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Protopia, Not Utopia 22.03.2023

Podcast : Discourse ZA Episode : Protopia, Not Utopia Pub date : 2023-03-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bronwyn Williams & Monika Bielskyte | The Small Print 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...

S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality 15.03.2023

Podcast : Future Histories (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality Pub date : 2023-03-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Future Histories LIVE The interview with Antoinette Rouvroy is part of the format “Future Histories LIVE”. At irregular intervals, individual episodes a...

236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris) 07.03.2023

Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris) Pub date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 hel...

Curate 07.03.2023

Podcast : The Digital Human (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Curate Pub date : 2023-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Episode 4.9: Black Software: The Technological Lead-ups to Black Lives Matter – Charlton McIlwain 07.03.2023

Podcast : The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast (LS 27 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN . As with all aspects of American life, Black people were par...

The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington 01.03.2023

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington Pub date : 2023-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Rosie Collington to discuss the consequences of outsourcing tech to the private sector, how it causes govern...

AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU 01.03.2023

Podcast : ChinaTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU Pub date : 2023-02-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 coll...

How the Xerox Machine Launched A Bay Area Art Movement 22.02.2023

Podcast : KQED's Forum (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : How the Xerox Machine Launched A Bay Area Art Movement Pub date : 2023-02-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Chokepoint Capitalism 22.02.2023

Podcast : Burning Platforms Episode : Chokepoint Capitalism Pub date : 2023-02-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of B...

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali 22.02.2023

Podcast : New Books in African Studies (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali Pub date : 2023-02-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and...

Wendy Chun - Engineering, Networks, and Social Justice Across Disciplines 15.02.2023

Podcast : Digital Alchemy Episode : Wendy Chun - Engineering, Networks, and Social Justice Across Disciplines Pub date : 2023-01-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 Democracie...

Inventing American Telecommunications 15.02.2023

Podcast : New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Inventing American Telecommunications Pub date : 2023-02-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunicati...

Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policy 08.02.2023

Podcast : Scientific Sense ® (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policy Pub date : 2023-01-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 ta...

Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots? 08.02.2023

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization There are two guests on this special January 2023 fundraising episode of Th...

The far-right origins of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency 08.02.2023

Podcast : Theory of Change Podcast With Matthew Sheffield (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : The far-right origins of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency Pub date : 2023-01-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Episode Summary “The personal is political” wa...

Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022) 01.02.2023

Podcast : New Books in Economics (LS 37 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestsell...

When States Make Tech Policy 01.02.2023

Podcast : The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : When States Make Tech Policy Pub date : 2023-01-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 fr...

SPOS #863 - Cory Doctorow On The Future of Business, Technology and Society 01.02.2023

Podcast : Thinking With Mitch Joel (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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Welcome to episode #863 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The Think...

The Politics of Digital Technology 24.01.2023

Podcast : New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : The Politics of Digital Technology Pub date : 2023-01-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the...

225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead 24.01.2023

Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead Pub date : 2023-01-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 withi...

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi 18.01.2023

Podcast : This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Secret Power: WikiLeaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi Pub date : 2023-01-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years...

Digital surveillance in the Middle East 18.01.2023

Podcast : Essential Middle East (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Digital surveillance in the Middle East Pub date : 2023-01-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 informatio...

Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta 18.01.2023

Podcast : Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta Pub date : 2023-01-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The rise of the platform economy puts state-like power in the hands of platform...

FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett 10.01.2023

Podcast : Macro N Cheese (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett Pub date : 2022-12-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization All digital currency is not created equal. Its technology can potentially be used as a&n...

Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022) 10.01.2023

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inh...

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