Tech Won't Save Us

43:40 | Oct 22nd, 2020

Is technology improving life in rural China? Xiaowei Wang explains how rural communities are being pulled into global e-commerce supply chains, and how while that works for some, commercialization is ...Show More

54:04 | Feb 11th

How are gig workers organizing outside the Global North? Rida Qadri explains that workers in Jakarta have built structures to suit their local context instead of copying the demands of US workers.

41:21 | Feb 4th

Jeff Bezos will become Executive Chair of Amazon— but what will that mean for workers? Lauren Kaori Gurley outlines the exploitative working conditions and workers are surveilled to stop them from org...Show More

51:02 | Jan 28th

Social media and popular culture constantly makes us feel nostalgic — but whose interests does that serve? Grafton Tanner argues corporations benefit from modern nostalgia, but it could be redirected ...Show More

51:02 | Jan 21st

What role does YouTube play in spreading far-right views? Becca Lewis explains the platform’s long history of incentivizing extreme content and how that’s having negative real-world impacts.

43:43 | Jan 14th

Should we have individual rights over our data? Salomé Viljoen argues instead for a collective approach to data governance where we collectively decide how and when data is collected to ensure it bene...Show More

50:28 | Jan 7th

Paris Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley’s desire for a “frictionless” world is affecting culture, and why it’s important to analyze Substa...Show More

1:03:23 | Dec 30th, 2020

Platforms mediate many parts of our lives, but how do we make them serve us instead of powerful corporations? Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna lay out a vision for better platforms and the policy tool...Show More