Out of the Echo Chamber: Conversations on Trust, Media and Democracy Podcast
1) Emergent Order in a Disrupted Era: A Conversation With Neil Chilson
How does emergent order guide communities in times of disorder and misinformation? Neil Chilson, expert on technology policy at the Charles Koch Institute and former chief technologist with the Federa...Show More
2) Rethinking Freedom When the Internet Is Everywhere: A Discussion With Laura DeNardis
The world’s relationship with the internet has changed in the face of the global pandemic. But how would the internet behave if humans suddenly vanished from Earth? How would robots, surveillance came...Show More
Rethinking Freedom When the Internet Is Everywhere: A Discussion With Laura DeNardis
43:34 | Jun 24th, 2020
3) Bias in Commercial Search Engines: A Conversation With Safiya Umoja Noble
Should we be skeptical of the content returned by search engines like Google? How are people in various communities represented, and how does big tech’s reliance on ad money distort the information th...Show More
4) How AI Has Changed the News: A Conversation With Nick Diakopoulos
How much of our news is computer-generated? Northwestern University Assistant Professor Nick Diakopoulos discusses his new book, “Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media,” and shar...Show More
5) Social Media and Internet Law: A Discussion With Kate Klonick
Kate Klonick of St. John’s Law School joins the podcast to discuss the quality of information found on social media, how to deal with inauthentic information online and how social media platforms gove...Show More
6) Local News: Public Good or Private Enterprise? Danielle Coffey, Howard Husock, Chris Lewis and Penelope Muse Abernathy
Policymakers, academics and journalists explore the policy implications of the local news crisis: how do we confront a news landscape in which local journalism is supported by a constellation of found...Show More
7) Mobilizing Hashtags to Change Societies: A Discussion With Sarah J. Jackson
We often hear about how social media creates echo chambers, but it also brings people together to raise awareness about injustice and create political pressure to rectify it. Professor Sarah J. Jackso...Show More
Mobilizing Hashtags to Change Societies: A Discussion With Sarah J. Jackson
52:30 | Nov 26th, 2019
8) Civil Discourse in a Divided Nation: A Conversation With David Plazas
Motivated by the 2016 election discourse, David Plazas wanted a change, so he created Civility Tennessee, a campaign to restore faith in each other. In his research, Plazas found that Americans have a...Show More
9) The Decline of Community in Local News: A Conversation With Penelope Muse Abernathy
The business model of the local news industry is broken. As the number of newspaper journalists continues to decrease, newspaper owners must be creative, disciplined and agile in seeking new revenue s...Show More
10) How the Professionalism of Journalism Affects Trust: A Discussion With Yuval Levin
In this episode, American Enterprise Institute scholar Yuval Levin discusses how the professionalization of American journalism has led to a lack of diversity in newsrooms and contributed to a loss of...Show More
How the Professionalism of Journalism Affects Trust: A Discussion With Yuval Levin
46:21 | Oct 15th, 2019