The 4 Best Function with Anil Dash Podcast Episodes
1) How To Save the 2020 Election: Stopping Fake News
Are social networks downplaying their complicity in the problem that is “fake news?”Anil talks to Fadi Quran of the people powered social advocacy group, Avaaz, about how tech is used to target groups...Show More
2) Bonus: Live from Texas Tribune Fest: Reclaiming Community on the Web
The integrity of the internet is at stake -- what have we lost and how do we get it back? At the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Anil spoke with web scholars and writers about reclaiming the internet thr...Show More
3) Behind the Rising Labor Movement in Tech
On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google employees around the world staged a mass walkout in protest of how the company handled claims of sexual misconduct. While this is not the first time we have se...Show More
4) GIFs as Blackface
It seems like every month a new cringe worthy picture of a public official in Blackface is shared on social media. The pictures usually surface decades after they were taken but they are born out of a...Show More
5) Bonus: Why Online Safety is a Human Rights Issue
In keeping with our season long discussion of trust on the internet, on this bonus episode of Function - we explore online safety. Writer and activist Feminista Jones talks about the lasting effects ...Show More
6) How to Save the 2020 Election: Journalism and Social Media
What happens when social networks become social media, and tech starts making editorial decisions? Anil talks with NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen about the priorities of tech companies and how the...Show More
7) Purple Reign: What it Was Like to Work with Prince"
Part 2 of Anil's discussion of Prince's complicated relationship with technology. How do you go from fan to colleague to friend with an icon? Prince’s manager, Phaedra Ellis Lamkins and Sam Jennings, ...Show More
8) Computer Blue: Prince's Online Legacy
What does it mean to be on the receiving end of a Prince direct message? This week on Function, Anil takes us through Prince’s complicated relationship with technology through his eyes and the eyes of...Show More
9) Introducing Reset: Can AI Teach You to Write Better
Function is back next week with a new episode. In the meantime, check out Reset from Vox and Recode. Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But does an algorithm really kn...Show More
10) American as Apple Pie: How Racism Gets Baked into Technology
Anil speaks with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Race After Technology, about design discrimination. They dis...Show More