📺 Media & Tech

🎧 Unfollow your friends!

An interview with Louis Barclay, creator of Unfollow Everything.

May 19 •

Charley Johnson

24:14

🧠 Synthetic social media

Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift

Jan 7 •

Charley Johnson

Pretty privilege, appearance labor, and worthiness.

PLUS: Get a free, signed copy of Elise Hu's new book, Flawless.

Sep 24, 2023 •

Charley Johnson

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36:10

⚖️ How can we govern speech fairly on anti-democratic platforms?

Maybe citizen assemblies are a start!

Apr 2, 2023 •

Charley Johnson

Bigger isn't better; it's harmful.

Why ‘scale thinking’ is a big problem, and what to do about it.

Mar 5, 2023 •

Charley Johnson

Transparency! It’s, uh, complicated.

Listen now (50 min) | An interview w/Brandon Silverman, co-founder and CEO of CrowdTangle

Oct 16, 2022

50:03

Why harassment happens online

Listen now | An interview with Alice Marwick, Associate Professor at UNC

Jun 19, 2022 •

Charley Johnson

When it comes to regulating social media, it's tradeoffs all the way down

Listen now | An interview with Daphne Keller

Dec 12, 2021 •

Charley Johnson

💆 Some Unsatisfying Solutions for Facebook

In the limitations of each of these solutions, we can find lessons for a healthier information ecosystem

Dec 5, 2021 •

Charley Johnson

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