Christian Paz, senior politics reporter at Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social media platform’s influence on voting habits, how stylized and highly emotional political videos grab attention, and how users end up in an echo chamber that doesn’t challenge their views.
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Professor Elizabeth Losh discusses the realities of direct access to politicians through our devices – and the many ways Twitter, TikTok and other platforms can disrupt democracy.
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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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Michael Schuman is a contributing writer to The Atlantic and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He joins us to talk about how a seemingly harmless app, TikTok, has hit a nerve with American cybersecurity experts and provided yet another sticking point in U.S.-China relations
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