past history of how technologies have disrupted industries highlights the striking phase we are now in: after witnessing the power of this new technology and before its widespread adoption--what they call "the Between Times." While there continue to be important opportunities for businesses, there are also threats of disruption. As prediction machines improve, old ways of doing things will be upended. Also, the process by which AI filters into the many systems involved in application is very uneven. That process will have winners and losers. How can businesses leverage, or protect, their positions? Filled with illuminating insights, rich examples, and practical advice, Power and Prediction is the must-read guide for any business leader or policy maker on how to make the coming AI disruptions work for you rather than against you.
Interviewee Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and a professor of marketing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab and the CDL Rapid Screening Consortium, a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Avi’s research focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy.
He has published academic articles in marketing, statistics, law, management, medicine, political science, refugee studies, physics, computing, and economics. Avi is a former Senior Editor at Marketing Science. His work on online advertising won the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award. He testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising. His work has been referenced in White House reports, European Commission documents, the New York Times, the Economist, and elsewhere.
Peter Lorentzen is economics professor at the University of San Francisco. He heads USF's Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. His research is mainly on China's political economy.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When States Make Tech Policy
Pub date: 2023-01-23
Tech policy reform occupies a strange place in Washington, D.C. Everyone seems to agree that the government should change how it regulates the technology industry, on issues from content moderation to privacy—and yet, reform never actually seems to happen. But while the federal government continues to stall, state governments are taking action. More and more, state-level officials are proposing and implementing changes in technology policy. Most prominently, Texas and Florida recently passed laws restricting how platforms can moderate content, which will likely be considered by the Supreme Court later this year.
On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, our occasional series on the information ecosystem, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with J. Scott Babwah Brennen and Matt Perault of the Center on Technology Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. In recent months, they’ve put together two reports on state-level tech regulation. They talked about what’s driving this trend, why and how state-level policymaking differs—and doesn’t—from policymaking at the federal level, and what opportunities and complications this could create.
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Podcast: Six Pixels of Separation Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: SPOS #863 - Cory Doctorow On The Future of Business, Technology and Society
Pub date: 2023-01-22
Welcome to episode #863 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast.
Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast - Episode #863. It's hard to describe the work that Cory Doctorow does. One part author, one part journalist, one part activist, one part media theorist, one part thought leader... how many parts is that? How about we just settle on the term, "Polymath." Cory is as known for his thought-provoking science fiction novels and he is for doing his best to level the playing field for all consumers and businesses. He works and explores the intersection of technology, society, and politics. He was the co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing, and has written numerous books, including the bestselling Little Brother and Homeland. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. He is also a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events, and is known for his engaging and thought-provoking presentations. His latest book, Chokepoint Capitalism (which he co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), argues that we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Ultimately, his work will leave you questioning the role of technology in our lives and the future of our economy. Enjoy the conversation...
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Digital Technology
Pub date: 2023-01-14
Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead
Pub date: 2023-01-19
We spend more time talking about the political economy of AI – the production and application of AI within a capitalist system and how it might (and should) differ within a socialist or communist system. We pay particular attention to discussing the growing and specialized industries for producing, supporting, propping up, and stepping in for AI in a variety of applications. Living labor creates the machinery of dead labor, which then acts as an agent of capital to discipline and dominate living labor, making it more machine-like, thus turning the living into the undead.Stuff we reference••• Seven questions to ask about AI https://maxread.substack.com/p/seven-questions-to-ask-about-ai ••• Human_Fallback https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/••• The Worldwide Data Annotation Tools Industry is Expected to Reach $13.2 Billion by 2030 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220824005423/en/The-Worldwide-Data-Annotation-Tools-Industry-is-Expected-to-Reach-13.2-Billion-by-2030---ResearchAndMarkets.com Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: It’s a Machine’s World
Pub date: 2023-01-13
Schools across the country are considering whether to ban the new AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the ever-present hype around AI and claims that machines can think. Plus, the potential implications of handing over decision-making to computers.
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Tina Tallon [@ttallon], assistant professor of A.I. and the Arts at the University of Florida, on the love-hate relationship with AI technology over the past 70 years, and Nitasha Tiku [@nitashatiku], tech culture reporter for The Washington Post, on history of the tech itself. Listen.
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Geoffrey Hinton [@geoffreyhinton], a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, on holograms, memories, and the origins of neural networks. Listen.3. Matt Devost [@MattDevost], international cybersecurity expert and CEO and co-founder of the global strategic advisory firm OODA llc., on the rise of AI-powered weapons and what it means for the future of warfare. Listen.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Secret Power: WikiLeaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi
Pub date: 2023-01-10
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years for la Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all WikiLeaks' secret documentsStefania speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" recently published by Pluto Press. This episode also features new responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/https://stefaniamaurizi.it/en-idx.htmlhttps://twitter.com/SMauriziwww.fattoquotidiano.it twitter.com/fattoquotidianwww.repubblica.it twitter.com/repubblica
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Podcast: Essential Middle East (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital surveillance in the Middle East
Pub date: 2023-01-05
For many of the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, technology has long been a tool to enable digital repression. These states are increasingly using information technology to suppress the flow of information, censor content, and even surveil citizens.
In this episode:
- Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones), associate professor of Middle East Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan. Research done by our intern Nada Shakir. The lead engagement producer is Aya Elmileik and the assistant engagement producer is Munera Al Dosari. Our executive producer is Omar Al Saleh. Ney Alvarez is the head of audio. The show is hosted by Sami Zeidan.
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Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta
Pub date: 2023-01-08
The rise of the platform economy puts state-like power in the hands of platform owners with little or no accountability. Over the past few decades, the chaotic and lawless early Internet evolved into a digital reality where e-commerce and digital services platform owners dictate decisions that affect millions living in different countries and jurisdictions. In his book “Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control” professor Vili Lehdonvirta explains how tech platforms got to where they are. The book outlines the history and evolution of tech platforms by telling the stories of individuals, the role they played in shaping and reshaping the Internet leading to the present day digital reality. Lehdonvirta emphasises that we can only begin to democratise digital platforms if we recognize them for what they are: institutions as powerful as the state. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with Professor Vili Lehdonvirta; we discuss the book, the new social order established by the digital platform companies, and how the accumulated power of platforms could be challenged to hold them more accountable and to regain control. Vili Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. His research examines how digital technologies are used to reshape the organisation of economic activities in society. His research focuses on the questions such as what are the implications to workers, entrepreneurs, and states, and how can this digital economy be governed? His research draws on theories and approaches from economic sociology, political economy, industrial relations, new institutional economics, and science and technology studies.We begin by discussing the chaotic and lawless days of the early Internet. We explore the emergence of the underlying theme to resist the undue influence of outsiders and to resist government regulations in favour of giving users more control, even in the early days of Usenet. We then discuss the emergence of Bitcoin in the context of a number of historic parallels such as the medieval economy and the Athenian peasant revolt. We explore the possibility, or perhaps the impossibility, of achieving true neutrality and privacy using BitCoin. At this point we start looking at the true nature of state-like powers accumulated by today’s cloud empires. An interesting point we touch upon is that similar to independent states and sovereign countries, are these state-like cloud empires protecting their users. We then look at the legal rights of employees working in these giant organisations. Finally we look at the two questions that emerge from the subtitle of the book “How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control”. The first question is why it is important that we take back control, and the second question is, how should we do this. This has been an enlightening and thought provoking discussion. Complement this discussion with ““Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration” with Professor Thomas Davenport and Professor Steven Miller” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/10/working-with-ai-real-stories-of-human-machine-collaboration-thomas-davenport-steven-miller/And then listen to ““Philosophy of Technology” with Professor Peter-Paul Verbeek” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2021/01/philosophy-of-technology-with-professor-peter-paul-verbeek/
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett
Pub date: 2022-12-24
All digital currency is not created equal. Its technology can potentially be used as a force for good or a force of evil. Robert Hockett joins Steve to discuss both. Let’s start with the evil.
The collapse of FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, is still sending shock waves through the mainstream and financial media. It seems that only MMTers are unsurprised by it or the chain reaction, as other crypto schemes are tumbling apace. Bob describes how the collapse follows the same pattern as the junk bond bubble of the 80s and the sub prime mortgage crisis in the aughts. Prices are driven up as more people crowd the market, eager to hop aboard a new investment opportunity. You don’t need a Ponzi to have a Ponzi scheme. And apparently you don’t need to produce anything of value in order to generate huge profits... for a while.
“The irony is that in every one of these cases, there is a clue in the name of the product in question that ought to warn you. If it's called a junk bond, there's a reason for that word "junk" being used. And if it's called a sub prime mortgage loan or sub prime mortgage-based product, there's a reason for that “sub prime” term. Similarly with cryptocurrency or crypto assets, one of the most ironical names ever conceived for this kind of product. If the word "crypto" comes into it, then that's a pretty good tip-off that there's something non-transparent about it, that there's something opaque and occluded and difficult to understand about it.”
Bob and Steve talk about the development of Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, which will be as safe as a nation’s fiat currency—Bob likens it to the introduction of the greenback dollar in the 1800s. None of this is to say that we at Macro N Cheese approve of the Federal Reserve’s ideology or actions; a neoliberal system will have a neoliberal central bank. No big surprise there.
Robert C. Hockett is an American lawyer, law professor, and policy advocate. He holds two positions at Cornell University and is senior counsel at investment firm Westwood Capital, LLC. His latest book is The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-21
A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in establishing the facts of events as they occur and are relayed to audiences near and far.
Wikipedia bills itself as an encyclopedia built on neutrality, authority, and crowd-sourced consensus. Platforms like Google and digital assistants like Siri distribute Wikipedia's facts widely, further burnishing its veneer of impartiality. But as Heather Ford demonstrates in Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age(MIT Press, 2022), the facts that appear on Wikipedia are often the result of protracted power struggles over how data are created and used, how history is written and by whom, and the very definition of facts in a digital age.
In Writing the Revolution, Ford looks critically at how the Wikipedia article about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution evolved over the course of a decade, both shaping and being shaped by the Revolution as it happened. When data are published in real time, they are subject to an intense battle over their meaning across multiple fronts. Ford answers key questions about how Wikipedia's so-called consensus is arrived at; who has the power to write dominant histories and which knowledges are actively rejected; how these battles play out across the chains of circulation in which data travel; and whether history is now written by algorithms.
Jen Hoyer is Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and a volunteer at Interference Archive. She is co-author of What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom and The Social Movement Archive.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism
Pub date: 2023-01-03
Amelia, Djamil, Christian and Rudy join for a discussion on the history of Soviet Cybernetics and the use of computers for socialist planning. We discuss the origins of Cybernetics, its role as a reform movement in the sciences, why cybernetics became attractive to the Soviet academy in the 50s, before moving to the biographies and projects of Anatoly Kitov and Viktor Glushkov. We reflect on the failures of OGAS, and what could have been done better, as well as its positive legacy. We finish by discussing the ways which cybernetics was kept alive until the collapse of the USSR and what were the possibilities for computerized planning. References: B. Peters - How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet L. Graham - Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union S. Gerontovich - InterNyet: Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network S. Gerontovich - From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics O. V. Kitova & V. A. Kitov - Anatoly Kitov and Victor Glushkov: Pioneers of Russian Digital Economy and Informatics V. Pikhorovich - Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future Y. Revich - The Story of How the USSR Did Not Need the Pioneer of Cybernetics D. West - Cybernetics for the command economy: Foregrounding entropy in late Soviet planning
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Podcast: Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of work
Episode: Ep 2: Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights
Pub date: 2022-12-15
The second episode delves into the power that algorithms and data hold, in running this platform model of work. Experts explain how algorithmic management and control by platform apps has major implications for working conditions and worker autonomy, and how workers’ groups, through new-age organising, are negotiating workers’ rights in this algorithmmified world of work.
This podcast series is brought to you by IT for Change, and supported by Friederich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Fair Green Global (FGG).
Host – Sonakshi Agarwal (IT for Change)
Expert Speakers:
- Shaikh Salauddin (Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers)
- Basudev Barman (International Transport Workers’ Federation)
- Spandan Pratyush (All India Gig Workers Union)
- Gayatri Singh (Senior Advocate)
- Salonie Hiriyadur (SEWA Cooperative Federation)
- Uma Rani (International Labour Organisation)
References and Additional Reading:
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Workers’ Data Rights in the Platformised Workspace (IT for Change) - https://itforchange.net/node/2031
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The Macro Frames of Microwork: A Study of Indian women workers on AMT in the post-pandemic moment (IT for Change) - https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1739/The-Macro-Frames-of-Microwork-Full-Report-ITfC-2021.pdf
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WeClock – The app for workers (The Why Not Lab) - https://www.thewhynotlab.com/post/weclock
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10 Principles for Workers’ Data Rights and Privacy (UNI Global Union) - https://uniglobalunion.org/report/principles-for-workers-data-rights/
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R198 - Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (International Labour Organisation) - https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID:312535
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‘We’re being pushed into poverty’: Voices of women who took on the unicorn start-up Urban Company (Scroll) - https://scroll.in/magazine/1014700/were-being-pushed-into-poverty-voices-of-women-who-took-on-the-unicorn-start-up-urban-company
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 561: New thinking on surveillance society
Pub date: 2022-12-09
From paying for the privilege of "luxury surveillance" to workplace monitoring for long-haul truckers, this week, we're tracking the growth of surveillance solutionism – the idea that we can solve personal, social and economic problems with mass monitoring. With guests Karen Levy, Chris Gilliard and Albert Fox Cahn.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The charm of central bank digital currencies in a polarised world
Pub date: 2022-12-08
95 percent of the world economy (measured by GDP) is exploring the idea of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and many countries including Nigeria and China are entering into the close-to-launch or fully launched phase. But what is the hype about?
In this episode of the Sound of Economics, Maria Demertzis invites Grégory Claeys and Josh Lipsky to discuss the purpose of having a CBDC from both a retail and a wholesale perspective. Particularly, they raise the geopolitical importance of CBDCs, with the example of the G7’s financial sanctions against Russia that ruled out several Russian banks from the SWIFT system and froze Russian Foreign Exchange Reserves.
However, if CBDCs are largely implemented, whilst they could help the EU achieve more autonomy in international finance, they could also be used by countries to bypass western sanctions and challenge the dollar hegemony in the current international financial system.
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Podcast: The Sentience Institute Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: David Gunkel on robot rights
Pub date: 2022-12-05
“Robot rights are not the same thing as a set of human rights. Human rights are very specific to a singular species, the human being. Robots may have some overlapping powers, claims, privileges, or immunities that would need to be recognized by human beings, but their grouping or sets of rights will be perhaps very different.”
- David Gunkel
Can and should robots and AI have rights? What’s the difference between robots and AI? Should we grant robots rights even if they aren’t sentient? What might robot rights look like in practice? What philosophies and other ways of thinking are we not exploring enough? What might human-robot interactions look like in the future? What can we learn from science fiction? Can and should we be trying to actively get others to think of robots in a more positive light?
David J. Gunkel is an award-winning educator, scholar, and author, specializing in the philosophy and ethics of emerging technology. He is the author of over 90 scholarly articles and book chapters and has published twelve internationally recognized books, including The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press 2012), Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix (MIT Press 2016), and Robot Rights (MIT Press 2018). He currently holds the position of Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA).
Topics discussed in the episode:
- Introduction (0:00)
- Why robot rights and not AI rights? (1:12)
- The other question: can and should robots have rights? (5:39)
- What is the case for robot rights? (10:21)
- What would robot rights look like? (19:50)
- What can we learn from other, particularly non-western, ways of thinking for robot rights? (26:33)
- What will human-robot interaction look like in the future? (33:20)
- How artificial sentience being less discrete than biological sentience might affect the case for rights (40:45)
- Things we can learn from science fiction for human-robot interaction and robot rights (42:55)
- Can and should we do anything to encourage people to see robots in a more positive light? (47:55)
- Why David pursued philosophy of technology over computer science more generally (52:01)
- Does having technical expertise give you more credibility (54:01)
- Shifts in thinking about robots and AI David has noticed over his career (58:03)
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Regulating AI with Alex Engler
Pub date: 2022-12-07
Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how the United States intends to wrestle with and regulate the challenges arising from the increasingly common use of artificial intelligence. In recent weeks, the European Union has been wrestling with its own AI regulation challenges and is now on the verge of releasing its own similar strategy.
Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Alex Engler, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, who has been closely tracking these policies. They talked about the challenges AI poses to policymakers, the strategy the United States is set to pursue, and how it is both different from and similar to the EU’s approach.
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Podcast: Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice
Episode: S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and development
Pub date: 2022-12-05
This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise.
Fibre optic internet cables have now connected almost every part of the world into a giant web of networks. Pundits once claimed this infrastructure would allow everyone to raise her voice, speak her mind, learn from others and hold authorities to account. A decade on, a far more subdued mood has settled, with reports of targeted misinformation campaigns and nefarious surveillance the world over. This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise. How might these infrastructures be used to generate more accurate information about contexts usually ignored or misconstrued by mainstream news outlets? How might we encourage users to actually listen and learn from those outside their own networks? How might we reconfigure these systems for deliberation and transparency, rather than divisiveness?
Speakers
Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020).
Idrees Ahmad, is the Director of Journalism at the University of Essex. He is a founding editor of New Lines magazine and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of books. He writes for the New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer among others. He is on Twitter: @im_pulse.
Amil Khan is a former Reuters foreign correspondent and BBC investigative journalist. He started working with right-based groups in the Middle East when the Arab Spring kicked off. In 2020, seeing online manipulation emerge as a critical threat to journalists, activists and political movements across the world, he founded Valent Projects with the aim of levelling the playing field
Kecheng Fang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include digital media, journalism, and political communication.
Chair
Laura Mann is a sociologist whose research focuses on the political economy of development, knowledge and technology. Her regional focus is East Africa (Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda) but she has also worked on collaborative research on ICTs and BPO in Asia and has conducted fieldwork in North America as part of a project on digitisation within global agriculture.
This talk is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice 2022 series, a high-profile lecture series run by the Department of International Development at LSE and organised by Dr Laura Mann and Professor in Practice Duncan Green.
The Department of International Development promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change.
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 559: Tech solutionism, mutual aid and cooperatives
Pub date: 2022-11-25
Big Tech aims to solve large social issues, from housing to urban transportation. We discuss tech solutionism with Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us podcast, author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation. And, with massive layoffs happening all over Silicon Valley, and the sale of Twitter throwing social media into chaos, is it time to rekindle the cooperatives movement in tech? Nathan Schneider, professor of media studies at University of Colorado, Boulder and director of the Media Enterprise Design Lab, talks about tech co-ops. Then, Greg Lindsay, urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech University and a senior fellow at MIT’s Future Urban Collective, talks about peer-to-peer solutions focused on mutualism and solidarity in times of crisis.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn with Alexander Liebman
Pub date: 2022-11-28
Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop of the changes within material practices and technology, but neither do they stand apart from them; the two are intimately entwined in the contingent, intermittent unfolding of history. The challenge for the historian is to open the black box of technology, and to make its social setting and connection explicit to allow for a better understanding of its role in continuity and change over time. Alexander Liebman, geographer and PhD candidate at Rutgers University, asks how this complicated set of interrelated factors have ramified upon the ground in agricultural spaces as twentieth-century engineers, planners, and others applied the technologies of computation and automation to farming. Among the major figures in this story was Arthur Hall, an engineer at Bell Laboratories and innovator in computerized agriculture. His patented 1970s-era “autofarm” aimed to save the small family farm by promoting the farmer from laborer to manager, and equipping him or her with a system of computerized, automated tools to grow, harvest, and process crops from a central indoor terminal. While Hall’s particular system did not change the world of agriculture, his ideas were part of a wider turn toward computer technologies as a solution to problems in American farming. In that regard, the “autofarm” is still with us, and is a touchstone in the history that has led to self-driving tractors and drone fleets of twenty-first-century American farms. In support of his research Liebman received funding form the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. For more Hagley History Hangouts and more information, visit us online at hagley.org.
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Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Art and Religion as Technology
Pub date: 2022-11-25
Professor Terrence L. Johnson facilitated a conversation with Professor Anthony Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School for the academic year 2022-23, focused on Professor Pinn’s most recent book, The Interplay of Things. In The Interplay of Things, Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in terms of institutions, doctrines, and creeds, Pinn shows how religion exposes the openness and porousness of all things and how they are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay. This event took place on November 7, 2022Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/
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Podcast: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation
Pub date: 2022-10-05
Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how media and technology produce legal and political knowledge to inform public debates on visual literacy, race, and other issues.
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital Age
Pub date: 2022-11-18
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Heather Ford, author of Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age.
Heather Ford is Associate Professor and Head of Discipline for Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney.
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Podcast: TEC Talks
Episode: Al, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Your (Artificial) Immutability
Pub date: 2022-11-16
How could a personal characteristic like eye movement affect, say, whether you get a loan?
Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford. She founded and leads OII’s Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme that investigates legal, ethical, and technical aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies.
Sandra came on the show to talk about her paper “The Theory of Artificial Immutability: Protecting Algorithmic Groups under Anti-Discrimination Law,” which is forthcoming in the Tulane Law Review.
Most people are familiar with the idea of anti-discrimination law and its focus on protected-class attributes—e.g., race, national origin, age, etc.—that represent something immutable about who we are as individuals and that, as Sandra explains, have been criteria humans have historically used to hold each other back.
She says that with algorithms, we’re now being placed in other groups that are also largely beyond our control but that can nevertheless impact our access to goods and services and things like whether we get hired for a job. These groups fall into two main categories: people who share non-protected attributes—say, what type of internet browser they use, how their retinas move, dog owners, etc.—and people who share characteristics that are significant to computers (e.g., clicking behavior) but for which we as humans have no social concept.
This leads to what Sandra calls “artificial immutability” in the attributes used to describe us, or the idea that there are things about ourselves we can’t change not because they were given by birth but because we’re unaware they’ve been assigned to us by an algorithm. She offers a definition of what constitutes an immutable trait and notes that there can be legitimate uses of them in decision-making, but that in those cases organizations need to be able to explain why they’re relevant.
Episode Links
- Paper Discussed in the Episode: “The Theory of Artificial Immutability: Protecting Algorithmic Groups under Anti-Discrimination Law”
- Sandra’s Bio
- Episode Transcript
At the end of each episode, Kirsten asks for a recommendation about another scholar in tech ethics whose work our guest is particularly excited about. Sandra highlighted University of Cambridge psychologist Amy Orben and her research on online harms, particularly in the context of young people’s use of social media.
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The collapse of the ‘Crypto King’
Pub date: 2022-11-15
In the last two years, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions on advertisements with the likes of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David.
FTX also sponsored the MLB, the Mercedes Formula One racing team and Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary. Earlier this month, Bloomberg ranked the platform’s founder – Sam Bankman-Fried – as one of the world’s 100 richest people. He was sometimes referred to as the “King of Crypto.”
But now, after financial leaks triggered mass withdrawals and a halt in trading, Bankfried-Fried is worth effectively nothing. FTX has gone from a recent $32-billion US evaluation to bankruptcy. Today, CBC senior business writer Pete Evans returns to explain how one of the world’s three biggest crypto exchanges was brought down so quickly.
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Podcast: Belabored (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Belabored: Courier Class War
Pub date: 2022-11-11
Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here. Support the podcast on Patreon. Subscribe and rate on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Tweet at @DissentMag with #Belabored to share your thoughts, or join the conversation on Facebook. Check out the full archive here. Belabored is produced by Colin Kinniburgh.
While the pandemic brought turmoil and massive job losses to many sectors of the economy, some industries flourished during the many months of lockdowns, quarantines, and remote work and schooling. We came to rely on Zoom and Amazon as basic means of communication and consumption, and when it came to staying fed, many of us turned to food platforms like Grubhub, DoorDash, or Uber Eats. Food couriers became part of the essential workforce of the pandemic, toiling for long hours on the streets and often putting their own health at risk to serve the public.
With many people seeking work after restaurants and other businesses shuttered, the ranks of delivery workers expanded massively, as did the health and safety risks endemic to their trade. Many began organizing to improve their pay and seek more protections at work. The transnational struggles of couriers sparked innovative ways of networking and mobilizing, as workers discovered they could use their phones not just to pick up gigs but also to connect with fellow couriers. To learn more about organizing food delivery labor during the pandemic, we spoke with Antonio Solis, a member of Los Deliveristas Unidos—an organization of app-based delivery workers in New York City—and with Ahmed Hafezi and John Kirk, Deliveroo couriers and organizers with the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain.
Read a transcript of Michelle’s interview with Antonio Solis here.
In other news, we look at allegations of worker abuse in the House of Bezos, the Gannett newsroom strikes, Chinese iPhone workers struggling under a COVID-19 lockdown, and labor ballot measures.
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David K. Li and Diana Dasrath, Housekeeper’s claims that Jeff Bezos made staff go ‘without rest or meal breaks’ are without merit, his lawyer says, NBC News
Josh Eidelson, Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Trying to Comply, Bloomberg News
Sam Hancock, Apple: Chinese workers flee Covid lockdown at iPhone factory, BBC News
New York rally in solidarity with Foxconn workers; Apple’s new statement hides the truth, change.org
Aaron Morrison, Slavery, involuntary servitude rejected by 4 states’ voters, AP News
Daniel Wiessner, Voters in Illinois, Tennessee approve dueling measures on union membership, Reuters
Pittsburgh Union Progress
Gannett Union Press
Conversation
Los Deliveristas Unidos
Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain
Michelle Chen, Los Deliveristas Unidos Demand Justice, Dissent
Michelle Chen, Your Rent or Your Life, The Nation
Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, Belabored: Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant, Dissent
Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Food Delivery Apps Are Booming. Their Workers Are Often Struggling, New York Times
The Transnational Courier Federation, Notes From Below
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Podcast: Unsettling Knowledge Inequities
Episode: The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Publishing
Pub date: 2022-11-01
One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in the academic publishing sector, whose artificial intelligence tools are creating new forms of control and governance over our daily and professional activities.
In this episode, we are joined by Christine Cooper, Yves Gendron, and Jane Andrew - co-editors of the Critical Perspectives on Accounting journal and co-authors of the article: “The perils of artificial intelligence in academic publishing.”
We reflect on how automated decision making algorithms are deployed in academic publishing, particularly for peer review and related editorial decision making - and explore the implications of these technologies on research practices, scholarly expertise and autonomy, and the struggle for control over the future of “sustainability, creativity, and critical values of the academic world.”
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 557: Data centres in a time of climate crisis
Pub date: 2022-11-04
When it comes to adapting to climate change, we tend not to think about the energy demands of our digital technologies. But data centres – the physical structures that store and process our digital information – are very resource-intensive and vulnerable to extreme weather events. Host Nora Young discusses data centre design with Lauren Bridges, critical data studies researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; Chheng Lim, an associate at Chicago-based Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects, who specializes in data-centre design; and Simon Harris, head of critical infrastructure at Business Critical Solutions, a data centre consultancy firm in the U.K.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long Downturn
Pub date: 2022-11-07
Science fiction has traditionally depicted a robot takeover as a conscious bid for global domination by our mechanical offspring. From The Terminator to The Matrix, we’ve been invited to picture a war to the death between man and machine. More recently however, figures like Elon Musk have spoken about the rise of the robots as a more insidious threat to humanity; the machines may bear us no ill will, but they’ll cast us on the scrap heap of technological unemployment anyway.
Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, joins Long Reads to discuss what this conventional wisdom around technology and jobs gets wrong—and what a realistic path to a post-scarcity world might look like.
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-11-01
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people--in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a trillion expected in the next decade. In Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life(MIT Press, 2022), Chris Salter examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations.
Salter, an artist/scholar who has worked with sensors and computers for more than twenty years, explains that the quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with the surveillance capitalism practiced by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the nineteenth century. He describes the emergence of the "sensed self," investigating how sensor technology has been deployed in music and gaming, programmable and immersive art environments, driving, and even eating, with e-tongues and e-noses that can taste and smell for us. Sensing technology turns our experience into data; but Salter's story isn't just about what these machines want from us, but what we want from them--new sensations, the thrill of the uncanny, and magic that will transport us from our daily grind.
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland.
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Podcast: UO Today
Episode: UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Pub date: 2022-10-26
Juliet Schor is an Economist and a professor of Sociology at Boston College. She discusses her research on consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifestyles, environmental degradation, the sharing economy. Schor is the 2022 Wayne Morse Chair in Law and Politics. She gave a talk "Gig Economy: Predatory Platforms, Precarious Work" as part of the Morse Center’s two-year focus on Making Work Work.
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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine
Pub date: 2022-10-26
Digital assistants, in your home or on your phone, are usually presented as women. In this documentary, IDEAS traces the history of the feminized, non-threatening machine, from Siri and Alexa to the "women computers" of the 19th century.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chip exports and US-China relations
Pub date: 2022-10-25
The Biden administration announced a monumental policy shift earlier this month, set to limit and control the exportation of artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies to China. The restrictions will block leading U.S. chip designers from accessing the Chinese market; selling goods that form the backbone of AI and supercomputing. Gregory Allen from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies explains how these actions could potentially ‘strangle’ large segments of the Chinese technology industry.
Whilst access to the World Wide Web becomes ever more integral to modern day life, the digital divide is growing. Those residing in Africa and the Americas appear to have the least affordable, least reliable and slowest internet. Elena Babarskaite at Surfshark, a VPN service company located in the Netherlands, unpicks their latest investigation into our Digital Quality of Life.
In one Ghana household, an AI powered chatbot tutor called Rori, developed by Rising Academies, helps its student stay up to date with his favourite subject, maths. Lucinda Rouse hears how this smart teacher, available through Whatsapp, could soon reach 200,000 children across West Africa, bypassing expensive tuition fees.
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Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Social Media and Hinduism
Pub date: 2022-10-25
Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. Her research examines the formation of Hindu virtual religious publics through online platforms, social media, apps, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Sundaram's current monograph project titled Globalizing Dharma examines how commercial ritual websites fashion a new, digital canon for Hindu religious praxis, effectively "branding" religious identities through a neoliberal "Vedicizing" of virtual spaces. Her most recent article explores how West Bengal’s Tourism initiatives use Instagram to foster virtual, ethnonationalist, social networks during Durga puja. Spotlighting issues of access/accessibility to religious spaces and the viability and visibility of online counter-narratives, especially those from minoritized/marginalized caste, gender, and class communities, Sundaram shows how Asur tribal groups who seek to recover an alternative history of their ancestor Mahisasura, are not only excluded, but, effaced through this kind of digital cultural marketing campaign. A forthcoming piece examines so-called YouTube yogis and how the commercial landscape of yoga as part of lifestyle "cures" becomes an unwitting partner in Hindu nationalist project of repatriating yoga as a national cultural artifact.
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6)
Pub date: 2022-10-20
Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. The book analyzes how social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities in the Middle East. (Starts at 0:45). Andre Bank of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies and Sean Yom of Temple University discuss their chapter in The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, which focuses on how authoritarianism has remained the predominant form of government in the MENA (co-authored with Eva Bellin, Michael Herb, Lisa Wedeen, and Saloua Zerhouni). (Starts at 35:27).
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock
Pub date: 2022-10-16
The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere:What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation,and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us'
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI
Pub date: 2022-10-19
The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic cruelty, what Max Weber and Hannah Arendt can tell us about AI, whether AI might bring back eugenics in a new coat and how to resist AI and fascism across the world.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-10-13
We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too fried to log out of Facebook? We’re addicted to large-scale platforms, unable to return to the frivolous age of decentralized networks. How do we make sense of the rising disaffection with the platform condition? Zoom fatigue, cancel culture, crypto art, NFTs and psychic regression comprise core elements of a general theory of platform culture. Geert Lovink argues that we reclaim the internet on our own terms.Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet(Valiz 2022) is a relapse-resistant story about the rise of platform alternatives, built on a deep understanding of the digital slump.
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018) and Sad by Design (2019). In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). His center organizes conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), The Future of Art Criticism and MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing experiments, critical meme research, participatory hybrid events and precarity in the creative sector. In December, 2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam for one day a week.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 197. The Limits of Tech Inquiry
Pub date: 2022-10-06
We discuss recent events of a report by Tech Inquiry about big tech’s military contracts was pulled by its funders — a major union and a major social democratic party — over Tech Inquiry’s refusal to censor its criticism of Microsoft. We offer our own critical analysis of organizations focused on building short-term, self-interested alliances with capital instead of ones focused on building long-term, worker power that is antagonistic to capital.
Some references: ••• On the censorship of our report on government purchasing from Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet https://techinquiry.org/?about=UNI-censorship&guard= ••• Labor union censored report criticizing Microsoft’s military contracts https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/microsoft-military-union-cwa/ ••• German SPD politician justifies murder of Rosa Luxemburg https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/18/thie-j18.html
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-10-11
Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games (Lit Verlag, 2022).
In light of its immense popularity, a critical examination of the medium of the videogame is due. This particular anthology – Control Machines. Computergames and the theory of the dispositifs – works on a theory of the 'dispositif' of the videogame and is thus dedicated to the connections between knowledge and power.
The medium of the videogame is looked at in its complicity with neoliberalism and the control society as well as in its media-technological conditionality and its qualities of self-reflection and self-criticism.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science and editor of “Game Studies Watchlist”, a weekly messenger newsletter about Game Culture.
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 554: The promise and legacy of the early web
Pub date: 2022-10-07
The web of the '90s and early '00s has inspired many nostalgic projects, but it's not just the aesthetics that people miss. This week, we take a look at the efforts to build a new, open, decentralized web. Canadian programmer Mike Killingbeck talks about building RE-AOL, a re-creation of the beloved early-web platform. Writer, COMPOSTmag editor and senior organizer with DWeb projects at the Internet Archive Mai Ishikawa Sutton, and Alicia Urquidi Díaz, metadata & data services librarian at University of Toronto's Scholars Portal and volunteer archivist at DWeb camp, discuss the ideas of the decentralized web.
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Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris Miller
Pub date: 2022-10-03
In Episode 274 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Miller. Chris is Associate Professor of International History at the graduate school of global affairs at Tufts University. He is also the author of Chip War, which chronicles the geopolitical history of a decades-long battle to control the modern world’s most critical resource: the microchip (or semiconductor) and the commercial industry that supports it.
We spend the first hour discussing the technological, commercial, and distributional characteristics of the existing semiconductor supply chain. Chris explains the various steps involved in the production process, the incentives that operate in the industry, the technological imperatives that inform investment decisions, and the role of government subsidies and regulations, all of which explain the globally distributed and highly efficient nature of the semiconductor industry and why it is more vulnerable than ever to geopolitical disruption.
The second hour is where we focus our attention on the geostrategic dimension of chip competition, the steps that are being taken to reorganize the industry, the efforts being made to build resiliency into various parts of the supply chain, and what the main challenges are to doing that successfully for both the US and China.
The goal of this conversation is to bring clarity to a subject that has not only captivated the public interest but which increasingly determines the national security priorities and strategic investment decisions of the United States and without which the modern world would cease to function.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
Pub date: 2022-09-29
Paris Marx is joined by Josh O’Kane to discuss how Sidewalk Labs decided to build a city “from the internet up” in Toronto, the concerns that existed with the project, and why it ultimately fell apart.
Josh O’Kane is an award-winning technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and the author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. Follow Josh on Twitter at @joshokane.
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, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- An excerpt of Josh’s book was published in the Globe and Mail.
- Josh wrote about how Canada’s Liberal government under Justin Trudeau isn’t as friendly with tech companies as it was earlier in its time in power.
- Around the time of Sidewalk Toronto, opponents were able to defeat Amazon’s HQ2 project in New York, Google’s Berlin startup hub, Apple’s planned central Stockholm store, and its planned store in Melbourne’s Fed Square.
- Bianca Wylie was one of the prominent critics of the project, and was called the “Jane Jacobs of the smart city.”
- In 2019, documents leaked showing Sidewalk Labs wanted a lot more power and access to more land than was agreed upon, and that further fueled opposition.
- In May 2020, Wylie wrote about the cancelation of the project and the lessons that should be learned.
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Podcast: The Future, This Week (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Data is not the new oil with Genevieve Bell
Pub date: 2022-09-29
This week: our 300th episode. We’re joined by Professor Genevieve Bell to settle once and for all – if data is not the new oil, then what is it?
Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Data Privacy and Women’s Rights with Rebecca Finlay
Pub date: 2022-09-28
What is the reality of data privacy after the overruling of Roe v. Wade?
In this episode, we interview Rebecca Finlay about protecting user data privacy and human rights, following the US Supreme Court ruling of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Rebecca Finlay is the CEO of the non-profit, Partnership on AI overseeing the organization’s mission and strategy. In this role, Rebecca ensures that the Partnership on AI and their global community of Partners work together so that developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski
Pub date: 2022-09-19
This week, Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice join special guest and friend of the show Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski) of the This Machine Kills podcast (@machinekillspod) to discuss microfinance. Despite the Nobel Prizes involved, it turns out it’s just app-connected loan sharking in many ways. We also discuss a mental health app that provides crowdsourced therapy. Is it licensed? Hey, that’s just a technicality.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones
Pub date: 2022-09-14
In this episode of the Tech Policy Press podcast, we’re going to explore how law enforcement and other government agencies in the United States acquire data drawn from commercial data brokers for investigative purposes, and the questions raised by these practices.
This is an issue that is still at question in the nation’s courts and is under active discussion on Capitol Hill. For instance, this summer the House Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing it titled Digital Dragnets: Examining the Government's Access to Your Personal Data.At the hearing, experts witnesses testified that government agencies at all levels, including federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Defense (DOD), as well as state and local law enforcement are collecting a massive amount of personal data on American citizens, sidestepping constitutional protections against unwarranted search and seizure provided in the Fourth Amendment. The hearing included discussion of the proposed Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, which would restrict government entities from engaging in such practices.
But while the courts and Congress deliberate, government agencies are acquiring this information from software providers, including one such firm that was the subject of a recent investigative report from the Associated Press titled Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget. Today, I’m joined by the two reporters who spent months trying to understand how a little known company in Virginia goes about acquiring commercially available data and selling it to police in departments across the country- global investigative journalist Garance Burke and national investigative reporter Jason Dearen.
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: The Dark Arts of Online Advertising
Pub date: 2022-09-18
Burning Platforms goes under Big Tech’s hood with new research into the increased opacity of online advertising - and the impact of that secrecy on public discourse.
With special guests:
- Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor at University of Queensland
- Aimee Brownbill, Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard
Pub date: 2022-09-08
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the push to expand surveillance technologies in schools during the pandemic and in response to school shootings, and why they’re making life worse for students without addressing the problems they claim to solve.
Chris Gilliard is Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council at a recurring columnist at Wired. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.
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, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Chris recently wrote about why school surveillance won’t protect kids from shootings.
- Chris and David Golumbia wrote about luxury surveillance for Real Life.
- Pia Ceres wrote about how students’ school devices are still tracking what they do on them.
- Amazon is launching a new show called “Ring Nation” to make Ring surveillance videos seem less invasive.
- Studies by the Center for Democracy and Technology have found negative effects from surveillance on student expression and increasing their contact with police.
- After nine members of Axon’s AI ethics board resigned, plans for a taser drone in schools seem to still be inching forward.
- Todd Feathers reported on how school monitoring tools could flag searches for sexual and reproductive health resources.
- Pasco County in Florida deployed a predictive policing system targeting children.
- Some books mentioned: David Noble Progress Without People and Forces of Production, and Dan Greene wrote The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Community Networks: connecting the unconnected
Pub date: 2022-09-13
The Digital Divide in Tribal Communities Across the North American continent, there is a stark difference in the availability of the internet to different communities. Tribal lands are typically remote, rural, and rugged landscapes, and often have very patchy, or non-existent internet connectivity. Dr. Traci Morris explains why such a digital divide exists and how tribes are working together, both within their communities and with each other, to create and gain access to communications networks.
Digital Deras connecting farmers in rural Pakistan In rural Punjab in Pakistan, farmers and villagers gather in places called ‘Deras’ to socialise, drink tea and coffee and discuss their farms. But one project has created a community network to transform one of these Deras to have digital facilities – a ‘Digital Dera’. Farmers use this Digital Dera to access crucial weather forecasts and other information to help them manage their farms more efficiently. It also helps them battle the impact of climate change, as the crop cycles change due to shifting weather patterns. Founders of the project Fouad Bajwa and Aamer Hayat speak to Gareth about the impact of the Digital Dera project on the farming community.
Offline interview in Cuba Cuba is one of the least digitally connected countries in the Western hemisphere. This is due to the US trade embargo but also poor internet infrastructure and tight control of its own government on the flow of information. Although accessing digital technologies is getting better, for ordinary Cubans going online is still a challenge. The internet connection is slow, unreliable, and prohibitively expensive. To combat this, they have created an offline underground internet called ‘El Paquete Semanal’ or ‘Weekly Package’ – it is a one-terabyte collection of eclectic material of movies, tv-series, sports, and music while turning a blind eye to copyright. Reporter Snezana Curcic visited to learn more about this Cuban alternative to broadband internet.
This programme was first transmitted on Tuesday 7th June 2022.
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Podcast: In our Tech Society
Episode: The Quantified Worker
Pub date: 2022-09-11
What does evermore tracking and surveillance mean for workers?
I'm joined by Dr Phoebe V. Moore, a Senior Policy Adviser at the International Labour Organisation and Professor of Management at the University of Essex.
2.15: Origins of quantification
7.22: Algorithms and responsibility in management
13.15: Is productivity (especially in ideas-generating and teamwork-based work) actually measurable?
20:10: Who are AI Trainers?
27.45: Automation and content moderation
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Podcast: Rising with the Tide
Episode: Crises & Roots: Towards an Understanding of World-Ecology, Nature & the Capitalocene with Jason W. Moore - Episode 40
Pub date: 2022-08-29
50 Conversations! That's what this beautiful talk with Jason W. Moore marks for your two curious hosts. Thank you so so much for giving us your time and attention, and for listening to our silly rants and constant tangents. And a huge thank you to every one of our fifty guests for coming along and putting up with us!
In this milestone episode, your hosts find a strange tree in their backyard. So they begin digging to see where its roots lie. But as the hole gets deeper, the roots show no sign of thinning or ending; they curl and twist and entangle and as the ground caves in, an subterranean wonder comes to light. As they explore these mysterious tunnels of endless roots and otherworldly sights, they run across Professor Jason W. Moore, an apparent connoisseur of this strange and wonderful web of life. As they walk along, Jason recounts the often-hushed history of our world: the importance of 1492 in capitalism's history, the constructed divide of Humans/Nature as a way to extend frontiers of capital accumulation, and how these extend into our present.
They discuss the faulty concept of the Anthropocene and Jason's suggested alternative, the Capitalocene, as well as the idea of understanding Capitalism as a world-ecology, that is a system that engulfs and extends beyond mere economy, affecting the entirety of the web of life on Earth. Though they had to end their walk & talk due to Skander's sore calves, the trio managed to quickly touch on questions of Degrowth, academic sectarianism, and Scientism. As Jason points them to a ladder leading back to their yard, your hosts feel encouraged by the professor's writings and reflections to better understand the history of our world, to delve deeper into the roots of our crises, and to seek solutions which better embolden the struggle of life against death and profit.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-09-05
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning tools are rapidly transforming the way science and business are conducted. Text as Data shows how to combine new sources of data, machine learning tools, and social science research design to develop and evaluate new insights.
Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences(Princeton UP, 2022) is organized around the core tasks in research projects using text--representation, discovery, measurement, prediction, and causal inference. The authors offer a sequential, iterative, and inductive approach to research design. Each research task is presented complete with real-world applications, example methods, and a distinct style of task-focused research.
Bridging many divides--computer science and social science, the qualitative and the quantitative, and industry and academia--Text as Data is an ideal resource for anyone wanting to analyze large collections of text in an era when data is abundant and computation is cheap, but the enduring challenges of social science remain.
- Overview of how to use text as data
- Research design for a world of data deluge
- Examples from across the social sciences and industry
Peter Lorentzen is economics professor at the University of San Francisco. He heads USF's Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. His research is mainly on China's political economy.
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Podcast: Media Futures Podcast
Episode: Spotlight: Kevin Witzenberger
Pub date: 2022-09-04
In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Kevin Witzenberger joins Associate Professor Michael Richardson to discuss his PhD research on predictive technologies in education. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.
Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and cultural studies to shape the theories, methods and practices needed for more just media futures. Visit the Hub at www.mediafutureshub.org or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MediaFuturesHub
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Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Workplace surveillance: how your boss is spying on you
Pub date: 2022-08-24
It’s called “tattleware” or “bossware” – software that companies are increasingly using to monitor their workers in the office and at home. Employers can track keystrokes and mouse clicks, listen to and read conversations, and use a computer’s webcam to take photos—sometimes every minute. Use of these surveillance technologies by businesses increased during the pandemic with the switch to remote work, when managers were no longer able to keep an eye on workers in the office. This hour, the rise of workplace surveillance technologies – we’ll discuss what’s being tracked, if it’s even productive, and how employees can protect their privacy.
Guest J.S. Nelson, visiting researcher at Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation and co-author of Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know. She is writing a book on worker surveillance.
We recommend The New York Times, The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score – “Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost?”
The Guardian, ‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you – “Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent.”
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Podcast: Media Futures Podcast
Episode: Spotlight: Simon Taylor
Pub date: 2022-08-21
In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Simon Taylor joins Associate Professor Tanja Dreher to discuss his PhD research on histories of artificial intelligence and much more. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.
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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data Annotation
Pub date: 2022-08-26
India is one of the world’s largest markets for data annotation labour. As of 2021, there were roughly 70,000 people working in the field. Interestingly, most of the labour comes from first generation women workers in Indian towns and villages. In this episode, Carl Jaison speaks to Karishma Mehrotra, Journalist & Fulbright Scholar on her story about women from Ranchi and Mannarkad who play an unglamorous but critical role in the machine learning pipeline.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui Hu
Pub date: 2022-08-31
What is Digital Lethargy? How can we adapt to an age of disconnection? How can art act as a force of resistance?
In this episode we interview Tung-Hui Hu about digital exhaustion in the modern day, and his new upcoming book from MIT Press: “Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection.”
Tung-Hui is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of A Prehistory of the Cloud from MIT Press. He is on the advisory board of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology and is also a poet.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Pondering AI (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh
Pub date: 2022-08-03
Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (EC) and the Austrian Council on Robotics and AI.
In this insightful discussion, Mark explains why AI systems are not merely tools or strictly rational endeavors. He describes the challenges created when AI systems imitate human capabilities and how human sciences help address the messy realities of AI. Mark also demonstrates how political philosophy makes conversations about multidimensional topics such as bias, fairness and freedom more productive. Kimberly and Mark discuss the difficulty with global governance, the role of scientific expertise and technology in society, and the need for political imagination to govern emerging technologies such as AI. Along the way, Mark illustrates the debate about how AI systems could vs. should be used through the lens of gun control and climate change. Finally, Mark sounds a cautionary note about the potential for AI to undermine our fragile democratic institutions.
A transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Should the Government use AI? with Shion Guha
Pub date: 2022-07-27
How does the government use algorithms? How do algorithms impact social services, policing, and other social services? And where does Silicon Valley fit in?
In this episode we interview Shion Guha about how governments adopt algorithms to enforce public policy.
Shion is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. His research fits into the field of Human-Centered Data Science, which he helped develop. Shion explores the intersection between AI and public policy by researching algorithmic decision-making in public services such as criminal justice, child welfare, and healthcare.
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Podcast: Radio Times (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The women who programmed the first modern computer
Pub date: 2022-08-02
During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ballistic trajectory calculations which, at the time, took a group of women mathematicians 30-40 hours to complete. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, “ENIAC,” was 8ft by 80ft and comprised of 40 black steel switches, vacuum tubes and wires. Physicists John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who created ENIAC, needed someone to figure out how to program the machine – they asked six women.
Kathleen McNulty, Frances Bilas, Frances Elizabeth Synder, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Lichterman and Betty Jean Jennings had no instruction manual and at first weren’t even allowed to be in the same room as the classified computer. But still, the world’s first programmers figured out how to work the behemoth, reducing calculations that had taken a week to just 20 seconds, and spurring beginning of a technological revolution.
The contributions of these women aren’t widely known, but KATHY KLEIMAN has made it her mission to share their stories and their pioneering work in the field of computing. She founded the ENIAC Programmer Project and her new book is Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-07-27
Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms. On the basis of this study, Steinhoff develops a Marxist analysis to argue that the popular theory of immaterial labour, which holds that information technologies increase the autonomy of workers from capital, tending towards a post-capitalist economy, does not adequately describe the situation of high-tech digital labour today. In the AI industry, digital labour remains firmly under the control of capital. Steinhoff argues that theories discerning therein an emergent autonomy of labour are in fact witnessing labour’s increasing automation.
James Steinhoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Reuben Niewenhuis works as a software developer for a warehouse automation company. He double majored in computer science and philosophy at Calvin University. In addition to philosophical theory, he is interested in interdisciplinary topics.
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TBD | Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Pub date: 2022-07-24
Toronto’s Quayside project is a telling example of how smart cities have failed. Could it also show how to make them better?
Guest: Ben Green, Jennifer Keesmaat
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account
Pub date: 2022-07-26
Open source investigators We live in an age where there is data on almost everything, and a large chunk of it is publicly available. You only need to know where to look. There are many investigators on the internet that are gathering Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT for short, and conduct research and verification, much of it focussed on war zones. The most prominent collective in this field is the NGO Bellingcat, but there is a whole ecosystem of amateur sleuths online. Gareth speaks to Charlotte Godart who leads the volunteer programme at Bellingcat, on how they effectively crowdsource part of their investigations, and we hear from several hobbyists who rose to prominence on Twitter about why they spent much of their free time on this type of research.
Data tackling gun violence Brazil has a gun violence issue, and a public data issue. In the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, there were, on average, 13 shootings every single day last year, and the only reason we know this is because of open data platform Fogo Cruzado. They collect data in real-time on shootings happening in Rio and other cities across Brazil via their app, social media, and public police reports, and they make that data publicly available for ordinary citizens, organisations, and journalists to use. The founder of Fogo Cruzado, Cecília Olliveira, explains how it all works, and how having data can help set the public agenda.
The blue map: environmentalist action in China Only 10 years ago, Beijing was a city covered in smog with many residents opting to wear pollution masks. Now, the situation has, remarkably, improved, with blue skies being a normal sight. One possible reason for this drastic change is environmentalist Ma Jun, who, in 2006, started the blue map database aggregating government data and making it more easily accessible to the public. Since then, the blue map project has grown into an app that lets users check many types of environmental data and even contribute to the database themselves by simply taking a picture of a dirty river, a cloud of smog, or a factory that isn’t following environmental guidelines. Gareth speaks to Ma Jun, founding director of China’s Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs and founder of the Blue Map, about how this crowdsourcing approach works, and how environmental activism in China differs from Western countries.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Angelica Mari.
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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson
Pub date: 2022-07-12
Should we be scared of AI?
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Joanna Bryson discusses how she became interested in the ways different species use intelligence, how the typical tropes in science fiction misunderstand AI and the problem of anthropomorphism. In this interview, Bryson discusses the most pressing ethical challenges concerning the future of artificial intelligence and whether or not we can stabilize democracy when we have so much information about each other. She also touches on how the problems that arise with AI aren't always to do with the technology itself but with the social conditions that often produce it.
Joanna Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She advises governments, corporations, and other agencies globally, particularly on AI policy.
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Podcast: Darts and Letters (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: EP61: Enter the Metaverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost
Pub date: 2022-07-15
The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corporations want to sell you. Strap on some VR goggles and escape your tired analog life! Except that the systemic issues we already have seem to be creeping into the metaverse, too.
As the lines between virtuality and physicality continue to blur, companies like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta are setting their sights on virtual worlds. It’s a new frontier, full of potential – and full of our valuable data. Metaverses like Second Life or World of Warcraft can be positive and even game-changing experiences on the individual level, but when it comes to the navigating a virtual society with a capitalist backdrop…things get a bit dicey.
On this episode, guest host and producer Ren Bangert explores the metaverse. First, we hear a love story from the glory days of Second Life, told to us by Sandrine Han – a scholar of virtual worlds and a long-time Second Lifer. Then, writer and game developer Ian Bogost takes us on a deep dive into the corporatization of the metaverse. We’ll hear how the metaverse has grown from a dystopian warning from science fiction to a sinister data-mining reality – and how even the shiniest of tech utopias are still functioning under the same old capitalism.
——————-FURTHER READING, LISTENING AND WATCHING——————
- Check out Ian Bogost’s article “The Metaverse is Bad” in The Atlantic. Ian’s got lots of excellent reading content listed on his website – perfect for a deep dive into game theory. * For a further imagining of democracy in a metaverse, check out Eliane Boey’s short story “The Forgotten”. You can read it in Clarkesworld Magazine, or listen to an audio version on the Clarkesworld podcast. * Watch the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern get trapped in the metaverse for 24 hours. It’s a an emotional rollercoaster.
——————-EVEN MORE READING——————
- Han, H. C. (2013). Visual learning in the virtual world: The hidden curriculum of imagery in Second Life. Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education. http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/visual-learning-virtual-world/74048* Stephenson, N. (1993). Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Profit Uber Alles - The Uber Files / Dean Starkman
Pub date: 2022-07-18
We welcome Dean Starkman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in. Producer Seb Wuepper gets on his soapbox to talk about the old question whether or not the United States is a democracy, we present your hangover cure for this week, and also introduce this week's Question from Hell!
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are internet shutdowns evolving?
Pub date: 2022-07-12
Internet shutdowns have been a global issue for many years, and Digital Planet has reported on many of them, from Cuba and Myanmar to Iran. A new United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) report now warns of the dramatic real-life effects. Gareth speaks to Peggy Hicks, one of the authors of the report, about how internet shutdowns impact the lives of millions worldwide. In addition, Rest of World journalist Peter Guest, and #KeepItOn campaign manager at AccessNow, Felicia Anthonio, join live in the studio to discuss why internet shutdowns occur, and whether they have changed over time.
Quantum-safe algorithms The encryption methods we currently use keep our data safe and secure, but this could be a thing of the past soon. Experts expect quantum computers to be able to crack these encryption codes quite easily in the future, which could have devastating consequences. After a six year selection process, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States has chosen four initial algorithms for their quantum-safe cryptography standards. Gareth speaks to Anne Dames, an engineer at IBM, where three of the final four were developed.
Mobile app for tinnitus Hearing a ringing or buzzing in your ear can be very difficult to deal with. A number of mobile tinnitus apps are now promising help. One of them, called TinniBot, even includes an AI chatbot that provides support whenever it is needed. Our reporter Fern Lulham has been finding out more.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson
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Podcast: The Rational Reminder Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Crypto 6: Bruce Schneier: Security, Trust, and Blockchain
Pub date: 2022-07-08
Welcome back to another episode of our limited addition Crypto Series on the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check about sensible investing and financial decision-making. Are cryptocurrencies and the associated technologies beneficial? Could they change the world for the better? There is a lot of controversy surrounding the use and application of cryptocurrencies and the associated technologies. Some say the innovation is ultimately useless while others think it is the answer to society’s problems. To help us unpack this complicated and hot-button topic is Bruce Schneier, an internationally-renowned security technologist, author, and educator. The focus of his work is the intersection of security, technology and people. Bruce also has an immense passion for educating people about cryptocurrencies. Examples of his well-known books include Liars and Outliers and Data and Goliath, which provide much-needed insight to readers about DeFi technologies and big monopolies. He also lectures in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. In our conversation, we discuss the debate surrounding cryptocurrencies such as privacy concerns of digital cash, what makes Bitcoin different from earlier digital currencies, aspects of public blockchain technology, the misapplications of crypto technology, the different forms and approaches to cryptocurrencies, and whether DeFi technologies can be beneficial to society, and what the biggest concerns are regarding cryptocurrencies. Join us today as we take a detailed look into the value and drawbacks of crypto and DeFi technology with Bruce Schneier!
Key Points From This Episode:
- What the objective was of early digital cash projects, like DigiCash. [0:03:27]
- The privacy concerns associated with digital cash. [0:04:45]
- Whether financial surveillance should be a concern for people. [0:05:45]
- Differences between Bitcoin and earlier forms of digital cash. [0:08:35]
- How good technology is at solving economic and political problems. [0:09:30]
- Details about the pieces that come together to make public blockchains work. [0:10:29]
- Why Bruce considers proof of work to be an idiotic way to form consensus. [0:13:43]
- Whether alternatives to proof of work resolve wasteful energy practices. [0:16:01]
- The new properties that public blockchains offer. [0:17:04]
- We find out if public blockchains do what their proponents say they do. [0:17:37]
- The claims that crypto proponents make regarding blockchain are discussed. [0:19:29]
- We discuss the misapplications of crypto and DeFi technologies. [0:20:23]
- Outline of the systems of trust that humans use to incentivize good behaviour. [0:23:26]
- Whether cryptocurrency technologies will become secure and trusted. [0:27:49]
- Reasons for the perspective ‘code is law’ from crypto technologists. [0:30:02]
- Whether ‘one CPU, one vote’ is how blockchains are working in practice. [0:31:35]
- We discuss other ideas and emerging technologies in the crypto space. [0:33:24]
- If government intervention is needed for crypto technologies and currencies. [0:36:21]
- How cryptocurrencies can be included in the mainstream financial system. [0:39:06]
- Bruce shares his opinion on the future of NFTs for artists to be able to capitalize on their creativity. [0:40:08]
- What the potential impacts of crypto technologies on younger generations are. [0:43:48]
- How blockchain erodes moral and reputational incentives to act responsibly. [0:45:26]
- Ways in which cryptocurrencies can help people who are ‘bankless’ and avoid high bank fees. [0:46:13]
- Break down of a real-world scenario where blockchain is being used in an alternative way. [0:49:00]
- Bruce tells us whether Bitcoin is suitable as a global currency. [0:50:55]
- The message that Bruce hopes his students will take away after his class. [0:51:59]
- If the government is beginning to take regulation of cryptocurrencies seriously. [0:52:43]
- What aspects, if any, excites Bruce about cryptocurrencies. [0:53:04]
- What Bruce’s biggest concerns about cryptocurrencies are. [00:53:43]
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Algorithms of Education: Data and its role in education policy
Pub date: 2022-07-12
How do educational policy studies need to shift to remain adequate to the emergence of powerful forms of technology? In ALGORITHMS OF EDUCATION, Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar, and P. Taylor Webb explore how, for policy makers, big data creates the illusion of greater control over educational futures. They propose that schools and governments are increasingly turning to “synthetic governance”—where what is human and what is machine becomes less clear—as a strategy for optimizing education. In this episode, Gulson and Sellar discuss new strategies for, and a new politics of, education.
Kalervo N. Gulson is professor in education policy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Education Policy, Space, and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race and coauthor of Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities.
Sam Sellar is professor in education policy at the University of South Australia. Most recently he coedited the World Yearbook of Education 2019: Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks.
References:
N. Katherine Hayles
Luciana Parisi
Gilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
Bernard Stiegler
Pierre Bourdieu
Michel Foucault
Isabelle Stengers
Keller Easterling (Extrastatecraft)
AlphaGo (and 2017 documentary of it)
Shoshana Zuboff
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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Roberto J. González, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-07-01
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, 2022) is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare.
With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival.
Dr. Gonzalez is Professor and Chair of the San Jose State University Anthropology Department. He has authored four books including Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network and Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State. You can learn more about his work here.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
Pub date: 2022-06-30
Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the impact of the iPhone after 15 years, including its effects on how we work, how we use technology, and what it’s meant for Apple.
Brian Merchant is a tech journalist, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and co-editor of Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.
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, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- In 2011, Cory Moll tried to unionize Apple stores. In June 2022, a store in Maryland became the first to vote to form a union.
- Apple’s claims about privacy are, at least to some degree, a clever marketing campaign.
- Paris previously wrote about some of Apple’s environmental messaging.
- The previous episode with Brian on the iPhone is episode 78 (Sep 16, 2021), and I also spoke to Jenny Chan about the conditions at Foxconn factories where iPhones are manufactured on episode 27 (Sep 17, 2020).
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding the cryptocurrency crash
Pub date: 2022-07-05
This year has been a disaster for many investors in cryptocurrencies. Alex Hern draws the parallels of the spreading panic in the new digital economy with the 2008 financial crisis. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)
Pub date: 2022-06-24
In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences.
Automated Media (Routledge, 2019) explores the cascading logic of automation, which develops from the information collection process through to data processing and, finally, automated decision making. It argues that pervasive digital monitoring combines with algorithmic decision making and machine learning to create new forms of power and control that pose challenges to democratic forms of accountability and individual autonomy alike. Andrejevic provides an overview of the implications of these developments for the fate of human experience, describing the "bias of automation" through the logics of pre-emption, operationalism, and "framelessness."
Automated Media is a fascinating and groundbreaking new volume: a must-read for students and researchers of critical media studies interested in the intersections of media, technology, and the digital economy.
Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies at Monash University where he heads the Automated Society Working Group in the School of Media, Film and Journalism. He is the author of Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era; and Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on surveillance, popular culture, and digital media.
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Podcast: Science Weekly (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Shitcoins: are pointless cryptocurrencies a scam or a gamble?
Pub date: 2022-06-28
When the Guardian’s UK technology editor Alex Hern was contacted on Twitter to ask if he was involved in a new cryptocurrency called Tsuka, he assumed they just wanted him to buy it. He ignored the messages. But soon after Alex realised that, without knowing it, he was already involved. What happened next reveals a lot about the strange world of ‘shitcoins’ – cryptocurrencies with no reason for existence beyond buying low and selling high. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Alex Hern about his shitcoin saga, and how the lines can get blurred between a gamble and a scam. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 170. Seasons in the Crypto Abyss (ft. David Gerard)
Pub date: 2022-06-24
We are joined by David Gerard – longtime critic of blockchain, even before it was cool – to discuss the experience of staring into the crypto abyss and having it stare back into you.
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Podcast: Make Me Data Literate
Episode: Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data Science, and Life.
Pub date: 2022-06-17
“I love that the thing that I work on is actually so consequential to better decision making, to solving real world problems. To understanding and evaluating forces in our world. I just love that I’m part of a way of making a difference that has applications in so many settings.” “How do we start to… Continue reading Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data Science, and Life.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita Jackson
Pub date: 2022-06-16
Paris Marx is joined by Gita Jackson to discuss how streaming has altered the film and television industry, what happens as their business models are coming under question, and whether cinemas have reason to celebrate streaming’s woes.
Gita Jackson is a staff writer at Motherboard, Vice’s tech vertical. Follow Gita on Twitter at @xoxogossipgita.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Gita wrote about why Eternals was still bad even though it was diverse, Netflix laying off Tudum writers, and some of the challenges Netflix faces.
- Paris wrote about the end of the Paramount Decrees, the need to break up the media giants, and the problem with the new Spider-Man movies.
- EA considered a merger with NBC Universal, and had talks with other companies.
- Raven Software at Activision Blizzard and Bioware contractors at Keywords Studios have voted to unionize. Microsoft’s Phil Spencer said the company would recognize the Raven Software union if its acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes through.
- CNN+ was shut down after a few weeks of operation.
- Netflix is changing its content investment strategy as investors lose confidence.
- Netflix’s share price plummeted in April after reporting it lost subscribers. The following week, the cinema celebrated the negative turn on streaming at CinemaCon.
- The Mandalorian pioneered a new kind of film set with massive LED screens instead of green screen.
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Podcast: The National Security Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Critical submarine cables
Pub date: 2022-06-16
In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Samuel Bashfield and Anthony Bergin join William Stoltz to discuss the importance and vulnerabilities of submarine cables.
In the Indo-Pacific, submarine cables carry over 95 per cent of international data traffic, including telephone and data communications. But they are vulnerable to a variety of environmental, accidental and malicious threats.
Samuel Bashfield and Dr Anthony Bergin, join Dr William Stoltz, to analyse the current challenges facing undersea cable infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific, and policy recommendations that could increase their resilience.
Samuel Bashfield is a PhD candidate and Research Officer at the ANU National Security College. His research engages with Indian Ocean security issues, with a focus on the past, present and future of the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory).
Dr Anthony Bergin is a Senior Fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. For 20 years Dr Bergin served as an academic at the Australian Defence Force Academy. From 1991-2003 he was the Director of the Australian Defence Studies Centre.
Dr William A. Stoltz is Policy Director at the ANU National Security College. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate Member of the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism (SUIT) at the University of Nottingham.
Show notes
Options for safeguarding undersea critical infrastructure: Australia and Indo-Pacific submarine cables, Samuel Bashfield and Anthony Bergin, (2022)
The Deep-Sea Cables, Rudyard Kipling, (1893)
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Automated Warfare
Pub date: 2022-06-08
Many U.S. military establishment bigwigs are pushing the development of automated and autonomous weapons systems. Roberto González [1] questions whether this robo-fanaticism, as he calls it, is justified. He also describes efforts to address human warfighters’ distrust of machines.
Roberto J. González, War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future [2] University of California Press, 2022
[1] https://www.sjsu.edu/anthropology/about-us/people/faculty/gonzalez.php [2] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520384767/war-virtually
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Podcast: New Models (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)
Pub date: 2022-05-23
NM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and other pre-www systems. From FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands, Kevin maps out this early territory, with a brief history of the French Minitel system along the way.
Through his work, Kevin asks us to consider what it really means to be “autonomous” online and what alternate conceptions of “the internet” might be possible when we consider the broader origin story of the digital social sphere.
For More: https://kevindriscoll.info/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world/
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence w/ Isabel Millar
Pub date: 2022-06-06
Psychoanalytic theorist Isabel Millar explains the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for humanity, what modern science fiction reveals about our fascination with sex-robots, and what is driving a desire to replicate human attributes in silicon.
Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural critic from London. Her work focuses on AI, sex, the body, film and the future. Her book The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence was published with the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2021. As well as extensive international academic speaking and publishing across philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural theory, Isabel has made numerous TV, documentary and podcast appearances including for BBC2 (Frankie Boyles' New World Order), Russia Today (Entrevista), Tomorrow Unlocked (Build me Somebody to Love), Schizotopia, Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour and Parallax Views among others. Isabel has recently been a psychoanalytic script consultant for BBC Drama and interviewed for a book by Ai-Da Robot, the world's first AI artist. She has contributed to the forthcoming AI Glossary, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition for Onassis Publications and is one of 50 global thinkers writing Manifesto - A Struggle of Universalities edited by Nicol A. Barria- Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek. She is a research fellow at The Centre for Critical Thought, the University of Kent and is currently writing her next book Patipolitics.
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Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 217 - Car Wars
Pub date: 2022-06-05
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation out July 5th from Verso Books and host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, where they cover the intersections of labor, tech and finance.
Paris and Kumars discuss the significance of the union drive currently gaining momentum at Apple stores across the US, the recent victory of the nation’s first major US video game union at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software, the limits of the current push by governments and corporations to produce electric vehicles for mass consumption, what could cause the crypto bubble to pop for good, and why Elon Musk can’t stop committing fraud.
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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-06-03
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go…' Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution, promotion, and performance have been erased and substituted with unthinkable and exciting methods in which absolutely anyone can explore, enjoy, and participate in creating and listening to music.
Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era(Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the interactive relationship of sound, music, and image, and its users (creators/musicians/performers/audience/consumers). Areas involving the historical, technological, and creative practices of virtual music are surveyed including its connection with creators, musicians, performers, audience, and consumers. Shara Rambarran looks at the fascination and innovations surrounding virtual music, and illustrates key artists (such as Grace Jones, The Weeknd), creators (such as King Tubby, Kraftwerk, MadVillain, Danger Mouse), audiovisuals in video games and performances (such as Cuphead and Gorillaz), audiences, and consumers that contribute in making this musical experience a phenomenon. Whether it is interrogating the (un)realness of performers, modified identities of artists, technological manipulation of the Internet, music industry and music production, or accessible opportunities in creativity, the book offers a fresh understanding of virtual music and appeals to readers who have an interest in this digital revolution.
Shara Rambarran is Assistant Professor of Music at Bader International Study Centre, UK (Queen’s University, Canada). She co-runs the Art of Record Production conferences and is an editor on the Journal on the Art of Record Production and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality (2016). Shara Rambarran on Twitter.
Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter.
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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Do you still have privacy in the digital age?
Pub date: 2022-05-31
The line between a public’s right to know and an individual’s right to privacy is murky. Amy Gajda is the Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the ethics of data privacy in the tech age, from modern muckraking journalism to a person’s right to be forgotten—and if we even still have it. Her book is called “Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy.”
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-05-27
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data(UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage at History, Classics & Archaeology and Edinburgh Futures Institute at University of Edinburgh, explores the uses of heritage by contemporary populist politics. Drawing on ‘big data’ sources, including Facebook and Twitter, along with a deep theoretical engagement with digital humanities and heritage, the book compares and contrasts key political events in Italy, USA, and the UK to show how the ancient world is deployed by both politicians and audiences. The book is essential reading for both humanities and political science scholars, along with anyone interested in understanding the current populist moment. The book is available open access here.
Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.
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Podcast: Overdue Conversations
Episode: Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise Jaillant
Pub date: 2022-05-30
This episode grapples with the many implications of one big question: what happens to literary archives when most of the work and communications around book publishing now occurs digitally? Columbia literature curator Lina Moe sits down with Lise Jaillant--an author, researcher, and lecturer at Loughborough University--to discuss this.
Lise Jaillant's research lies at the intersection of Digital Humanities, Book History and Modernist Studies. Her core expertise is on literary institutions: she has written extensively about the publishers that marketed the new literature of the early twentieth century. She also has expertise on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation/access to these archives, which Lina and Lise discuss at length in this episode.
While this conversation primarily focuses on digital archives in the publishing industry, it also touches on the larger significance of how to preserve archives for future generations to access in an increasingly digital world.
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Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cryptocalypse Now!
Pub date: 2022-05-20
Cryptocurrencies are collapsing across the etherspace. Neil and Jonathan talk to Izabella Kaminska, founder of the Blind Spot and keen cryptowatcher, about Terra, Luna and Tether, the death spiral of the stablecoins, and whether anyone in the real world should care..
Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Does a Crypto Crash Portend for the Economy?
Pub date: 2022-05-20
With the collapse of stablecoin and the blow to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi take another look at crypto markets and parse out what's behind their instability. Plus, a look at the link between air conditioning and productivity and why climate change is making cooling technology increasingly vital.
Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: (Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett Tomlin
Pub date: 2022-05-19
Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week’s crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will finally force regulators to take action on cryptocurrency.
Drew Pendergrass is a co-host of Crypto Critics’ Corner and writer of the FUD Letter. Follow Bennett on Twitter at @BennettTomlin.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the Terra/Luna collapse and why we can’t let those who promoted crypto scams escape blame for their actions.
- Bennett references George Soros’ attack on the British pound in 1992, also known as Black Wednesday.
- Do Kwan was behind the failed Basis Cash stablecoin.
- Vitalik Buterin backed a proposal for an FDIC-like response to rescue “small holders” who lost money in the Luna collapse.
- Investors recently pulled $7 billion out of Tether, which still won’t be open about its reserves. It was hacked in 2017.
- FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried described yield farming as a Ponzi scheme.
- Justin Sun has already launched a copycat of the failed Terra algorithmic stablecoin. The Verge did a deep dive on him in March.
- a16z says the crypto winter is here.
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Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance Bennett
Pub date: 2022-05-15
Prof. Lance Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Washington, discusses the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. We reflect on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy. We also discuss theories of capitalism, recent changes in data privacy and third-party tracking, as well as the connection between digital technologies and protest parties.
The article we discuss in the episode is Killing the Golden Goose: A Framework for Regulating Disruptive Technologies.
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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who owns the internet?
Pub date: 2022-05-16
What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course!
From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few super-rich men? Will cryptocurrencies and Web3 make the internet good again? And what would a people-powered internet really look like?
Ayeisha is joined by Dr James Muldoon, senior lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter and Head of Digital Research at the Autonomy think tank.
You can grab a copy of James' book Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech here: http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346977/platform-socialism/
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Podcast: What's Left? (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Work of the Internet (w/ Justin E.H. Smith)
Pub date: 2022-05-17
In this wide-ranging discussion, Oliver talks to philosophy and history professor Justin E.H. Smith about his new book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is.
Suggested Reading
Smith, "It's All Over," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-over/
"It's All Just Beginning," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/
"The Internet Is Not as New as You Think," https://www.wired.com/story/the-internet-is-not-as-new-as-you-think/
"Working Arrangement," https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/family/working-arrangement
"Meritocracy and the Future of Work," https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2021/04/meritocracy-and-future-work
Justin E.H. Smith's substack: https://justinehsmith.substack.com/
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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest
Pub date: 2022-05-05
Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-05-10
In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem has spawned to reveal how its conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global power. Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web's "infrastructures of control" visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the "global common good" is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along with Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign nation-states.
In analysing this new modality of cultural power in the global digital ecosystem, The Digital Frontier is an important read for scholars, activists, academics and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and the public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: North Korean digital control
Pub date: 2022-05-10
North Korea is known as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Yet, there are North Koreans who have access to some of the same kind of technologies that are available to the rest of the world, albeit with severe restrictions. A new report suggests that some even hack their smartphones to get around the stringent digital controls. The authors of the report looked at North Korean phones and spoke to two escapees, a former computer programmer for the North Korean government and a former computer science student. One of the authors Martyn Williams as well as North Korea expert and co-host of the BBC podcast The Lazarus Heist Jean H. Lee join us on the programme.
Clean Drinking water at the push of a button Researchers at MIT have created a portable device that can clean and desalinate seawater. It works by creating an electrical field that pulls salt and suspended solids out of the water. Unlike other methods, this requires little electricity and no filters. Research scientist Junghyo Yoon is hoping to improve and commercialise the technology in the next couple of years.
Military virtual and augmented reality Microsoft has recently been contracted to construct more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets for the U.S. Army. How is virtual and augmented reality used in the military? Will it be used on the battlefield? Gareth speaks to journalist and VR training expert Andy Fawkes.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Ghislaine Boddington.
Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood Producer: Florian Bohr
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Podcast: Matrix Podcast
Episode: Digital Transformations in Global Land, Housing, and Property
Pub date: 2022-05-03
Recorded on April 27, 2022, this panel discussion brought together members of the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix Research Team on Digital Transformations in Property and Development to discuss how state, corporations, and grassroots actors are employing digital technologies to remake global land, housing, and property.
Panelists included Hilary Faxon, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley; Elizabeth Resor, PhD student in the UC Berkeley School of Information; Julien Migozzi, Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford; Luis F. Alvarez León, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Dartmouth College; and Jovanna Rosen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University-Camden. The panel was moderated by Desiree Fields, Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley.
The event was co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies and the Network for a New Political Economy (N2PE).
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #77 - Silicon Valley and the Origins of US Big Tech - w/ Margaret O'Mara
Pub date: 2022-05-02
In this episode, Prof. Margaret O'Mara of the University of Washington discusses the origins and workings of the US Tech industry - in reference to her 2019 book: The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy Perrigo
Pub date: 2022-04-29
Today we welcome Billy Perrigo to discuss the exploitation of African workers performing content moderation for Facebook. Billy is a staff writer at TIME covering social media companies, with a focus on content moderation and responsible AI.
In this episode, we cover Billy's article at TIME, "Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop", which exposes how Facebook outsources content moderation on the cheap to a company called Sama in Kenya. Billy explains how he discovered the story, Facebook's relationship to Sama, the low pay and exploitative working conditions faced by content moderators at Sama, how the company is alleged to repress worker resistance, and more.
Tech Empire is part of the Yale Podcast Network, and can be found on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube, with additional outlets coming soon. You can follow Billy on Twitter at @billy_perrigo. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast, Michael Kwet at @Michael_Kwet, and Tshi Malatji at @tshimalatji.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Worldcoin: Where Techno-Optimism Meets Techno-Colonialism
Pub date: 2022-04-24
There is a growing literature and practice around how to equitably collaborate with traditionally marginalized communities to build better technology. A pair of investigative reports into Worldcoin’s launch may well serve as the basis for an instructive case study in what not to do.
The first report, by Richard Nieva and Aman Sethi at BuzzFeed News, was published April 5th. It’s titled Inside Worldcoin’s Globe-Spanning, Eyeball-Scanning, Free Crypto Giveaway: The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin says it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.
The second report, by Eileen Guo & Adi Renaldi at MIT Technology Review, was published April 6th. It’s titled Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users: The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.
Tech Policy Press had the chance to talk to both pairs of journalists separately last week.
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Podcast: Near Future Laboratory Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: N°34 — Genevieve Bell from Cybernetics to Meta(verse)
Pub date: 2022-04-25
My 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.
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Podcast: War Machine
Episode: Andrew McLuhan /// Techno-Maelstrom [Ep 27]
Pub date: 2022-04-25
Wherein 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
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% 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: 2022-04-14
In 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).
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Podcast: Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart
Episode: The Asset in the Machine
Pub date: 2022-04-06
NFTs (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.
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: All Eyes on Crypto
Pub date: 2022-04-14
In 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.
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Podcast: Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU
Episode: Pressure and Freedom: Technology and Formations of Public and Private Health Care in Phnom Penh
Pub date: 2022-04-07
In 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.
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Podcast: Techdirt (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Algorithmic Destruction
Pub date: 2022-04-12
People 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.
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Podcast: etui.podcast
Episode: The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil
Pub date: 2022-04-11
The 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
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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: /252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Pub date: 2022-04-05
On 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
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Precarity of Tech’s Shadow Workforce
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Earlier this year, a nonprofit organization called the TechEquity Collaborative released the results of its Contract Worker Disparity Project, an investigation into the “shadow workforce” that powers many tech firms. The culmination of a year of research into the disparities in contract work, the report features survey data and first-hand accounts from contract workers in tech who describe range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks that are offered to full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
To learn more about the key findings of the report, to hear more about what it's like to make your living in one of these roles, and to get a sense of the types of policy solutions that would address these inequities, we spoke with:
- Samantha (Sam) Gordon, Senior Vice President of Programs TechEquity Collaborative
- Shannon Wait, Campaign Assistant with Alphabet Workers Union, part of the Communications Workers of America Local 1400
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly White
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Paris 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.
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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.
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Podcast: Publicly Sited
Episode: The Mediated City 09: Platform Urbanism
Pub date: 2022-03-13
If 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).
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The ECASH Act with Rohan Grey
Pub date: 2022-03-28
In 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 Bill
E-CASH website
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amelia Winger-Bearskin on the Metaverse, DAOS, Gaming, NFTs and Indigenous Culture
Pub date: 2022-03-27
Amelia 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 (perListen 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!)
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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily Pugh
Pub date: 2022-03-22
Paul 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.
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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.
Pub date: 2022-03-22
Josef 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.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-15
For 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.
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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · 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 McCloskey
Pub date: 2022-03-15
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.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #74 - The Promise of Access - w/ Daniel Greene
Pub date: 2022-03-11
In 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.
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Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David Golumbia
Pub date: 2022-03-04
The 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.
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Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Caste and The Digital (Feat Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)
Pub date: 2022-03-07
How 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 WeBeImagining@gmail.com 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.
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Links for Episode:Dalit Women Fight
EQUALITY LABS
Caste-hate speech Report by Murali Shanmugavelan
Dismantling Global Hindutva
DGH: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Closing Statement
How to write anti-caste solidarity texts
Cast(e)ing Indian Media: Unsettling Secular Mythologies
Practice of Caste in USA - Series#1- Q&A with Dr. Balmurli Natrajan & Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan
Advocacy Group Fights India Caste System Discrimination in Silicon Valley
Trapped in Silicon Valley's Hidden Caste System | WIRED
Opinion | California's lawsuit against Cisco shines a light on caste discrimination in the US and around the world - The Washington Post
Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-08
Many 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.
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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Pub date: 2022-02-24
This 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.
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Podcast: The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast
Episode: The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast || Episode 16: Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism & The Platform Economy
Pub date: 2022-02-28
In 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 more besides.
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.
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Podcast: Teneo Insights Podcast
Episode: Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Money
Pub date: 2022-02-24
Crypto 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.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing
Pub date: 2022-02-23
Chris 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.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% 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: 2022-02-16
Have 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.
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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James Kilgore
Pub date: 2022-02-17
Emma 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!
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
Pub date: 2022-02-14
Alina 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/3kuGM5X
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Other articles by Siân:
- Siân's Website: https://www.sianbrooke.com/
- Siân's Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:76f836bf-880b-4902-9226-8d668726f4cf
- Trouble 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/9593
Further Reading
- OII's Anti-Racists Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/146XaYuhUAng6rGV9mChDkvWdYIfwpSXlle1RUxUaBUE/edit?usp=sharing
- Hacking Diversity by Dunbar Hester: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversity
- Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: Nothing is Foreign (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment
Pub date: 2022-02-11
Can 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.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 117: Fight for the Future's Sarah Roth-Gaudette on Web 3 Regulation and Alternatives to Big Tech
Pub date: 2022-02-14
The interest in regulation and Web 3.0, the umbrella term for all matters crypto, continues to grow in countries around the world. In Canada, a new private member’s bill encourages the government to establish a regulatory framework to support innovation even as concerns mount over the use of cryptocurrency to by-pass conventional payments regulations. In the United States, there have been multiple Congressional hearings and proposals for legislative action.
Fight for the Future was one of many leading digital civil liberties groups that included Access now, Article 19, EFF, and Global Voices, that recently came together to issue a public letter in support of alternatives to big tech and to approach legislation related to Web 3 technologies carefully. Sarah Roth-Gaudette, the Executive Director of Fight for the Future, joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about Web 3, the regulatory initiatives, and the issues that are at stake.
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Podcast: Meet The Education Researcher (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Automated surveillance in education (Chris Gilliard)
Pub date: 2022-02-07
Chris 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?
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unlocked – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)
Pub date: 2022-02-08
Because 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/
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Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 75 - A Cybernetic Future
Pub date: 2022-02-07
Cybernetics 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 Medina
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Podcast: Global Digital Cultures
Episode: Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus Uitermark
Pub date: 2022-02-03
In 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?
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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The social life of programmers
Pub date: 2022-01-26
Computer 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 Bradley
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Who is Amazon?
Pub date: 2022-01-30
In 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?
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Articles 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 Atlantic
- Charles Duhigg’s “Is Amazon Unstoppable?”
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Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: DeepMacro: Future of Finance
Episode: Crypto, The Uberization of Money, and Why Central Banks Want Digital Currencies
Pub date: 2022-02-01
Jeff 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.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Today 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 galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.
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Podcast: Ethical Schools
Episode: From Skinner to computer-based education: Can machines teach?
Pub date: 2022-01-21
We speak with independent journalist Audrey Watters, author of "Teaching machines: The history of personalized learning," about the origins of teaching machines and the pedagogies that incorporate mechanical devices for teaching and learning. Ms. Watters explains how BF Skinner’s emphasis on behaviorism, in combination with commercial opportunism, has led in some cases to the supplanting of teachers by computer software.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 114: The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert on Protecting Society from Surveillance Software
Pub date: 2022-01-24
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, led by Professor Ron Deibert, has a well-earned reputation for uncovering surveillance technologies and security vulnerabilities with research and reports that attract immediate attention worldwide. Professor Deibert has won an incredible array of awards and accolades for his remarkable work, including the Order of Ontario and the EFF’s Pioneer Award. In 2020, he delivered the Massey Lectures, based on his book for the lectures, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society. Professor Deibert joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about the lab, his work, and the threat of what he calls “despotism as a service”, where spyware is used to target journalists, activists, and civil society groups.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon
Pub date: 2022-01-13
Paris 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_.
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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.
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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 531: The metaverse & digital currency
Pub date: 2022-01-14
Big tech has been buzzing about the metaverse for months. A deep look into what it actually is and why digital currency may be the coin of the virtual realm.
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hell Is Other Human Resources ft. Alex Press
Pub date: 2022-01-18
We are joined by Alex Press (@alexnpress), of Jacobin and the Primer podcast, to do some more Amazonology. This time, we look at the specifics of how HR operates at this company, how its shittiness ends up hurting workers, and how Amazon is gearing up to export more of its working practices to others. But first, we wonder at why and how it was the parties that finally turned the British establishment against Boris Johnson.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Robots under the Thwaites Glacier
Pub date: 2022-01-12
Huge robots, including a seven-metre two-tonne vessel named Ran, are on their way to the Thwaites Glacier to learn more about the retreating ice and its impact on Climate Change. But this won’t be the only tech that’s being deployed on the 65-day mission; British Antarctic Survey’s Boaty McBoatface and the Autosub Long Range vehicle operated by the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, will travel under the ice shelf along with Ran. Professor Anna Wåhlin from the University of Gothenburg tells us more about her robot Ran and about the data she’ll be collecting.
Tiny light engines We’re talking to Ed Tang, the CEO of Avegant. They’re the company behind the world’s smallest light engines for augmented reality. Developing projectors thinner than the width of a pencil means we’re on the brink of AR glasses that will barely look different from standard glasses. Alongside talking about how this technology works, Ed also spoke to us about what this means for the future of AR.
James Webb telescope tech Space journalist Kate Arkless-Gray is live on the show to tell us about the tech that got the James Webb Telescope into space and how vital it is that none of the tech deployed goes wrong - unlike the Hubble space telescope, repair missions to James Webb are impossible.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Ghislaine Boddington.
Studio Manager: Nigel Dix Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz
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Podcast: Untangling the Web (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Safiya Noble on Algorithms of Oppression
Pub date: 2022-01-07
Our guest for this episode is Safiya Noble, an associate professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Safiya is the co-founder and faculty director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, an interdisciplinary research center focused on the intersection of human rights, social justice, democracy, and technology. She is also the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Her nonprofit community work to foster civil and human rights, the expansion of democracy and intersectional racial justice is developing at the Equity Engine.
In this conversation, Safiya debunks the idea that social media and search engine algorithms are purely mathematical and neutral, explaining how they’re biased and can be discriminatory toward Black girls and Asian Americans in particular. She speaks about the dangers of tech companies conducting experiments on the public and the concerning lack of regulatory frameworks for technology. Finally, she explains her shift toward seeing herself as an abolitionist – who wants to abolish predictive technologies.
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Podcast: On the Media (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Aaron Swartz: The Wunderkind of the Free Culture Movement
Pub date: 2022-01-05
In 2013, 26-year-old software developer and political activist Aaron Swartz died by suicide. He had been indicted on federal charges after illegally downloading 4.8 million articles from JSTOR, a database of academic journals, and potentially faced a million dollar fine and decades in jail. While his death made headline news, Swartz had long been an Internet folk hero and a fierce advocate for the free exchange of information. In his book, The Idealist, writer Justin Peters places Swartz within the fraught, often colorful, history of copyright in America. Brooke talks with Peters about Swartz's legacy and the long line of "data moralists" who came before him.
Music in this podcast extra:
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This segment originally aired in our January 15, 2016 program, "Terms of Engagement."
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Podcast: Future Histories (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S02E11 - James Muldoon on Platform Socialism
Pub date: 2022-01-09
Platforms are ubiquitous. However, they arguably can only realise their full potential when they are no longer subjected to the imperatives of the profit motive. For this we need: Platform Socialism.
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Shownotes
James Muldoon's Website:
https://jamesmuldoon.org/
Autonomy:
https://autonomy.work/
Autonomy_Digital (where James is project lead):
https://autonomy.work/autonomy_digital/
James on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/james_muldoon_
James on the website of the University of Exeter:
https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/muldoon/
Muldoon, James. 2022. Platform Socialism. London: Pluto Press:
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346953/platform-socialism/
Muldoon, James. 2021. "Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism", online article on openDemocracy:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/technology-and-democracy/regulating-big-tech-is-not-enough-we-need-platform-socialism/
Further material:
Tiziana Terranova (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Terranova
Terranova, Tiziana. 2004. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783714421/network-culture/
Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs:
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/
Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" in New Left Review 116/117 (full article online):
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
The Social Dilemma, Netflix Show (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma
Tristan Harris (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris
G.D.H. Cole (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._H._Cole
Guild Socialism (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_socialism
Fabian Society:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society
Otto Neurath (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
Resonate Streaming Platform:
https://resonate.is/
Friedrich August von Hayek (Wiki):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Leigh, Phillips and Rozworski, Michal. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. New York: Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:
S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/
S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt.1 & 2):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/
S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/
S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/
S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/
(German) S01E55/56 | Michael Seemann zur Macht der Plattformen (pt. 1 & 2):
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e55-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-1/;
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e56-michael-seemann-zur-macht-der-plattformen-teil-2/
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Podcast: Rules to Reality: how regulation shapes, or fails to shape, our daily lives
Episode: #13 The road to digital surveillance is paved with good intentions – with Prof Kate Henne
Pub date: 2022-01-09
Today I speak with Professor Kate Henne. Kate is the director of RegNet, which is the school of Regulation and Global Governance at ANU. She also leads the Justice and Techno Science Lab within the RegNet school. Kate’s research interests and areas of expertise are enormous, and I’ll put links to just some examples in the show notes, but to give you a flavour, they focus on the intersection of the politics and technology as it relates to biomedicalisation, criminalisation, gender regulation, human enhancement and wellbeing, and heavily discussed in this podcast, surveillance and police technologies.
Technologies of these kinds are profilerating and making their way into our life in visible and invisible ways. They’re becoming normalised, part of how we deliver services, how we prevent or monitor cheating, or how police police. Various digital technologies aren’t just focused on organising calendards or romantically swiping in your neighbourhood, they’re increasingly being called on to address systemic and structural issues in our community – it’s not clear whether these technologies do more harm than good. What is clear is that that the potential benefits of technologies are married to real risks. And those risks mean we need to have a conversation about regulation.
Kate is a wonderful expert to guide us through that conversation. Despite being so knowledgeable, Kate is a very generous conversationalist, and very regularly highlights the excellent research of her colleagues. I think you’ll enjoy this one to start off the year.
Timestamps:
- Why regulating technology matters (2:40)
- Technology, ecosystems and surveillance (5:00)
- Government technologies and unintended consequences (9:00)
- How Big Tech facilitates a shift in how racism and discrimination operates (19:15)
- The role of private tech and public regulators in addressing hate speech (25:00)
- How to involve civil society ethically and efficiently in regulating tech (27:30)
- Principles for technology that go beyond fairness (28:45)
- What Professor Henne wants listeners to consider from now (36:45)
Shownotes:
Professor Kate Henne’s research profile: https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/kate-henne
Justice and Technoscience lab: https://regnet.anu.edu.au/research/centres/justice-and-technoscience-lab-justech
Some of Professor Henne’s research on regulation of doping in sport: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0193723515596203?casa_token=CBifKcX5E28AAAAA:fQVcN4cWvRpAZZYnWlEhd2XZVaok7GZ4Pfb9yGN-LeTYGoSS_APM5i1CYfbRIVuW10nKRbWKyy9oJqE
https://regnet.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/2019-01/Dilemmas%20of%20Gender%20and%20Global%20Sports%20Governance.pdf
Research mentioned from a/Professor Natasha Tusikov: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/12908/8475/
Safiya Umoja Noble’s book, Algorithms of Racism: https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A history of games
Pub date: 2022-01-01
The inside story of games that shaped the modern world. Including Atari's Nolan Bushnell on his game Pong which helped launch the video game industry. Plus the origin of Grand Theft Auto, the man who invented Tetris, the son of the Lego brick pioneer and the true story of Monopoly. Max Pearson also talks to the technology journalist Louise Blain about the development of the huge gaming industry and where it goes next.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cryptocurrency w/ Edward Ongweso Jr & Jacob Silverman
Pub date: 2021-12-16
Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape. The first in a two-episode series on crypto.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: (Tech) Company Rule
Pub date: 2021-12-13
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Maha Atal, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies the political economy of corporate power and was previously an award-winning journalist reporting on the tech industry. They discuss how the history of company-rule and colonization relates to the tech industry, how tech companies exert power in the Global South, why Silicon Valley’s “Janus faces” allows it to escape state regulation, and whether the perception of technology corporations has changed, from the tech-utopian days of the Obama administration to now.
Selected articles by Maha Atal
The Janus faces of Silicon Valley http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/247127/
Is Google evil? http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2009/08/online-search-google-datak
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonial AI 101 with Raziye Buse Çetin
Pub date: 2021-12-08
What is Decolonial AI? How can we apply a postcolonial lens to AI design?
In this episode we interview Raziye Buse Çetin about Colonial, Decolonial, and Postcolonial AI -- and the Newly released Decolonial AI Manyfesto.
Buse is an AI policy and ethics researcher and consultant. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems. She combines her lived experience with her interest in postcolonial studies, intersectional feminism and science and technology studies (STS) to develop critical thinking about AI technologies and narratives around it.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Pasquale & Malgieri, The New Turn On AI Accountability From The EU Regulation And Beyond
Pub date: 2021-12-03
In the last years, legal scholars and computer scientists have discussed widely how to reach a good level of AI accountability and fairness. The first attempts focused on the right to an explanation of algorithms, but such an approach has proven often unfeasible and fallacious due to the lack of legal consensus on the existence of that right in different legislations, on the content of a satisfactory explanation and the technical limits of a satisfactory causal-based explanation for deep learning models. In the last years, several scholars have indeed shifted their attention from the legibility of the algorithms to the evaluation of the “impacts” of such autonomous systems on human beings, through “Algorithmic Impact Assessments” (AIA).
This paper, building on the AIA frameworks, advances a policy-making proposal for a test to “justify” (rather than merely explaining) algorithms. In practical terms, this paper proposes a system of “unlawfulness by default” of AI systems, an ex-ante model where the AI developers have the burden of the proof to justify (on the basis of the outcome of their Algorithmic Impact Assessment) that their autonomous system is not discriminatory, not manipulative, not unfair, not inaccurate, not illegitimate in its legal bases and in its purposes, not using unnecessary amount of data, etc.
In the EU, the GDPR and the new proposed AI Regulation already tend to a sustainable environment of desirable AI systems, which is broader than any ambition to have “transparent” AI or “explainable” AI, but it requires also “fair”, “lawful”, “accurate”, “purpose-specific”, data-minimalistic and “accountable” AI.
This might be possible through a practical “justification” process and statement through which the data controller proves in practical terms the legality of an algorithm, i.e., the respect of all data protection principles (that in the GDPR are fairness, lawfulness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, accountability). This justificatory approach might also be a solution to many existing problems in the AI explanation debate: e.g., the difficulty to “open” black boxes, the transparency fallacy, the legal difficulties to enforce a right to receive individual explanations.
Under a policy-making approach, this paper proposes a pre-approval model in which the Algorithms developers before launching their systems into the market should perform a preliminary risk assessment of their technology followed by a self-certification. If the risk assessment proves that these systems are at high-risk, an approval request (to a strict regulatory authority, like a Data Protection Agency) should follow. In other terms, we propose a presumption of unlawfulness for high-risk models, while the AI developers should have the burden of proof to justify why the algorithms is not illegitimate (and thus not unfair, not discriminatory, not inaccurate, etc.)
The EU AI Regulation seems to go in this direction. It proposes a model of partial unlawfulness-by-default. However, it is still too lenient: the category of high-risk AI systems is too narrow (it excludes commercial manipulation leading to economic harms, emotion recognitions, general vulnerability exploitation, AI in the healthcare field, etc.) and the sanction in case of non-conformity with the Regulation is a monetary sanction, not a prohibition.
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How Peter Thiel’s Contrarianism Shaped Silicon Valley — and America
Pub date: 2021-12-02
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is an enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker in both Silicon Valley and the political arena. He is often seen as a libertarian, who at one point was exploring the idea of building floating stateless cities in international waters. But at the same time Thiel is very much an insider. He is actively involved in American politics, through funding political candidates, and in tech, through co-founding PayPal and Palantir, as well as supporting other venture capital projects, and is even funding an “anti-woke” university.
In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power. Chafkin’s study of Thiel seeks to understand how he has built a dual persona as a heroic Ayn Randian libertarian entrepreneurial superhero, on the one hand, and a vampiric supervillain, on the other. What has confused many about Thiel is how he seems to play on both sides of the political divide. When Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of Donald Trump, many on the left couldn’t square the contradiction of how, in Chafkin’s words, “a futurist who happens to be gay, who happens to be an immigrant, who happens to have two Stanford degrees, you know, support this, like, reactionary, anti-tech, you know, crazy guy from New York?” By seeking to understand what one of the most influential men in both tech and politics is about, as well as his beliefs and goals, perhaps we can better understand how our societies are being reshaped. And perhaps that understanding will make us better prepared to counteract those shifts in ways that serve the best interests of society rather than those of the powerful few.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Who Inspired Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ Space Visions? w/ Fred Scharmen
Pub date: 2021-12-02
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the billionaire space race and Jeff Bezos’ vision for space colonization.
- Wernher von Braun was a Nazi before becoming chief architect of NASA’s Saturn V rocket. He appeared in a 1955 Disney program about space flight, but his past was also criticized, including in a song by Tom Lehrer.
- Elon Musk has cited Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” as an inspiration and Jeff Bezos saved The Expanse when it was cancelled.
- Jeff Bezos’ ideas about space colonization come directly from Gerard O’Neill’s vision of space colonies floating in space.
- Adam Mann asked in the New Yorker whether Mars was really ours for the taking.
- The Just Space Alliance presents an alternative to the billionaire framing of space.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #66 - Tech Platforms and how to govern them - w/ Blayne Haggart
Pub date: 2021-11-29
In this episode, Prof. Blayne Haggart of Brock University speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about how to regulate platforms.
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A volcano-powered Bitcoin city?
Pub date: 2021-11-26
El Salvador's president made Bitcoin legal tender, now he wants to build a city. Joe Tidy speaks to Salvodoran-American cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor Gerson Martinez about the Central American country's experience with Bitcoin since its introduction earlier this year. Plus 193 member states of the UN agency Unesco say they want a more ethical approach to the development of artificial intelligence. We hear from Unesco's Gabriella Ramos about the problems with AI use today. And our own Jane Wakefield investigates the community of tweeters and YouTubers helping others find the latest Playstation and XBox consoles amid a global computer chip shortage in the run-up to Christmas.
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Podcast: In Machines We Trust (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of ecommerce has propelled pricing algorithms into an everyday occurrence—whether you’re shopping on Amazon, booking a flight, hotel or ordering an Uber.
We Meet:
- Lisa Wilkins, UX designer
- Gabe Smith, chief evangelist, Pricefx
- Aylin Caliskan, assistant professor, University of Washington
- Joseph Harrington, professor of business, economics and public policy, University of Pennsylvania
- Maxime Cohen, Scale AI Chair professor, McGill University
Credits:
This episode was reported by Anthony Green and produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens. We’re edited by Mat Honan and our mix engineer is Garret Lang, with sound design and music by Jacob Gorski.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Technology: a product of unequal power?
Pub date: 2021-11-24
Is technology change neutral? This question is essential in the discussion under the scope of the future of work. In this episode, Bruegel’s own Giuseppe Porcaro and Mario Mariniello speak to David Spencer about the nature of technology, its impact on the quantity and quality of work, the cost of the technological transition and how to make sure it benefits everyone.
This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
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Podcast: Latino USA (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Gig Workers vs. Big Tech
Pub date: 2021-11-19
How does technology affect labor? How are tech corporations like Uber and Lyft redefining what it means to be a worker in the United States?
California has been ground zero for cementing the “gig work” business model of these companies into law. A year ago this month, the state passed Proposition 22 to allow app-based firms like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as contractors instead of employees.
In this episode of Latino USA we follow a group of drivers who are mobilizing across California – and using their own technology to take on Big Tech. Their fight is not only about their own labor protections as drivers, but a battle to prevent this labor model from spreading to other sectors of the U.S. economy.
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Podcast: Kinsella On Liberty (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: KOL364 | Soho Forum Debate vs. Richard Epstein: Patent and Copyright Law Should Be Abolished
Pub date: 2021-11-25
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 364.
This is my Soho Forum debate held Nov. 15, 2021, in Manhattan, against professor Richard Epstein, moderated by Gene Epstein. I defended the resolution "all patent and copyright law should be abolished" and Professor Epstein opposed it. Oxford debate rules applied which meant that whoever changed the most minds won. My side went from about 20 to 29 percentage points, gaining about 9; Richard went from about 44 to 55%, gaining about 11, so he won by 1.7 percentage points.
My notes, and a Transcript, are below. Postmortem episode to follow.
Update: See KOL369 | Soho Forum IP Debate Post-Mortem with Greg Morin.
Note: Reddit forums discussing the debate.
Youtube:
https://youtu.be/Ep2-ohgFOys
See Gene Epstein's note about Oxford debate rules at Soho Forum and the margin of error:
From Reason: Abolish Intellectual Property Rights? Patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella debates Law Professor Richard Epstein GENE EPSTEIN | 11.24.2021 1:00 PM
Abolish Intellectual Property Rights?
The United States Constitution explicitly calls for copyright and patent laws to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" by "authors and inventors." But would getting rid of all intellectual property laws actually encourage more creativity and innovation by inventors, writers, and artists?
That was the topic of a November 15 Soho Forum debate held in New York City.
Stephan Kinsella, who's spent 28 years as a practicing patent law attorney, argued in favor of the proposition that "all patent and copyright law should be abolished."
He believes that government-created intellectual property laws empower patent and copyright trolls and powerful corporate interests while limiting the free flow of information, thus reducing the rate of innovation and creativity.
Richard Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, says that our current system isn't perfect but sees copyright and patents as a natural extension of private property rights and believes that it should be defended by libertarians accordingly.
The debate took place in New York City in front of a live audience and was moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
Narrated by Nick Gillespie. Edited by John Osterhoudt. Production by Caveat. Photos by Brett Raney.
In 2018, Gene Epstein retired from a 26-year stint as Economics and Books Editor at Barron's, where he wrote the weekly column, "Economic Beat." He's director of the Soho Forum, which he co-founded in 2016, a monthly debate series that receives fiscal sponsorship from the Reason Foundation. ❧ —✦— Kinsella Notes —✦— Resolved: All patent and copyright law should be abolished. A Soho Forum Debate Stephan Kinsella vs. Richard Epstein Nov. 15, 2021 Caveat, 21 A Clinton St. New York, NY 10002 MAIN PRESENTATION – NOTES
Resolution: All patent and copyright law should be abolished
Why? because these laws violate property rights, they violate freedom of speech and the press, they distort culture, they impede innovation, they literally kill people, and they impoverish the human race. There is nothing good about patent and copyright law. They are total abominations and harm humanity. They are a mistake.
[No, you don’t have to be an anarchist, anti-legislation, a Rothbardian, Austrian, or even a libertarian to oppose IP law] (By the way I’ve been practicing patent and IP law for 28 years, representing clients such as Intel, General Electric, and so on.
So I have some rough idea of how the actual system works.)
What are the laws in question?
Copyright protects the right to copy of make “derivative works” of “original works of authorship” for the life of the author plus 70 years = 120–150 years.
This is enforced by injunctions and legal protections, such as statutory damages of $150k per act of infringement
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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Gabriella Lukács, "Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy" (Duke UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-11-18
In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital economy by performing unpaid labor as photographers, net idols, bloggers, online traders, and cell phone novelists. While some women leveraged digital technology to create successful careers, most did not. In Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy(Duke UP, 2020), Gabriella Lukács traces how these women's unpaid labor became the engine of Japan's digital economy. Drawing on interviews with young women who strove to sculpt careers in the digital economy, Lukács shows how platform owners tapped unpaid labor to create innovative profit-generating practices without employing workers, thereby rendering women's labor invisible. By drawing out the ways in which labor precarity generates a demand for feminized affective labor, Lukács underscores the fallacy of the digital economy as a more democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive mode of production.
Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why is China cracking down on big tech?
Pub date: 2021-11-10
This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics.
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A wave of government regulations is being imposed on China’s digital sector, from gaming platforms to GDPR-like privacy regulations, to a draft regulation cracking down on recommendation algorithms. In the meantime, we have also seen a wave of crackdowns on big tech, from Jack Ma of Alibaba, to the case of Didi. What is going on in China's digital space? What is the general direction going forward? In this episode Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Bruegel senior fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Mario Mariniello and by guest speaker Rui Ma, creator of Tech Buzz China which educates investors, funds and entrepreneurs on Chinese tech companies.
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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Geopolitics of International Technical Standards
Pub date: 2021-11-10
With a new technological revolution underway, emerging technologies are at the heart of geopolitical competition between States. Standard-setting is one key dimension of this competition. But what does this entail and how should India navigate related challenges? Ameera Rao talks to Arjun Gargeyas about his new report, which recommends action points for Indian policymakers.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Design Justice 101 with Sasha Costanza-Chock
Pub date: 2021-11-03
What is Design Justice? How can we employ it to disrupt power systems supporting the matrix of domination?
In this episode, we interview Sasha Costanza-Chock about the 101 of Design Justice and how we can use it as a force for collective liberation.
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, dismantle the matrix of domination, and advance ecological survival. Sasha is the Director of Research & Design at the Algorithmic Justice League and is the author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Jeffrey J. Hall, "Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism" (Routledge, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-11-11
Japan's nationalist right have used the internet to organize offline activism in increasingly visible ways. Jeffrey J. Hall, investigates the role of internet-mediated activism in Japan's ongoing historical and territorial disputes. He explores the emergence of two right-wing activist organizations, Nihon Bunka Channel Sakura and Ganbare Nippon, which have played a significant role in pressure campaigns against Japanese media outlets, campaigns to influence historical memorials, and campaigns to assert Japan's territorial claim to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands.
In Japan's Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism (Routledge, 2021), Hall analyses how activists maintained cohesion, raised funds, held protests that regularly drew hundreds to thousands of participants, and used fishing boats to land activists on disputed islands. Detailing events that took place between 2004 and 2020, he demonstrates how skilled social actors built cohesive grassroots protest organizations through the creation of shared meaning for their organization and its supporters. A valuable read both for scholars seeking insight into the dynamics surrounding Japan's history disputes and territorial issues, as well as those seeking to compare Japanese right-wing internet activism with its counterparts elsewhere.
Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.
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Podcast: Throughline (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Drone Wars
Pub date: 2021-11-04
Unseen, they stalk their targets from thousands of feet in the air. Operators are piloting them from military bases halfway across the world. At any moment, they could launch a strike that comes without warning. The attack drone was supposed to be a symbol of the era of precision warfare — a way to wage wars with fewer casualties on both sides. It's a technology that's been honed since it was first dreamed up during World War 1. But are drones actually precise enough? Do drones desensitize us to the casualties of civilians caught between us and our enemies? In this episode, we will explore the past, present and future of drone warfare.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How green is our data?
Pub date: 2021-11-02
Digital Planet is looking at green tech during COP26. Firstly, we discover the green credentials of your favourite websites with the Green Web Foundation. Can we really make the internet more environmentally friendly? Also we’ll be hearing about the homes in Sweden’s Stockholm that are heated using waste heat from local data centres. And how a company in Wyoming in the US is using technology to change the way data centres are cooled, using liquid and not air, and then using this excess heat for agriculture.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Ghislaine Boddington
Studio Manager: Nigel Dix Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 92/ Big Tech, Gatopardismo and Data Colonialism (With Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon)
Pub date: 2021-10-29
This is a conversation with Brazilian researchers Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon about their paper for Global Information Society Watch, "Big tech goes green(washing): Feminist lenses to unveil new tools in the master’s houses." Extended bio below.
The research by Nobrega and Varon is part of a report launched by the Association for Progressive Communications. You can find the full report here.
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Topics Discussed:
- Power structures, Big Tech and what kind future we want
- technosolutionism through feminist lenses
- Who has the ability to consent?
- Gatopardismo (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui): proposing 'changes' while reinforcing existing power structures
- Monocultures of minds (Vandana Shiva)
- What are we sustaining and what are we developing when we talk of 'sustainable development'?
- What is 'green data'?
- The 'good life' through euro-centrism
- Discussion about Brazil
- Extractivism and data colonialism
Resources mentioned:
- Please visit thefirethisti.me
Recommended Books/Other
- A extinção das abelhas by Natalia Borges Polesso (Joana)
- Un Mundo Ch'ixi es posible by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (Camila)
- Amanda Piña (choreographer)
Camila Nobrega is a Brazilian journalist working on social-environmental conflicts for more than ten years, fostering Latin American feminist lenses and social-environmental justice. She has worked for media vehicles in Brazil and has contributed to international media, like The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Mongabay. Currently based in Berlin, she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science department at the Free University of Berlin. To connect journalism, academic research, and artistic languages, she develops the project Beyond the Green (https://thenewnew.space/projects/beyond-the-green/), focusing on megaprojects that affect our lives, bodies, and territories. It aims to strengthen narratives that connect the right to communication and land rights. Member of Intervozes collective that struggles for media democratization in Brazil. medium@nobregacamila
Joana Varon is Brazilian, with Colombian ancestry and a nomad heart. She is a feminist researcher and activist focused on bringing decolonial Latin American perspectives in the search of feminist techno-political frameworks for shaping the development, deployment and usages of technologies. As it is a collective search, she is the Founder Directress and Creative Chaos Catalyst at Coding Rights, a women-run organization working to expose and redress the power imbalances built into technology and its application, particularly those that reinforce gender and North/South inequalities. Former Mozilla Media Fellow, Joana is currently a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She is also affiliated to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Podcast: The Know Show Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital and Internet Socio-Technologies: Cryptography, Hacktivism, and the Digital Economy - Prof. Tim Jordan
Pub date: 2021-11-01
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Prof. Tim Jordan is a Professor of Digital Cultures and the Director of the Programme in Arts and Sciences at University College London. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast Tim talks to Hussain about the fascinating course he directs at UCL which promotes and allows for a real sense of interdisciplinary bridging between the arts and sciences. He continues to discuss his own research, where you can listen to him explore the world of the digital economy and the politics of information. He talks about hacktivism and cryptocurrency in expanding on the social and cultural meaning of digital and internet socio-technologies. With the digital world evermore prolific in our everyday lives - everyone should listen to this podcast...
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Perils of Amazon Ring
Pub date: 2021-10-24
Earlier this month, Evan Selinger, a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, published a paper with co-author Darrin Durant in the journal Science as Culture titled Amazon’s Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope. Last month, a must-read profile of Chris Gilliard by Will Oremus for The Washington Post also started out with concerns about Ring, before detailing Gilliard’s perspective and background. I invited Evan and Chris to join me to discuss their writings on Ring, and how it fits into their broader views on tech and society.
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Podcast: Priv8 Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Bitcoin and Facebook's Metaverse with Gian Volpicelli
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Host Derek E. Silva joins Gian Volpicelli, Senior Editor at Wired UK and author of Cryptocurrency: How Digital Money Could Transform Finance. They take a deep dive into the politics of Bitcoin, decentralized governance, and Facebook betting its future on the metaverse.
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Sovereign platforms vs. Sovereign nations
Pub date: 2021-10-24
Online platforms are acting like nation-states and governments are trying to become platforms, but are they both getting it wrong?
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Seeing Inside the Algorithms
Pub date: 2021-10-17
This is a two part show- first, a discussion about how to make sure independent researchers have access to the data from technology platforms; and second, a book talk with the author of How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3 and More.
In the wake of the revelations brought forward by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, there is a great deal of focus among lawmakers and regulators in many capitals to figure out how to see inside the platforms. Last week, Nathaniel Persily, aprofessor of law at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, put forward a draft of potential legislation, announcing what he calls the "Platform Transparency and Accountability Act" in a Washington Post column.
We took the opportunity to invite Nate and two other experts on this subject- Rebekah Tromble, Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and Associate Professor at George Washington University, and Brandie Nonnecke, the Director of the Citris Policy Lab at UC Berkeley and a fellow at the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy- to talk about how best to get researchers access to the vast troves of data the platforms hold on us.
Noah Giansiracusa is a mathematician and data scientist who is Assistant Professor at Bentley University near Boston. Most of his papers are on things like algebraic geometry or machine learning. But recently, he wrote a book that looks at how algorithms are shaping our understanding of the world on social media. The book is called, How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3 and More. We spoke to Noah about the challenges of our algorithmically driven information environment, and whether AI might help us fix it.
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Podcast: Free City Radio
Episode: 64. Alessandro Delfanti on Amazon and worker rights
Pub date: 2021-10-19
Listen to the 64th edition of Free City Radio, a conversation with Alessandro Delfanti, who recently published the book "The Warehouse Workers and Robots at Amazon" via Pluto Press. The book is described this way:
"'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfil consumers' desire are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work.
In this book, Alessandro Delfanti takes readers inside Amazon's warehouses to show how technological advancements and managerial techniques subdue the workers rather than empower them, as seen in the sensors that track workers' every movement around the floor and algorithmic systems that re-route orders to circumvent worker sabotage. He looks at new technologies including robotic arms trained by humans and augmented reality goggles, showing that their aim is to standardise, measure and discipline human work rather than replace it.
Despite its innovation, Amazon will always need living labour's flexibility and low cost. And as the warehouse is increasingly automated, worker discontent increases. Striking under the banner 'we are not robots', employees have shown that they are acutely aware of such contradictions. The only question remains: how long will it be until Amazon's empire collapses?"
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Music on this edition by Brian Eno and John Cale.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Mike Masnick on Scarcity, Abundance & NFTs
Pub date: 2021-10-17
In this episode, Mike Masnick, founder and CEO of the Copia Institute and editor of the Techdirt blog, discusses his work on internet governance and the economics of abundance. He begins by discussing his book "Approaching Infinity," which reflects on what it means to move from a world of scarce resources to one of infinite digital resources. He also discusses his article "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech," which asks how the regulation of the internet affects its structure and use. And he describes his new project, "Newly Finite Themes," which will use both of these frames to explore how digital scarcity could create a new internet ecosystem. Masnick is on Twitter at @mmasnick.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Abdi Aidid, Legal Prediction and Calcification Risk
Pub date: 2021-10-07
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the law has enabled lawyers and judges to predict – with some accuracy – how future courts are likely to rule in new situations. Machine learning algorithms do this by synthesizing historical case law and applying that corpus of precedent to new factual scenarios. Early evidence suggests that these tools are enjoying steady adoption and will continue to proliferate in legal institutions.
Though AI-enabled legal prediction has the potential to significantly augment human legal analyses, it also raises ethical questions that have received scant coverage in the literature. This talk focuses on one such ethical issue: the “calcification problem.” The basic question is as follows: If predictive algorithms rely chiefly on historical case law, and if lawyers and judges depend on these historically-informed predictions to make arguments and write judicial opinions, is there a risk that future law will merely reproduce the past? Put differently, will fewer and fewer cases depart from precedent, even when necessary to achieve legitimate and just outcomes? This is a particular concern for areas of law where societal values change at a rate faster than new precedents are produced. This talk describes the legal, political and ethical dimensions of the calcification problem and suggests interventions to mitigate the risk of calcification.
Abdi Aidid Faculty of Law University of Toronto
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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Tech Militarism and Project Maven with Jack Poulson
Pub date: 2021-10-11
This episode welcomes Jack Poulson to discuss Project Maven and the relationship between tech and the US military. Last month, Jack released a report at his organization, Tech Inquiry, revealing the extensive relationship between tech corporations and the US military via Project Maven. We discuss the kinds of technologies in the project, including drone surveillance, automated military tanks, location surveillance, and social media surveillance. We also discuss what we can infer about how the project, and some of these technologies, might work together.
Jack Poulson is the Executive Director of Tech Inquiry and former Google AI Research Scientist and Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford. You can follow him on Twitter at @_jack_poulson.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-10-08
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies(Duke UP, 2020), Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourceful techniques for generating and sharing knowledge.
Sohini Chatterjee is a PhD Student in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. Her work has recently appeared in South Asian Popular Culture and Fat Studies.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Fight for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe w/ Ben Wray
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss the state of the gig economy in Europe, including the Spanish riders law, recent court ruling on employment status in the Netherlands, strikes in Germany and Greece, and the forthcoming platform workers directive from the European Commission.
Ben Wray is a coordinator at the Gig Economy Project and a freelance journalist. Follow Ben on Twitter at @Ben_Wray1989.
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- Sign up for the Gig Economy Project’s newsletter for updates on what’s going on in Europe.
- A Dutch court ruled that Uber drivers are employees.
- Spain’s Riders Law came into effect, but the companies didn’t comply.
- Glovo dark supermarkets workers in Barcelona went on strike in August.
- E-food workers in Greece went on strike and won a huge victory.
- Gorillas fired workers for wildcat strikes.
- The European Commission will deliver platform work regulations in December. It’s been meeting a lot with gig companies.
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Podcast: The Checkout (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 81: Chris Smalls on Unionizing Amazon
Pub date: 2021-10-08
Episode #80 Notes
0:30 - How did you start at Amazon, and what led to your dismissal?
3:00 - How did your unionizing efforts lead to the work you do now?
4:15 - What is your critique of Amazon and how they treat employees?
5:30 - What is the Amazon Labor Union, it’s goals, and how it came about?
6:45 - On organizing and recruitment tactics.
9:30 - How has Amazon responded to your organizing tactics?
12:00 - What do we need to build a logistics system that’s fair, just, and equitable?
13:30 - What are the benefits of employees having and contributing to a union?
16:00 - Closing thoughts.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Predicting Mental Illness Through AI with Stevie Chancellor
Pub date: 2021-10-06
How is AI used to predict mental illness? What are the benefits and challenges to its use?
In this episode we interview Stevie Chancellor about AI, mental health, and the benefits and challenges of machine learning systems that are used to predict mental illness.
Stevie Chancellor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Her research combines human-computer interaction and machine learning approaches to build and critically evaluate machine learning systems for pressing social issues, focusing on high-risk health behaviors in online communities.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Inside the Facebook Files
Pub date: 2021-09-23
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem. We’ll be talking about “The Facebook Files”—a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal about Facebook’s failures to mitigate harms on its platform. There’s a lot of critical reporting about Facebook out there, but what makes the Journal’s series different is that it’s based on documents from within the company itself—memos from Facebook researchers, identifying problems based on hard data, proposing solutions that Facebook leadership then fails or refuses to implement and contradicts in public statements. One memo literally says, “We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly.”
To discuss the Journal’s reporting, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jeff Horwitz, a technology reporter at the paper who obtained the leaked documents and led the team reporting the Facebook Files. What was it like working on the series? What's his response to Facebook's pushback? And why is there so much discontent within the company?
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Podcast: New Left Radio (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Reclaiming Digital Freedom - Interview w/ Jessa Lingel
Pub date: 2021-09-28
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Remember the promise of the early internet? It was a network of information sharing that would free us from corporate control, allow for free sharing of ideas and information, and revolutionize the world. Then, through gentrification and copying of capital, it became a vehicle controlled by capital, serving as a tool to advertise, sell, and message to us. Author, professor, and researcher Jessa Lingel joins us to discuss reclaiming our digital freedom and a vision for a better digital commons.
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About Jessa Lingel
Jessa Lingel is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, where she studies digital culture, looking for the ways that relationships to technology can show us gaps in power or possibilities for social change. She received her Ph.D. in Communication and Information from Rutgers University. She has an M.L.I.S. from Pratt Institute and an M.A. from New York University.
Lingel’s research focuses on three key areas: alterity and appropriation, and investigations of how information and technology is altered, tinkered with, subverted, and articulated by marginalized groups; politics of infrastructure, where systems of categorization, organization, and design can reveal underlying ideologies and logics; and technological activism as a way of exploring how socio-technical practices can contribute to projects of social justice.
In her activist work, Lingel concentrates on prison abolition, libraries as vehicles for DIY education, and local access to mental health resources.
About the The Gentrification of the Internet
The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses the politics and debates of gentrification to diagnose the massive, systemic problems blighting our contemporary internet: erosions of privacy and individual ownership, small businesses wiped out by wealthy corporations, the ubiquitous paywall. But there are still steps we can take to reclaim the heady possibilities of the early internet. Lingel outlines actions that internet activists and everyday users can take to defend and secure more protections for the individual and to carve out more spaces of freedom for the people—not businesses—online.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)
Pub date: 2021-09-27
In this episode I am in conversation with artist and author Vanilla Beer about her 2019 book Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics. While he got is start in the academic world, it was in industry where Stafford Beer made is most recognized contributions. Beer is best known for being the first systems thinker to apply cybernetics to management; it is from this work that he developed his Viable System Model (VSM). There is nothing theoretical about Beer's solutions - they are all grounded in practice. Their successful application caused him to be invited to work for Salvador Allende in Chile and for many other companies and governments. His insistence that hierarchical models will fail the people whom they are supposed to serve is axiomatic to his thinking.
Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics is presented in a fun comic book style that tells the story of Stafford Beer - man, father, thinker, practitioner. In it we get a glimpse into Beer's early influences and the role his spirituality played in life and work. Allenna Leonard, Beer's partner later in life - until his death in Toronto in 2002, contributes a fantastic cybernetics glossary readers will want to refer to time and again.I am pleased to share my conversation with Vanilla Beer as a way to mark Stafford Beer's 95th birthday. Vanilla shares tremendous insights about her father, a man who contributed greatly to systems sciences, and whose name will forever be associated with cybernetics.
Kevin Lindsay is a 25+ year Silicon Valley software product strategist and marketer, and graduate student at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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Podcast: Democracy Works (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: How Amazon is disrupting democracy
Pub date: 2021-09-20
As we've said many times on this show, democracy is long and slow, which is the exact opposite of the ethos that Amazon has pushed into our culture through quick shipping, easily accessible entertainment, its takeover of cloud computing, and more.
Amazon's expansion across America, from distribution facilities to data centers, is exacerbating regional inequities and contributing to the unraveling of America's social fabric. Not only that, cities competing for Amazon's new facilities offer tax breaks that prevent funding from going to basic government services. And, the company's takeover of government procurement has taken lucrative contracts away from local businesses.
Alec MacGillis, a senior reporter at ProPublica, chronicles these trends in new book Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. The book chronicles how Amazon contributed to the gap between the country’s winning and losing regions, and how its workplace practices foster isolation and competition, rather than camaraderie and shared goals.
Was Amazon deliberately trying to undermine democracy? Or using the existing system to its benefit? We talk with MacGillis about founder Jeff Bezos's political philosophy and how it's impacted the company's decision-making over the years. We also discuss what we as democratic citizens can do to push back against some of these forces.
Additional InformationFulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Alec MacGillis on Twitter
Alec's website
Related EpisodesCan corporations be democratic citizens?
Reimagining citizenship in a consumer world
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Podcast: Inside Scoop (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Gig Economy w/ Oxford Internet Institute, With Takes on Fiverr and Upwork
Pub date: 2021-09-21
The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. At Avory we calculate that there is roughly $700B in paid workers that could move some or all of their work to online platforms. We brought Fabian Stephany from the Oxford Internet Institute "OII" at the University of Oxford to discuss this revolution.
iLabour Website: https://ilabour.oii.ox.ac.uk/online-labour-index Fabians Twitter: https://twitter.com/fabian_stephany
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-09-20
As governments and corporations mine our “entrenched culture of sharing” to invade privacy (down to Target creating an algorithm to figure out which shoppers are in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy) what happens to democracy? Can democracy survive with no (or very little privacy)? What if the citizenry cares little about privacy and or is unwilling to protect it? If surveillance is here to stay what are the prospects for individual autonomy? citizenship? democratic discussion and deliberation? Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society (Cambridge UP, 2020) argues that we should not focus on protecting individual privacy; privacy is NOT “our best hope” for ensuring a “democratic future.” Instead, we should channel Hannah Arendt and focus on the public realm and how it supports political freedom.
Dr. Firmin DeBrabander is a Professor of Philosophy at Maryland Institute College of Art and the author of two previous books: Do Guns Make Us Free?: Democracy and the Armed Society (Yale University Press, 2015), and Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Politics and the Passions (Bloomsbury Press, 2007). He writes social and political commentary for the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Salon, The Atlantic and The New Republic.
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Susan Liebell is Dirk Warren '50 Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
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Podcast: Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 228: The Past and Future of Big Tech
Pub date: 2021-09-08
Join us for the official relaunch of the No Jargon Podcast! For our first episode since our eleven-month hiatus, we take on Big Tech and government. Tech giants like Amazon and Facebook have been in the news a lot lately, especially after the House Judiciary Committee approved several antitrust bills this past summer that aim to curb the power of the tech industry. We decided to have a conversation with Margaret O’Mara, a renowned historian who has spent most of her career examining the love/hate relationship between Big Tech and government. Dr. O’Mara shares colorful stories about Silicon Valley – from its early beginnings to the days of the internet boom – all while explaining the Valley’s ever-present intersection with US politics. She takes us on a journey through the ups and downs of the intensely eventful relationship between the two.
For more of Margaret O’Mara’s work:
- Read her most recent book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
- Check out her opinion pieces about the tech industry in The New York Times.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Indigenous AI 101 with Jason Edward Lewis
Pub date: 2021-09-08
What is Indigenous AI and how might it drive our technology design and implementation?
To answer this question and more in this episode we interview Jason Edward Lewis about Indigenous AI Protocols and a paper he co-authored entitled “Position Paper on Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence.”
Jason Edward Lewis is a Hawaiian and Samoan digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. Jason also founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media and is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well as a Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. Jason directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre, the Indigenous Protocol and AI Workshops, the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network, and the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #56 - China's War on Big Tech in 2021 - w/ Rogier Creemers
Pub date: 2021-09-06
Rogier Creemers of Leiden University joins Nicolas Wittstock to discuss the recent efforts by Chinese policymakers to regulate its digital technology industry.
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Podcast: What Happens Next? (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Bias in AI - Are our machines a little too human?
Pub date: 2021-09-02
Humans have long dreamed of artificial intelligence and smart machines that can help us make better decisions or even just cut down on our own chores. What was once a sci fi fantasy is now a reality – AI is an increasing presence in our day-to-day lives.
But AI is built by humans, and its algorithms are sometimes guided by very human biases. The more we rely on automated decision making, the more often we see examples of AI being sexist, racist or exhibiting other forms of prejudice.
How did assumptions and biases find their way into machines? Is AI helping or hurting our progress towards social equality? How do we hold technology designers accountable for their creations? And can we address these issues without overcorrecting into social engineering?
In the first ‘What Happens Next?‘ episode on bias in AI, Dr Susan Carland speaks with Communications and Media Studies Professor Mark Andrejevic, human-computer interaction scholar Yolande Strengers, Monash University Information Technology Interim Dean Ann Nicholson, and former Chief Digital Advisor at Microsoft Australia Rita Arrigo.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Big Tech Entrenches US Power w/ Michael Kwet
Pub date: 2021-09-02
Paris Marx is joined by Michael Kwet to discuss how digital technologies are used to entrench the power of the United States and its dominant corporations at the expense of the Global South.
Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He got his PhD in Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa. Follow Michael on Twitter at @Michael_Kwet.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Michael wrote about digital colonialism and the need for a Digital Tech Deal.
- Bill Gates wrote a notorious letter in 1976 opposing the sharing of software as it conflicted with Microsoft's business model.
- Tech companies export content moderation, training AI, call center, and even more labor to the Global South.
- Gabriel Winant criticized the dominant liberal perspective on antitrust action.
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Podcast: Radio Times (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: This is the Voice, The Voice Catchers
Pub date: 2021-08-27
Have you ever heard a recording of your own voice and thought, “Is this what I sound like?” Our voices are so unique, with their own tones and inflections, and they reveal a lot more than you might think. In his new book, This is the Voice, journalist and author JOHN COLAPINTO explains the amazingly complex organs that produce our vocal sounds and argues that these distinct markers are the thing that sets us apart from the every other living species. Then, University of Pennsylvania professor JOSEPH TUROW joins us to talk about a more recent development: artificial intelligence like Google assistant, Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. These devices are programmed to listen to our voices closely, but are they doing more than keeping track of our schedules? In his new book, The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet, Turow says these bots may be more harmful than helpful.
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Podcast: The Know Show Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Inequalities: The Role of Digital Media in the Everyday Life of Disadvantaged Social Groups and Vulnerable Individuals - Prof. Ellen Helsper
Pub date: 2021-08-25
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Prof. Ellen Helsper is a Professor of Digital Inequalities in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Politics. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast, we discuss the digital divide, the impact of COVID-19 on this, and what can be done to combat the inequalities that exist in this space. Watch for an exclusive insight into Prof. Ellen Helsper’s research, where she draws on her current interests that revolve around the links between social and digital inequalities, mediated interpersonal communication, participatory immersive digital spaces (VR, ER), and quantitative and qualitative methodological developments in media and communications research.
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Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism ft. Meredith Broussard
Pub date: 2021-08-24
Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism featuring Meredith Broussard
This month, Jack and Shobita discuss the recent IPCC report on climate change and the politics of vaccine "hesitancy", and puzzle over the lure of technological fixes to solve complex problems. And Jack speaks with Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and Research Director, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, who has developed a new approach to understanding this puzzle: technochauvinism.
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Jack Stilgoe (2013). "Why has geoengineering been legitimised by the IPCC?" The Guardian. September 27.
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Meredith Broussard (2018). Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. MIT Press.
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Meredith Broussard (2019). "When Binary Code Won't Accommodate Nonbinary People." Slate. October 23.
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Meredith Broussard (2019). "Letting Go of Technochauvinism." Public Books. June 17.
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Meredith Broussard (forthcoming, 2023). More Than a Glitch: What Everyone Needs to Know About Making Technology Anti-Racist, Accessible, and Otherwise Useful to All. MIT Press.
Study questions:
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Why are policymakers and publics so attracted to seemingly simple technological fixes?
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What are the costs of framing vaccine "hesitancy" or climate change as individual, moral problems?
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What is technochauvinism, and what's wrong with it?
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How might we approach artificial intelligence in a more socially responsible way?
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Should facial recognition technology be banned? Why or why not?
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Pradip Ninan Thomas - The Politics of Digital India
Pub date: 2021-08-17
In the eighteenth episode, I speak to Pradip Ninan Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, about his recent book The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The book situates and locates Digital India in a global and local context by identifying the pressures, local and transnational, affecting India’s digital trajectory. The conversation begins by tracing Pradip’s journey with this book covering his previous works on media and telecommunications in India. Next, we historicise India’s current digital moment by covering the ’technological' continuities from the British Raj to the newly independent Indian government. The conversation then moves to understand what Thomas means by ‘digital’, how it manifests in India and how the 'digital' is negotiated, shaped and contested by political and geopolitical considerations including the Indian state and the United States. The conversation ends by wading into the importance of data to India’s digital economy, the potential and implications of the Indian state’s digital infrastructure projects and how digital governance aids surveillance.
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Podcast: The Drayton Discourse
Episode: Juliet Schor on Consumerism, the Platform Economy and the Social Media Age
Pub date: 2021-08-23
Could the platform/gig economy become sustainable? To what extent can the education system help people lower their consumption levels? In our 3rd episode of The Drayton Discourse, we are proud to host Prof Juliet Schor, a sociologist at Boston University. Hear her talk on her career shift from economics to sociology, the challenges of the platform economy, and the trends in growth and consumption today.
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Podcast: Digital Sociology Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 25: Scott Timcke, algorithms, politics, capitalism & racism
Pub date: 2021-08-11
In this episode I spoke to Scott Timcke who is a comparative historical sociologist, with an interest in race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and a fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for African Studies.
The basis of our discussion is Scott's book Algorithms and the end of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st Century American Life which was published in 2021 by Bristol University Press.
Scott tells about how algorithms and processes of datafication are influencing how politics functions. In particular, how the role which particular form of capitalism which has been enabled by the internet and digital technologies and networks affects politics.
We talk about credit rating systems, the hidden ways in which we are influenced, Trump and the progress which needs to be made on considerations of race in our analysis of politics and technology amongst many other things.
It was was really fascinating to talk to Scott who has immense knowledge on how technology and politics function and is a great communicator.
I mention that Scott has been on my other podcast but as things have panned out this episode has come out before the other ones have. But those new Social Theory Podcasts will be coming out in a few weeks (after this current run of the Digital Sociology Podcast).
You can follow Scott on Twitter @scotttimcke and read his previous book Capital, State & Empire: The New American Way of Digital Warfare via the University of Westminster Press website (Open Access).
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Podcast: The Vocal Fries (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Me Myself and AI
Pub date: 2021-08-02
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP.
We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and Alex Scott's amazing comeback.
Deborah Raji's MIT Technology Review paper.
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Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 206 - Wrecked by Tech
Pub date: 2021-08-01
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by labor and tech reporter extraordinaire Edward Ongweso Jr., a staff writer at Vice’s Motherboard and cohost of This Machine Kills, a podcast about the political economy of tech.
Ed shares a bit about his own history as an organizer, which saw him involved in the successful campaign to pass the country's first ride-hail vehicle license cap for drivers in New York City, before expanding on his reporting about the nationwide strike of Uber and Lyft drivers on July 21. The gang discusses the package of antitrust legislation targeting the tech sector currently waiting for a floor vote in the House of Representatives, the provisions of the PRO Act reportedly included in Democrats’ Senate infrastructure bill and how they would impact labor struggles in the gig economy. Ed explains why Uber’s business model is not what it seems and that it is unprofitable by design, situating the company’s practices in the context of the possibility of a tech bubble in the stock market and its implications for the broader economy. The gang rounds out the conversation by zooming in on US-based tech entrepreneurs’ predatory and increasingly devastating push for the adoption of cryptocurrencies by vulnerable populations worldwide.
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 162: The New Lords of Creation w/ Corey Pein
Pub date: 2021-07-30
“Though there was much sheer rascality in the Wall Street of the nineteen-twenties, much sheer greed roaming at large, and a widespread betrayal of the fiduciary principle, it may be that none of these things did as much damage to the country, in the sum total, as the sheer irresponsibility of men who, possessing vast powers, played the game of profit and loss without regard for the general public interest.”
This quote from Frederick Lewis Allen’s 1935 book, “Lords of Creation” are prescient words that still ring true when we speak of the new oligarchical elite in Silicon Valley. Running roughshod over regulations and labor rights like their turn of the century predecessors. Is the Silicon Valley tech 1% truly the benevolent creators of technology that will lead us to a new better, smarter more efficient world? Or is their libertarian vision of progress just a dystopian nightmare?
About Corey Pein:
Corey Pein is a regular contributor to The Baffler, where he writes a column and hosts the podcast "News from Nowhere." A longtime investigative reporter and former staff writer for the Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Corey is the author of Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.
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Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 18: Risk, Freedom, and the Power of Tech Labor ft. Ben Tarnoff
Pub date: 2021-07-26
Jack and Shobita talk about her recent experiences giving Congressional testimony about equity in energy innovation, question the meaning of Freedom Day in the UK, puzzle over the FDA's recent approval of a new Alzheimer's drug, and interview Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine, about tech worker organizing.
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House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy, "Fostering Equity in Energy Innovation", July 16, 2021. Written testimony here.
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Sheila Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What they Do and Why they Do It. FSG Originals, 2020.
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Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Silicon Valley Workers Have Had Enough," The New York Times, January 26, 2021.
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Aaron Petcoff and Ben Tarnoff, "Tech Workers at Every Level Can Organize to Build Power." Jacobin Magazine. February 6, 2021.
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Ben Tarnoff, "The Making of the Tech Worker Movement." Logic Magazine. May 4, 2020.
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Podcast: Priv8 Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Facebook Effect and the Rise of the Data Economy with Kean Birch
Pub date: 2021-07-21
A great interview with Kean Birch, an expert in technoscience and professor at York University. We take a deep dive into the Facebook effect, the rise of the data economy, and how private data changes the game of capitalism.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Are robots taking our jobs?
Pub date: 2021-07-20
In the future, what forces will cause the economy to grow and stagnate? What impact will AI and automation have on the economy? Is capitalism a sustainable economic model?
Today on The Sound of Economics, we're asking the big questions. In order to find answers, our own Giuseppe Porcaro hosts Aaron Benanav, recent author of Automation and the Future of Work. Benanav argues that the "rise of the robots" may not really explain future employment crises, or our failure to move into a post-scarcity era.
Meanwhile, Bruegel Research Fellow Laura Nurski adds insight from her own research at Bruegel's Future of work and inclusive growth project, and Alexis Moraitis at Lancaster University considers how advances in technology could impact the international political economy.
If you want to learn more about the possible robot uprising, check out our work on artificial intelligence in the workplace, or listen to our past podcast, The Skills of the Future.
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Podcast: Crypto Critics' Corner (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the STABLE Act with Rohan Grey
Pub date: 2021-07-21
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University and one of the authors of the STABLE Act, Rohan Grey. We discuss how stablecoins operate, what he hopes to see from CBDCs and the problems he sees in all kinds of new(er) money markets.
Find him on Twitter @rohangrey
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Podcast: Podcasts - Future Left (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 214: Evil Empire (Ft. Alex Press)
Pub date: 2021-07-19
Labor journalist Alex Press is joining us this week to talk about her new podcast, Primer, which focuses on Amazon, one of the most exploitative and inescapable corporations on the planet.
Listen to Primer Podcast on Jacobin Radio, found on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, and other podcast platforms. Support Primer on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/primerpodcast.
This week we're talking about Amazon, a formless lovecraftian monster slowly devouring the economy industry by industry. What is this leviathan's effect on the broader economy? On workers? ON the environment? And what is to be done: should its various platforms be converted into worker-owned cooperatives, nationalized, or simply abolished?
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Truth about Fake News, with Marcus Gilroy-Ware and Richard Seymour
Pub date: 2021-07-13
We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders and a global pandemic, do so many people believe bizarre and untrue things?
In this week's episode Marcus Gilroy-Ware speaks to Richard Seymour about his new book 'After the Fact?' what he thinks really created the conditions for mis- and disinformation, from fake news and conspiracy theories, to bad journalism and the resurgence of extreme politics.
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Hong Shen on How Tech Really Works behind the Great Firewall
Pub date: 2021-07-08
Western democracies and tech companies have long painted the Chinese tech sector as not only a threat to the US sector but also as operating in direct conflict with American companies. They say that China is walled off from the rest of the world, that these tech companies are just an extension of the state, and that they create and promote state surveillance and censorship tools. While China, the country, isn’t completely innocent — there are clear examples of state interventions and human rights abuses — this episode’s guest argues that a Western-centric framing of how the sector operates isn’t quite accurate.
In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Hong Shen, a systems scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Alibaba: Infrastructuring Global China. Shen’s research focuses on the global internet industry and the social implications of algorithmic systems, with an emphasis on China.
Shen explains how China’s tech sector is not walled off from the rest of the world but instead highly integrated with it. International venture capital has been flowing into the Chinese tech sector for years. And the artificial intelligence (AI) development that is popularly depicted as an “us” vs “them” arms race is in reality better described as a production chain, with Chinese companies providing the labour to develop American AI systems.
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Podcast: PUSHBACK Talks (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Platform Capitalism – Air BnB’s Takeover + the Cities that Resist
Pub date: 2021-07-14
Summer! Time to kick-back and get away. With holidays on the agenda, The Filmmaker and the Advocate take a deeper dive into Air BnB and the short-term rental world. Joined by Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at University College London, Claire Colomb, Leilani and Fredrik discuss the rapid rise of Air BnB in 16 cities across Europe – going from zero presence in 2010 to 18,000 listings in Amsterdam, 26,000 in Berlin, 28,000 in Barcelona, 48,000 in London and just over 60,000 in Paris in a six-year period. The impact of this on cities is considerable – from a decline in long-term housing stock, an increase in rents and overall living costs, to the dominance of tourist amenities which are replacing community services for long-term residents. Now valued at $100 billion USD, the multi-national is flexing its might, increasingly sitting at political tables, wielding resources and influence. But City governments like Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and others are pushing back – finding creative ways to protect their cities and those who live there.
For more about Air BnB see:
Regulating short-term rentals. Platform-based property rentals in European cities: the policy debates by Claire Colomb and Tatiana de Souza
https://www.propertyresearchtrust.org/short_term_rentals.html
The Airbnb ‘movement’ for deregulation how platform-sponsored grassroots lobbying is changing politics by L. Yateshttps://research.ethicalconsumer.org/research-hub/ethical-consumption-review/airbnbs-growing-political-power
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Podcast: The Black Myths Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Myth: Algorithms are Colorblind Pt. 2 (W/ Michael Kwet & Tshi Malatji)
Pub date: 2021-07-01
In part 2, expanding upon the impact of algorithms designed as racism --- we discuss the implications of Big Tech and Big Data on the global south with a focus on South Africa. We examine the notion of digital colonialism, how controlled opposition to it mutes our understanding of western tech hegemony and how a People's Tech (Digital Socialism) can help counter it.
We are joined by guests:
Michael Kwet, a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South, and hosts theTech Empire podcast. His work has been published at Motherboard, Wired, BBC World News Radio, and Counterpunch. He received his PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa.
Tshiamo Malatji, an organizer in Bloemfontein, South Africa, focusing on climate change, food sovereignty, and post-natural building as modes of responding to ecological crises.
References https://docs.google.com/document/d/17fylaOq1hOXSxdThFhUK5ZDb3-L_upYaun8MhBU1-sY/edit
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Podcast: 1919Radio
Episode: Surveilling Blackness With Dr. Simone Browne
Pub date: 2021-07-02
Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.
In the third episode of the Black Geographies podcast series, Mohamed sits with scholar, researcher, and author Dr. Simone Brown. Dr. Brown is the Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Research Director of critical surveillance inquiry with Good Systems, a research collaborative at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the author of the 2015 book ‘Dark Matters. Listen as these two discuss life under surveillance, black ways of knowing and surviving, and the governable worlds we live in. Dr. Brown invites us to think about how biometric technologies, regimes of surveillance, illegibility, and the politics of recognition shape and govern black life in a post 911 era. Toward the end of the episode, Dr. Brown gestures to the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba & grassroots organizers on how to live and dream abolition as practices of liberation.
Title sequence credits:
Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #47 - Is Silicon Valley upending Democracy? - w/ Carles Boix
Pub date: 2021-07-05
In this episode, Prof. Carles Boix of Princeton University discusses his latest book - “Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads - Technological Change and the Future of Politics” with Nicolas Wittstock. The two debate the effects of recent technological changes on the economic structure of rich societies - and what their political effects might be.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 82. Crisis in the Gig Mills
Pub date: 2021-06-30
Further notes toward a ruthless criticism of digital capitalism — we lay out how the inherent contradictions of the “gig economy” are starting to slip into crisis, the need to recognize and reject the propaganda that has been embedded in our everyday way of thinking and talking about these companies, and the creative accounting practices they use to cover up the absence of value and instances of death. 200 years ago, the Luddites smashed the gig mills used by capital to rob them of autonomy. They did not set out to create a more humane version of machinic dispossession. Today, the task before us all is to do the same.
Some stuff we reference: • The Motherboard Guide to the Gig Economy | Edward Ongweso Jr: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbk88/the-motherboard-guide-to-the-gig-economy • Digital Piecework | Veena Dubal: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/digital-piecework • Uber CEO Works on App for a Day, Barely Makes Minimum Wage | Josh Marcus: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/uber-ubereats-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-b1873651.html • Food delivery driver's death wasn't recognised by Uber Eats and his family are still fighting for the insurance | Patrick Begley: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/background-briefing-uber-eats-delivery-drivers-death/100239920 • The Taming of Tech Criticism | Evgeny Morozov: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Victor Pickard on the Future of Journalism
Pub date: 2021-06-24
The journalism industry in America has grown and adapted over its 300-year history. Different business models and ownership schemes have been tried, mostly in an attempt to establish an independent free press. Social media platforms have contributed to both the decline in revenue for news outlets and the echo-chamber effect that results when users are only consuming news that fits their political viewpoint.
In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Victor Pickard, a professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School for Communication and a co-director of the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In his work, Pickard explores how the journalism industry could be transformed to meet the needs of society and support a functioning democracy.
Pickard has studied the different stages in the American news industries’ history, which we explore in this episode, and concludes that there has never been a time when the industry was properly configured to support democracy. The current debates focus on restoring ad revenue sources that have been diverted to social media platforms but, as Pickard explains, small tweaks to the market will not solve the problem. “I think clearly we’re seeing something that is irredeemable, especially for providing local journalism. We don’t need to shore up these commercial models.” Instead, Pickard says, we need to shift away from large corporations that consolidate all news markets at a national level to new funding models that support local community-based journalism.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography: In Conversation with Marta-Marika Urbanik
Pub date: 2021-06-28
As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr. Marta-Marika Urbanik, Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, who has written extensively about integrating social media ethnography into her research on Toronto street gangs, including a fascinating article in Qualitative Sociology with Robert A. Roks entitled “GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies”. Marta explains how she began engaging in digital ethnography after seeing the importance of social media to her participants’ lives and rivalries. She also talks about the choices digital ethnographers make between silently observing as if through a “One Way Mirror” or openly participating and sharing their own lives through the “Glass Window” approach. She describes some of the dilemmas and issues she faced by sharing her personal social media with participants. Finally, she discusses some of the ethical issues raised by digital ethnography, including the question of what constitutes informed consent.
Alex Diamond is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. Sneha Annavarapu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago. Dr. Sneha Annavarapu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 93: Lex Gill on the RCMP, Clearview AI and Canada's History of Surveillance
Pub date: 2021-10-19
Earlier this month, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a scathing report on the RCMP’s use of facial recognition technology, particularly its work with Clearview AI. The report was particularly damaging as the Commissioner found that the RCMP wasn’t truthful when it said it didn’t work with Clearview AI and then gave inaccurate information on the number of uses when it was revealed that it did. In fact, even after these findings, the RCMP still rejected the Privacy Commissioner’s findings that it violated the Privacy Act.
Lex Gill is a Montreal-based lawyer where she is an affiliate at the Citizen Lab and teaches at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. She has also worked at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Lex joins the podcast to discuss the Commissioner’s findings and to explain why this is best viewed as part of a long cycle of surveillance that has often targeted social movements or vulnerable populations.
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Show Notes:
OPC, Special report to Parliament on the OPC’s investigation into the RCMP’s use of Clearview AI and draft joint guidance for law enforcement agencies considering the use of facial recognition technology
Credits:
CityNews, RCMP Violated Privacy Act by Using Facial Recognition: Privacy Commissioner
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Podcast: SOAS Radio (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Global Digital Futures: Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online
Pub date: 2021-06-24
This week we are joined by Dr. Matti Pohjonen to speak about Extreme Speech & Content Moderation Online. For the past 10 years, Matti has developed critical-comparative research approaches for understanding digital cultures globally. This has included work on international news and blogging in India, mobile technology in East Africa, and exploring new methods in “big data” analysis and artificial intelligence for digital media research. Matti has taught at SOAS in Global Media & Post National Communication; he is now a researcher at the University of Helsinki where he is working on global and comparative dimensions of platform accountability.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Doorstep: Cryptocurrencies & Global Decentralization, with NYU Stern's David Yermack
Pub date: 2021-06-18
Cryptocurrencies are dominating headlines with El Salvador recently announcing Bitcoin as the country's legal tender and Biden and Putin discussing ransomware and crypto at their Geneva meeting this week. NYU Stern’s Professor David Yermack joins Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to discuss how an experimental digital currency may change the definition of the nation-state over the next decade. Will we be citizens of the country of Google or Amazon?
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende's Chile with Raúl Espejo
Pub date: 2021-06-14
Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of the Cybersyn project in Allende's Chile, the founder of Syncho Research and the president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics for a conversation. We discuss Raul's experiences, his current projects, and what he thinks socialists should learn about Cybernetics in today's world, especially around the concept of variety.
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: George Zarkadakis on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Post-Pandemic World
Pub date: 2021-06-14
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by George Zarkadakis, the author of "Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines", to discuss his plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable.
George Zarkadakis is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, a science communicator, an Artificial Intelligence engineer, a futurist, and a digital innovation professional. He writes fiction and non-fiction books, and he's also working with private and public organizations to reimagine business and democratic institutions in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
At school George Zarkadakis read tons of comics and science fiction books and dreamt of becoming an interstellar astronaut. In his early 20s George went on to read almost every beatnik author he could lay his hands on. He retains two authors that still inspire him: Phillip K. Dick and William Burroughs.
George views the arts, the humanities, the natural sciences and engineering not as discrete disciplines but as a continuum, a wonderful canvas continuously enriched by human creativity and imagination. That’s why he believes that we need a new Renaissance spirit to inspire us and guide us towards overcoming our shared, global problems of armed conflict, inequality of opportunity, poverty, health, and environmental catastrophe.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1347: The CIA and surveillance tech / Mara Hvistendahl
Pub date: 2021-06-07
Journalist Mara Hvistendahl on her article "Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China." for The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/oracle-social-media-surveillance-protests-endeca/
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Defining the World of Crypto and the Digital Commons with Rohan Grey
Pub date: 2021-06-05
If you’re a crypto-phobe, or simply bored by fintech and all those “coins,” don’t let it stop you from listening to this episode. Rohan Grey places these topics within the context of our history, political economy, the law, MMT, policy, and today’s progressive movement. The fact that technology changes the world is nothing new. It affects everything.
You can look across history and say, look, it mattered when we created the written word and stopped building societies around oral communities where they passed things down through word of mouth. It matters when we had the printing press and created a system by which information could be developed, stored, mass-transmitted to large numbers of people. It mattered when we built the telegraph in the 19th century and started to connect the Atlantic to the new world and to be able to send wires across the world in a matter of minutes that used to take months to send through ship messages … So if you start from that point of view and look at that long history of different kinds of technology, obviously law and money play a big role in. It matters who funds these things.
Once again, technology is changing the landscape. Railroad and oil barons are being replaced by the Elon Musks of the world. There’s a blockchain consortium in Congress, ensuring that their needs are met. The conversation around defining money and establishing the boundaries of public digital financial infrastructure reflects the ideologies and the interests of all kinds of people. Who will protect our privacy?
When seeking a force powerful enough to transform society, we turn to the working class. It, like everything else, is undergoing a transformation.
They said in an industrial age it was the common identity of being a factory worker that really built the industrial proletariat consciousness. You're sitting there doing the same thing as people next to you. And you're like, hey, we're pretty similar. Nowadays, 70 percent of Americans are in debt for one of three or four creditors. And that kind of relationship creates a different kind of class identity. But so does the fact that everybody has a damn cell phone.
While there’s plenty of discussion about bitcoin and financial technology, Steve and Rohan constantly bring it back to MMT and the progressive movement. The questions we face as leftists are far-reaching and consequential. It’s not too soon to begin asking them.
Rohan Grey is an Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, the founder and president of the Modern Money Network, and a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, "Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access" (MIT Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-05-31
Listen to this interview of Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray, editors of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (published open access by MIT in 2020). We talk about a lot, and all of it, really, falls under the head "Ethics of Scholarly Communication."
interviewer : "How did you conceive of a project of this diversity on the subject of open access and publishing?"
Martin Paul Eve : "What's really interesting to me is that most academics think they know about scholarly publishing because they have all published. This is a bit like me saying that I'm an expert in how car engines work because I can drive. It doesn't equate to the same thing. And so what we really wanted to do was to put together a volume that did not really attempt forcibly to synthesize all of the propositions made under its roof, but rather to give a space for a debate to develop, a space for argument and conversation to flourish about the difficulties surrounding open access."
interviewer : "The book just tells all it has to tell from every perspective, and these disagreements, and agreements, make for the feel of a real discussion. I wonder what your basic view of scholarly communication was throughout the, surely, long editing process."
Jonathan Gray : "Well, we thought of it like this: so if you look at work on the sociology of art––rather than looking at the artwork, you look at everything around that artwork which is required for it to be seen and appreciated as an artwork. You look at the supply chains involved in producing print and canvas, you look at the gallery workers, you look at ticket sales and so on. And I guess we were keen to kind of do a similar thing with this book, to perform a kind of inversion around scholarly communication and open access, and really situate it and re-world it in relation to all sorts of issues, communities, forms of labor, and infrastructures."
Daniel Shea heads Scholarly Communication, the podcast about how knowledge gets known. Daniel is Director of the Writing Program at Heidelberg University, Germany. Daniel's YouTube Channel is called Write Your Research.
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Podcast: Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economy (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?
Pub date: 2021-05-25
Robots v Covid-19: the future of work?
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“Telecommuting”, “quaranteams”, “doomscrolling”, “upperwear” and curating one’s Zoom background have all become a part of our new remote working reality. If we were unnerved by the way digital technology was transforming our world before the pandemic, Covid-19 has only made the speed of change even faster,
It is estimated that in the next five years close to 85 million jobs may be displaced by algorithms, artificial intelligence and robotics.
According to the World Economic Forum Jobs Report 2020, “automation, in tandem with the COVID-19 recession, is creating a ‘double-disruption’ scenario for workers. Technological adoption by companies will transform tasks, jobs and skills by 2025. Time spent on current tasks at work by humans and machines will become equal.”
The report also estimate that 97 million new roles may emerge as the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms emerges.
Our presenters Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law discuss what the Covid-19 transformation means to the future of work in the latest episode of our podcast Pocket Dilemmas. They are joined by:
Jason Furman, the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
Beata Javorcik, our Chief Economist and Professor of Economics, University of Oxford.
Is the future of work already here? What is a bigger threat to our future: Covid-19 or robots? All of this and more in our latest podcast.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Feminist AI 101 with Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth
Pub date: 2021-06-02
What is Feminist AI and how and why should we design and implement it?
To answer this question and more in this episode we interview Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth about the ins and outs of Feminist AI.
Eleanor and Kerry are both postdoctoral researchers who are working on the “Gender and Technology” research project at the “University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies” and in association with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. In this project, they are working to provide the AI sector with practical tools to create more equitable AI informed by intersectional feminist knowledge.
Full show notes and guest bios for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial Pipeline
Pub date: 2021-05-21
Last week, a hacker group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. Gas prices skyrocketed, people started hoarding gas, and DarkSide walked away with over $4 million in Bitcoin. How did they do it? And what makes this hack different from those we’ve seen before?
Guest: David Uberti, cybersecurity reporter at the Wall Street Journal
Host
Lizzie O’Leary
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Podcast: Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: What’s behind the semiconductor shortage and how long could it last?
Pub date: 2021-05-24
A global shortage of semiconductors has created serious anxiety in some industries and even caused automakers to halt production in several factories across North America. What led to this shortage, and is there anything manufacturers or the Biden administration can do to meet demand? David Dollar is joined by Don Clark, a contributor to The New York Times, to discuss the factors that triggered the recent supply issues and the potential implications for the future of chip manufacturing in the United States.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming Data Episode 2: Data & Labor
Pub date: 2021-05-24
Scholar Shaka McGlotten and activist Chris Ramsaroop join our host, Natalie Kerby, to discuss data in the context of labor. The episode addresses the historical ways that data has been used to organize labor, the labor of making ourselves visible to data-centric systems, and the different ways that people, and more specifically workers, are resisting datafication.
Shaka McGlotten (@shakaz23) is a professor of anthropology and media studies at Purchase College, SUNY and 2020-2021 Faculty Fellow at Data & Society.
Chris Ramsaroop (@j4mw) is an organizer with Justice for Migrant Workers and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.
"Becoming Data" is co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books.
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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-05-19
The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of the smart city and shows the revolution in urban technology that is currently taking place in large metropolitan areas around the United States. Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. Throughout Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City (U Minnesota Press, 2020), Shapiro develops a new lens called logistical governance in his effort to interpret and understand urban technologies. This lens was used to critique urban future based on extraction and rationalization.
Through ethnographic research, journalistic interviews, and his own hands-on experience, Shapiro helps readers peer through cracks of the façade that smart cities are bearing. He investigates the true price New Yorkers pay for “free,” ad-funded WiFi, finding that it is ultimately serving the ends of commercial media. Shapiro also builds on his experience as a bike courier delivering food for a startup company and examines how promises of “flexible employment” in the gig economy paves the way for strict managerial control. And he turns his discussion toward the current debates about police violence and new patrol technologies, asking whether algorithms are the answer to reforming the ongoing crises of criminal justice in large urban cities.
Through these gripping accounts of new technology in urban areas, Shapiro and Design, Control, Predict make vital contributions to conversations about data privacy and algorithmic governance. Shapiro provides a ground level account of a timely and important piece of research in Design, Control, Predict. This piece can be used when comprehending urbanism today and when identifying strategies to advance the critique and resistance to a dystopian future that is often viewed as inevitable.
Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. His most recent research, “The Queen and Her Royal Court: A Content Analysis of Doing Gender at a Tulip Queen Pageant“, was published in Gender Issues Journal. He researches culture, social identity, and collective representation as it is presented in everyday social interactions. He is currently studying the social interactions that people engage in at two annual festivals that take place during the summer months along the banks of the Mississippi River. You can learn more about him on his website, Google Scholar, follow him on Twitter@ProfessorJohnst, or email him at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fund Drive Special: Technology as a Ruling Class Weapon
Pub date: 2021-05-18
How should we on the left regard technology? Is it something neutral that we can shape for our own purposes? Is it a weapon of social control? Automation and the perilousness of life under capitalism have brought those debates back, but they’re not new. Marxist scholar Gavin Mueller discusses technology, capitalism, and the left.
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Podcast: The Hearing – A Legal Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: EP. 77 – The impact of AI and algorithms on the fairness of our justice systems
Pub date: 2021-05-17
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION – We, along with the rest of the legal industry, have talked at length about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our profession. But this time we concern ourselves not with the efficiencies of machine learning and automation, but instead with potential injustice and the need for vigilance in the face of seismic developments.
AI is already being used extensively in areas like recruitment, policing and the courts – as it's often assumed that machines, unlike humans, are objective and neutral. But, as this episode discusses, computer algorithms can easily perpetuate and amplify human biases.
Becky Annison and our three guests – who are each working to understand and fight against algorithmic injustice – discuss the causes as well as the cumulative and damaging effects of coded bias. The computer scientist and digital activist Joy Buolamwini describes this phenomenon as the "exclusion overhead" – the cost of systems that exclude and discriminate against those with experiential differences who are outside the code writing room.
CONTRIBUTORS:
- Sandra Wachter, Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
- Kristian Lum, Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
- Ivana Bartoletti, Technical Director - Privacy, Deloitte; Visiting Policy Fellow, University of Oxford
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Present and Future of Surveillance
Pub date: 2021-05-07
“The degree to which we are surveilled, the persistence with which we are surveilled, and the variety of ways in which we are surveilled has exploded in the last decade,” says Arthur Holland Michel. “We are being watched in some way or another, 24/7, wherever we are.”
Today, he joins us to discuss his latest piece in WIRED about data fusion and the future of surveillance.
Arthur Holland Michel is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the author of Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How it Will Watch Us All (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019).
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Podcast: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics
Pub date: 2021-05-12
Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we serve in the global south, to merely be passive beneficiaries and outside of the borders of expertise we seek? Instead of looking at digital governance in terms of control, weaving in feminist and decolonial approaches might help liberate our digital futures so that it is a space of safety and of humanity, and through this design new forms of digital humanism.
Anasuya Sengupta, Sabelo Mhlambi, Andrew Zolli, and Aarathi Krishnan discuss how humanitarian actors can play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures.
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Podcast: New Books in Systems and Cybernetics (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-05-11
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, was communicated to the general public by a handful of charismatic evangelizers who, for a time, became bona fide celebrities in popular culture, generated much excitement and innovation on university campuses across Europe, the Americas and beyond, and, in subsequent decades, seemed to fade to the periphery of intellectual discourse with some declaring both movements dead and others keeping the faith in small circles of committed artists, scholars, and practitioners. Along the way, both movements have found some of their strongest expressions through works of art; from the plays and novels of some of existentialisms key players, to the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition that toured America after its original incarnation at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London.
In the early decades of the 21st century, well into the so-called Information and at a historical moment fraught with new and amplified ethical challenges, both fields seem, to many, to be poised for a comeback. One such observer is Steve Dixon, whose monograph, Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance (Routledge, 2020), not only explores the often surprising conceptual overlaps between the two fields but manages to offer nothing less than an original aesthetic theory fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the ‘universal science’ of cybernetics to provide a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art.
In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of cutting edge contemporary artists’ works embody core ideas from such Existentialist philosophers as Søren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others while, simultaneously, engaging in complex explorations of concepts proposed by such cyberneticians as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Gregory Bateson on information theory and ‘noise’, feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence.
Dixon’s ground-breaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system. Join me now as Dixon, in his own words, “talks for England” in an energetic romp across these complex, overlapping intellectual and aesthetic landscapes.
Tom Scholte is a Professor of Directing and Acting in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam people.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 66. Down and Out in the Neoliberal Code Academy (ft. Daniel Greene)
Pub date: 2021-05-05
We’re joined by Dan Greene, author of an excellent new book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Dan’s work provides a deep analysis of how public institutions like libraries and schools are being transformed in the image of startups — pivoting away from the communities and missions they ought to serve — and the decades of punitive neoliberal reforms that brought us here. We deconstruct noxious policy slogans like “learn to code” and “digital divide,” and discuss why leftists must pay attention to the radical politics — both actual and potential — of libraries.
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Making the Internet Unequal
Pub date: 2021-05-04
In its early days, the internet appeared to hold the promise of a new form of communication not driven by the profit motive. Yet the sordid state of the internet today was not inevitable, according to scholar Jessa Lingel. Instead, she argues, a process took place -- similar to the gentrification of our cities -- in which those with wealth and power displaced myriad sites and communities of experimentation and dissent. She also discusses the still untapped potential of dark fibre optic cables right below our feet.
Resources:
Jessa Lingel, The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom [1] UC Press, 2021
photo: NASA [2] via Unsplash
[1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344907/the-gentrification-of-the-internet [2] https://unsplash.com/@nasa
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 64. Platform Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
Pub date: 2021-04-29
Cold open: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/984994360/he-tried-to-organize-workers-in-chinas-gig-economy-now-he-faces-5-years-in-jail
We dig deeper into our explorations of technological and financial capitalism in China by discussing an invaluable source for rigorous, ruthless analysis: Chuang, a collective and journal “analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it.” We then start getting into a long, detailed, investigative report on the working conditions of platform labor in China. While some ghouls in Western countries might look at the horrors we discuss and say, “See, it could be worse.” We must instead assert, “No, it should be better.”
Some stuff we reference: • Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System | Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/ • Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China | Chuang: https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/
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Podcast: Flash Forward (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: What If Our Cities Were Smart?
Pub date: 2021-04-27
Today’s episode is all about the future of cities. Do we want them to be smart? What does that even mean?
Guests:
- Ben Passmore, a comic artist and contributor to the Flash Forward book!
- Annalee Newitz, a science journalist, science fiction writer, and author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.
- Dr. Jathan Sadowski, author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling our Lives, and Taking Over the Worldand cohost of a podcast called This Machine Kills.
- Dr. Brenda McPhail, director of the Privacy, Technology, and Surveillance Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
- Dr. Jarah Moesch, a multidisciplinary artist and professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Voice Actor: Smart City Cop — Brett Tubbs
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Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.
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Podcast: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Governing the Social Media City
Pub date: 2021-04-27
The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and research spaces (i.e., governments, academia, NGOs, and corporations), the default response is a focus on content moderation. However, this talk by Sahar Massachi, with Kathy Pham as a respondent, explores what it might be like to think about social media as a city. In this model, how can we rethink our approaches to these issues besides hiring more police to react to the problem? The conversation explores the use of integrity design to more meaningfully consider the underlying structures and how to more holistically address them.
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Podcast: Technology & Prose
Episode: John Danaher on Automation and Utopia
Pub date: 2021-04-15
John Danaher, Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway, discusses his new book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work.
On the season finale of Technology & Prose, John Danaher joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the meaning of work (1:13), the automatability and automation of work (2:36), why we should welcome automation — the case for technological unemployment (10:02), the gig economy, Uber, and the limits to improving the conditions of work (13:25), building a post-work future - the ‘cyborg utopia’ and the ‘virtual utopia’ (19:25), problems with cyborgization (22:44), the meaning of utopia (28:00), the concept of virtual reality (29:53), constructing a virtual utopia, the ‘utopia of games’ (34:40), psychedelics and other sources of human flourishing in a post-work future (41:25), Big Tech, universal basic income (UBI) and the political economy of virtual utopia (42:34).
References
Manyika et al, A Future that Works: Automation, Employment and Productivity
Frey and Osborne, The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?
Moravec’s paradox
Robertson, Robo Sapiens Japanicus
UK Supreme Court decision in Uber v Aslam
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace Report
Harari, Sapiens and Homo Deus
Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
Macintyre, After Virtue
Check out John’s blog and podcast, Philosophical Disquisitions
Recorded on 29th March 2021.
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Naomi Klein on Entering the Tech Governance Debate
Pub date: 2021-04-15
Global technology companies that power websites and services, like Amazon and Microsoft, and platforms, like Facebook and Google, have created spaces and tools that allow corporations, states and themselves to exert power in many sectors of our lives.
In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Naomi Klein, author, social activist and filmmaker. Over her two decades of work, books such as No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism have, in many respects, foreshadowed the rise of big tech. For example, No Logo, published in 1999, long before the rise of Instagram and the influencer economy, examined the marketing trend of making citizens an extension of the corporations’ brand.
Recently, Klein has been raising concerns about how tech companies are positioning themselves as essential services and capitalizing on this moment to enter new sectors, with little pushback. For example, Klein explains how the education sector rushed to platforms to enable virtual learning at the start of the pandemic: “I wish public universities had been better prepared with our own technologies.” The education space is one example of how the public space is being eroded. “If we are going to be using these platforms, we have to be serious about developing public sector, common-space alternatives to these private platforms. I don’t think we did do that. And so, they moved very quickly. Shock Doctrine–style.”
While this situation may seem bleak, Klein does see a silver lining: “We probably would have ended up in this place in 10 years, and instead, we got there in a matter of months,” Klein says, in reference to the pandemic’s shelter-at-home and work-from-home orders around the world. “And we probably would have boiled slowly. And now I feel like we’re jumping around in this pot going, ‘This is terrible.’” This rapid shift has enabled us, as a society, to see more clearly how technology is impacting our lives, presenting an opportunity to course-correct.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #36 - State v. the Internet? - w/ Natasha Tusikov
Pub date: 2021-04-19
In this episode, Natasha Tusikov discusses the co-edited volume "Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?" with Forum fellow Nicolas Wittstock. In this book, the authors discuss challenges arising in different areas of internet regulation.
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Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Media Distortions (w/ Elinor Carmi)
Pub date: 2021-03-27
How do layers of content moderation infrastructure shape sociality and anti-sociality? What are the incentives motivating algorithms used by Facebook, Google and Amazon? How do algorithms shape our sense of time, how we register social information and what content is produced by users? What are the implications for digital consent? Unsettling the myth of “organic content” we discuss Spam and who gets to decide which media is categorized as deviant.
Elinor Carmi joins the WBI show to discuss the history of Bell Telephone regulating sound as a form of urban planning in New York City-where Black Americans were deemed noisy (and certain decibels were criminalized), the way digital infrastructure mediates discourse around Israel/Palestine, and the connections between digital literacy and grassroots digital activism.
Elinor Carmi is a Postdoc Research Associate in digital culture and society, at the Communication and Media Department, Liverpool University, UK. She’s the author of: Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise and Other Deviant Media
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Podcast: Rationally Speaking Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
Pub date: 2021-04-09
How much do Uber and Lyft drivers really earn, after expenses? Are they getting a raw deal by being classified as 'independent contractors' instead of employees? I explore the debate over these questions with three guests: Louis Hyman (Cornell), Veena Dubal (UC Hastings College of the Law), and Harry Campbell (The Rideshare Guy).
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Podcast: Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
Episode: 24: Digital poverty: it’s not all about money
Pub date: 2021-04-11
Vicki and Geraldine talk to Ellen Helsper, Professor of Digital Inequalities at LSE, about why giving children laptops isn’t enough.
Talking points:
- Why does social disadvantage so often turn into into digital disadvantage?- Will the gap between the digital haves and have-nots widen, stay the same, or get smaller as more people are exposed to tech?- Why have we been so bad at teaching children the real digital skills they need to thrive online?
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Podcast: Black Box by Algorithmic Governance Research Network
Episode: Episode 2: Conversation with Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese on Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work
Pub date: 2021-04-09
Joining me today are Simon Egbert, Postdoctoral Fellow at Bielefeld University, on an ERC research project on The Future of Prediction, and Matthias Leese, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) in Zürich, to discuss their recent book Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work, published in 2021 with Routledge. The book is available to download open-access here.
Today we discuss predictive policing and the ways in which it is transforming police work. Police departments across the globe are embracing algorithmic techniques to support decision-making through risk assessments and predictions based on big data and real-time analytics, utilizing tools such as facial recognition. Silicon Valley’s ‘technological solutionism’, to use Evgeny Morozov’s concept, has been making its way into law enforcement agencies across the globe, promising to smoothly, efficiently and effortlessly anticipate, predict, and control (future) criminal behaviour and deviance. But predictive policing has met with resistance from civil society and academics alike. Even though data-driven predictions and algorithmic risk assessments are sold by tech developers as ‘neutral’ and ‘objective’ forms of ‘evidence’ and ‘intelligence’ – because technological – as something ‘solid’ and ‘hard’ in ‘liquid times,’ critical social scientists tend to know better. What counts as data and how it is collected, what is included and what excluded, all this reflects historical, representational, cultural, gender, and other inequalities and biases. Prejudices about criminality of certain groups can be built into crime data, resulting in their reinforcement, rather than dispelling. We increasingly read about systems trained on biased and ‘dirty’ data, about ‘rogue algorithms’, and ‘algorithmic injustice’ and violations of human rights and civil liberties. As Cathy O’Neil put it, algorithms can create ‘a pernicious feedback loop’, where ‘policing itself spawns new data, which justifies more policing’ (O’Neil 2016: 87). Last year, acting on these insights, the city of Santa Cruz in California, one of the earlierst adopters of predictive policing, became the first US city to ban the use of predictive technologies in policing. Calls for ethical, transparent and explainable AI are emerging both from within computer science, law and social sciences, and from policymakers and civil society. It is clear that both the development and adoption of these technologies does not happen in a cultural, political or economic vacuum. In many countries, for instance, police forces are experiencing financial cuts, increasing pressures to outsource certain tasks to private actors, often accompanied by organizational reform. Demands on response time, results, performance, and efficiency are increasing, while resources may be shrinking, thus structurally creating a market for a wide range of optimization tools for police work. Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese have studied predictive policing, the datafication of security and the transformation of police work ethnographically in Germany and Switzerland. In this podcast, we discuss in detail the reality behind the sleek commercials for predictive policing software tools that promise to forecast crime and control futures. Are we headed towards a dystopian society of total surveillance, social sorting, and control or a utopia of a perfectly optimized police force? What futures lie ahead for predictive policing and what will the police force of the future look like?
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Labor Struggle at Amazon
Pub date: 2021-04-07
Lauren Kaori Gurley at Vice.com’s Motherboard has covered the unionization drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama for more than a year. Voting ended March 29 and counting is currently underway. If they vote to join the RWDSU they will become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. Suzi talked to Lauren K. Gurley about Amazon’s business model, the pee scandal, and the anti-union campaign Amazon has mounted against the RWSDU. All eyes are on this titanic labor struggle in the anti-union south because it has enormous potential for the labor movement far beyond Alabama, and for that reason the battle has been fierce.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 141 | Zeynep Tufekci on Information and Attention in a Networked World
Pub date: 2021-04-05
In a world flooded with information, everybody necessarily makes choices about what we pay attention to. This basic fact can be manipulated in any number of ways, from advertisers micro-targeting specific groups to repressive governments flooding social media with misinformation, or for that matter well-meaning people passing along news from sketchy sources. Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist who studies the flow of information and its impact on society, especially through social media. She has provided insightful analyses of protest movements, online privacy, and the Covid-19 pandemic. We talk about how technology has been shaping the information space we all inhabit.
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Zeynep Tufekci received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas-Austin. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and will be a Visiting Professor at the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia University. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she publishes the Insight newsletter on Substack.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Cathay Smith on Weaponizing Copyright
Pub date: 2021-03-30
In this episode, Cathay Y. N. Smith, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Montana Blewett School of Law, discusses her new article "Weaponizing Copyright." Smith begins by explaining that "weaponizing" copyright is using it for non-copyright ends. In theory, copyright is supposed to be about ensuring that copyright owners reap the economic value of the works they own. But sometimes, copyright owners use their copyright to accomplish non-economic goals. Often, those goals are laudable, like punishing racist speech or removing revenge porn from the internet. But they can also be bad, especially when they involve the suppression of critical speech. Smith reflects on that tension and how it might be resolved, through the lens of many different examples. Smith is on Twitter at @CathaySmith.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Counterculture to Cyberculture with Fred Turner
Pub date: 2021-03-26
How the 60s counterculture went on to make the techno-utopian ideology that suffuses our techno-dystopian reality. Dan interviews Fred Turner on his classic From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.
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Podcast: Looks Like New - on KGNU
Episode: Looks Like New: What Is the Internet Doing to the Environment?
Pub date: 2021-03-25
Most of us use the Internet each day with our smartphones and devices. But too rarely do we consider how our connections are possible. How does the Internet work? What environmental toll does the Internet have? Our guest this month, […]
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Vaccine Passports with Ada Lovelace Institute
Pub date: 2021-03-24
To facilitate a global understanding of possible vulnerabilities that will arise from vaccine passport adoption, we bring together Ranjit Singh, expert on digital identity systems, Amy Fairchild, public health ethicist, and Imogen Parker, head of policy at Ada Lovelace Institute, to discuss the past and future of digital health systems. The conversation is hosted by Data & Society Health and Data Program Director Amanda Lenhart.
Speaker Bios
Amanda Lenhart (Host)
Amanda Lenhart studies how technology affects human lives, with a special focus on families and children. A quantitative and qualitative researcher, Amanda is the Health + Data Research Lead at the Data & Society Research Institute. Over decades, she has examined how adolescents and their families use and think about technology, how young adults consume news, how harassment has thrived in online spaces, and how automation will impact workers. Most recently, as deputy director of the Better Life Lab at New America, Amanda focused on the ways technology affects workers’ jobs and lives, as well as the family-supportive policies that enable balance between the personal and the professional. She began her career at the Pew Research Center, studying how teens and families use social and mobile technologies.
Amanda specializes in translating rigorous research for a broad national audience. Dedicated to public communication, she has testified before congressional subcommittees and the Federal Trade Commission. Amanda’s work has been featured in numerous national publications and broadcasts, including the PBS Newshour and NPR’s All Things Considered.
Imogen Parker (Co-Host)
Imogen is Head of Policy at the Ada Lovelace Institute, where she is responsible for creating social change through developments to policy, law, regulation and public service delivery. She is a Policy Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for Science and Policy.
Her career has been at the intersection of social justice, technology and research. In her previous role as Head of the Nuffield Foundation’s programmes on Justice, Rights and Digital Society she worked in collaboration with the founding partner organisations to create the Institute. Prior to that she was acting Head of Policy Research for Citizens and Democracy at Citizens Advice, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and worked with Baroness Kidron to create the children’s digital rights charity 5Rights.
Ranjit Singh (Panelist)
Ranjit Singh has a doctorate in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Cornell University. His research lies at the intersection of data infrastructures, global development, and public policy. He uses methods of interview-based qualitative sociology and multi-sited ethnography in his research. He examines the everyday experiences of people subject to data-driven practices and follows the mutual shaping of their lives and their data records. His dissertation research on Aadhaar, the national biometrics-based identification infrastructure of India, advances the public understanding of the affordances and limits of biometrics-based data infrastructures in practically achieving inclusive development and reshaping the nature of Indian citizenship.
He has published his research in venues such as the Journal of South Asian Studies and the ACM CHI Conference; he has presented his work at conferences including CSCW, 4S, AAA, and ECSAS. Beyond the dissertation, he has focused on two additional infrastructures: (1) the National Register of Citizens in Assam, India—an effort to differentiate citizens from illegal immigrants. (2) US Credit Scoring—the efforts of low-income individuals to improve their creditworthiness within the lending industry. In all these projects, his research is oriented towards understanding how data is increasingly used to imagine and develop new digital solutions for democratizing inclusion. He was also involved in developing the Digital Due Process Clinic, a clinical program at Cornell University, to study and support individuals in their struggles to secure fair representation in data infrastructures.
Amy Lauren Fairchild (Panelist)
Amy Lauren Fairchild is a historian who works at the intersection of history, public health ethics, and public health policy and politics. Her work helped establish public health ethics—which is concerned with the well-being of populations—as fundamentally distinct from either bioethics or human rights. Whether exploring the tension between privacy and surveillance, immigration and border control, or paternalism and liberty, Fairchild assesses the social, political, and ethical factors that shape not only the potential and limits of the state to intervene for the common good but also what counts as evidence.
Fairchild has written two books: Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force and Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America (with Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove). In addition, she has published in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the American Journal of Public Health, Science, and the JAMA. The National Endowment for the Humanities funds her current book project: a social history of fear and panic.
A graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, Fairchild received her MPH and PhD from Columbia University. She was on the faculty at Columbia for 22 years in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health. At Columbia, she served as Assistant Director for Academic Affairs in the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, and Director of the Foundations module and Integration of Science and Practice in the MPH Core Curriculum. She continues to serve as Co-Director, with Ronald Bayer, of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Bioethics at Columbia’s Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health. Fairchild also served on the faculty at Texas A&M University. There, she was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Public Health and Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs at the Health Science Center.
Fairchild feels extraordinarily honored to serve as Dean of the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. Any university with the chutzpah to have a poison nut for a mascot is the kind of place she wants to stay.
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Podcast: TALKING POLITICS (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Technopopulism
Pub date: 2021-03-25
David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics. From New Labour to Macron's En Marche, from Dominic Cummings to Five Star, we discuss what these different forms of politics have in common and whether the pandemic has entrenched the hold of technopopulism or whether we are on the brink of something new.
Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Mutale Nkonde on How Biased Tech Design and Racial Disparity Intersect
Pub date: 2021-03-18
In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Mutale Nkonde, founder of AI for the People (AFP). She shares her experiences of discrimination and bias working in journalism and at tech companies in Silicon Valley. Moving into government, academia and activism, Nkonde has been able to bring light to the ways in which biases baked into technology’s design disproportionately affect racialized communities. For instance, during the 2020 US presidential campaign, her communications team was able to detect and counter groups who were targeting Black voters in social media groups, by weaponizing misinformation, with the specific message to not vote. In her role with AFP, she works to produce content that empowers people to combat racial bias in tech. One example is the “ban the scan” advocacy campaign with Amnesty International, which seeks to ban the use of facial recognition technology by government agencies.
In their conversation, Mutale and Taylor discuss the many ways in which technology reflects and amplifies bias. Many of the issues begin when software tools are designed by development teams that lack diversity or actively practise forms of institutional racism, excluding or discouraging decision-making participation by minority ethnic group members. Another problem is the data sets included in training the systems; as Nkonde explains, “Here in the United States, if you’re a white person, 70 percent of white people don’t actually know a Black person. So, if I were to ask one of those people to bring me a hundred pictures from their social media, it’s going to be a bunch of white people.” When algorithms that are built with this biased data make it into products — for use in, say, law enforcement, health care and financial services — they begin to have serious impacts on people’s lives, most severely when law enforcement misidentifies a suspect. Among the cases coming to light, “in New Jersey, Nijeer Parks was not only misidentified by a facial recognition system, arrested, but could prove that he was 30 miles away at the time,” Nkonde recounts. “But, because of poverty, [Parks] ended up spending 10 days in jail, because he couldn’t make bail. And that story really shows how facial recognition kind of reinforces other elements of racialized violence by kind of doubling up these systems.” Which is why Nkonde is working to ban facial recognition technology from use, as well as fighting for other legislation in the United States that will go beyond protecting individual rights to improving core systems for the good of all.
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Podcast: Law and the Future of War
Episode: Metaphors and cyberspace - Julia Slupska
Pub date: 2021-03-17
In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Julia Sluspka about how the metaphors we use to understand cyberspace impact on how we imagine it should be regulated. They discuss the ways in which the conceptualisation of cyberspace is contested. Is it like spatial territory? Are states engaged in cyber war? Or is it like an ecosystem, or infrastructure? The metaphor we adopt frames the problems we see and the solutions we arrive at.
Julia Slupska is a doctoral student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on technologically-mediated abuse like image-based sexual abuse ('revenge porn') and stalking, as well as emotion, care and metaphors in cybersecurity.
Further reading
- Julia Slupska, 'War, Health and Ecosystem: Generative Metaphors in Cybersecurity Governance', Philosophy & Technology (2020).
- Julia Slupska, 'Safe at Home: Towards a Feminist Critique of Cybersecurity' in Whose Security is Cybersecurity? Authority, Responsibility and Power in Cyberspace (St. Anthony's International Review 2019 no. 15)
- George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By(1980, University of Chicago Press).
- Dominik Lukeš, 'Hacking a metaphor in five steps', Metaphor Hacker (July 18 2010).
- Florian Eggloff, 'Cybersecurity and the Age of Privateering: A Historical Analogy', Cyber Studies Working Paper No. 1 (March 2015, University of Oxford)
- Donald Schön 'Generative metaphor: A perspective on problem-setting in social policy' in Ortony, A. (Ed.) Metaphor and Thought (1993, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press).
- Mariarosaria Taddeo, 'On the Risks of Relying on Analogies to Understand Cyber Conflicts' (2016) 26 Minds and Machines 317-321.
- Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2nd ed., 2014, University of California Press).
- Karen Levy and Bruce Schneier, 'Privacy threats in intimate relationships' 6(1) Journal of Cybersecurity (2020).
- Cornell Tech Univerisity Project on Computer Security and Privacy for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
- Katherine Miller, James Shires, Tatiana Tropina, Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity(2021, UNIDIR)
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Albert Fox Cahn on a Society Under Surveillance
Pub date: 2021-03-12
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Albert Fox Cahn, the founder and executive director of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), to discuss the logistics and ethics behind proposed vaccine passports.
Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s ( S.T.O.P.’s) founder and executive director, a member of the Ashoka Fellowship Network, a fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at N.Y.U. School of Law, a member of the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and a columnist for Gotham Gazette. As a lawyer, technologist, writer, and interfaith activist, Mr. Cahn began S.T.O.P. in the belief that emerging surveillance technologies pose an unprecedented threat to civil rights and the promise of a free society.
Mr. Cahn is a frequent commentator on civil rights, privacy, and technology matters and a contributor to numerous publications, including the New York Times, Slate, NBC Think, Newsweek, and the N.Y. Daily News. and he has lectured and presented his research at numerous universities including Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College. Mr. Cahn previously served as legal director for a statewide civil rights organization, and as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on technology policy, antitrust law, and consumer privacy.
In addition to his work at S.T.O.P., Mr. Cahn serves on the New York Immigration Coalition’s Immigrant Leaders Council, the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund’s Advisory Council, and is an editorial board member for the Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection. Mr. Cahn received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review), and his B.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Brandeis University.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
Pub date: 2021-03-18
Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexism and colonialism in computing has lessons for the present-day US tech industry.
Mar Hicks is the co-editor of “Your Computer Is on Fire,” along with Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, and Kavita Philip. They are also the author of “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” and an Associate Professor of the History of Technology at Illinois Tech. Follow Mar on Twitter as @histoftech.
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.
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- Mar wrote about the story of COBOL computer systems in the early months of the pandemic and how Britain killed its tech industry.
- Google fired top AI ethicists Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell after their research was critical of the company’s practices. Diversity recruiter April Christina Curley was also fired in September 2020.
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The new “space race” for chips
Pub date: 2021-03-05
A close look at how the latest silicon chips are made, what they’re used for, and why they represent “the new space race” at the heart of US-China rivalry. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC Online tech editor Leo Kelion. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Illustration with the flags of China and the USA behind a silicon chip, Credit: Getty Images).
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Podcast: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Witnesses: The Power of Looking
Pub date: 2021-03-08
Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech tools to track and circumvent oppressive policies by repressive governments. The conversation includes how Black people of Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States are leveraging social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Clubhouse for artistic expressions on political and social issues in their countries. The panel also considers how young digital activists highlight the importance and place of the digital civic space to rights and freedoms offline. Finally, the discussion will address some of the limitations of digital tools in holding repressive governments and institutional bodies accountable. This event was moderated by Ellery Roberts Biddle.
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Podcast: Global Digital Cultures
Episode: Global Digital Inequalities - Nishant Shah & Padmini Ray Murray
Pub date: 2021-02-26
This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series #2. Recorded on February 2021.
How does digitisation reshape the distribution of cultural, economic, and political resources around the globe? Over the past decades, this has been a central question in activist, scholarly, and policy debate. In this webinar, feminist technologist Nishant Shah and creative practitioner Padmini Ray Murray will discuss the current state of this debate. How is digital inequality framed in different parts of the world and what are the consequences of this framing? What can be the pitfalls of certain rhetorics of inclusion? And what are the current challenges for a politics of design directed at social justice? In light of the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the ongoing (dis-)information crisis, the question of global digital inequality has taken on new urgency.
Chair: Guillén Torres Sepulveda
Speakers: Nishant Shah is Director of Research & Outreach and Professor Aesthetics and Culture of Technologies at ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands. His work is at the intersections of body, identity, digital technologies, artistic practice, and activism, with a specific focus on non-canonical geographies. His current interest is in thinking through questions of artificial intelligence, digital subjectivity, and misinformation towards building inclusive, diverse, resilient, and equitable societies. His new book Really Fake is out in Spring 2021 with University of Minnesota Press. https://nishantshah.online/
Padmini Ray Murray is the founder of Design Beku, a collective emerging from a desire to explore how technology and design can be decolonial, local, and ethical. As a creative practitioner, Padmini creates new media work which reflects her research and interests, such as Darshan Diversion (with KV Ketan and Joel Johnson), a feminist videogame about the Sabarimala temple controversy (2016); Visualising Cybersecurity, a project which aims to alter how cybersecurity is depicted and discussed in the media (2019); a speculative comic on the personal data protection bill, “Designing for Democracy” (with Paulanthony George, 2020); and is currently working on a digital performance piece funded by the Goethe Institut, an adaptation of Ionesco’s ‘The Leader’, which explores the themes of misinformation, the attention economy and fake news. https://hcommons.org/members/padminirm/
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Is Facebook (and Google) a Public Utility?
Pub date: 2021-02-26
For this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Josh Simons, a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University and a Labour candidate for local office in the UK. They discuss Josh’s research — what is machine learning and why is it (always) political? As critical information infrastructure, should Google and Facebook be regulated as democratic utilities? And do we need a whole new understanding of corporations' role in society if we’re going to tackle the tech industry?
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Mentioned in this podcast
Josh Simons (co-authored by Dipayan Ghosh) on Brookings: Utilities for democracy: Why and how the algorithmic infrastructure of Facebook and Google must be regulated
Virginia Eubanks’s seminal work on Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor. Plus a review on the LSE’s blog
Cory Doctorow, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
More on the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and Digital Markets Unit
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Algorithmic Ecology and Abolition (with Sophie Wang and Shakeer Rahman)
Pub date: 2021-02-27
The Algorithmic Ecology is an abolitionist framework and organizing tool that can be critically applied to any algorithm. Developed by Stop LAPD Spying and Free Radicals, it unsettles central assumptions about how predictive policing actually functions and makes visible key areas of intervention for those fighting for a world without police.
Academics tend to present algorithmic harm in the narrow language of privacy – failing to address the ways policing shows up in people’s lives. Grassroots organizations often see predictive policing as a false reform or a useful entrypoint to discuss what we already know about policing or incarceration in general. But do predictive analytics produce new modes of surveillance and social control? How can not just go beyond “dirty data” but make the infrastructures algorithms build up visual and concrete?
An investigation of PredPol heat maps of Skid Row (a community on the east side of downtown Los Angeles and home to the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition) pursued these questions, resulting in surprising insights:
“Given the prevailing notion that algorithmic policing would create ‘feedback loops,”’ our expectation was to find Skid Row — the area around the star marked on the map — to be laden with PredPol hotspots. But the hotspots were instead clustered at the periphery of the community. Rather than visualizing the hyper-policing that we know occurs in Skid Row, the PredPol hot spot maps appear to be drawing a digital border to contain, control, and criminalize Skid Row.”
Guests:Sophie is a co-founder, organizer, and zine gremlin at Free Radicals, an activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, equitable, and accountable science.
Shakeer Rahman is a community organizer and lawyer working with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.
IG + Twitter: @WeBeImagining
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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman,
Music: Drew Lewis
Links for the Episode:
LAPD ends another data-driven crime program touted to target violent offenders
'Secret' body cam video finally shows what happened in 2015 LAPD shooting
Los Angeles Community Action Network: LACAN
Before the Bullet Hits the Body – Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles
Did Garcetti achieve his $250 million LA pledge?
Monitoring and Analysis Profiles: 2015-2019 New York State (MAPS Race Rubric)
Desperate to slow spike in killings, LAPD redeploys controversial units in South L.A.
A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project
The Complicity of Academia in Policing of Families Opinion Victoria Copeland
No Tech for ICE
US police employ mass surveillance systems
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Tech Companies’ Complicity in State Violence Runs Deep
Policing Is an Information Business
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
Chronic Offender Purpose and Check List (StopLAPD Report)
Defund Surveillance Campaign
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Social Inequality in the Digital Economy with Zanele Munyikwa
Pub date: 2021-02-24
How does the Digital Economy perpetuate social inequality?
In this episode we interview Zanele Munyikwa. Zanele is a PhD student in Management Science and Information Technology at MIT Sloan. She is a computational social scientist who uses causal inference and machine learning techniques to study the digital economy, technology, and the future of work.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: At Liberty (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Google This: Algorithmic Oppression
Pub date: 2021-02-18
Imagine you’ve forgotten once again the difference between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, so you do a quick Google image search of “gorilla.” But instead of finding images of adorable banana-obsessed animals, photos of a Black couple pop up.
Is this just a glitch in the algorithm? Or, is Google an ad company, not an information company, that’s replicating the discrimination of the world it operates in? How can this discrimination be addressed and who is accountable for it?
Our guest today, UCLA professor and best-selling author of “Algorithms of Oppression,” Dr. Safiya Noble answers these questions.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)
Pub date: 2021-02-18
We discuss the limitations of existing approaches – and democratic alternatives – to data governance in informational capitalism with Salomé Viljoen (https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_), a legal scholar in the NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative, who is doing some of the most exciting and cutting-edge work in this area. Salomé explains how we need to make data collection work for socially beneficial uses and why surveillance of powerful people / important institutions is good, actually.
Read her excellent work: • Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727562 • Data as Property? https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/data-as-property • Find more of Salomé’s work here: https://www.salomeviljoen.com
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: New Laws of Robotics w/ Frank Pasquale
Pub date: 2021-02-15
Professor of Law Frank Pasquale shares his insights on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can capitalise on human strengths and take advantage of human limits; what automation means for healthcare, education and warfare; and how the robotics regulations we implement today might have a dramatic effect on the future of work.
Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, and other outlets.
Find out more: futurespodcast.net
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Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Looking at the Oversight: Meditations on Platform Governance (with Robyn Caplan)
Pub date: 2021-02-14
Suddenly everyone is an expert on platform governance but how do we situate the current widespread public concern around how privatized commons are ruled? Where is the moral brightline for the researchers and critics of big tech when the financial incentives to join the very same companies are high? How do we understand platform governance in a longer history where big tech corporations refused access to researchers and many felt the harm was something that would happen much further down the road? Should we resurrect the analogy to media (TV, Radio, Print) to better understand what regulatory approaches are useful? We discuss these questions and more with Robyn Caplan.
Robyn Caplan is a Researcher at Data & Society, and a PhD Candidate at Rutgers University (ABD, advisor Philip M. Napoli) in the School of Communication and Information Studies. She conducts research on issues related to platform governance and content standards. Her most recent work investigates the extent to which organizational dynamics at major platform companies impacts the development and enforcement of policy geared towards limiting disinformation and hate speech, and the impact of regulation, industry coordination, and advocacy can play in changing platform policies.
IG + Twitter: @WeBeImagining
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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis
Links for the Episode:Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms
When Media Companies Insist They're Not Media Companies and Why It Matters for Communications Policy by Philip M. Napoli, Robyn Caplan
Content or Context Moderation?: Artisanal, Community Reliant and Industrial Approaches
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Measurementality #1: Defining What Counts in the Algorithmic Age
Pub date: 2021-02-14
Join John C. Havens of the IEEE Standards Association along with Jess and Dylan, the co-hosts of the popular podcast, Radical AI as they discuss the new Measurementality content series, including topics such as: How is success measured today in the world of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS)? What is the positive future we’re working to build with AIS? And, what are the measures of success for that future? We'll also be discussing how the Measurementality series features a call to action for listeners and the AIS community at large to respond to these questions to contribute to two reports helping us define and frame 'what counts in the algorithmic age.'
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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Black Software author on technology’s role in racial justice
Pub date: 2021-02-09
In this episode of Decoder, Nilay sits down with Charlton McIlwain, a professor of media, culture, and communications at NYU and the author of Black Software, to talk about Black Lives Matter, Twitter, Online Communities, and Policing.
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Podcast: Green Left
Episode: Big Tech versus Democracy | Green Left Show #3
Pub date: 2021-02-07
This episode of the Green Left Show focuses on big tech, the government's proposed media Code, Google' threat to abandon Australia, the Greens' proposal for a publicly owned search engine and free speech online and on social media.
Guests are: Lizzie O'Shea (Lawyer and writer and chair of Digital Rights Watch); Aleks Wansbrough (author of "Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen, Myths and Allegories of the Digital Age") & Gauri Gandbhir (activist and writer with Green Left).
Read more about the media code: here
This episode on Green Left online: here
Discussion points: Understanding the media code [2:00]; government funding for media [7:18]; Greens' proposal for publicly owned search engine [10:45]; arguments against publicly owned search [17:59]; breaking up big tech vs public ownership [29:35]; free speech and social media [34:40]; "free speech" and the far right [45:27]; on politicians [54:12].
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Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Information Theory, Algorithms, and Political Polarization, with Prof. Martin Hilbert
Pub date: 2021-02-07
Martin Hilbert, Professor of Communication at UC-Davis, discusses his research on algorithms and polarization. Prof. Hilbert introduces information theory and how it can be applied to studying the transfer of emotions via algorithms. We break down some of Prof. Hilbert's recent studies, as well as his current thinking around detaching from social algorithms.
The studies discussed in the episode:
Behavioral Experiments With Social Algorithms: An Information Theoretic Approach to Input-Output Conversions
Do Search Algorithms Endanger Democracy? An Experimental Investigation of Algorithm Effects on Political Polarization
Communicating with Algorithms: A Transfer Entropy Analysis of Emotions-based Escapes from Online Echo Chambers
Prof. Hilbert's seven part Medium series on Social Media Distancing.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Digital Party with Paolo Gerbaudo
Pub date: 2021-02-03
Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more powerful and less accountable? Examples from Italy (Five Star Movement) and Spain (Podemos). How does the failure to incorporate people into rooted forms of political organization undermine the left's power, coherence, and durability? Example from the USA (the funhouse mirror-appeal of a certain YouTube comedian).
Related episodes from The Dig archives:
Hegemony How-To with Jonathan Matthew Smucker thedigradio.com/podcast/hegemony-how-to-with-jonathan-matthew-smucker
How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge thedigradio.com/podcast/how-left-parties-neoliberalized-with-stephanie-mudge
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Podcast: Big Tech (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Lana Swartz on the Power of Payment Platforms
Pub date: 2021-02-04
Are retail investors and message boards rewriting financial markets? The GameStop shakeup over the past week demonstrated how the market could be manipulated by users of the subreddit group WallStreetBets and robo-investing apps like Robinhood. The activities that happened in cyberspace on social media and financial digital platforms made waves in the real-world financial markets. Our guest Lana Swartz calls this moment infrastructural inversion, “when suddenly something stops working, and you realize all the things that went into making it work in the first place.”
Lana Swartz is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media. Swartz has been researching the connection between social movements and money, such as Occupy Wall Street and cryptocurrencies.
Fintech has been a democratizing tool in the finance sector just as the early internet was in bringing social change. But payment platforms are acting much like social media platforms as they seek to centralize power and establish moderation rules. Swartz explains that “all of the work that has been done over the last decade or so to understand platforms now has to be applied to platforms like Robinhood and to see if there is something different about money, and if so, what is it? … Do they owe us more of a fiduciary role [and] how can we understand the mechanisms by which they are, in fact, constrained?” Robinhood’s decision to prevent users from purchasing GameStop stock demonstrated their position of power and has led to questions over whether they had the legal ability to do so. While moderating content on social media, especially disinformation and election manipulation, is important, the decisions around moderating the flow of money on payment apps has become a new area of importance to regulators.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: All Tech is Human Series #8 - Improving Social Media: Content Moderation & Democracy with Sarah T. Roberts & Murtaza Shaikh
Pub date: 2021-01-27
This conversation explores the topic Improving Social Media: Content Moderation & Democracy with invited panelists Sarah T. Roberts and Murtaza Shaikh
Sarah T. Roberts is the co-founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.
Murtaza Shaikh is the Senior Advisor on Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities to the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
This conversation is moderated by All Tech Is Human's David Ryan Polgar. The organizational partner for the event is TheBridge.
The conversation does not stop here! For each of the episodes in our series with All Tech is Human, you can find a detailed “continue the conversation” page on our website radicalai.org. For each episode we will include all of the action items we just debriefed as well as annotated resources that were mentioned by the guest speakers during the livestream, ways to get involved, relevant podcast episodes, books, and other publications.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 74: Heidi Tworek on the Challenges of Internet Platform Regulation
Pub date: 2021-10-28
The Law Bytes podcast took a breather over the holidays and into early January, but there seemingly is no break for digital policy issues. Over the past few weeks, Internet platforms have found themselves squarely in the public eye as company after company – from Shopify to Twitter to Facebook de-platformed former US President Donald Trump in response to the events in Washington earlier this month. Dr. Heidi Tworek of the University of British Columbia is one of Canada’s most prolific thinkers on Internet platform policies. She joins the podcast for a conversation about the role and responsibilities of Internet platforms, proposals for payments in the news sector, and insights what governments should be doing about better communicating with the public about the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.
Show Notes:
Tworek, The Dangerous Inconsistencies of Digital Platform Policies
Tworek, Is News Property? How Digital Platforms are Resurrecting a Centuries-Old Question
Credits:
NBC News, President Trump Permanently Banned from Twitter
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Podcast: Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations
Episode: A Human Rights Report on Racial Discrimination in the Design and Use of Emerging Digital Technologies
Pub date: 2020-11-04
E. Tendayi Achiume is UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance and Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
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Podcast: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's Podcast
Episode: Women in the Platform Economy (with Dr. Sarayu Natarajan) - Episode 3 (Part 2), The Feminist City
Pub date: 2021-01-15
Host: Sneha Visakha; Intro Music: Wehrmut by Godmode; Outro Music: Opheliea’s Blues by Audionautix;
In Part 2 of the third episode of The Feminist City podcast series, we speak to Dr. Sarayu Natarajan, Founder, Aapti Institute about their work on women in the platform economy and political participation of women in cities. Some issues we touch upon are: how do women participate in the platform economy, the disproportionate emotional labour women workers shoulder, algorithmic surveillance, gender roles, future of work and finally, engage with questions of political participation and the value of representation. Explore these questions in the Feminist City podcast series, hosted by Sneha Visakha.
For background reading, we recommend perusing the links provided below.
Readings:
Futures of Workers, Shruti Gupta and Dr Sarayu Natarajan https://www.aapti.in/blog/futures-of-workers
Covid-19 Calls for Re-Thinking Social Security for India’s Platform Workers, Sneha Visakha https://vidhilegalpolicy.in/blog/covid-19-calls-for-re-thinking-social-security-for-indias-platform-workers/
Towards A Gender Equal Future of Work for Women, Saloni Atal https://tandemresearch.org/publications/towards-a-gender-equal-future-of-work-for-women-a-preliminary-case-study-of-women-in-the-gig-economy-in-india-during-covid-19
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Podcast: PRIO's Peace in a Pod
Episode: 20- Drones, Security, and Surveillance
Pub date: 2020-12-17
Drones seem to be everywhere in the news, but what do they actually mean for civilians in everyday life? And how do the military and police use and relate to them both as tools and as threats? Most importantly, what can they tell us about a wider security context? In this episode, Bruno Oliveira Martins and Andrea Silkoset also discuss how coronavirus has affected civilians lives from a security context, a surveillance context, and a technology context.
Side note: You can expect more research on this topic from Bruno with his newly-funded project RegulAIR: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces.
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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Microsoft 1998 vs Google 2020: Antitrust and Big Tech
Pub date: 2021-01-14
In 1998, the U.S. government filed antitrust charges against Microsoft. Today, with a new Department of Justice antitrust case filed against Google, it's worthwhile to track the eerie similarities between these cases in order to understand how one informs the other and vice versa. In order to walk us through both cases, we invited two people on the show who were on opposing sides of the Microsoft case: Robert Topel Distinguished Service Professor of Economics from the University of Chicago and expert witness for Microsoft, and David Boies, the lawyer who represented the Government in the 98' case.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Governing an Algorithm in the Wild
Pub date: 2021-01-13
Algorithms make a wide range of morally important decisions, and many people now argue that members of the public should be more directly involved in deciding the moral tradeoffs that such systems entail. But most ideas for public or stakeholder involvement are still on the drawing board, and there are few real stories of public deliberation over the design of a morally important algorithm. This talk explores one such story.
On December 4, 2014, the algorithm that allocates kidneys for transplant in the United States was replaced, following more than a decade of debate and planning. The development process was highly transparent and participatory, faced hard ethical questions explicitly, and incorporated elements of simulation and auditing that scholars often recommend. Scientist and researcher David Robinson describes how this story played out — including a twist ending — and will draw out four broader lessons to inform the design of participation strategies for other high stakes algorithms. The talk is hosted by Data & Society Senior Researcher, Alex Rosenblat.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 34. Let’s Get Cyber-Physical
Pub date: 2021-01-13
cold open: Interview with Eden Medina on Project Cybersyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmQCvfT4pU
We dig into one of the most interesting and exciting experiments in socialist innovation ever attempted: Project Cybersyn in 1970s Chile. There’s much to be learned from the history of how a ragtag group of revolutionaries sought to create a cybernetic system to organize and manage a democratic socialist economy. As well as from its ultimate demise at the hands of a CIA-backed military coup. While this prototype of cybernetic democratic socialism was smothered in its cradle by authoritarian neoliberalism, the lessons gleaned from this real utopian endeavor must live on today. Cybersyn is dead, long live Cybersyn!
Some stuff we reference: • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Eden Medina https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries • The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data by Greg Gandin: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/anti-socialist-origins-big-data/ • Chomsky interviewed by Denis Staunton: https://chomsky.info/2009____/
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Podcast: Black and Highly Dangerous (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 157: Race and Racism in Online Spaces
Pub date: 2021-01-06
For today’s episode, we examine the internet as a racialized space by interviewing Dr. Apryl Williams—an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Media and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. During our conversation, we discuss her motivation for researching race in online spaces (07:49), the importance of exploring race relations on the internet (9:10), the process of conducting research in non-traditional spaces (11:00), and academic reception to digital sociology (13:35). Next we have a discussion about the internet as a racialized space (15:35), racial battle fatigue in the digital era (18:30), and her research on Black twitter and How to Get Away with Murder (22:06). We close the episode by exploring her recent work on racial bias and discrimination in online dating (29:05), her article on the sociology of selfies (38:25), and her study on mobile technologies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (43:00).
Other Topics Include
00:30 - Catch up with Tyrell and Daphne
01:30 - The Hosts Reflect on Race and Technology
06:54 - Introduction of Dr. Apryl Williams
07:49 - Learn More about Dr. Williams
50:45 - Algorithmic Bias in Online Dating
58:26 - Ty and Daphne Reflect on the Interview
Resources
- Learn More about Dr. Apryl Williams - https://aprylwilliams.com
- Berkman Klein Center Profile - https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/apryl-williams
- Alt-Right, Swipe Left! - https://alt-right-swipe-left.tumblr.com
- Twitter - @AprylW
- Instagram - aprylaw
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: No Tech for Tyrants
Pub date: 2020-12-21
Alina Utrata talks to Mallika Balakrishnan, one of the original founders of the collective No Tech for Tyrants. They discuss tech activism, problems with Palantir and how centering the conversation around the people and communities that tech and policies impact can help us frame discussions of technology and politics.
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Articles Mentioned In this Podcast
A report, co-authored by Mallika, by No Tech For Tyrants and Privacy International about UK government contracts with Palantir and associated Motherboard coverage. You can sign the NT4T petition here.
For more information about No Tech for Tyrants check out their website here and here.
More reporting on how Palantir’s technology was used by ICE and on trouble between the NYPD and Palantir.
Speaking of Palantir, you can check out our previous podcast episodes where we discuss the founder of Palantir Peter Thiel or Biden’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, who used to work for Palantir.
More on the firing of Timnit Gebru, the prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence at Google, and on the links between Big Tech and academic research.
What we can learn about Facebook by thinking like an anarchist, or at least by reading Yale professor James Scott’s work.
On Nicholas Kristof’s article about Pornhub, and reporting by Samantha Cole about how it has impacted performers on the site. Another interesting article about how GoFundMe said it would stop processing payments for militias.
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Podcast: This Is Not A Pipe (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Jonathan Cohn: The Burden of Choice
Pub date: 2020-12-10
Jonathan Cohn discusses his book The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture with Chris Richardson. Cohn is an assistant professor of digital cultures and head of the digital humanities program at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on digital culture and history, critical algorithmic studies, film and media, postfeminist and postracial discourses…and television. With Dr. Jennifer Porst, he is co-editing Very Special Episodes: Event Television and Social Change (Rutgers, forthcoming) on the history of how the television industry has confronted traumatic events and cultural change. In the meantime, he is thinking a lot about what differences might exist between algorithmic and AI culture, and the experiences of incoherence endemic to our current moment. In an effort to make our relationship with AI more collaborative, ethical and egalitarian, he is also creating a program to help humanities scholars co-write and research with AI.
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Podcast: Impact Drivers
Episode: Margaret O'Mara, Author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Pub date: 2020-12-16
In this episode we hear from Margaret O'Mara, Author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
Margaret is a historian of modern America who writes and teaches about the history of the technology industry, American politics, and the connections between the two. She is the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is also an opinion writer for the New York Times.
In this episode, we talk about the history of Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship in the United States, how government has played a role in promoting innovation, the state of entrepreneurship today, and what history tells us about how to promote innovation going forward.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Urban Tech Increases Corporate Control w/ David Banks
Pub date: 2020-12-17
Paris Marx is joined by David Banks to discuss how tech solutions to increase corporate control in cities will be sold to us as fun and convenient, and what that will actually means for access and equity in urban life.
David Banks is a visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany. He’s the editor-at-large at Real Life, and has written for The Baffler, e-flux architecture, and Current Affairs. Follow David on Twitter as @DA_Banks.
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.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Read David’s articles for Real Life on the subscriber city and e-flux architecture on software as infrastructure.
- Paris wrote about the end of the Paramount Decrees, including what it could mean for the future of cinemas.
- How people are fighting back against landlords attempts to use tech against tenants (“proptech”).
- Slavoj Žižek gives a father/son example of totalitarianism (from ~0:00-3:00).
- David Harvey’s “Right to the City” essay mentions how homeownership makes people more conservative.
- Red Vienna remains a great example of public housing.
- Kevin Rogan wrote about how smart-city technologies are designed to hide human labor.
- Books in this show: “Radicalized” by Cory Doctorow, “Urban Warfare” by Raquel Rolnik, “Capital City” by Samuel Stein, and “Loft Living” by Sharon Zukin
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Technical Limits of AI Ethics
Pub date: 2020-12-17
In recent years, the global discussion on "AI ethics" has succeeded in mainstreaming key principles to limit the risks that would otherwise arise from the unrestricted and unconsidered use of artificial intelligence, particularly with regards to privacy, safety, and equality. But it may have overlooked a much more fundamental and uncomfortable question: What are the limits of "AI ethics"? This panel discussion, hosted by Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, looks at this question and much more.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Lawgorithms: Everything Poverty Lawyers Need to Know About Tech, Law, and Social Justice
Pub date: 2020-12-08
Automated decision-making systems make decisions about our lives, and those with low socioeconomic status often bear the brunt of the harms these systems cause. Poverty Lawgorithms: A Poverty Lawyers Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities is a guide by Data & Society Faculty Fellow Michele Gilman to familiarize fellow poverty and civil legal services lawyers with the ins and outs of data-centric and automated-decision making systems so that they can clearly understand the sources of the problems their clients are facing and effectively advocate on their behalf.
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Podcast: Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: ‘Profit and Prejudice’
Pub date: 2020-12-07
‘Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is the brilliant new book by one of this programme’s regular voices, Paul Donovan, chief economist of UBS Global Wealth Management. In the book, published last month by Routledge, Donovan sets out the reasons why avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in a period of profound transition. He explains why the proper use of technology, with diverse decision-making, can be the difference between success and failure in a changing world. Featuring insights from Henley Business School’s Naeema Pasha.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-12-07
Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as the Robber Barons of the 21st century.
Google recently joined Apple, Amazon and Microsoft as a so-called “tera-cap” – companies valued at more than a trillion dollars. Add Facebook and the five tech giants alone account for a quarter of the S&P500. How have they managed this in such a short timeframe? Their critics claim that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella and Tim Cook are just digital versions of Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller – monopolists who control entry nto their markets.
Not so simple, claims Nicolas Petit in Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario (Oxford University Press, 2020). Concerns about privacy or the dissemination of “fake news” are valid but “looking at these predicaments through monopoly lenses is like using Facebook to get your news. It seems to do the job. But it might well be fake”.
“The picture of big tech firms as monopolists is intuitively attractive but analytically wrong,” he writes. “A better picture is one of big tech firms as moligopolists, that is firms that coexist as monopolists and oligopolists”.
Nicolas Petit is the Joint Chair in Competition Law at the European University Institute and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies in Florence.
Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: The Philosopher King of Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2020-11-16
Alina Utrata talks with Andrew Granato about the so-called Philosopher King of Silicon Valley: Peter Thiel. Thiel is one of the original co-founders of Paypal, nicknamed the Paypal mafia, a co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir, one of the first outside investors in Facebook, and the first high-level tech executive to come out in support of Donald Trump in 2016. Andrew’s research into Peter Thiel began as an undergraduate at Stanford University, when he conducted an eleven month long investigation into Peter Thiel’s influence and legacy at Stanford when, as an undergraduate, Thiel set up the highly controversial student publication the Stanford Review. We discuss Thiel’s politics, what they reveal about how he thinks about his businesses, and how he influences and shapes Silicon Valley politics and beyond.
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https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/
https://medium.com/@agranato/thinking-about-the-rise-of-techs-founder-emperor-4f1fdb809d05
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/21/magazine/palantir-alex-karp.html
https://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes
https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/silicon-valley-s-political-endgame-summarized-1f395785f3c1
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support
https://www.scottlucas.me/peter-thiels-apocalypse
https://thenewinquiry.com/the-scapegoating-machine/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-taxes
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/09/mystic-mogg-jacob-rees-mogg-willam-predicts-brexit-plans
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
https://www.seasteading.org/about/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/29/fintan-otoole-the-books-interview-brexit-english-nationalism
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #15 - Big Tech and Antitrust Policy - w/ Victor Menaldo
Pub date: 2020-11-30
In this episode, Professor Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock explore the facts, logic, and evidence behind the consumer welfare approach to antitrust. That approach asks very simple questions: what is the effect of mergers between competitors or the behavior of firms with market power on prices and innovation? Since the early 1980s, this paradigm—away from a populist “big is bad” approach—has undergirded some of the greatest innovations the world has ever seen, including smartphones, software, and digital platforms that connect the globe together while charging a price equal to zero for their services.
The consensus that antitrust should be exclusively about the price of goods and services and innovation is currently under attack by some scholars, pundits, politicians, and advocacy groups. Critics claim that lax antitrust has led to increased market concentration and monopolies in the tech sector, ushering in “less entrepreneurship”, “restrictions on free speech”, “lower privacy protections”, and “the abuse of consumer data”. Companies like Amazon are accused of harming players up and down the retail supply chain from selling their own goods in a digital marketplace they control or pricing out brick and mortar retailers. They are also accused of exacerbating inequality and being too systemically important due to their size, market impact, interconnectedness, and low “substitutability”. Finally, there is the fear that big tech firms’ economic power translates into political power and is bad for democracy.
We set the record straight on what digital platforms actually are (explain the economics of multi-sided markets), what market concentration actually says about competition and consumer welfare (fewer rivals may imply greater efficiency and thus lower prices), how to define and measure “monopoly” (none of the big tech firms satisfy the definition), how to identify whether firms abuse their market power to crimp competition (a technical issue that is actually quite rare) and what remedies, if any, should be employed by policymakers in relation to digital platforms. We suggest that breaking up big tech is a radical solution in search of a problem.
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Podcast: The Infrastructure Show - Podcasts (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Broadband Access - Technology and Policy
Pub date: 2020-12-02
Is the Internet a part of U.S. infrastructure? Although the physical infrastructure that carries the data is largely invisible, broadband Internet communication has become a backbone of our society and economy, carrying messages that support work, learning, purchasing, social connections, and medical services. Despite its centrality to daily life, fast and reliable broadband connectivity is not available to everyone.
To help us learn more about the functioning and coverage of the broadband network, we talk with Fabian Bustamante, Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University.
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Podcast: The Inside Story Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who will win the battle over the future of the Internet? | Inside Story
Pub date: 2020-11-24
China has long been pushing for a greater role in global internet governance Now it says it wants to build a common cyberspace community. President Xi Jinping says his nation is ready to cooperate on a shared internet infrastructure with other countries. China strictly controls the internet and censors its content. It recently proposed regulations that could restrict the powers of tech companies. And it's being accused by the US of using the internet to pose security threats.
Guests: Einar Tangen, China expert Jody Westby, cyber security specialist Max Eiza, Lecturer at university of Central Lancashire
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Data flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism
Pub date: 2020-11-25
Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University, about her research on surveillance, data flows and mensuration tracking apps. They discuss how colonization impacted the development of surveillance technologies, why we think (or shouldn’t think) about data as a commodity instead of labor, and how the ownership of knowledge about female bodies has translated into power—from the witch burnings to period apps.
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Articles mentioned in this podcast:
Stefanie Felsberger’s article “Colonial Cables – The Politics of Surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa.”
The woman who tried to hide her pregnancy from Big Data (and failed) and why pregnant women are such a high value target for advertisers. And if want to know more about the Smart Period Cup.
Amazon experimenting with paying some consumers for their data. They’ve also entered the healthcare market.
The US military is buying location data from every day apps, including a Muslim prayer app and Muslim dating site.
More on testing and importing technologies in low rights environments, or how colonization spurred the development of surveillance technologies. For some more contemporary examples, how technologies developed by US military contractors in Yemen were used to disburse G20 protesters in Pittsburgh in 2009.
More on surveillance tech used to target the Black Lives Matter protests here and here. And an ACLU overview on surveillance tech available in the US, as well as who has stingray tracking devices. And on the use of police drones to surveil protestors.
Virginia Eubanks on how marginalized groups are often governments' test subjects (her full book on the subject here or here.) Relatedly, how Baltimore became the US’s lab for developing surveillance tech.
How the UNHCR is collecting iris data from refugees in Jordan.
On Chinese companies role in Africa and the Middle East, watch part II of this documentary.
On the NSO Group and how their tech was linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone.
More academic books and articles:
- Jarrett, Kylie. 2016. Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife. New York and London: Routledge.
- Lupton, Deborah. 2016. The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking. Cambridge: Polity Press. EPub.
- Federici, Silvia. 2004. Caliban and the Witch. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
- Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
- Fuchs, Christian. 2013. “Theorizing and Analyzing Digital Labor: From Global Value Chains to Modes of Production.” The Political Economy of Communication 2, no. 1: 3–27.
- Kaplan, Martha. 1995. “Panopticon in Poona: An Essay on Foucault and Colonialism.” Cultural Anthropology 10: 85-98.
- Mitchell, Timothy. 1988. Colonizing Egypt. Berkley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-11-25
Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.
In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation.
Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw.
You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia.
Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.
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Podcast: Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley" from Nov 16, 2020
Pub date: 2020-11-26
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel discuss their new book "Voices from the Valley."
Podcast: Global Digital Cultures
Episode: Digital Public Infrastructures - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Seda Gürses & Geert-Jan Boogaerts
Pub date: 2020-11-10
This episode is part of the GDC Webinar series that took place on september 2020.
Public institutions, from universities and museums to public service media and local governments, are rapidly becoming digitized. In this process, they increasingly depend on digital platforms, operated by major corporations, most prominently Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. Consequently, public institutions have limited control over how key services are developed and how data is collected and processed through these services. The Covid-19 crisis, which further accelerates digitization, has made this particular urgent. This webinar discusses whether there is a need for digital public infrastructures. Which digital public services are needed and how should these be developed? What resources are needed to make public digital services successful?
Chair: Thomas Poell, Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions, University of Amsterdam
Speakers: * Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor at the National University of Singapore and author of Goodbye iSlave * Seda Gürses, Associate Professor at TU Delft, she works among others on software infrastructures, social justice and political economy. * Geert-Jan Boogaerts, Head Digital Media @VPRO, and Initiator of PublicSpaces (https://publicspaces.net/)
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Robot Regulation: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? with Ryan Calo
Pub date: 2020-11-11
What is robot regulation and why does it matter?
To answer this question we welcome to the show Ryan Calo.
Ryan is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a faculty co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary research unit that spans the School of Law, Information School, and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Ryan’s research broadly ecompasses law and emerging technology.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch" (Yale UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-11-11
Most people recognize that the internet is growing at an exponential rate. But few have thought as deeply as Laura DeNardis, a Professor and Interim Dean at the School of Communication at American University, about what those changes will mean for privacy, security, human rights, and democracy.
In The Internet in Everything: Privacy and Security in a World With No Off Switch(Yale, 2020), Professor DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated. The internet has evolved from a system of communication to one of control—and that demands a new approach to internet governance.
On this episode, I talked with Dr. DeNardis about why we need to move beyond an understanding of internet governance as content governance; whether governments can resist exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities; and why she thinks ‘internet freedom’ is a “somewhat fetishized ideal.” At one point, Dr. DeNardis’s dog weighs in on the virtues of techno-libertarianism.
We wrap up with some predictions for the future of the multi-stakeholder governance model and Dr. DeNardis’s thoughts on 2020.
John Sakellariadis is a 2020-2021 Fulbright US Student Research Grantee. He holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia and a Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from Harvard University.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 16. Who Owns the Future City?
Pub date: 2020-11-04
Cold open: The Ballot or the Bullet
So obviously this was recorded before the election, but our topic for this week’s episode is the exact analysis you need to understand how something like Prop 22 could pass in a landslide. We dive into the rise of smart/platform urbanism by guiding you through the urbanization of technology capital over three phases, each one grabbing more power: oversight of city governance, operation of city services, and ownership of city space.
This episode builds on two academic articles Jathan recently wrote on platform urbanism. Here’s paywalled links, which you can unlock by plugging the links into https://scihub.wikicn.top/ • Cyberspace and Cityscapes: On the Emergence of Platform Urbanism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2020.1721055?journalCode=rurb20 • Who Owns the Future City? Phases of Technological Urbanism and Shifts in Sovereignty https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098020913427
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Podcast: Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 163. DATA, MINE: taking back control from Big Tech
Pub date: 2020-11-02
Hello! We hear a lot about the problems of the data economy. How can we take back control? Philosopher Carissa Veliz explains why governments need to step in to protect our privacy. Then Jack Hardinges from the Open Data Institute talks about exciting new ideas to help steward data for the common good.
AND broadcasting royalty David Dimbleby is here to discuss ‘The Fault Line’ - his new podcast about the run-up to the Iraq War. We chat to David about politics, podcasting and the art of good interviews.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 67: Tamir Israel on Facial Recognition Technologies at the Border
Pub date: 2021-10-28
Facial recognition technologies seem likely to become an increasingly commonplace part of travel with scans for boarding passes, security clearance, customs review, and baggage pickup just some of the spots where your face could become the source of screening. Tamir Israel, staff lawyer at CIPPIC, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa, recently completed a major study on the use of facial recognition technologies at the border. He joins me on the LawBytes podcast to discuss the current use of the technologies, how they are likely to become even more ubiquitous in the future, and the state of Canadian law to ensure appropriate safeguards and privacy protections.
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Show Notes:
Facial Recognition at a Crossroads: Transformation at our Borders and Beyond
Credits:
Washington Post, Your Face is Now Your Boarding Pass, Here’s Why that Should Worry Us
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Casey Newton on Four Years of Platform Chaos
Pub date: 2020-10-29
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Casey Newton, veteran Silicon Valley editor for The Verge who recently went independent to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer. Few people have followed the stories of platforms and content moderation in recent years as closely and carefully as Casey, so Evelyn and Quinta asked him about what’s changed in the last four years—especially in the lead-up to the election. They also spoke about the challenges of reporting on the tech industry and whether the increased willingness of platforms to moderate content means that the name of this podcast series will have to change.
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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Uber and worker exploitation in the transportation industry with Veena Dubal
Pub date: 2020-10-26
This episode welcomes Veena Dubal to discuss Uber and workers in the transportation industry. The show is divided into three parts. First, it explains how “e-hailing services” like Uber and Lyft work, with a focus on how they impact workers. Next, we discuss Proposition 22 in California, a ballot proposal to exempt “gig workers” from classification as employees. Finally, we discuss alternative models of how ride hailing should work in the internet era.
Veena Dubal is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings in San Francisco. She has been cited by the California Supreme Court, and her scholarship has been published in top-tier law review and peer-reviewed journals, including the California Law Review and the Berkeley Journal of Empirical and Labor Law. Professor Dubal is currently writing a book manuscript – Driving Freedom, Navigating Neoliberalism – on how five decades of shifting technologies and emergent regulatory regimes changed the everyday lives and work experiences of ride-hail drivers in San Francisco. She has been published in numerous media outlets, including The Guardian, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. You can follow her at @veenadubal.
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Podcast: Hottes Kummerkasten
Episode: Algorithms of oppression
Pub date: 2020-10-22
Performance lectures & creative workshops at ARS ELECTRONICA 2020 organized by Doris Weichselbaumer, who researches racist and gendered discrimination. Philosopher Waltraud Ernst and sociologist Julia Schuster (Institut für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung / JKU Linz).
Ausschnitte aus den Vorträgen von Safiya Umoja Noble und Lisa Nakamura sowie Waltraud Ernst im Gespräch mit Nushin Isabelle Yazdani and Internet Teapot (Karla Zavala, Adriaan Odendaal).
Listen to excerpts from lectures by Safiya Umoja Noble and Lisa Nakamura as well as Waltraud Ernst talking to Nushin Isabelle Yazdani and Internet Teapot (Karla Zavala, Adriaan Odendaal).
Louis Hofbauer
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Podcast: The Scarlet Standard
Episode: Ghoulish EdTech Innovations ft. Tanner Mirrlees
Pub date: 2020-10-22
In this episode we speak with Tanner Mirrlees about the dark and underdiscussed world of education technology and the information communication technology (ICT) Industry. We explore the relationship between the EdTech industry and venture capital, the expanding power of the GAFAM (Google-Amazon-Facebook-Apple-Microsoft), and the acceleration of these processes due to COVID-19. We conclude by discussing the impacts of EdTech on the labour movement.
Tanner Mirrlees is a professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies program at Ontario Tech University. His new book, co-authored with Shahid Alvi is called “EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age”. Available for purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/EdTech-Inc-Selling-Automating-and-Globalizing-Higher-Education-in-the/Mirrlees-Alvi/p/book/9780367359898
This podcast is produced in association with The Socialist Project. Learn more and get involved at socialistproject.ca.
You can connect with the podcast on Twitter @theScarletStand or via email at scarletstandardpod@gmail.com.
Outro song: "Cry Baby Cry" by Ramsey Lewis
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Podcast: This Working Life (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Your boss may be watching you, surveillance technology and WFH
Pub date: 2020-10-11
Like it or not, your employer has the right to track and measure just about everything you do in your work day. But should they, is it helpful or does it simply kill motivation? In the second episode of our series on Big Brother at work, we examine how surveillance is changing the way we work and we ask what ever happened to trust?
Assistant Professor of marketing from UC San Diego, Dr Liz Lyons says that tracking employees at work can have varying end results - not all of them good. She shares some of the best examples of boosting productivity in the workplace through tracking and emphasises the importance measuring the right things.
On the other side of the fence is Professor Paul Zak, a 'neuroeconomist' who says that the secret to helping workers reach their potential, doesn't lie in tracking worker through tech, but can be found in our ability to build trust.
If you're certain tracking employees is the way to go though, Dr Joeri Mol, who's an expert in organizational studies from Melbourne University has a warning about the change that can occur in organisations when people simply know they're being watched.
This technology which allows bosses to track what workers are up to whenever and wherever they are has developed rapidly over the last few years and the market has only increased thanks to the pandemic causing a rise in those of us who work from home. So what does this mean for the future? Jathan Sadowski from the Emerging Technologies Research Lab has a warning and a few suggestions for how we could even the scales and get this tech working for the employees.
Producer: Edwina Stott
Supervising producer: Maria Tickle
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Podcast: Media Futures Podcast
Episode: Drone Futures E3: Katherine Chandler
Pub date: 2020-10-19
On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Dr Katherine Chandler, a media studies scholar and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare. First Michael interviews Kate about her work, then you’ll hear Kate deliver a talk based on her book.
This is the third in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a virtual public seminar series at the Media Futures Hub. Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social science scholars whose research intersects with the emerging field of drone studies. From the neo-colonial violence of contemporary wars in the Middle East and Africa to the strange histories of unmanned aerial vehicles to activist uses in struggles for justice, this seminar series looks to the past and present to think into the future. Visit https://www.dronewitnessing.com/drone-futures for more info.
Katherine Chandler studies the intersection of technology, media and politics through a range of scales and forms. She is an assistant professor in the Culture and Politics Program in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Her first monograph, Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare, examines unmanned aircraft from 1936 - 1992. She asks how life and death are adjudicated through conditions organized as if control were ''unmanned'' and outlines how politics is disavowed as a result. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. You can learn more about her work at http://katherinechandler.net/.
Michael Richardson is Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, examining the intersection of war, culture and technology. https://twitter.com/richardson_m_a
Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and cultural studies to shape the theories, methods and practices needed for more just media futures. https://twitter.com/MediaFuturesHub
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Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 307: The Ghost Road
Pub date: 2020-10-22
This week we’re chatting with Anthony Townsend about his book Ghost Road: Beyond The Driverless Car. We talk about the potential scary future financialization of transportation could create, how the pandemic has shot delivery automation into the future, and what the potential future of self driving vehicles could mean for urban form.
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Podcast: Social Discipline
Episode: SD14 - w/ Rob Lucas - Post-Communisation? Surveillance Capitalism, Totalities and Error
Pub date: 2020-10-18
We are back! Double shot of communisation. We are joined by Rob Lucas (Endnotes), we discuss his critique of Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and his magnific text Error. Be aware of the conditions of possibility of a communist overcoming of the capitalist mode of production!
Rob's critique of Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II121/articles/rob-lucas-the-surveillance-business Error https://endnotes.org.uk/file_hosting/EN5_Error.pdf
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism w/ JS Tan
Pub date: 2020-10-08
Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internet’s connection with neoliberalism, China’s protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United States and China are leading Silicon Valley to embrace nationalism.
JS Tan is a former tech worker and writer. He is an editor at Lausan and started Collective Actions in Tech. He recently wrote articles about the tech angle on the Cold War for Foreign Policy and Trump’s attempted TikTok ban for Jacobin. Follow JS on Twitter as @organizejs.
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.
Find out more about Harbinger Media Network and follow it on Twitter as @harbingertweets. You can also find Kino Lefter on Twitter.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- The solidarity between tech workers in the United States and China
- Key insights into tech worker activism from the Collective Actions in Tech database
- Mark Zuckerberg’s speech at Georgetown University
- Peter Thiel’s tech nationalism op-ed in the New York Times
- Eric Schmidt’s tech nationalism op-ed in the New York Times
Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
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Podcast: The Indicator from Planet Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Semiconductor Standoff
Pub date: 2020-10-06
As the trade war continues, China hasn't purchased nearly as many exports from the United States as it previously agreed to. There was one bright spot though: semiconductors — but that may soon change.
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Podcast: Future Hindsight (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Labor Organizing: Jess Kutch
Pub date: 2020-10-02
Democracy at Work Our work lives are an important place to practice democracy. Union members learn negotiation and problem solving skills to determine wages and working conditions. They have a voice when voting on a contract. The decline in union participation coincides with the decline in American civic life. Promoting more workplace democracy also increases civic engagement in America.
Digital Labor Organizing Coworker.org offers digital tools to help non-union workers mobilize around the country. Digital organizing has successfully won wage increases, scheduling reform, and parental leave benefits. Digital advocacy is meant to work in tandem with more established trade unions and regulatory bodies. Organized labor has a long history of experimenting with different paths to success, and digital organizing represents an exciting new chapter.
Worker Voice Workers should have a say in their working conditions, industry standards, mechanisms for whistleblowing, and in negotiating their wages. Making worker voices heard, especially in the gig economy, is key to eliminating precarity in the workplace. Almost all Americans are currently “at-will” employees, meaning they can be fired at any time without cause. Removing this status would create more stable work environments and give workers agency.
Find out more: Jess Kutch is the co-founder of Coworker.org, a platform that deploys digital tools, data, and strategies to help people improve their work lives.
Since its founding in 2013, Coworker.org has catalyzed the growth of global, independent employee networks advancing wins like paid parental leave benefits at Netflix, scheduling reform at Starbucks, and wage increases for workers at a Southern restaurant chain. In 2015, Coworker.org hosted the first-ever digital townhall at the White House on the future of worker voice with President Obama.
A digital innovator, Kutch has 15 years’ experience working at the intersection of technology and social change. Prior to launching Coworker.org, she led a team at Change.org in raising the company’s profile around the world and inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to launch and lead their own efforts on the platform. Kutch also spent five years at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) where she pioneered digital strategies for the labor movement.
Jess Kutch is an Echoing Green Global Fellow and J.M. Kaplan Innovation Prize winner.
You can follow Jess on Twitter @jess_kutch
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Podcast: Media Files
Episode: Internet sabbaths and surveillance capitalism in the COVID-19 era: William Powers on what's changed since Hamlet’s Blackberry
Pub date: 2020-09-30
ShutterstockCOVID-19 has affected our relationship with technology in many ways, from the pleasures of mass online choirs to the perils of the endless Zoom meetings rendering us “zoombies”.
Connectivity is so hard-wired in our lives, many are re-assessing the virtues of being disconnected.
Ten years ago, US journalist William Powers published Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, a book that urged us to take an “internet sabbath” every now and again.
US author William Powers. https://www.williampowers.com/
It was a prescient idea even if the book’s title sounds rather retro now, but there was a reason for his choice, as he explains today on Media Files.
Powers is a journalist who used to work at The Washington Post and is now an online technology consultant, and he joined me by Zoom from his home in Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Read more: 'Suck it and see’ or face a digital tax, former ACCC boss Allan Fels warns Google and Facebook
Additional credits Theme music: Susie Wilkins.
With thanks to Chris Scanlon from Deakin University for production assistance.
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Matthew Ricketson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Podcast: Democracy in Danger (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: S1 E11. Big Bad Data
Pub date: 2020-09-29
When Phil Howard lived in Budapest, he watched as Hungary’s fledgling democracy was polluted with polarizing stories spread online. It’s a phenomenon now threatening political discourse everywhere, and recent tweaks meant to improve social media policies and algorithms, he says, amount to “a drop in the bucket.” But find out why Howard, a professor of internet studies at Oxford University, thinks we need more social media, not less; and how machine learning and big data might be democratized for good.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias - How much of your life has Big Data colonized and extracted to the cloud?
Pub date: 2020-09-25
This month we talk with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias. Nick is a professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics. Ulises is a professor of Communication Studies and the director of the Institute for Global Engagement at SUNY Oswego. They recently co-authored a book called ‘The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism.’ This book explores the role that data and data production plays in the modern world and the concept of data colonialism. Data colonialism is a form of appropriation of human life set up so data can be continuously extracted profit that benefits companies operating in the capitalist system. They are not using the word colonialism metaphorically – this is an emergent order based on the same extractivist logic that has enabled the colonial project over the last 500 years. We discuss how data colonialism operates on multiple levels and has effects further reaching than most imagine. We discuss how we (humans) are simultaneously producing the data through our actions (e.g. swiping our smartphone, cruising social media, or even in some cases through opening our fridge) and falling victim to the consequences of big business owning our data en masse.
Here is more information about their book: https://colonizedbydata.com
Tweet at Nick: @couldrynick
Projects:
Here is the home page for the Tierra Común network (jointly founded with Paola Ricaurte): https://www.tierracomun.net
The wiki page for the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement: https://nonalignedtech.net
Other:
Sorry We Missed You - film directed by Ken Loach: https://sorrywemissedyou.co.uk/
EXALT Symposium October 2020:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/exalt-2020/exalt-symposium-2020
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message
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Podcast: Podcasts - Future Left (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 188: Techno Tyrants (Ft. Edward Ongweso Jr.)
Pub date: 2020-09-28
This episode, we're joined by a very special guest, Edward Ongweso, Jr. Edward is a tech journalist that works for VICE News, he is also the co-host of the new (and very good) podcast "This Machine Kills."
We wanted to talk to Edward about his perspective on the Netflix documentary that seems to be a topic of conversation right now "The Social Dilemma." The documentary attempts to diagnose problems in the tech industry as defined by-- who else -- tech industry professionals. The end result is an hour and a half of social media radicalization and consumer discipline, the solution to which is apparently "no screen time before bed."
We also played our Control/Alt/Delete with Edward, as we continue to figure out what platforms will and won't exist under socialism and what they might look like.
Follow more of Edward's words on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker
Pub date: 2020-09-25
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state.
FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T. Hamid on carceral technologies logicmag.io/care/community-defense-sarah-t-hamid-on-abolishing-carceral-technologies/
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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: /149/ It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti
Pub date: 2020-09-24
On unemployment.
The Covid crisis has led to millions out of work - but the situation was none too rosy before, either. Post-crisis recoveries seem increasingly 'jobless', while the overall labour force participation rate keeps falling as people drop out entirely.
We interview to Liz Pancotti of Employ America for a picture of what's driving US unemployment.
Then we talk to Aaron Benanav about his new book and learn that it's not robots who are stealing jobs, but rather capitalism's own stagnation. Why are both radical Keynesian ideas and UBI proposals no real solution? And, finally, what is the working class to do in a world with depressed demand for labour?
Running order:
- Liz Pancotti - (04:09)
- Aaron Benanav - (53:09)
Readings:
- Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav, Verso
- Unemployment Benefit Expansions: A Guide for Policy Responses in the Wake of COVID-19, Elizabeth Pancotti, Employ America
- Do not let homeworking become digital piecework for the poor, Sarah O'Connor, FT
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Podcast: Media Futures Podcast
Episode: Drone Futurers BONUS: Live Q&A with Antoine Bousquet + Jairus Grove
Pub date: 2020-09-24
This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, at the Media Futures Hub. Ronak is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Ronak's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode.
Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social science scholars whose research intersects with the emerging field of drone studies. From the neo-colonial violence of contemporary wars in the Middle East and Africa to the strange histories of unmanned aerial vehicles to activist uses in struggles for justice, this seminar series looks to the past and present to think into the future. Visit https://www.dronewitnessing.com/drone-futures for more info.
Antoine Bousquet is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone, which is a deeply researched and carefully argued exploration of what Antoine calls ‘the martial gaze’. https://twitter.com/ajbousquet
Jairus Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is the author of Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World, one of the most startling and unsettling works of political theory of recent times and a book that has helped me think through how to understand where we’re at in geopolitics and the life of war. https://twitter.com/savageecology
Michael Richardson is Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, examining the intersection of war, culture and technology. https://twitter.com/richardson_m_a
Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and cultural studies to shape the theories, methods and practices needed for more just media futures. https://twitter.com/MediaFuturesHub
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Resistance Against the Tech to Prison Pipeline with the Coalition for Critical Technology
Pub date: 2020-09-16
What is the tech to prison pipeline? How can we build infrastructures of resistance to it? What role does academia play in perpetuating carceral technology?
To answer these questions we welcome to the show Sonja Solomun and Audrey Beard, two representatives from the Coalition for Critical Technology.
Sonja Solomun works on the politics of media and technology, including the history of digital platforms, polarization, and on fair and accountable governance of technology. She is currently the Research Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy is finishing her PhD at the Department of Communication Studies at McGill University.
Audrey Beard is a critical AI researcher who explores the politics of artificial intelligence systems and who earned their Master's in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Audrey and Sonja co-founded the Coalition for Critical Technology, along with NM Amadeo, Chelsea Barabas, Theo Dryer, and Beth Semel. The mission of the Coalition for Critical Technology is to work towards justice by resisting technologies that exacerbate inequality, reinforce racism, and support the carceral state.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Tech and working life
Pub date: 2020-09-07
Rory Cellan-Jones explores how tech firms are influencing the way people work and what changes might lie ahead in the months and years to come. Plus, why has the internet evolved as it has and is it too late to reclaim it from big tech firms for the common good? And, has the Covid-19 pandemic boosted the gig-economy? With BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: An employee working at an Amazon fulfilment centre in India, Credit: REUTERS/ Abhishek N. Chinnappa/ File Photo).
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Podcast: Philosophy 247 (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The future of privacy
Pub date: 2020-09-14
Our phones, our fitbits, our social media use, our internet searches, are all providing information about us
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Podcast: Rights on the Line
Episode: Season 2, Episode 9 - Watched & Monitored: Protecting HRDs from Surveillance
Pub date: 2020-09-14
Episode 9 - Watched & Monitored: Protecting HRDs from Surveillance
- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 01:20
- Hussein Radhi, Bahrain: 01:20 - 04:38
- BIll Marczak, The Citizen Lab, Canada: 04:39 - 16:11
- Tahir Imran, Pakistan: 16:12 -30:02
- Zehida Bihorac, Bosnia & Herzegovina: 30:03 - 36:02
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources w/ Thea Riofrancos
Pub date: 2020-08-27
Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss why we should care about the supply chains of technology, what that resource extraction means for people in Latin America, and how we should think about a less resource-intensive future.
Thea Riofrancos is the author of “Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador” and co-author of “A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.” She is also an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Her argument against green extractivism was published by Logic Magazine. Follow Thea on Twitter as @triofrancos.
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.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- “Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism” by Martín Arboleda
- “Could a Green New Deal makes us happier people?” by Kate Aronoff
- “Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk” by James Wilt
Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
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Podcast: Communication Mixdown
Episode: Cybernetic capitalism: Google's digital empire
Pub date: 2020-08-24
"I'll just Google it". How many times a day has this refrain been uttered by someone struggling to find the answer to a question? Timothy Eric Strom, researcher and writer on global political economy, looks at the power of Google to enter our everyday lives and translate that power into profit-making and personal surveillance.
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Podcast: Swampside Chats (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #122 - “The Human Use of Human Beings” (Part 1) w/ General Intellect Unit
Pub date: 2020-08-12
Emancipation Network comrades Shane & Kyle come chat with us about the second-ever book on cybernetics: "The Human Use of Human Beings" by Norbert Wiener. The subversive First Edition had the FBI knock knock at the author’s door to revise the socialism out of it, so naturally, that's the version we read.
http://patreon.com/generalintellectunit http://patreon.com/swampsidechats
PDF of the rare First Edition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h589Ul_c7ZsTjUl5kRraMDEVPwmy5d7K/view?usp=drivesdk
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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Veena Dubal, Surveillance Is Not a Social Good: Technocapital, Public Health, and the Pandemic
Pub date: 2020-08-12
Technology companies are rapidly repurposing themselves amidst the global pandemic, leveraging and expanding existing surveillance economies in the name of public health. What are the potential implications and differential outcomes of these collaborations between health authorities and technocapital? This talk explores the nascent intersections of surveillance capitalism and public health and suggests a framework for anticipating and containing the anti-democratic and authoritarian practices that may emerge.
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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. Tech Lives Matter
Pub date: 2020-08-08
Welcome to This Machine Kills! Hello friends and enemies.
It's episode one and what a better way to kick things off than by diving into the policing-industrial complex. We get into the intimate crossovers between the tech sector and police departments. And the bizarre similarities between the pathetic goons who spend their days defending Blue Lives and Tech Lives. It's a big party full of the worst people on the planet!
Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin), production by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Podcast: Let's Get Ethical
Episode: The Paradox of Algorithmic Transparency (feat. Ida Koivisto)
Pub date: 2020-02-17
Ida Koivisto, a law professor at the University of Helsinki, discusses her exciting work at the intersection of legal and social theory, administrative law, and the ethics of artificial intelligence, which critically analyzes the frequent calls for transparency in machine learning and automated decision making.
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Podcast: The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fredrik DeBoer: Analyzing the ‘Cult of Smart’
Pub date: 2020-08-01
FREDRIK DEBOER is a writer and academic with a PhD from Purdue University. His writing has appeared in such places as The New York Times, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Playboy, New Republic, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Jacobin. He is one of the most original and prolific voices in essays today, and his anti-tribal style has earned him admiration from political thinkers of all quadrants. The Cult of Smart is his first book.
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Podcast: What's Left? (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Reimagining Post-Human Education: From College Credit to Social Credit
Pub date: 2020-08-01
We continue on our saga on tech in education. John Klyczek (author of “School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education") speaks with today about the specific government and corporate agendas that are looking to dismantle public education and data-mine students and educators with the long term plan to replace teachers with artificial intelligence and strip away completely the human social context. School World Order Distance Learning Rules 85 Fr 18638: CARES competitions (Operation Lock Step: pages 18 - 25) DeVos/Neurcore article: Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Big Data, and the Public-Private Planned Economy: Previous What’s Left? Episodes Last Week: AJ Johnstone Alison McDowell Reopening Schools Pandemic Pandemonia What’s Left? Website: Podcasts: iTunes: Spotify: Bitchute: stitcher: Googleplaymusic:
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Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Media, Democracy, and the Retooling of Politics, with Dr. Andreas Jungherr
Pub date: 2020-07-19
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A chat about the state of social media research in political science and political communication, and what we currently know about echo chambers, polarization, and election prediction.
Dr. Andreas Jungherr, Assistant Professor for Social Science Data Collection and Analysis at the University of Konstanz, guests to discuss his latest book, "Retooling Politics: How Digital Media are Shaping Democracy."
We chat about the state of social media research in political science and political communication, and what we currently know about echo chambers, polarization, and election prediction. We also discuss how digital media is shaping political campaigning and the role it might play for campaigns in the future.
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Podcast: New Books in Intellectual History (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lizzie O’Shea, "Future Histories" (Verso, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-07-13
Notes from The Machinist :
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there. Weaving together histories of computing and social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, this episode constructs a “usable past” that help us determine our digital future.
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there.
In Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology(Verso), Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that help us determine our digital future.
What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources—like the Internet—in common? Can debates over digital access be guided by Tom Paine’s theories of democratic economic redistribution? And how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?
In engaging, sparkling prose, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and what potential exists for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our digital present. Future Histories is for all of us—makers, coders, hacktivists, Facebook-users, self-styled Luddites—who find ourselves in a brave new world.
Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer, writer, and broadcaster. She is a founder and the chair of Digital Rights Watch, which advocates for human rights online, is a special advisor to the National Justice Project, and also sits on the board of Blueprint for Free Speech and the Alliance for Gambling Reform. At the National Justice Project, she worked with lawyers, journalists and activists to establish a Copwatch program, for which she received a Davis Projects for Peace Prize. In June 2019, she was named a Human Rights Hero by Access Now.
Dr Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is a visiting researcher at the British Museum and teaches Digital Humanities at University College London. Her research intersects intellectual history, digital humanities and cultural heritage studies. She can be reached at aortolja-baird@britishmuseum.org
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Podcast: Impressions of America: History Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Californian Ideology with Richard Barbrook and Alex Sayf Cummings
Pub date: 2020-07-05
Notes from The Machinist :
Discussion about the "Californian Ideology", an essay co-authored by one of the guests in 1995 which was a critique of dotcom neoliberalism.
In this episode, Simon, Tobi and Vaughn are joined by Richard Barbrook and Alex Sayf Cummings to discuss the "Californian Ideology", an essay co-authored by Richard in 1995 which was a critique of dotcom neoliberalism.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Fellows Talks with Michele Gilman, Anita Say Chan, and Dan Bouk
Pub date: 2020-07-06
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The episode discusses the ways that data-centric technologies adversely impact low-income communities.
The Class Differential in Data Privacy | Michele Gilman
Data & Society Faculty Fellow Michele Gilman discusses the ways that data-centric technologies adversely impact low-income communities. In her talk, Gilman argues there is a class differential in privacy law that harms poor people, but that poverty lawyers and their clients are working to challenge this differential in order to advance economic justice.
Feminist Data Futures and Relational Infrastructures | Anita Say Chan
Data & Society Fellow Anita Say Chan shares her work on data justice networks and research collectives in the global Americas, exploring their shared genealogies with feminist data methods developed at the turn of the century.
The Depth of the Data | Dan Bouk
Data isn’t simple, thin, or objective. Data has depth, that can and must be read deeply. Data & Society Fellow Dan Bouk demonstrates such reading in this talk with democracy’s data, the data produced by the U.S. census.
Data & Society’s Director of Research Sareeta Amrute moderates the discussion and audience Q&A. Learn more about our fellows work, wide-ranging interdisciplinary connections, and a few of the provocative questions that have emerged this year.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why Uber Failed at Micromobility w/ Aaron W. Gordon
Pub date: 2020-07-02
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A discussion on how VC-backed tech companies upended the bike-share industry, how that specifically played out in the case of Uber and Jump, and why the dockless bike and scooter model is failing.
Paris Marx is joined by Aaron W. Gordon to discuss how VC-backed tech companies upended the bike-share industry, how that specifically played out in the case of Uber and Jump, and why the dockless bike and scooter model is failing.
Aaron is a senior staff writer at Motherboard. He recently reported on Uber’s mismanagement of Jump Bikes. Follow Aaron on Twitter as @A_W_Gordon.
You can also read Paris’ thoughts on the future of micromobility.
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.
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Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 8: Facial Recognition, Algorithmic Inequality, and a Racial Reckoning ft. Virginia Eubanks
Pub date: 2020-07-01
Notes from The Machinist :
This episode discusses big tech's decisions to pull back from facial recognition technology, and how the Black Lives Matter movement is influencing science and technology overall.
In this episode, Jack and Shobita discuss big tech's decisions to pull back from facial recognition technology, and how the Black Lives Matter movement is influencing science and technology overall. And they chat with Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin's Press, 2018) and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY.
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Kashmir Hill, "Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm." The New York Times. June 24, 2020.
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Coalition for Critical Technology, "Abolish the #TechtoPrisonPipeline," June 23, 2020.
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Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, St. Martin's Press, 2018.
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Virginia Eubanks, “Zombie Debts are Hounding Struggling Americans. Will You Be Next?" The Guardian, October 15, 2019
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Virginia Eubanks, “Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse” Scientific American, Volume 319, No 5 (pp 68-71). November 2018. (Part of a Special issue, “The Science of Inequality”)
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Virginia Eubanks, “High-Tech Homelessness” American Scientist, July-August 2018
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Virginia Eubanks, “The Digital Poorhouse,” Harper’s Magazine January 2018
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Virginia Eubanks, “A Child Abuse Prediction Model Fails Poor Families,” WIRED Magazine, January 15, 2018
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Virginia Eubanks, "Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That," The Nation, March 27, 2015
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Podcast: The AI in Business Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: [AI Futures] Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley on AI Governance (S1E1)
Pub date: 2020-06-28
Notes from The Machinist :
The guest shares his perspectives on the near and long-term considerations of AI governance.
In this first episode in our 12-part Saturday "AI Futures" series, UC Berkeley Professor and renown AI expert Stuart Russell shares his perspectives on the near and long-term considerations of AI governance.
https://emerj.com/ai-podcast-interviews/stuart-russell-ai-governance/
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From June 27th to September 12th, we'll be covering a new "AI Futures" episode about AI governance every Saturday. This is an experimental series designed to extend current AI trends to long-term AI consequences. We hope you'll enjoy.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Regina Rini, Democracy and Social Media are Incompatible: Now What?
Pub date: 2020-06-20
Notes from The Machinist :
It takes time for the norms of democratic debate to adjust to new technologies – in some cases, too much time. In parts of Europe in the 1920s and 30s, change brought on by the radio outran democratic adaptation. The speaker argues that we are now at a similar inflection point with social media.
It takes time for the norms of democratic debate to adjust to new technologies – in some cases, too much time. In parts of Europe in the 1920s and 30s, change brought on by the new technology of radio outran democratic adaptation. Rini will argue that we are now at a similar inflection point with social media. Healthy democratic debate requires that we view fellow citizens as typically sincere and thoughtful when they express disagreement. Rini identifies several features of social media discourse that have rapidly undermined this presumption and weakened the authority of democratic norms. What can be done about these shifts? Rini argues that state and consumer solutions are unlikely to work. Our best hope is for social media platforms to create infrastructure enabling citizens to detect insincerity and carelessness in discourse.
Regina Rini York University Philosophy
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: John Bergmayer on Regulating App Stores
Pub date: 2020-06-24
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A discussion on how app stores work, how they can benefit consumers, and how they can cause consumer harm. The speaker discusses the regulatory problems specific to app stores, and how they might be addressed most effectively.
In this episode, John Bergmayer, Legal Director at Public Knowledge, discusses his new white paper, "Tending the Garden: How to Ensure That App Stores Put Users First." Bergmayer begins by explaining how app stores work, how they can benefit consumers, and how they can cause consumer harm. He discusses the regulatory problems specific to app stores, and how they might be addressed most effectively. And he explains why the regulatory changes he proposes would benefit the entire market. Bergmayer is on Twitter at @bergmayer.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Earshot (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The artist and the algorithm: how YouTube is changing our relationship with music
Pub date: 2020-06-22
Notes from The Machinist :
An obscure Japanese musician has found millions of fans thanks to YouTube. Hiroshi Yoshimura's ambient synth music is perfect for long background listening and keeps you on the YouTube platform for hours, caught in the attention economy.
An obscure Japanese musician has found millions of fans thanks to YouTube. Hiroshi Yoshimura's ambient synth music is perfect for long background listening and keeps you on the YouTube platform for hours, caught in the attention economy.
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Podcast: historicly (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Story of Your Smartphone with Keith Spencer
Pub date: 2020-06-13
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...beginning with the mines of Congo where minerals essential to the production of the smartphones are mined, this episode looks at workers in Taiwan who manufacture the phone and finally the warehouse workers in England who help distribute the phone.
In this episode, Keith Spencer, author of A People’s History of Silicon Valley joins to tell us the story of our smartphones. We begin with an introduction about the pre-silicon valley inhabitants and how many were priced out of the area after the Tech companies established their offices in Silicon Valley. Without any rent control or protection, many had to move far away or became homeless.
We also take a journey around the world, beginning with the mines of Congo where minerals essential to the production of the smartphones are mined. We look at workers in Taiwan who manufacture the phone and finally the warehouse workers in England who help distribute the phone. Keith talks about how the idea of labor, company ownership changed. In this truly remarkable episode, we learn the story of our smartphones.
Keith Spencer works at Salon Magazine. You can also find him on twitter.
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Podcast: Land of the Giants (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Netflix Effect
Pub date: 2020-06-15
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Examining how Netflix got where it is today and whether or not it can maintain its streaming supremacy.
In Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect, Recode’s Peter Kafka and Rani Molla examine how Netflix got where it is today and whether or not it can maintain its streaming supremacy. Hear from Netflix’s founders and top executives as well as its competitors, critics and more - covering everything from its unusual internal culture to its battle with Blockbuster, its disruption of Hollywood and the upcoming streaming wars.
The series comes out on Tuesdays starting June 23rd.
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Podcast: The Penguin Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stuart Russell with Nihal Arthanayake
Pub date: 2020-06-10
Notes from The Machinist :
A chat about how Hollywood has clouded our perception of AI, why we don’t need robots in human form and how the best jobs in the future will be ones that involve empathy.
Stuart Russell - Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley joins Nihal to discuss his latest book ‘Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control.’ They chat about how Hollywood has clouded our perception of AI, why we don’t need robots in human form and how the best jobs in the future will be ones that involve empathy. #Penguinpodcast
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Data as Protest: Data for Black Lives with Yeshi Milner
Pub date: 2020-06-10
Notes from The Machinist :
How can we claim agency over data systems to fight for racial justice? What is Data for Black Lives? How can you join the movement?
How can we claim agency over data systems to fight for racial justice? What is Data for Black Lives? How can you join the movement? To answer these questions and more we welcome Yeshi Milner to the show.
Yeshi Milner is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. Raised in Miami, FL, Yeshi began organizing against the school-to-prison pipeline at Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior. There she developed a lifelong commitment to movement building as a vehicle for creating and sustaining large-scale social change. More recently, Yeshi was a campaign manager at Color of Change, where she spearheaded several major national initiatives, including OrganizeFor, the only online petition platform dedicated to building the political voice of Black people.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: João Carlos Magalhães on Data Colonialism
Pub date: 2020-06-08
Notes from The Machinist :
How tech giants are using the current crisis to colonise the welfare system data?
João Carlos Magalhães is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Podcast: Singularity.FM (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Aaron Benanav on Automation, Technological Unemployment and UBI
Pub date: 2020-06-03
Prof. Aaron Benanav has devoted his life to studying unemployment. Given that automation, technological unemployment, and universal basic income have become hot political and economic issues across the world, it was about time to have a podcast episode exclusively on those topics. I hope you enjoy it and learn as much from Aaron as I […]
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: On Race and Technoculture | Part I
Pub date: 2020-06-03
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Where does Blackness manifest in the ideology of Western technoculture? This talk employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.
In Distributed Blackness, André Brock asks where Blackness manifests in the ideology of Western technoculture. Using critical technocultural discourse analysis (Brock, 2018), Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, this talk employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black cyberculture: digital practice and artifacts informed by a Black aesthetic.
Technoculture is the American mythos (Dinerstein, 2006) and ideology; a belief system powering the coercive, political, and carceral relations between culture and technology. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the object of Western technical and civilizational practices. This critical intervention for internet research and science and technology studies (STS) reorients Western technoculture’s practices of “race-as- technology” (Chun 2009) to visualize Blackness as technological subjects rather than as “things.” Hence, Black technoculture.
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Podcast: Hyperallergic (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2020-05-30
Notes from The Machinist :
Examining the historical precedents of minimalist design, its incarnation as contemporary art, and how it was co-opted by architecture, design, fashion companies, and the Silicon Valley to represent a new, generic sense of luxury.
In this episode for Sunday Edition, we welcome Kyle Chayka to examine Silicon Valley’s taste for minimalist design. Is this just the latest development for a style that has a long history but only emerged into pop culture during the 1960s and ‘70s when a contemporary art movement emerged to propel the taste for less into a global phenomenon?
Chayka's book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Bloomsbury, 2020), is a highly readable book that examines the historical precedents of minimalist design, its incarnation as contemporary art, and how it was co-opted by architecture, design, and fashion companies to represent a new, generic sense of luxury.
The music for this episode is Darkstar’s “Timeaway,” which is taken from the new album News From Nowhere, courtesy of Warp Records (warp.net/artists/darkstar).
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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Driverless cars, inequality and the 'trolley problem' in a high-tech world
Pub date: 2020-05-24
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The road has always been a great social leveller — we all get stuck in the same traffic jams. But with the advent of driverless cars, that could all be about to change, with troubling ethical consequences.
The road has always been a great social leveller — we all get stuck in the same traffic jams. But with the advent of driverless cars, that could all be about to change, with troubling ethical consequences.
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Podcast: Inside Scoop (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Digital Workforce with University of Oxford's Fabian Stephany
Pub date: 2020-05-26
Notes from The Machinist :
The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. What are the implications of the fact that here is roughly $700B in paid workers that could move some or all of their work to online platforms?
The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. At Avory we calculate that there is roughly $700B in paid workers that could move some or all of their work to online platforms. We brought Fabian Stephany from the Oxford Internet Institute "OII" at the University of Oxford to discuss this revolution. Fabian is working on the iLabour Project at the OII studying the global dynamics of Online Labour Markets. Fabian holds a PhD and degrees in Economics and Social Sciences from different European institutions, including Universitá Bocconi Milan and University of Cambridge. iLabour Website: https://ilabour.oii.ox.ac.uk/online-labour-index Fabians Twitter: https://twitter.com/fabian_stephany
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Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research? w/ Emily M. Bender - #376 🦜
Pub date: 2020-05-18
Notes from The Machinist :
Would we be making more progress, on more solid foundations, if more linguists were involved in Natural language processing (NLP) research, or is the progress we're making just fine?
Today we’re joined by Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington.
Our discussion covers a lot of ground, but centers on the question, "Is Linguistics Missing from NLP Research?" We explore if we would be making more progress, on more solid foundations, if more linguists were involved in NLP research, or is the progress we're making (e.g. with deep learning models like Transformers) just fine?
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Podcast: Ethics in Action Podcast
Episode: The Rise of Robot Overlords? A Conversation with Dan Feldman
Pub date: 2020-05-20
Notes from The Machinist :
Before Covid 19 turned the world upside down we worried about Artificial General Intelligence and, ultimately, Super-intelligence - the moment when our machines, powered by sophisticated AI, catch up with us and, ultimately, out-perform us. But how coherent, how pressing, are these concerns, really?
Before Covid 19 turned the world upside down we worried about Artificial General Intelligence and, ultimately, Super-intelligence - the moment when our machines, powered by sophisticated AI, catch up with us and, ultimately, out-perform us. But how coherent, how pressing, are these concerns, really?
Dan Feldman is a senior research fellow at the UMB Applied Ethics Center. He is a software engineering executive and advisor to startups. He has more than 40 years of experience developing leading edge computing systems in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, health care, and wearable computing. He has served as the senior engineering executive in a number of startups, including two MIT Media Lab spin outs and an early e-health company that received a Computerworld Smithsonian Innovation award. He has served in leadership roles at IBM, Thomson Financial Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Kayak. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Touchplan, a construction collaboration technology company.
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Podcast: ChinaPower (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Unveiling China’s Digital Currency Goals: A Conversation with Kevin Desouza
Pub date: 2020-05-19
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This episode unpacks China's push to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency, explains Beijing's motives and compares China's plans for creating its own national digital currency with those of other countries.
This episode unpacks China’s push to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Our guest, Dr. Kevin Desouza, explains Beijing's motives and compares China’s plans for creating its own national digital currency with those of other countries that have undertaken similar initiatives. Dr. Desouza explores how a national digital currency can be used to bolster China’s finance and technology sectors, as well as its economy as a whole. He also offers his views on what China’s timeline might be for rolling out its own CBDC, particularly in light of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Kevin Desouza is a professor of Business, Technology and Strategy in the School of Management at the Queensland University of Technology Business School. Dr. Desouza is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the China Institute for Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has held tenured faculty appointments at the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and Arizona State University.
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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cybernetic Revolutionaries: A Discussion
Pub date: 2020-05-13
Notes from The Machinist :
A discussion based on Eden Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries and the experience of cybernetic planning under Allende's Chile.
For this installment of our series on Actually Existing Socialism, Donald, Christian, and Rudy have a discussion based on Eden Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries and the experience of cybernetic planning under Allende's Chile. Outro music is “Litany for a computer and a child about to be born” by Angel Parra and Stafford Beer.
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Podcast: Danny In The Valley (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Inrupt’s John Bruce “The web we could have”
Pub date: 2020-05-15
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A talk about remaking the web, putting data back in users' control, why progress will be gradual, the underlying tech, how the incumbents might react, how Covid could create an opening, how 20 people can change the web, and what a better internet could look like. .
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on John Bruce, co-founder with Sir Tim Berners-Lee of Inrupt, to talk about remaking the web (3:40), putting data back in users’ control (5:30), data pods (6:50), getting “paid” for your data (8:50), why progress will be gradual (10:50), the underlying tech (13:20), how close it is to coming to market (15:00), the pilot with the NHS (17:00), how the incumbents might react (19:10), how Covid could create an opening (22:00), how 20 people can change the web (27:00), bypassing Silicon Valley venture capital (30:10), what happens next (32:15), and what a better internet could look like (35:00).
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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fund Drive Special: Smartphones and the Frontiers of Surveillance
Pub date: 2020-05-12
Notes from The Machinist :
Smartphones have rapidly become a necessity in the U.S., including for the working poor. During Covid, we're using them more than ever to work -- if we're lucky enough to still have work -- or to stay in touch with each other. But much of the discourse about our personal use of phones misses the centrality of capitalism. .
Smartphones have rapidly become a necessity in the U.S., including for the working poor. During Covid, we’re using them more than ever to work -- if we’re lucky enough to still have work -- or to stay in touch with each other. Sociologist Nicole Aschoff argues that much of the discourse about our personal use of phones misses the centrality of capitalism. She also discusses smartphone surveillance during the coronavirus.
Resources:
Nicole Aschoff, The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age [1] Beacon Press, 2020
[1] http://www.beacon.org/The-Smartphone-Society-P1551.aspx
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Podcast: The Brookings Cafeteria (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Technology competition between the US and a Global China
Pub date: 2020-05-05
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A debate on some of the key issues in the U.S.-China technology competition. How will countries leverage the technology to come out of the current Covid-crisis and what are the differences between responses of democracies and autocracies?
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Lindsey Ford, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, interviews two scholars on some of the key issues in the U.S.-China technology competition, which is the topic of the most recent release of papers in the Global China series. Tom Stefanick is a visiting fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings, and Chris Meserole is a fellow and deputy director of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. Subscribe to Brookings podcasts on iTunes, send feedback email to BCP@Brookings.edu, and follow us and tweet us at @policypodcasts on Twitter. The Brookings Cafeteria is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.
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Podcast: This Matters | Daily News Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sidewalk Labs’ walk on the Quayside is over
Pub date: 2020-05-07
Notes from The Machinist :
It was supposed to be a calling card for Toronto's Waterfront. Using high technology and big data to help cut through the bureaucracy and reveal the neighbourhood of the future. Now it's done, just another project that disappeared like so much other vaporware. .
It was supposed to be a calling card for Toronto’s Waterfront. Using high technology and big data to help cut through the bureaucracy and reveal the neighbourhood of the future. Now it’s done, just another project that disappeared like so much other vaporware. Sidewalk Labs, a division of Alphabet and sister company of Google, arrived in Toronto with a raft of ideas and plans to help create a new neighbourhood called Quayside on this city’s Port Lands, a vast stretch of land on the east end of the city that is being redeveloped on the waterfront.
With several controversies, criticisms and communications issues between some of the stakeholders involved with the project, after two and half years of trying, Sidewalks Labs has decided to pull the plug on the project, citing economic upheaval and uncertainty over Toronto’s real estate market. Critics contend that Sidewalk always had their eyes on a bigger prize and made a number of missteps that may have led to this outcome.
To discuss why a project that arrived with such fanfare is leaving with a thud, Raju Mudhar is joined on This Matters by David Rider, the Star’s City Hall bureau chief, who along with his team, has been following this saga since it began.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Andrew Ferguson on Big Data Prosecution and Brady
Pub date: 2020-05-05
Notes from The Machinist :
A discussion about how prosecution has changed from a purely reactive role to one that's more proactive with intelligence-driven strategies, and how that's enabled by the use of big data in prosecutor's offices.
In this episode, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Visiting Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, discusses his article Big Data Prosecution and Brady, forthcoming soon in the UCLA Law Review. Professor Ferguson begins by discussing how prosecution has changed from a purely reactive role to one that's more proactive with "intelligence-driven" strategies, and how that's enabled by the use of big data in prosecutor's offices. He identifies a fundamental problem that arises with prosecutorial reliance on data and its centralization--systems used by prosecutors and police are not designed to identify Brady materials. Professor Ferguson introduces a new theory of a "Networked Brady" that recognizes new and emerging technologies and offers suggested interventions on how to engineer prosecutorial big data systems to comply with Brady and due process requirements. Professor Ferguson's scholarship is available on SSRN and he's on Twitter at @ProfFerguson.
This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Romero is on Twitter at @MaybellRomero.
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Podcast: The Vergecast (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How Amazon's dominance is more visible during a pandemic
Pub date: 2020-04-28
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As Amazon becomes more essential infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemic, this episode discusses the increased visibility of Amazon's monopoly power and the way it treats its workers. Is it possible to regulate a company that people use and love so much?
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel interviews co-director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance Stacy Mitchell about her critique of Amazon's power in America's marketplace.
As Amazon becomes more essential infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemic, Nilay and Stacy discuss the increased visibility of Amazon's monopoly power and the way it treats its workers.
Is it possible to regulate a company that people use and love so much?
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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-04-29
Notes from The Machinist :
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: 'What?' As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection?
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?
In his new book, Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World (MIT Press, 2020), Jathan Sadowski explores this question and those related in an investigation of the expansion of “smart” technologies – networked devices enabling automated data collection and use. In exploring the interests inherent in the design and deployment of smart technology, Sadowski, a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Law at Monash University, investigates the political economy of digital capitalism, and the implications of continued reliance on and permeation of smart technology.
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Podcast: Policy Punchline (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Tech in India: Struggles Against American Tech Giants and a Path to Global Dominance
Pub date: 2020-04-29
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This episode gives us a detailed overview of the prosperous tech scene in India, the struggles that local startups face when competing against American & Chinese tech giants, Indian government's antitrust actions, and emerging trends the land promises.
Facebook invested $5.7 billion for a 10% stake in Indian telecom operator Jio Platforms Ltd, the biggest telecom operator in the country with more than 370 million subscribers. The deal not only made Facebook the largest minority shareholder in the Indian telecom network, but also brought India’s emerging tech scene back into the global spotlight.
In this episode, WSJ Asia tech reporter Newley Purnell gives us a detailed overview of the prosperous tech scene in India, the struggles that local startups face when competing against American & Chinese tech giants, Indian government’s antitrust actions, and emerging trends the land promises. Newley also comments on the socio-political life in India in general – from India’s democracy to caste structures, from religious identities to linguistic barriers, as well as issues in Indian business practices that may hinder growth and inclusivity.
This interview was recorded in February after Tiger’s return from a three-week trip in India. Newley and Tiger originally planned on meeting up in New Delhi to do the interview in person but ended up moving to a remote format. The recording does not touch on the most recent Jio-Facebook deal but still provides timely updates on the Indian tech market and its dynamics.
Newley Purnell is a Hong Kong-based journalist working for the Wall Street Journal, where he covers technology and business. Before joining in 2014, Mr. Purnell was a Bangkok-based freelance journalist, contributing to The Journal, Quartz, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Emory University and a Master’s in Business and Economics journalism from Columbia University, where he was a Gray International Reporting Fellow. When this interview was conducted, Newley was based in New Delhi. If you'd like to learn more about Newley's work, please visit "newley.com," where you may sign up for his insightful newsletter!
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Tech's Response to COVID-19 w/ Wendy Liu
Pub date: 2020-04-20
Notes from The Machinist :
A talk about how the tech industry is responding to COVID-19, how tech workers may find their jobs atrisk in the aftermath, and why we need to change the system to build tech for the public good instead of in service to private capital.
Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to talk about how the tech industry is responding to COVID-19, how tech workers may find their jobs at risk in the aftermath, and why we need to change the system to build tech for the public good instead of in service to private capital.
Wendy Liu is the author of "Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism." She has also written for Tribune Magazine, Logic Magazine, and the New Statesman. Follow Wendy on Twitter as @dellsystem.
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.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Have Classification Algorithms Gone Too Far? Exploring Gender in AI with Morgan Klaus Scheuerman
Pub date: 2020-04-09
Notes from The Machinist :
How does a machine experience your identity? What do women and gender studies have to do with technology design?
How does a machine experience your identity? What do women and gender studies have to do with technology design? How do we create more dialogue between industry and the academy? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Morgan Klaus Scheuerman to the show.
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman is an Information Science Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado interested in exploring the ways individuals with diverse gender identities interact with technology. Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org
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Podcast: Philosophical Disquisitions (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 76 - Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19
Pub date: 2020-04-18
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How do we get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic? One suggestion is that we use increasedamounts of surveillance and tracking to identify and isolate infected and at-risk persons. While this mightbe a valid public health strategy it does raise some tricky ethical questions.
How do we get back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic? One suggestion is that we use increased amounts of surveillance and tracking to identify and isolate infected and at-risk persons. While this might be a valid public health strategy it does raise some tricky ethical questions. In this episode I talk to Carissa Véliz about these questions. Carissa is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, also at Oxford. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics as well as two forthcoming solo-authored books Privacy is Power (Transworld) and The Ethics of Privacy (Oxford University Press). You can download the episode here or listen below.You can also subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Stitcher and a range of other podcasting services (the RSS feed is here). Show NotesTopics discussed include The value of privacyDo we balance privacy against other rights/values?The significance of consent in debates about consentDigital contact tracing and digital quarantinesThe ethics of digital contact tracingIs the value of digital contact tracing being oversold?The relationship between testing and contact tracingCOVID 19 as an important moment in the fight for privacyThe data economy in light of COVID 19The ethics of immunity passportsThe importance of focusing on the right things in responding to COVID 19 Relevant LinksCarissa's WebpageCarissa's Twitter feed (a treasure trove of links about privacy and surveillance)Views on Privacy: A Survey by Sian Brooke and Carissa VélizData, Privacy and the Individual by Carissa VélizScience paper on the value of digital contact tracingThe Apple-Google proposal for digital contact tracing''The new normal': China's excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay' 'In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags''To curb covid-19, China is using its high-tech surveillance tools''Digital surveillance to fight COVID-19 can only be justified if it respects human rights''Why ‘Mandatory Privacy-Preserving Digital Contact Tracing’ is the Ethical Measure against COVID-19' by Cansu Canca'The COVID-19 Tracking App Won't Work' 'What are 'immunity passports' and could they help us end the coronavirus lockdown?''The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing' #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } / Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. / Subscribe to the newsletter
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Podcast: AnthroDish (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 75: How Genetic Diets and Health Tech Turn Food into Surveillance Tools with Dr. Tina Sikka
Pub date: 2020-04-14
Notes from The Machinist :
We see a heightened presence of fitness and wellness apps, with extended free trials, or nutrition trackers that give you healthy recipes... but how do they see health?
We’re living in a very surreal and increasingly digital world these days, and I don’t know about you all, but I’m finding myself taking a step back each day trying to figure out what this means for how our society is shaped and what our futures will look like. We see a heightened presence of fitness and wellness apps, with extended free trials, or nutrition trackers that give you healthy recipes… but how do they see health? Who gets left out of these fitness and health ideals, and how is tech playing into or heightening the racial and gendered issues around health and food?
My guest this week is the brilliant Dr. Tina Sikka, who’s here to shed light on some of these questions! She is a Lecturer in Media and Culture at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research interests include the sociology of science and technology – which includes environmental science, nutritional science, food culture, and health. She also looks at feminist praxis and the study of race. In addition to her academic work, Tina has written for such outlets as Jacobin, Lady Science and Alternet. Her most recent book is titled Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable (Springer Press, 2019).
Her views on the connections between technology, human health and nutrition, race, gender, and environment are so insightful and I learned a lot from this conversation – I’m so excited for you to learn from her as well!
Learn More about Tina!
- Dr. Sikka's University Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/tinasikka.html
- Twitter: @tsikka
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Facial Recognition, the Future of Privacy, & COVID-19, with Brenda Leong
Pub date: 2020-04-14
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A discussion about the commercial uses of facial recognition technology, concerns about privacy and bias, how it's being utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some tough questions about government surveillance
In this wide-ranging talk, Future of Privacy Forum's Brenda Leong discusses the commercial uses of facial recognition technology, concerns about privacy and bias, how it's being utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some tough questions about government surveillance. What's the future of facial recognition? How can we use this technology ethically?
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Privacy in a pandemic
Pub date: 2020-04-03
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Should we trade some privacy to end a lock-down earlier with the help of technology?
Should we trade some privacy to end a lock-down earlier with the help of technology? Plus, how volunteers with 3D printers are coming to the aid of coronavirus medics needing face shields. And are computer scientists designing artificially intelligent machines in the wrong way? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
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Podcast: NüVoices (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: U.S.-China cyber competition and cooperation with Julia Voo
Pub date: 2020-04-03
Notes from The Machinist :
The episode discusses China's increased efforts to influence international technical standards, updates and challenges of the Digital Silk Road, and how the guest's diplomatic work with the China Institute for International Strategic Studies contributes to mitigating cyber confrontation between the U.S. and China.
Julia Voo is the research director for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s new China Cyber Policy Initiative. In this episode, Julia and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk about China's increased efforts to influence international technical standards, updates and challenges of the Digital Silk Road, how her Track II diplomatic work with the China Institute for International Strategic Studies contributes to mitigating cyber confrontation between the U.S. and China, and her time in Beijing as the head of the local Young China Watchers chapter, supporting a more diverse group of aspiring China experts.
This podcast was edited and produced by Jason MacRonald.
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Podcast: Business Scholarship Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep.44 – Josephine Nelson on Workplace Surveillance
Pub date: 2020-03-30
Notes from The Machinist :
Surveillance in schools and workplaces is pervasive - and yet has largely been normalised. This strems from issues with privacy law, and perhaps also from a lack of realisation of just how invasive these technologies can be.
Josephine Nelson, associate professor of law at Villanova University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article Management Culture and Surveillance on critical issues and historical perspectives related to workplace surveillance.
This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Californian Century: A Twist of Fate
Pub date: 2020-04-01
Notes from The Machinist :
The story of Silicon Valley's troubled founder, William Shockley, the man who first brought silicon to Silicon Valley in the 1950s. He was an undoubted genius. But he was also a hideous boss and an irredeemable racist.
Stanley Tucci continues his history of California with the story of Silicon Valley's troubled founder, William Shockley.
Shockley was the man who first brought silicon to Silicon Valley in the 1950s. He was an undoubted genius. But he was also a hideous boss and an irredeemable racist.
California wants to dazzle you with its endless sunshine and visions of the future – but that’s just a mirage. Stanley Tucci plays a hard-boiled screenwriter uncovering the full, sordid truth. He knows exactly where all the bodies are buried.
Academic consultant: Dr Ian Scott, University of Manchester
Written and produced by Laurence Grissell
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Abolish Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2020-04-01
Notes from The Machinist :
To understand how Silicon Valley became what it is, one has to pay attention to funding. Founders may say making money is just a added bonus, but that's not what happens behind the scenes. Investors expect returns, and big ones.
We speak with Wendy Liu about her new book. Wendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionize. You can find more of her work here.
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Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Technologies of the Human Corpse with John Troyer
Pub date: 2020-03-24
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This episode discusses the way technology is blurring the distinctions between life and death, the emergence of death studies from the 70's social and political milieu, and a personal experience of bereavement can inform one's research.
In this episode we hear from John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse and the Director of The Center for Death and Society at The University of Bath. We discuss the way technology is blurring the distinctions between life and death, the emergence of death studies from the 70s social and political milieu and how his own experiences of bereavement inform his research.
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: WN TBD: Big Tech Eyes the Pandemic
Pub date: 2020-03-20
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Google has spent the last decade trying to find a foothold in the healthcare industry. Now it's partnering with the federal government to build a website that will seek to address the COVID-19 crisis. Can Google be trusted with the medical data of millions?
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Google has spent the last decade trying to find a foothold in the health care industry. Now they’re partnering with the federal government to build a website that will seek to address the crisis.
Can Google be trusted with our medical data?
Guest: Mason Marks, law professor at Gonzaga University School of Law and an affiliated fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project.
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Podcast: Cold Call (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Is There a Winner in Huawei’s Digital Cold War with the U.S.?
Pub date: 2020-03-17
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Is a tech war, a war over technology and technological dominance, something that is winnable in a world that is as interconnected as ours?'
Against the backdrop of his case, “Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War,” Harvard Business School professor Bill Kirby discusses Huawei’s entrepreneurial start, where the tech giant is headed in the future, U.S.-China relations, and the Chinese government’s response to the Coronavirus.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Pamela Foohey on Fintech and Debt Inequality
Pub date: 2020-03-13
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This episode explains how consumer credit products worsen the disparate economy. Focusing on home, student and short-term loans, the interviewee describes how a lack of choice and opportunity has facilitated a flow of wealth from low-income groups to high-income groups.
In this episode, Pamela Foohey, Associate Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, discusses her article "Reducing The Wealth Gap Through Fintech 'Advances' in Consumer Banking and Lending," co-authored with Nathalie Martin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law. The article is forthcoming in the University of Illinois Law Review. Foohey begins by discussing inequalities in income, wealth, and debt, and how those inequalities affect minority groups in disparate ways. She discusses how consumer credit products worsen the disparate economy, particularly in reference to minority groups' access to banking and lending services. Focusing on home, student, and short-term loans, she describes how a lack of choice and opportunity has facilitated a flow of wealth from low-income groups to high-income groups.
Foohey details how early wage access and other fintech innovations could alleviate or worsen inequality for ethnic and racial minorities, exploring how current fintech products interact with current inequities. She then details policy solutions to address wealth and debt gaps, highlighting four tenets for confronting debt inequality. She reviews political proposals from presidential candidates and members of congress, and explores the potential for a postal banking system. Foohey concludes by providing her insights and recommendations for the public, policymakers, and governments. Foohey is on Twitter at @PamelaFoohey.
This episode was hosted by Luce Nguyen. Nguyen is on Twitter at @NguyenLuce.
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Podcast: Another World is Podable
Episode: Episode 9: The Revolution Continues with Trebor Scholz and "platform cooperativism"
Pub date: 2020-03-12
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This interview introduces the concept of 'platform cooperativism' as a way of joining the worker co-op model with the digital economy.
Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and professor at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy introduces the concept of "platform cooperativism" as a way of joining the worker co-op model with the digital economy. His edited volumes include Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory, and Ours to Hack and to Own: Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (listed by Wired Magazine as one of the Top Tech Books of 2017). He is the founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. Scholz frequently presents on the future of work to media scholars, lawyers, activists, computational designers, union leaders, and policymakers worldwide. His articles and ideas have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Le Monde, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. To learn more, visit http://platform.coop or email info@platform.coop
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Podcast: General Intellect Unit (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 051 - Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant
Pub date: 2020-03-04
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Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few - but instead of taking it lying down, they are resisting through a transnational network of strikers and protesters. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. .
In which we talk to Callum Cant about his new book, "Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy".
"What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is it a paradise of flexibility and individual freedom? Or is it a world of exploitation and conflict? Callum Cant took a job with one of the most prominent platforms, Deliveroo, to find out.
His vivid account of the reality is grim. Workers are being tyrannised by algorithms and exploited for the profit of the few – but they are not taking it lying down. Cant reveals a transnational network of encrypted chats and informal groups which have given birth to a wave of strikes and protests. Far from being atomised individuals helpless in the face of massive tech companies, workers are tearing up the rulebook and taking back control. New developments in the workplace are combining to produce an explosive subterranean class struggle – where the stakes are high, and the risks are higher.
Riding for Deliveroo is the first portrait of a new generation of working class militants. Its mixture of compelling first-hand testimony and engaging analysis is essential for anyone wishing to understand class struggle in platform capitalism."
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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Michael S. Malone on How We Can Reclaim the Future We've Sold to Machines
Pub date: 2020-02-28
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"Everyone's saying this is the third or the fourth industrial revolution, but ... if you extrapolate out from what we're seeing, something far more profound is happening to us. And it's gonna be unlike anything in the memories of anybody alive."
Michael S. Malone covered the technology beat for the San Jose Mercury News in the 1980s and remains one of world's best-known technology-business journalists. He is the author or coauthor of nearly thirty books, including The Virtual Corporation with William Davidow. He is currently dean's executive professor at Santa Clara University.
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: WN TBD: Did Money Corrupt an A.I. Utopia?
Pub date: 2020-02-28
Notes from The Machinist :
OpenAI was founded in 2015 with a billion dollars and an idealistic mission: Create artificial intelligence that could address humanity's biggest problems, and do it out in the open. Then came the money problems.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 with a billion dollars and an idealistic mission: Create artificial intelligence that could address humanity’s biggest problems, and do it out in the open. Then came the money problems.
Guest: Karen Hao, senior A.I. reporter at MIT Tech Review
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1136: Platform capitalism and quantum supremacy.
Pub date: 2020-02-27
Notes from The Machinist :
Platform capitalism expropriates the political, leaving its users without any agency to free themselves from the coming quantum supremacy that these corporations hope to attain. This is a deep algorithmic takeover of personal tastes, feelings and opinions, ravaging the ability to associate together.
IT For Change deputy director Nandini Chami on her article "Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance" written with Anita Gurumurthy for ROAR / Transnational Institute, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious.
https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: WN TBD: Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court
Pub date: 2020-02-21
Notes from The Machinist :
In January, Facebook announced that its new Oversight Board, which will act as a sort of supreme court for controversial content, will begin hearing cases this summer. Could this independent board change the way speech is governed online?
After years of controversial content moderation decisions, from deepfakes to deplatforming, Facebook is trying something new. In January, the social network announced that its new Oversight Board, which will act as a sort of supreme court for controversial content, will begin hearing cases this summer.
Could this independent board change the way we govern speech online?
Guest: Kate Klonick, assistant professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Digital Welfare State
Pub date: 2020-02-29
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Notions of welfare in the democratic west are changing - and not for the better. The tools of the digital era are being used to create a new form of welfare state directed against the poor and the disadvantaged, rather than in their interests.
A growing number of human rights academics and activists are worried that our notions of welfare in the democratic west are changing – and not for the better.
They’re concerned that the tools of the digital era are being used to create a new form of welfare state directed against the poor and the disadvantaged, not in their interests.
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Podcast: the Offer with Michael Glinter (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Companies controlling Your Personal Social Media
Pub date: 2020-02-25
Notes from The Machinist :
While some states are trying to put laws in place to protect employees, for now employers can control a lot of what they post. What can and can't companies do when it comes to social media?
Special Guest - Sam Boggs - HR background out of US Bank and JD out of University of Minnesota Law School. Sam brings a great perspective and insight on what companies can and cannot do when it comes to Social Media.
Companies have a lot of power. While some states are trying to put laws in place to protect the employee, for now companies can control a lot of what you post.
· Social Media general overview
· Posts where the employer is directly connected to the person posting
· Gray areas around how the post effects the employer
· Posts where there is no connection to an employer
· Communications and Posts which are protected
· Posts protections related to whistle blowing, company environment, and complaints made by many employees via social media
· Consistent discipline across the company
· Writing a new social medial policy
· Right to Work or At Will Employment
· When an employee offends another employee through posts outside of work
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cyberwar and Revolution — with Svitlana Matviyenko
Pub date: 2020-02-18
Notes from The Machinist :
This episode situates digital mobilisation in its political economic context, touching on the nature of digital militarism on a global scale, the impacts of cyberwar on users today and what is in store for the future of cyberwar.
On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Svitlana Matviyenko, an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis at SFU’s School of Communication. Her work and research focuses around topics such as political economy of information, digital militarism, social and mobile media, infrastructure studies, history of science, cybernetics and psychoanalysis. In this conversation, Svitlana talks about digital militarism on a global scale, the impacts of cyberwar on users today, and what is in store for the future of cyberwar.
Svitlana Matviyenko is the co-author of "Cyber-War and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism," which was awarded the 2019 STAIR Book Award. Learn more about the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cyberwar-and-revolution
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Podcast: Modern Wisdom (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #144 - Martin Schmalz - Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & China
Pub date: 2020-02-20
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This episode reveals why a phone's nighttime GPS data might affect a credit score, how the speed at which a user completes an online form in could change its price and where the real computing power behind AI is being deployed at the moment.
Martin Schmalz is a professor of Finance at Oxford University and an author.
We're receiving constant warnings about the advent of Artificial Intelligence. And big data. And China. But how do all of these fit together?
Expect to learn why your phone's GPS data on a night time is affecting your credit score, how the speed which you complete an online form in could change the price, where the REAL computing power behind AI is being deployed at the moment, and much more.
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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
Pub date: 2020-02-20
Notes from The Machinist :
The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle- class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices.
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect.
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems―rather than humans―control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.
In Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin's, 2018), Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile.
The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values.
This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely.
John Danaher is a lecturer the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also the host of the wonderful podcast Philosophical Disquisitions. You can find it here on Apple Podcasts.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: What Are 'Smart Cities'?
Pub date: 2020-02-11
Notes from The Machinist :
The 'smart city' is a buzzword that, like all other buzzwords, must be thoroughly examined if it is to become a fixture of modern infrastructure. This interview explains both the concept and its application by using the example of the redesign of Toronto's waterfront by Google's sister company Sidewalk Labs.
We speak with Natasha Tusikov about ‘Smart Cities’. Dr. Tusikov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation, and she is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-investigator on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant “Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century” (2016-2020). She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020) assessing data governance in smart cities with a focus on the proposed smart city development in Toronto.
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Podcast: 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #69 - Jeff Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
Pub date: 2020-02-06
Notes from The Machinist :
There's this assumption that because you have an AI plan, you've solved the problem. Whereas actually central forecasting, and planning about complicated, uncertain technological developments is oftentimes flawed and doesn't solve anything. It may actually be counterproductive.'
The State Council of China's 2017 AI plan was the starting point of China’s AI planning; China’s approach to AI is defined by its top-down and monolithic nature; China is winning the AI arms race; and there is little to no discussion of issues of AI ethics and safety in China. How many of these ideas have you heard?
In his paper Deciphering China's AI Dream, today's guest, PhD student Jeff Ding, outlines why he believes none of these claims are true.
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He first places China’s new AI strategy in the context of its past science and technology plans, as well as other countries’ AI plans. What is China actually doing in the space of AI development?
Jeff emphasises that China's AI strategy did not appear out of nowhere with the 2017 state council AI development plan, which attracted a lot of overseas attention. Rather that was just another step forward in a long trajectory of increasing focus on science and technology. It's connected with a plan to develop an 'Internet of Things', and linked to a history of strategic planning for technology in areas like aerospace and biotechnology.
And it was not just the central government that was moving in this space; companies were already pushing forward in AI development, and local level governments already had their own AI plans. You could argue that the central government was following their lead in AI more than the reverse.
What are the different levers that China is pulling to try to spur AI development?
Here, Jeff wanted to challenge the myth that China's AI development plan is based on a monolithic central plan requiring people to develop AI. In fact, bureaucratic agencies, companies, academic labs, and local governments each set up their own strategies, which sometimes conflict with the central government.
Are China's AI capabilities especially impressive? In the paper Jeff develops a new index to measure and compare the US and China's progress in AI.
Jeff’s AI Potential Index — which incorporates trends and capabilities in data, hardware, research and talent, and the commercial AI ecosystem — indicates China’s AI capabilities are about half those of America. His measure, though imperfect, dispels the notion that China's AI capabilities have surpassed the US or make it the world's leading AI power.
Following that 2017 plan, a lot of Western observers thought that to have a good national AI strategy we'd need to figure out how to play catch-up with China. Yet Chinese strategic thinkers and writers at the time actually thought that they were behind — because the Obama administration had issued a series of three white papers in 2016.
Finally, Jeff turns to the potential consequences of China’s AI dream for issues of national security, economic development, AI safety and social governance.
He claims that, despite the widespread belief to the contrary, substantive discussions about AI safety and ethics are indeed emerging in China. For instance, a new book from Tencent’s Research Institute is proactive in calling for stronger awareness of AI safety issues.
In today’s episode, Rob and Jeff go through this widely-discussed report, and also cover:
• The best analogies for thinking about the growing influence of AI
• How do prominent Chinese figures think about AI?
• Coordination with China
• China’s social credit system
• Suggestions for people who want to become professional China specialists
• And more.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Tom Slee, Private Sector AI: Ethics and Incentives
Pub date: 2020-02-02
Notes from The Machinist :
Algorithm owners are being drawn into taking on the tasks of governance, managing and validating the behaviour of those who interact with their systems. If governance [it] is left to algorithm owners, it may lead to arbitrary and restrictive controls on individual behaviour.
Algorithms that sort people into categories are plagued by incompatible incentives. While more accurate algorithms may address problems of statistical bias and unfairness, they cannot solve the ethical challenges that arise from incompatible incentives.
Algorithm owners are drawn into taking on the tasks of governance, managing and validating the behaviour of those who interact with their systems. The governance role offers temptations to indulge in regulatory arbitrage. If governance is left to algorithm owners, it may lead to arbitrary and restrictive controls on individual behaviour. The goal of algorithmic governance by automated decision systems, social media recommender systems, and rating systems is a mirage, retreating into the distance whenever we seem to approach it.
Tom Slee SAP Toward a Handbook of Ethics of AI Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, March 1-2, 2019
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The competition delusion; and a call to nationalise big data
Pub date: 2020-02-08
Notes from The Machinist :
Competition is often seen almost as a universal good. But the guest says a slavish adherence to making everything a competition is damaging our trust in public institutions
Competition is often seen almost as a universal good. But economist Nicholas Gruen says a slavish adherence to making everything a competition is damaging our trust in public institutions.
Also, the Belgian community trialling an ancient form of democracy. And if big data is made collectively, would nationalising it help to ensure the benefits are widely distributed?
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Podcast: Techdirt (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Privacy Laws Harm Criminal Defendants
Pub date: 2020-02-04
Notes from The Machinist :
This episode explores how some privacy laws can make it harder for defense teams in criminal trials to access critical information - an issue that law enforcement and prosecutors don't seem to face.
Privacy laws are often well-intentioned, but rarely without terrible unintended consequences. And some of these fly right under the radar, like the fact that various privacy laws have made it harder for defense teams in criminal trials to access critical information, even as law enforcement and prosecutors don't seem to face the same problem. This week, we're joined by Berkeley Law's Rebecca Wexler, who has been tracking this issue and working on an upcoming paper about it, to discuss how privacy laws are harming criminal defendants.
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: An Ecological Approach to Data Governance
Pub date: 2020-01-27
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Data are currency. Data provide the fuel for decision-making and profit-making. Data offer evidence forenhancing health services, infrastructure, and zoning, and for addressing environmental concerns.
Data are currency. Data provide the fuel for decision-making and profit-making. Data offer evidence for enhancing health services, infrastructure, and zoning, and for addressing environmental concerns. But the collection and use of data is spurring conflicts between cities, corporate and civil society organizations, and constituents. These conflicts occur on the grounds of data ownership, access, privacy, and security.
Dr. McNealy traces these conflicts to our perception of data as a singular piece of property. A better metaphor for data, she contends, would be that of a networked representation or observation in an ecosystem. Dr. McNealy argues that we require an ecological approach for understanding this era of emergent technology and data — both for creating adequate policy, and for protecting the vulnerable.
This event is moderated by Data & Society Director of Research Sareeta Amrute.
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This talk was recorded on January 8, 2020.
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps
Pub date: 2020-01-15
Notes from The Machinist :
Everywhere we turn, local media is constantly telling us about the scourge of crime lurking around everycorner. What is new is the rise of surveillance and snitch apps like Amazon's Ring doorbell systems andgeo-local social media like Nextdoor. They are funded by real estate and other gentrifying interestsworking hand in glove with police to provide a grossly distorted, inflated and hyped-up vision of crime.
Everywhere we turn, local media — TV, digital, radio — is constantly telling us about the scourge of crime lurking around every corner. This, of course, is not new. It’s been the basis of the local news business model since the 1970s.
But what is new is the rise of surveillance and snitch apps like Amazon’s Ring doorbell systems and geo-local social media like Nextdoor. They are funded by real estate and other gentrifying interests working hand in glove with police to provide a grossly distorted, inflated and hyped-up vision of crime.
One of the major factors fueling this misconception is the feedback loop where media — both traditional and social — provide the ideological content for the forces of gentrification. Police focus their “law enforcement” in low income areas, local news reports on scourges of crime based on police sources, then both pressure and reinforce over-policing of communities of color, namely those getting in the way of real estate interests' designs––All animated by an increase in police-backed surveillance tech like Amazon’s Ring.
On this episode we will break down these pro-carceral interests, how they create a self-reinforcing cycle of racist paranoia and how local “crime” reporting plays a role in creating this wildly distorted perception of “crime.”
We are joined by two guests: Sarah Lustbader, senior legal counsel at The Justice Collaborative, and Steven Renderos, co-director of MediaJustice.
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Podcast: Creative Next: AI Automation at Work (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Art & Technology
Pub date: 2020-01-21
Notes from The Machinist :
Art has always been interwoven with technology, and the future will be increasingly digital, leveraging smart machines that raise questions about the nature of humanity and creativity.
AI is the latest technology to spark innovation in the art world. Artist Mario Klingemann, creator of “Memories of Passersby 1” which was auctioned by Sotheby’s in 2019, talks about his work and the future of art.
Machine learning technologies like Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are accelerating progress in the automation of creative output. While Mario is best-known for his visual art he is shifting his attention to text-based output, which he sees as ripe for pioneering work. Art has always been interwoven with technology, and the future will be increasingly digital, leveraging smart machines that raise questions about the nature of humanity and creativity.
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Podcast: Jaipur Bytes (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: AI and Creativity: Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
Pub date: 2020-01-27
Notes from The Machinist :
As Artificial Intelligence takes over human narratives, this episode questions the shape of our future, expounding on how algorithms work, the nature of creativity and how engineers are tracking our emotional responses to art.
As Artificial Intelligence takes over human narratives, Marcus du Sautoy questions the shape of our future. In his book The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think, he expounds on how algorithms work, the nature of creativity and how engineers are tracking our emotional responses to art. In a riveting session, du Sautoy, the Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, discusses intuition, the creative process and its correlation with mathematics. In conversation with Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy K. Roy.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-01-20
Notes from The Machinist :
The 'smart city,' presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has captured the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dwellers. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data? What important data is ignored when it is not easily translated into 1s and 0s?
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data? What important data is ignored when it is not easily translated into 1s and 0s? In his new book, The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future, critical data scientist Ben Green, an Affiliate and former Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics, critically examines what it means for a city to be smart enough to fulfill the promises of urbanism, while at the same time taking into account the very real drawbacks of constant data collection, and overreliance on digital technology. To do this, Green examines various case study examples, while offering philosophical and critical histories of the city-related technologies that have led us to this era.
Jasmine McNealy is a scholar of media and technology. She teaches at the University of Florida.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Audio Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Privacy, Surveillance, & the Terrorist Trap, with Tom Parker
Pub date: 2020-01-14
Notes from The Machinist :
As new technologies become more available to investigators, there need to be new discussions about how they can be helpful in fighting terrorism, while also respecting the rights of suspects and the general public. Governments often overreact to terrorist attacks, which leads to a dangerous cycle.
How can investigators utilize new technology like facial recognition software while respecting the rights of suspects and the general public? What are the consequences of government overreaction to terrorist threats? Tom Parker, author of "Avoiding the Terrorist Trap," discusses privacy, surveillance, and more in the context of counterterrorism.
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Podcast: Roundtable
Episode: CHINA: Rise of cyber superpower?
Pub date: 2020-01-13
China is now several years into its plan to become a boss of the internet by the middle of this century. Many countries already rely on its mobile internet technology. Chinese apps are becoming popular worldwide. It seems that a shift in cyber-power has begun.
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Joining us on Roundtable is Winnie King, Senior Lecturer and China policy and economy analyst at the University of Bristol. She says the motivations of Chinese tech development are different from Silicon Valley. Julian BirkinShaw, Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and the London School of Business. He believes big U.S. silicon valley based companies look at Chinese companies with envy and some fear. Charity Wright, a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with over 15 years experience at US Army and the National Security Agency, where she translated Mandarin Chinese. Wright now focuses her attention on dark web cyber threat intelligence. Mary-Ann Russon, technology journalist who believes Chinese are capitalist like the U.S. and want new markets for their products and can’t afford to shut out Western users.
Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: WN TBD: How Targeted Ads Started Watching Us All
Pub date: 2020-01-10
In 2019, for the first time, more advertising money went toward targeted digital ads in the U.S. than on radio, television, cable, magazine, and newspaper ads combined. The moment was the culmination of a decadeslong journey that has completely transformed media, politics, and privacy.
How did the targeted ad come to hold so much power? And what did we lose along the way?
Guest: Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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Podcast: MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Team Human: Tech, Media, Culture with Douglas Rushkoff
Pub date: 2020-01-09
My guest today is Douglas Rushkoff, who has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT. He's an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in the digital age. He's written over twenty books include the recently-published "Team Human", and he hosts a popular podcast, also called "Team Human", focusing on the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact.
His perspective challenges conventional thinking, often calling out both sides of polar debates. We explore modern life in the digital age, and how to come together as "Team Human".
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2019-12-09
Philip M. Napoli has been thinking about algorithmic news and social media feed curation for quite some time, as he acknowledges in his new book, Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age (Columbia University Press, 2019). Initially this topic was not as pressing as it now seems to be, but Napoli has been exploring this issue and and trying to figure out how it might work in terms of regulation – self, governmental, or otherwise – for a while. Social Media and the Public Interest approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media, but that history itself is positioned within a brief but important history of the internet and the world wide web. At the same time, the book covers a lot of important ground in thinking about the First Amendment, how journalism operates in the age of social media and an otherwise fluid and changing environment for traditional media. Napoli gets at questions that often lurk at the back of our considerations of social media, not only about what we experience in our use of these platforms, but also how we may, unconsciously, consume the information and news that is presented to us through these “not quite journalistic” entities. This is a fascinating book that opens up a lot of penetrating questions about our social media environment, how we think about journalism, what the role of regulation might be in terms of both technology and media, and how all these threads intersect within politics. This book will be of interest to a wide array of readers from a host of backgrounds, and, of course, to anyone who has an interest in understanding the media environment in which we all live.
Lilly J. Goren is professor of Political Science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She co-edited the award-winning Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012).
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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Recode Decode: Margaret O'Mara
Pub date: 2019-12-11
Historian Margaret O'Mara talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her latest book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. She explains how the government catalyzed the digital revolution starting in the 1960s, the reasons tech power coalesced in suburban California, and why tech history must be considered a part of political history — even though the industry has tried in recent decades to distance itself from government. O'Mara also talks about the origins of sexism in the tech industry and how women were not given the same opportunities to break in as men, and the threats to Silicon Valley's current culture, including government regulation, overly strict immigration laws, and the rise of China.
Read a full transcript of this interview here.
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Podcast: Podcasts - Future Left (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 150: Taking on the 'Zon (Ft. Dania Rajendra)
Pub date: 2019-12-13
Joining us this week is Dania Rajendra, the director of Athena, a new grassroots network of 40+ organizations aiming to confront Amazon’s harmful effects in our economy, our communities, and our future. Our wide-ranging discussion goes through some of the primary criticisms that working people have against Amazon—harmful environmental effects and inhumane and unsafe working conditions—and what people think needs to be done to address these issues.
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Podcast: TALKING POLITICS (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Monopoly and Muckraking
Pub date: 2019-12-29
Gary Gerstle talks about the journalist who brought down a business empire, when Ida Tarbell went after the power of John D Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Corporation at the start of the twentieth century. Could anyone do the same to Facebook or Amazon today?
Talking Points:
America’s foundational myth is about rebelling against monopolies: a monopoly of power in the hands of the King.
- How does an anti-monopolistic society get dominated by monopolies?
- Industrialization and the free economic environment after the Civil War created different conditions.
- The Supreme Court interpreted the 14th amendment to mean that corporations are individuals and therefore protected by the Bill of Rights.
Resistance to monopolies reached a peak during the first Gilded Age.
- Some of the resistance was political, but some of it was journalistic.
- Journalists known as ‘muckrakers’ sought to expose the practices that produced extraordinary power.
- The reports of journalist Ida Tarbell ultimately led to the breakup of Standard Oil of Ohio.
- Journalism set the tone for the progressive reform movement.
The election of 1912 was about what to do about the trusts/monopolies.
- Debs wanted to nationalize them; Wilson wanted to break them up; Roosvevelt said regulate them; only Taft carried take a stand.
- Roosevelt’s approach ultimately carried the day.
What can the past tell us about today?
- Warren is carrying forward the breakup agenda.
- Previous anti-monopoly movements took a long time; don’t expect much too quickly.
- But the sentiments haven’t gone away. And the forces that Warren and Sanders have unleashed will continue to percolate.
Mentioned in this Episode:
- Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Further Learning:
- More on Ida Tarbell
- A Talking Politics Guide to … the Gilded Age
- More on Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
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Podcast: Law Report - Full program podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A selfie, credit card and CCTV: a burglar's digital trail
Pub date: 2019-12-31
It was a case of 'guilty by social media' when a burglar's twelve day, $58,000 crime spree was brought undone by his glaring digital fingerprints.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Jason Jackson, The Ethics of AI: A Political Economy Approach
Pub date: 2019-12-30
Jason Jackson MIT Urban Studies & Planning Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, March 1-2, 2019 Toward a Handbook of Ethics of AI: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
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