Will Carless joins us to talk about the online hate groups that active-duty police officers are part of.
Read moreMemes To An End: The Power Of Digital Culture
Author An Xiao Mina joins Krys Boyd to talk about how memes, emojis and other pieces of internet culture connect people offline, which she writes about in “Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power.”
Read moreWhen We Talk Ourselves Out Of The Truth
Professor and author James Owen Weatherall joins us to talk about his book – written with Cailin O’Connor – called “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.”
Read moreNot All Twitter Mobs Are Created Equal
Amanda Hess joins us to talk about the difference between a vicious Twitter mob and an online critical census.
Read moreMaybe 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.
Read moreHow Snapchat Changed Two Families
Author Emily Giffin joins us to talk about her latest effort, “All We Ever Wanted,” which centers on a high school scandal that rocks Nashville’s high society.
Read moreBusinesses Are Bracing For Political Surprise
Amy B. Zegart joins us to discuss how everything from global conflicts to hackers and even individual Twitter users can impact organizations like never before.
Read moreScrolling For Happiness
Washington University in St. Louis psychologist Tim Bono joins us to talk about how social media plays on our emotions.
Read moreHow Social Media Manipulates Public Thinking
Erica Ciszek joins us to talk about how special interest groups are increasingly using social media to influence and confuse public discourse.
Read moreReading Between The Tweets: Covering The White House In The Social Media Age
Stephanie A. Martin joins us to talk about how social media has changed the way the media covers the White House.
Read moreHow Social Media Is Revolutionizing The Middle East
Haroon K. Ullah talks about the impact of online networks in the Middle East.
Read moreThe Function Of Friendship
This hour, we’ll talk about why we seek out friends and the purposes they serve in our lives with Princeton humanities professor Alexander Nehamas.
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