Karen Kornbluh joins us to talk about whether we should establish a government agency to monitor the spread of disinformation online.
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For Polite Conversation, Try The Internet
Antonio García Martínez joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his story “Used Wisely, the Internet Can Actually Help Public Discourse” in Wired Magazine.
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Escape From Yemen
Mohammed al Samawi joins us to tell the story of how a coalition of online supporters worked together to extract him from the war-torn country.
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Maybe We Evolved To Be Internet Trolls
Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins us to talk about how some of our terrible social media behavior is actually partly a result of our evolution.
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How Power Has Changed
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms join us to talk about how the internet has allowed power to change hands more easily.
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What Big Data Reveals About Us
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz joins us to talk about how seeing what we search for on the internet can give us a better understanding of what’s on our collective minds.
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How Retailers Track Us
University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow joins us to talk about how companies monitor our purchases in order to get a better picture of our wants and needs.
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The Internet In Our Lives
This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of our online lives and our real ones – and how they affect each other – with Virginia Heffernan. She explores these ideas and more in her new book, “Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art”.
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How Technology Is Changing Worldviews
This hour, we’ll talk about how “visual activism” is driving social and political change with Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media culture and communication at NYU and deputy director of the International Association for Visual Culture.
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Research Before Wikipedia
This hour, we’ll talk about the history of human’s desire to compile knowledge with Rutgers University English professor Jack Lynch, author of “You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia”
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Your Brain On Technology
We’ll talk about how computers and smartphone actually diminish our ability to think clearly with UCLA professor Shlomo Benartzi, author of “The Smarter Screen.”
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Learning In The Digital Age
This hour, we’ll talk about how informal learning can supplement what students are taught in the classroom with Milton Chen, a senior fellow and former executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation. He’s in town to participate in “Learning Crossroads – The Digital Future: A National Forum” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
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