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The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA] 19.10.2024

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceratio...

“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora 09.10.2024

Podcast : Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : “Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora Pub date : 2024-10-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines...

FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic) 04.10.2024

Podcast : FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic) Pub date : 2024-09-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 FreshEdpodca...

FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson) 26.09.2024

Podcast : FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson) Pub date : 2024-09-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 Fre...

Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural Objects 18.09.2024

Podcast : Diasporas Speaking Episode : Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural Objects Pub date : 2024-09-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meani...

Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen 13.09.2024

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen Pub date : 2024-09-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

The End of Google As We Know It? 05.09.2024

Podcast : Capitalisn't (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The End of Google As We Know It? Pub date : 2024-08-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 t...

No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner 05.09.2024

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner Pub date : 2024-08-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide...

Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-Liu 11.08.2024

Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Cole Stangler talks about the monumentally inconclusive French elections. David Palumbo-Liu explores the Silicon Valley world that launched J. D. Vanc...

Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AI 31.07.2024

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Alissa Starzak, head of public policy at Cloudflare, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College...

From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve) 31.07.2024

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Michael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her...

Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture? 27.07.2024

Podcast : Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture? Pub date : 2024-07-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 u...

Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 17.07.2024

Podcast : New Books in Law (LS 31 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities afte...

Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet Haugsbø 12.07.2024

Podcast : Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet Haugsbø Pub date : 2024-07-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø...

How China Regulates Tech 05.07.2024

Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : How China Regulates Tech Pub date : 2024-06-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific 27.06.2024

Podcast : Ear to Asia (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific Pub date : 2024-06-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Undersea cables underpin global communication and the digital economy, with between 95-99% of data for international banking, e-commerce, video calls, and inte...

Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku 20.06.2024

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku Pub date : 2024-06-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 t...

Episode 486: The Computable City 15.06.2024

Podcast : Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 486: The Computable City Pub date : 2024-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices 06.06.2024

Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices Pub date : 2024-05-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A conversation with Marwa Fatafta , who serves as policy and advocacy director for the nonprofit Access now, which has worked on digital civi...

Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre 02.06.2024

Podcast : FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre Pub date : 2024-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Human rights lawyer Dr. Susie Alegre shares her insights into the threat artificial intelligence poses to human creativity, the importance of the Universal Declarat...

Digital surveillance and reproductive rights 23.05.2024

Podcast : Technically Optimistic (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Digital surveillance and reproductive rights Pub date : 2024-05-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Digital surveillance is becoming increasingly threatening to the reproductive rights of women and pregnant people in America after the fall of Roe v. Wade. Be...

Episode 370 - Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain) 17.05.2024

Podcast : Bad Faith (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 370 - Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain) Pub date : 2024-05-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Associate Professor of Medi...

Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet? 10.05.2024

Podcast : The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet? Pub date : 2024-04-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 crisi...

New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni 01.05.2024

Podcast : This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni Pub date : 2024-04-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Loretta Napoleoni returns to discuss her new book, “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Go...

Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024) 23.04.2024

Podcast : New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024) Pub date : 2024-04-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a di...

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