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The Luddites and Lessons for the Next Rebellion
In Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, Los Angeles Times technology columnist Brian Merchant has written a new histo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Graphic Content, Trauma and Meaning: A Conversation with Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros
The ubiquity of cameras in our phones and our environment, coupled with massive social media networks that can share images and video in an instant, …
2 years, 7 months ago
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Conversation with Kashmir Hill
In 2019, journalist Kashmir Hill had just joined The New York Times when she got a tip about the existence of a company called Clearview AI that clai…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Problem with the "Big" in Big Tech
Today’s episode features two segments, both of which consider the scale of technology platforms and their power over markets and people.
In the first…
2 years, 8 months ago
Assessing the Problem of Disinformation
This episode features two segments on the subject of disinformation.
In the first, Rebecca Rand speaks with Dr. Shelby Grossman, a research scholar a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Paul Gowder on The Networked Leviathan
One of the problems we come back to again and again on the Tech Policy Press podcast is the problem of how to govern social media platforms.
Today’s …
2 years, 8 months ago
Choosing Our Words Carefully
This episode features two segments. In the first, Rebecca Rand speaks with Alina Leidinger, a researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Com…
2 years, 8 months ago
Containing Big Tech
This episode features two segments. In the first, Rebecca Rand considers the social consequences of "machine allocation behavior" with Cornell resear…
2 years, 9 months ago
Assessing India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill
This week, Indian legislators approved a data protection law that will govern the processing of data in the country. The bill creates a data protecti…
2 years, 9 months ago
The State of State AI Laws
Lots of voices are calling for the regulation of artificial intelligence. In the US, at present it seems there is no federal legislation close to bec…
2 years, 9 months ago