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Hearsay Culture Network
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On the air since 2006, Hearsay Culture (HC) has delivered over 300 interviews and is an established global media and expert policy voice. Hearsay Culture is a leading outlet for engaging, quality reporting on technology and society. The new Hearsay Culture Network, launched in September 2023, extends HC's breadth with new shows and hosts, covering business, culture, and technology for a broad audience. More information, and to subscribe, at hearsayculture.com!
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The Fandom Machine: When Obsession Turns Ugly
Jul 25, 202500:59:37Tap to summarizeDave Levine’s latest Hearsay Culture episode dives deep into the dark side of fan culture with Professor Mel Stanfill, author of 2024’s Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment and Participatory Culture. […]
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You’re the Product—Unless We Change the Internet
Jul 24, 202500:59:25Tap to summarizeWhat if the internet actually worked for us—not just watched us? On this episode of Hearsay Culture, author and former Google exec Richard Whitt joins to explore how we got […]
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Friction, Consent, and the Illusion of Choice
Jul 18, 202500:59:50Tap to summarizeWhen infrastructure fails — planes crash, systems freeze, rights vanish — suddenly everyone cares. Villanova’s Brett Frischmann rejoins Hearsay Culture to explain how tech design, digital contracts, and AI are […]
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Glitch in the System: Meredith Broussard on What Tech Gets Wrong
Jul 15, 202500:47:54Tap to summarizeNYU’s Meredith Broussard pulls back the curtain on the hidden biases baked into today’s “smart” tech—from flawed facial recognition to the AI that underdelivered during her own cancer diagnosis. She […]
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Doctors, Insurance, and AI: Making Healthcare Affordable
Mar 4, 202501:01:31Tap to summarizeU.S Health Care Expenditures have risen to $4.5 trillion or $13,493 per capita, double the cost in other developed nations (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2023). These figures are […]
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Examining Access: Bridging Gaps in Medicine for All
Jan 22, 202500:51:18Tap to summarizeNo description available
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Michael Rich – Can Technology Stop Criminals?
Aug 14, 2013Tap to summarizeSurveillance, predictive policing, and society What if the government used computer software to analyze your potential criminal profile—before you committed any crime? Odd as it seems, what if the profiling […]
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Tim Wu – Net Neutrality: The Internet War of 2010
Nov 10, 2010Tap to summarizeDave chats with Tim Wu about the Internet’s monopolies and their control over the flow of information. In the early 2000’s Tim Wu Tim Wu coined the term “net neutrality”—the […]
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