Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)

August 03, 2020 00:39:53
Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)
Public Books 101
Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)

Aug 03 2020 | 00:39:53

/

Show Notes

In this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at both the affordances and dangers of large platforms like Facebook, Google, and Reddit. In this episode, Siva Vaidhyanathan breaks down the global power of Facebook: what it provides in a positive [...]

Read More...

Other Episodes

Episode

August 17, 2020 00:53:49
Episode Cover

Silicon Valley and Beyond (with Meredith Broussard & Margaret O’Mara)

How did Silicon Valley become such a historically and globally significant hub of technological innovation? What—and who—gets left out of the stories people tell...

Listen

Episode 1

March 08, 2021 01:22:33
Episode Cover

Novels and Ideas (with Teju Cole & Tara Menon)

Novelist Teju Cole and scholar Tara Menon join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels inspire readers to wrestle with difficult ideas. From...

Listen

Episode 4

June 06, 2021 00:54:19
Episode Cover

Data and Infrastructure (with Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh)

Scholars Laura Forlano and Ranjit Singh join our host, Natalie Kerby, to explore the different infrastructures that data interacts with and flows through. Whose...

Listen