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Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane 12.10.2022

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane Pub date : 2022-09-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 wit...

Data is not the new oil with Genevieve Bell 12.10.2022

Podcast : The Future, This Week (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Data is not the new oil with Genevieve Bell Pub date : 2022-09-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 (Syd...

Data Privacy and Women’s Rights with Rebecca Finlay 04.10.2022

Podcast : The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Data Privacy and Women’s Rights with Rebecca Finlay Pub date : 2022-09-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 priva...

Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski 27.09.2022

Podcast : TRASHFUTURE (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski Pub date : 2022-09-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones 27.09.2022

Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones Pub date : 2022-09-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the Tech Policy Press podcast, we’re going to explore how law enforcement and other government agencies in t...

The Dark Arts of Online Advertising 27.09.2022

Podcast : Burning Platforms Episode : The Dark Arts of Online Advertising Pub date : 2022-09-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard 21.09.2022

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard Pub date : 2022-09-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 s...

Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected 21.09.2022

Podcast : Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected Pub date : 2022-09-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Digital Divide in Tribal Communities Across the North American continent, there is a stark difference in the availability of the internet to different communiti...

The Quantified Worker 21.09.2022

Podcast : In our Tech Society Episode : The Quantified Worker Pub date : 2022-09-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Crises & Roots: Towards an Understanding of World-Ecology, Nature & the Capitalocene with Jason W. Moore - Episode 40 14.09.2022

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 50 Conversations! That's what this beautiful talk with Jason W. Moore marks for your two curious hosts. Thank you so so much for...

Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022) 14.09.2022

Podcast : New Books in Economics (LS 37 · 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and arch...

Spotlight: Kevin Witzenberger 14.09.2022

Podcast : Media Futures Podcast Episode : Spotlight: Kevin Witzenberger Pub date : 2022-09-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Spotlight: Simon Taylor 12.09.2022

Podcast : Media Futures Podcast Episode : Spotlight: Simon Taylor Pub date : 2022-08-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data Annotation 12.09.2022

Podcast : All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data Annotation Pub date : 2022-08-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Carl Jaison speaks to Karishma Mehrotra, Journalist & Fulbright Scholar on her story about women from Ranchi and Mannarkad who play an ung...

Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui Hu 12.09.2022

Podcast : The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui Hu Pub date : 2022-08-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh 10.08.2022

Podcast : Pondering AI (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh Pub date : 2022-08-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 Co...

Should the Government use AI? with Shion Guha 10.08.2022

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How does the government use algorithms? How do algorithms impact social services, policing, and other social services? And where does Silicon Valley fit in?  ...

James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) 03.08.2022

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% 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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Arti...

Smart City: Dumb Idea? 03.08.2022

Podcast : What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Smart City: Dumb Idea? Pub date : 2022-07-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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:...

Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account 03.08.2022

Podcast : Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account Pub date : 2022-07-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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...

Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson 27.07.2022

Podcast : Philosophy For Our Times (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson Pub date : 2022-07-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Should we be scared of AI? Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here:  https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes Joanna Bryson discusses how s...

EP61: Enter the Zuckerverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost) 27.07.2022

Podcast : Darts and Letters (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : EP61: Enter the Zuckerverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost) Pub date : 2022-07-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a rea...

Profit Uber Alles - The Uber Files / Dean Starkman 27.07.2022

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 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We welcome Dean Starkman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and...

Are internet shutdowns evolving? 20.07.2022

Podcast : Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Are internet shutdowns evolving? Pub date : 2022-07-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 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 Offi...

Understanding Crypto 6: Bruce Schneier: Security, Trust, and Blockchain 20.07.2022

Podcast : The Rational Reminder Podcast (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Understanding Crypto 6: Bruce Schneier: Security, Trust, and Blockchain Pub date : 2022-07-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Welcome back to another episode of our limited addition Crypto Series on the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality che...

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