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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 15 hours 10 minutes
episode 12: Can your computer see you?: A history of the screen, from radar to AR.
A conversation with Louisa Shen
episode 11: State, corporation, people: the global dimensions of tech regulation
Kyra Jasper, Josh Simons and Alina Utrata discuss the global dimensions of tech regulation. In this episode, they examine three case studies: Google and Facebook’s reaction to Australia’s new media law, and whether these tech corporations really “faced down a nation-state”...
episode 10: Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS
A Conversation with Josh Lappen
episode 8: The Digital Periphery: Technology, Migration and Racial Capitalism
A conversation with Matt Mahmoudi
episode 7: Social Media and Social Movements: The Rise of the European Far-Right
A Conversation with Julia Rone
episode 6: Corporations, Content Moderation and Community-Centered Tech
2020 was one hell of a year (literally). Alina Utrata, Mallika Balakrishnan and Kyra Jasper break down some of the things that happened in 2020’s technology politics—from the Trump Twitter ban, to content moderation, contact tracing and conspiracy theories, to how we design digital spaces that empower communities and bottom-up approaches to digital justice.
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episode 4: Biden and Big Tech
Anjali Katta and Alina Utrata talk about the Big Tech issues a Biden Administration will inherit, from the FTC and DOJ anti-monopoly cases against Facebook and Google to the DoD’s cloud computing contract JEDI. They also discuss links between many Biden Administration officials and the tech industry. To sign up for the email newsletter of the Anti-Dystopians, click here.
CORRECTION: When talking about the Microsoft antitrust case, Alina meant to say "Netscape" instead of "Netflix...
episode 3: Data flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism
A conversation with Stefanie Felsberger