Podcast appearances and mentions of Courtney D Cogburn

Unlike most people, Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn knew early on that she was interested in a career in Psychology and later, Social Work. Listen as she shares how these two disciplines contribute to her current work in studying racial inequities. Learn how she is utilizing technology to reveal how racial bias impacts all aspects of our lives.

02:28 - Courtney’s Superpower: Speaking on the Topic of Racism “You can’t prioritize your discomfort over living your own values.” – Courtney White Liberals Are Dangerous: the “I’m liberal...I’m not that bad” narrative Action & Engaging in Antiracist Practices Over Lipservice Antiracism is a Lifelong Learning Process Not Seeing Race is Problematic – Disproportive Representation 13:16 - Adopting Attitudes Towards Antiracism Understanding White Supremacy If It’s Not Antiracist, It’s Racist 16:24 - 1000 Cut Journey (https://vhil.stanford.edu/1000cut/) "1000 Cut Journey" Launches at Tribeca Film Festival (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5X6pV7AKQ) Culture, Narratives, and Stories are Powerful Tools Feedback & Reactions 25:59 - Empathy is Insufficient * Are you aware of how white you are? 34:34 - The Tendency to Avoid Racism and Talking About Race 39:30 - Systemic Racism and Technology * Diversity is Not About Aesthetics * Centering Race * Training & Onboarding * Hiring From Non-Traditional Backgrounds * Understanding “Social Work” * Shifting Orientation: * Being Antiracist * Being Transdisciplinary * Understanding that avoiding harm is not the same thing as achieving justice Reflections: Rein: “Intention without strategy is chaos.” – Dr. Kim Crayton (https://twitter.com/kimcrayton1?lang=en) Arty: Taking an antiracist approach to product development. Jacob: Thinking more about the phrase “transdisciplinary” and the difference between it and “interdisciplinary.” Courtney: 1. Talking about difficult things in a way that can be anchored in learning. 2. It’s not about what you believe; it’s what you do. 3. There is no neutral in marginalization and oppression. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn.

Today's discussion features Courtney D. Cogburn and Jeremy Bailenson. Courtney is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, Courtney is on the faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center and a faculty affiliate of the Center on African American Politics and Society and the Data Institute. Courtney's work focuses on the ways that society characterizes and measures racism, the effects of cultural racism in media, as well as the effects of racism on cultural inequalities in health. Jeremy Bailenson is a Thomas More Storke Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and is also the Founding Director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Jeremy studies the psychology of Virtual and Augmented Reality, specifically how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. Jeremy's work predominantly focuses on important social and behavioral issues including climate change, homelessness, and now, racism.Courtney and Jeremy join the broadcast to talk about their collaboration on "1000 Cut Journey" an immersive virtual reality experience, that allows participants of the experience, to become Michael Sterling, a fictional black male character, as he encounters racism as a young child, an adolescent, and a young adult. The world premier of the experience was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Arcade in 2018, as well as at the New Orleans Film Festival Cinema Reset in 2018.Items discussed:-how VR can be used as a lever on very difficult problems by merging technology and very carefully constructed narratives based on empirical data-the transdisciplinary approach to merging different studies of research and thought-the specific power of virtual reality, the true nature of VR as an experience that you can walk away with, and the implications of these experiences to understanding, visualizing, and creating new perspective can be used to change everything from policing to policy-Learnings from working on the project, and future uses of virtual reality to bridge the gaps of understanding of the many complexities of racism, while motivating audiences to act on racism and racial injustices.Thank you for listening!Full Simply Tech LIVE Video Broadcast: https://youtu.be/EQKNkSbd3ikWays to contact Courtney and Jeremy:Courtney D. Cogburn: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/full-time/courtney-d-cogburn/Jeremy Bailenson: https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-bailenson/Resources:1000 Cut Journey trailer: https://youtu.be/rA6fOMSx2ykExperiencing Racism in VR | Courtney D. Cogburn, PHD | TEDxRVA: https://youtu.be/M7T_u4hpiSEInfinite Reality: The Dawn of the Virtual Revolution with Jeremy Bailenson: https://youtu.be/1jbwxR8bCb4Additional Work Mentioned:Albert "Skip" Rizzo: https://ict.usc.edu/profile/albert-skip-rizzo/Fernanda Herrera: https://iriss.stanford.edu/people/fernanda-herrera--------------------------------Interested in starting your own podcast? Some candid advice here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-start-podcast-3-step-gono-go-beginners-guide-derek-russellLearn more about the Data Binge Podcast at www.thedatabinge.comConnect with Derek:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwesleyrussell/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featuredInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drussnetwork/Twitter: https://twitter.com/drussnetworkMedium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussellEmail: derek@thedatabinge.com

Rodney Campbell and Keith Richardson are hosts of the More in Common Podcast, where their work around guest discussions, focuses on amplifying voices, and abstracting stories that leverage real human experiences. Keith and Rodney are professional conversationalists, but in the context of having really tough conversations, and having them well. As a result of their podcast they also launched a consulting business, where they help organizations engage in the fundamental fact that we all have more in common than that which divides us, and the basis for this, is anchoring humanity in compassionate conversation.Keith and Rodney are also providing workshops in the community, through the National Conversation Project, in Cleveland and Los Angeles, and they are releasing apparel that will be donated to causes focused on reforming criminal justice.Items we discuss:-anxiety, and how we each attempt to deal with in in our lives-the nuances of maintaining mental health, setting goals, and competing with yourself-the challenges of being who we are - from the tyranny of "should", to creating safe spaces for engaging dialogues, to the true power of execution vs planning, and "showing up"-how to have better conversations, and why it's not about you, but about the lived experience of the person you are engagingThank you for listening!Ways to contact Keith and Rodney:Keith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-richardson-8950bb4/Rodney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneybcampbell/Podcast and website: https://www.moreincommonpod.com/Books:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle: https://amzn.to/3huBkMXPodcasts Mentioned:Finding Mastery, Dr. Michael Gervais: https://findingmastery.net/Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman: https://mastersofscale.com/Resources:Les Brown Speeches: https://youtu.be/gXuSMjrx_e8The Man in the Arena, Teddy Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_RepublicStatistics:When you are emotionally well as an employee, you can engage in your work: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nazbeheshti/2019/01/16/10-timely-statistics-about-the-connection-between-employee-engagement-and-wellness/#634046e122a0Upcoming LIVE Broadcasts & Events:Friday, June 19th, 2020: 930-1030am PST - Innovation in K-12 Education, and the Venture Capital Model as the Funding Mechanism for Education, with Ian Connell: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-binge-podcastThursday, June 25th, 2020: 12-1pm PST - Experiencing Racism, a Virtual Reality Driven Perspective on Simply Tech LIVE with associate professor Courtney D. Cogburn of Columbia University, and professor Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford University: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplytechliveAnti-racism Causes and Nonprofits that I am supporting and am working to collaborate closer with: https://eji.org/https://thelastmile.org/--------------------------------Interested in starting your own podcast? Some candid advice here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-start-podcast-3-step-gono-go-beginners-guide-derek-russellLearn more about the Data Binge Podcast at www.thedatabinge.comConnect with Derek:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwesleyrussell/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featuredInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drussnetwork/Twitter: https://twitter.com/drussnetworkMedium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussellEmail: derek@thedatabinge.com

Podcast Description “There’s a disconnect between beliefs and behavior. And there’s an investment in the symbolism of one’s beliefs and translating that as if it represents behavior when it doesn’t.” Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center. She employs a transdisciplinary research strategy to improve the characterization and measurement of racism and in examining the role of racism in the production of racial inequities in health. Dr. Cogburn’s work also explores the potential of media and technology in eradicating racism and eliminating racial inequities in health. She is the lead creator of 1000 Cut Journey, an immersive virtual reality experience of racism that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival developed in collaboration with Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford University. Dr. Cogburn is developing additional projects attempting to leverage emerging technologies to tackle issues of structural and cultural racism. Dr. Cogburn completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar Program and at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology, and MSW from the University of Michigan and her BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia. Transcription 00:30 Kim Crayton: Hello, everyone. And welcome to today's episode of the #CauseAScene Podcast. I have someone on that I do not know. I actually saw some tweets about a talk they did at All Tech is Human, and I immediately reached out to Dr. Courtney Cogburn to come on the show and talk about what she was disrupting that audience with. So, Dr. Cogburn could you please introduce yourself to the audience? Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn: Hi, I'm Dr. Courtney Cockburn. I'm an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. KC: We always start with two questions: Why is it important to cause a scene? And how are you causing a scene? 01:16 CDC: I think it's important to cause a scene, because it suggests that you're awake and paying attention and that there's meaning to your voice and presence in the world. So, are you paying attention? Do you see any of the problems before our eyes? And do you find value in yourself enough to do something about it? And so I think inherently bad intersection results in causing a scene. How am I causing a scene? You know, I'm a little bit irreverent in general. I do what I want to do. And that's not common for a tenure-track professor at, you know, an elite white institution. But it's absolutely the way that I approach my work. A phrase I've been using more and more lately that I like—because I got it from Game of Thrones—there's a line—I don't know if you watch Game of Thrones—but there's a line where one of the characters says, "We don't have time for this. The world is ending and we need to make some choices or some decisions." And so I used it a lot lately because we don't have time for pontificating and dancing around issues, or really even selfishly focusing only on our own careers and whether we get tenure or not, or whether we get promoted or not. And while those things are important, I think what we're doing for the world and for people and communities around us and how we're leaving the world, given these really existential pressing issues is part of what's important to me. So, for me specifically, that focuses on issues of racism and the various spaces in which racism shows up, which is every space. 03:13 KC: All right, So, can you tell us...let's just start where I started. What was your talk at All Tech is Human about? CDC: So in that talk—it was a lightning talk—I had five minutes to make a point. KC: Wow! OK, so... wow! CDC: And I'm thinking, just like, we don't have time for this. KC: Exactly! 03:37 CDC: And so my talk was about being antiracist in tech.

Virtual reality (VR) pioneer Jeremy Bailenson discusses how VR experiences can change our perception of self, increase empathy, and lead to new forms of social interaction. Jeremy Bailenson is the founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab where he studies the psychology of VR, in particular how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space, and explores the changes in the nature of social interaction. His most recent research focuses on how VR can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health. Find out more: https://web.stanford.edu/~bailenso/ Mentioned on this Episode Virtual Human Interaction Lab University of California, Berkeley Stanford University Dactyl Nightmare William Gibson Neuromancer J. Kenneth Salisbury Haptic technology Pat Hanrahan Stanford XR (Previously Rabbit Hole VR) Virtual reality Bryon Reeves  Mel Slater Cognitive Psychology  Brain-Computer Interface Wetware Neuroscience Chris Milk Tribeca Film Festival 1000 Cut Journey Courtney D. Cogburn Fernanda Herrera Common Sense Media Jakki Bailey Mark Farid Seeing I Skip Rizzo Call of Duty Tony Hall (BBC) BeAnotherLab Facebook Spaces AltspaceVR Inc High Fidelity Philip Rosendale Liden Lab Jaron Lanier Homuncular Flexibility Sherry Turkle The VOID Nomadic (Company) Ready Player One Nick Yee   Credits Produced by Futures Podcast Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason Social Media Twitter: @FuturesPodcast | #FuturesPodcast Instagram: @FuturesPodcast Facebook: @FuturesPodcast Recording Equipment (Affiliate Links) Zoom H6 Handy Recorder Zoom LiveTrak L-8 Shure SM58 Dynamic Vocal Microphone RØDE Procaster Broadcast Dynamic Microphone RØDE PSM1 Microphone Shock Mount RØDE PSA1 Studio Microphone Boom Arm RØDE DS1 Desktop Microphone Stand

« Blackness » et technologie font-elles bon ménage ? Depuis les années 2000, les réseaux sociaux se font le haut-parleur d’une conscience noire plus visible que jamais. Mélanie, Kévi et François brossent les vertus et les limites du « Black Twitter », cette nébuleuse qui mélange mèmes, fierté noire et militantisme 2.0. Pour finir, Kévi analyse « Dirty Computer », le film-album de la chanteuse Janelle Monáe, une œuvre totale sur les enjeux sociaux et technologiques du futur.RECOMMANDATIONS ET COUPS DE CŒURLA RECO DE KÉVI : les chroniques intimes et politiques du compte Twitter @misundergirl LA RECO DE FRANÇOIS : « Ayen Pa Chanjé », le court-métrage de Yannis Sainte-RoseLES RECOS DE MÉLANIE : le film de Beyoncé par Beyoncé bientôt disponible sur Netflix et « Privileged », la tribune du basketteur Kyle Korver dans The Player’s TribuneRÉFÉRENCES CITÉES DANS L’ÉMISSION« Sois noir et tais-toi » écrit par Andréa Chazy publié le 3 avril 2019 sur sofoot.com, Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] (Janelle Monáe, YouTube, 2018), Experiencing Racism in VR | Courtney D. Cogburn, PhD | TEDxRVA (TEDx Talks, YouTube, 2017), la pétition « Le racisme n’a pas sa place sur les murs de l’Assemblée nationale » lancée Mame-Fatou Niang et Julien Suaudeau sur change.orgCRÉDITSLe Tchip est un podcast de Mélanie Wanga, Kévi Donat et François Oulac distribué par Binge Audio. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 11 avril 2019 au studio V. Despentes de Binge Audio (Paris, 19e). Réalisation : Solène Moulin. Générique : Shkyd. Chargée de production : Juliette Livartowski. Chargée d’édition : Diane Jean. Identité graphique : Sebastien Brothier (Upian). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.