A fictional teen’s need to be recognized by her peers leads down a path of unintended catfishing on social media in Crystal Maldonado’s new YA novel.
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Are we showing too much love on social media?
Author Caitlin Macy joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why emotional overreaction has become the norm – even expected – and how that’s given rise to overflowing anger in daily life.
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Has the digital world broken American democracy?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses how tech companies have sowed rifts and how the communication breakdown means we are now being ruled by mob dynamics.
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Meet the moms taking over social media
Kathryn Jezer-Morton, author of the “Mothers Under the Influence” Substack, joins us to talk about the moms of TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms who have turned their lives into profitable enterprises.
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What is the job of a journalist?
Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies joins us to discuss ethics in an ever-polarized media landscape.
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Social Media Will Happily Remind You Of Your Worst Decisions
Wired senior reporter Lauren Goode joins us to talk about her experience reliving a failed relationship via social media apps and how companies monetize our most private moments.
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How Facebook A.I. Enables Misinformation
Karen Hao, senior artificial intelligence reporter with MIT Technology Review, joins us to talk about her profile of Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, who built Facebook’s wildly successful AI platform only to later struggle with the reality that he can’t tame the monster he created.
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! (On Nextdoor)
Will Oremus joins us to talk about how as local newspapers die out, the social media site Nextdoor is filling that need.
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The Women Hunters Of Instagram
Rachel Levin joins us to talk about a fast-growing subculture that has found a home online: women who like to hunt.
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Refusing to Be Defined by Disability
Journalist Keah Brown joins us to talk about how she moved beyond self-pity to become an advocate for people with disabilities.
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The Influence Of Instagram
Bloomberg News technology reporter Sarah Frier joins us to talk about the fierce Silicon Valley competition to create a dominant social media platform and the ways Instagram has changed our lives in an unexpected way.
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Art Makes Money, While Artists Don’t
Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about how we value art.
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