Why are people designing video games in war zones? How do you catch a catfisher? Can we trust AI lie detectors? Each week, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by experts to answer these questions on our digital culture podcast, Chips with Everything
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 21 hours
YouTube summer camps: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Richard Sprenger, who recently went to Los Angeles to learn more about a new summer camp that aims to teach six to 10-year-olds how to become the next YouTube sensation.
Siri, are you listening? Chips with Everything podcast
This week Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Alex Hern, as they look at the scandal that rocked the voice assistant world, and ask whether or not we can trust that voice assistants aren’t eavesdropping on our most private moments
Turning off the internet: Chips with Everything podcast
Kashmiris have not had access to the internet for nearly a month. The blackout, from the start of August, is the 77th of the year so far in India. Jordan Erica Webber looks at the personal, legal and societal fallout of government-ordered shutdowns around the world
The death of iTunes... kind of: Chips with Everything podcast
The Guardian’s UK tech editor, Alex Hern, joins Jordan Erica Webber to discuss the imminent end to the iTunes store as we know it. They also take a nostalgic look at some of the other software we’ve lost
Domestic abuse meets big tech: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to Anna whose ex-partner surveilled her with ‘stalkerware’. Also: Charlotte Jee on how Apple and Google could stop the proliferation of these apps
A week in the life of 8chan: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to Julia Carrie Wong about the extremist message board 8chan after the suspect in the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, used the website to post a manifesto on why he targeted those he murdered
'The End of Forgetting': Chips with Everything podcast
This week, Jordan Erica Webber talks to Kate Eichhorn about her new book The End of Forgetting: Growing up with Social Media, which explores the dangers facing young people who may find it difficult to distance themselves from their pasts, long into the future
The price of being a ransomware hero: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to Fabian Wosar, a renowned anti-ransomware expert, who has worked on thousands of cases
Gaming for abortion rights: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to Laura Hudson, who wrote about video game producers making games that present players with situations where a character might choose to have an abortion. She also chats to Mary Flanagan of Tiltfactor about the potential impact games can have on changing opinions
Finding dark patterns online: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber and Ian Sample examine how companies trick us into buying something we may never have needed, or wanted