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.
Read moreWhat 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.
Read moreSocial 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.
Read moreHow 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.
Read moreExtra! 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreRefusing 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreArt Makes Money, While Artists Don’t
Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about how we value art.
Read moreHow VR Connects Us To Real Feelings
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips joins us to talk about how we should think about using social media – and about the pluses and minuses of substituting in-person connections for virtual ones.
Read moreThe Human Filters Of The Internet
Sarah T. Roberts of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at UCLA joins us to talk about the people charged with keeping offensive material off the web.
Read moreYou Can’t Escape Your Childhood Online
Kate Eichhorn of The New School joins us to talk about how younger generations can never escape their online personas.
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