Podcast Episodes

Don't Panic

Episode 22

Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral pan…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain

Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.

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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Mailbag #5

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Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

A Feed to Call One’s Own

Episode 21

Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is to keep private communities private. Contributing produce…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Our Dearly Decommissioned

Episode 20

We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the podcast 20k Hertz, about why podc…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024

Senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Passell (Tink Media) and Ronald Youn…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Where I'm At Right Now

Episode 19

Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise

Episode 18

Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season; the…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

XOXO Fest Live

Episode 17

Georgia talks with marketing consultant Bryce Whitwam and takes us in and out and further in – maybe further in than any of us have ever wanted to go – to the TikTok shop; Mike talks with media studi…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

#MemeingTheNews

Episode 16

Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago