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Why is it so hard for teens and young adults to cut back on social media — even when they truly want to? What emotional triggers keep pulling them back onto apps, and what actually happens once they're there? In this episode of Parenting in the Screen Age, host Dr. Delaney Ruston explores these questions with Dr. Katie Davis, a leading expert on youth and technology. Dr. Davis is a professor at the University of Washington's Information School, with an adjunct appointment in the College of Education. She co-directs the UW Digital Youth Lab and is the author of three books on how technology shapes young people's learning, development, and well-being. They dive into a recent study by Dr. Davis that explores the emotional and situational drivers behind teens' social media use—from the triggers that lead them to open an app to what happens emotionally while they're on it. The research offers powerful insights that can help young people and adults make more mindful choices around screen time. This episode is ideal for both adults and tweens who want to better understand the “why” behind social media habits. Plus, hear a college student's candid reaction to the interview and how it's influencing her own efforts to cut back on social media use   Featured Expert Katie Davis, PhD   Research References You Go Through So Many Emotions Scrolling Through Instagram”: How Teens Use Instagram To Regulate Their Emotions (Katie Davis, PhD, et al.)  Supporting Teens' Intentional Social Media Use Through Interaction Design: An exploratory proof-of-concept study (Katie Davis PhD, et al.) Digital Health Practices, Social Media Use, and Mental Well-Being Among Teens and Young Adults in the U.S. Hopelab & Well Being Trust   Time Code 00:00 Introduction and Personal Struggles with Social Media 00:22 Welcome to Parenting in the Screen Age 00:47 Challenges Teens Face with Social Media 01:17 Introducing Boosting Bravery Program 01:59 Exploring Research on Social Media Use 03:37 Interview with Dr. Katie Davis 04:16 Understanding Teens' Social Media Behavior 05:57 Emotional Triggers and Social Media 07:44 Mindless Diversions vs. Deliberate Acts 20:23 Designing Better Social Media Experiences 26:23 College Student's Reflection 28:23 Conclusion and Resources

Is AI a big scam? In their co-authored new book, The AI Con, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna take aim at what they call big tech “hype”. They argue that large language models from OpenAI or Anthropic are merely what Bender dubs "stochastic parrots" that produce text without the human understanding nor the revolutionary technology that these companies claim. Both Bender, a professor of linguistics, and Hanna, a former AI researcher at Google, challenge the notion that AI will replace human workers, suggesting instead that these algorithms produce "mid" or "janky" content lacking human insight. They accuse tech companies of hyping fear of missing out (FOMO) to drive adoption. Instead of centralized AI controlled by corporations, they advocate for community-controlled technology that empowers users rather than exploiting them. Five Takeaways (with a little help from Claude)* Large language models are "stochastic parrots" that produce text based on probability distributions from training data without actual understanding or communicative intent.* The AI "revolution" is primarily driven by marketing and hype rather than groundbreaking technological innovations, creating fear of missing out (FOMO) to drive adoption.* AI companies are positioning their products as "general purpose technologies" like electricity, but LLMs lack the reliability and functionality to justify this comparison.* Corporate AI is designed to replace human labor and centralize power, which the authors see as an inherently political project with concerning implications.* Bender and Hanna advocate for community-controlled technology development where people have agency over the tools they use, citing examples like Teheku Media's language technology for Maori communities.Dr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the Faculty Director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School. In 2023, she was included in the inaugural Time 100 list of the most influential people in AI. She is frequently consulted by policymakers, from municipal officials to the federal government to the United Nations, for insight into into how to understand so-called AI technologies.Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hanna is the co-author of The AI Con (Harper, 2025), a book about AI and the hype around it. With Emily M. Bender, she also runs the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype for a live audience online on Twitch and her podcast. She has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences, including the journals Mobilization, American Behavioral Scientist, and Big Data & Society, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW, FAccT, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She is also recipient of the Wisconsin Alumni Association's Forward Award, has been included on FastCompany's Queer 50 (2021, 2024) List and Business Insider's AI Power List, and has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

The seamless integration of news into our social media feeds used to be a feature. Now, for some people it’s overwhelming. David Levy, a Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington, helps us understand why we're still glued to our phones. And Patti Gorman, who's made it to 77 years of age without a cell phone, explains how she does it. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. Tap here to make a gift and keep Seattle Now in your feed. Got questions about local news or story ideas to share? We want to hear from you! Email us at seattlenow@kuow.org, leave us a voicemail at (206) 616-6746 or leave us feedback online.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we dive deep into DeepSeek, the AI project that shaking up the tech world, to better understand the underlying technical advances and the long-term implications for the industry. Joining us is Bill Howe, an associate professor at the University of Washington's Information School and the co-founding director of the UW Center for Responsible AI Systems and Experiences, among other UW roles. Related stories: DeepSeek’s new model shows that AI expertise might matter more than compute in 2025 Allen Institute for AI challenges DeepSeek on key benchmarks with big new open-source AI model Microsoft CEO says AI use will ‘skyrocket’ with more efficiency amid craze over DeepSeek Who will win in AI? DeepSeek’s breakthrough stirs questions around value capture We open the show from the Microsoft campus in Redmond, after getting an inside look at the company's history for an upcoming installment in our Microsoft @ 50 series. John marvels at the size of new campus project, which is still under way, and we experience first-hand the company's vast parking garage when we try to leave. Also on our agenda this week: Amazon's lawsuit against Washington state over a Washington Post public records request, and what it says about the conflicts inherent to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' ownership of the newspaper. Related story: Bezos vs. Bezos: Amazon sues WA state over Washington Post request for Kuiper records With GeekWire's Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Discusses data privacy considerations in the context of digital technologies. Our guest today is Emilee Rader, an associate professor at the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emilee's research focuses on the human-centered aspects of data privacy. She studies how people reason and make choices about data collection and inferences enabled by digital technologies to better understand why people struggle to manage their privacy and to discover new ways to help people gain more appropriate control over information about them. Additional resources: Consumer Reports: https://www.consumerreports.org/issue/data-privacyElectronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): https://about.citiprogram.org/course/family-educational-rights-and-privacy-act-ferpa/ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): https://about.citiprogram.org/series/health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-hipaa/ Human Subjects Research (HSR): https://about.citiprogram.org/series/human-subjects-research-hsr/ 

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intelligence criticism. Bender is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW; she is a member of the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Lab, the Distributed AI Research Institute, and RAISE, or Responsibilities in AI Systems and Experiences; *AND*, with Alex Hanna, she is co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast, which you should check out. Vinsel and Bender talk about the current AI bubble, what is driving it, and the technological potentials and limitations of this technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intelligence criticism. Bender is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW; she is a member of the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Lab, the Distributed AI Research Institute, and RAISE, or Responsibilities in AI Systems and Experiences; *AND*, with Alex Hanna, she is co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast, which you should check out. Vinsel and Bender talk about the current AI bubble, what is driving it, and the technological potentials and limitations of this technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intelligence criticism. Bender is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW; she is a member of the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Lab, the Distributed AI Research Institute, and RAISE, or Responsibilities in AI Systems and Experiences; *AND*, with Alex Hanna, she is co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast, which you should check out. Vinsel and Bender talk about the current AI bubble, what is driving it, and the technological potentials and limitations of this technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intelligence criticism. Bender is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW; she is a member of the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Lab, the Distributed AI Research Institute, and RAISE, or Responsibilities in AI Systems and Experiences; *AND*, with Alex Hanna, she is co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast, which you should check out. Vinsel and Bender talk about the current AI bubble, what is driving it, and the technological potentials and limitations of this technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics program, and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of Washington, about her work on artificial intelligence criticism. Bender is also an adjunct professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at UW; she is a member of the Tech Policy Lab, the Value Sensitive Design Lab, the Distributed AI Research Institute, and RAISE, or Responsibilities in AI Systems and Experiences; *AND*, with Alex Hanna, she is co-host of the Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast, which you should check out. Vinsel and Bender talk about the current AI bubble, what is driving it, and the technological potentials and limitations of this technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Episode 138I spoke with Meredith Morris about:* The intersection of AI and HCI and why we need more cross-pollination between AI and adjacent fields* Disability studies and AI* Generative ghosts and technological determinism* Developing a useful definition of AGII didn't get to record an intro for this episode since I've been sick. Enjoy!Meredith is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research for Google DeepMind and an Affiliate Professor in The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in The Information School at the University of Washington, where she participates in the dub research consortium. Her work spans the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), human-centered AI, human-AI interaction, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and accessibility. She has been recognized as an ACM Fellow and ACM SIGCHI Academy member for her contributions to HCI.Find me on Twitter for updates on new episodes, and reach me at editor@thegradient.pub for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Meredith's influences and earlier work* (03:00) Distinctions between AI and HCI* (05:56) Maturity of fields and cross-disciplinary work* (09:03) Technology and ends* (10:37) Unique aspects of Meredith's research direction* (12:55) Forms of knowledge production in interdisciplinary work* (14:08) Disability, Bias, and AI* (18:32) LaMPost and using LMs for writing* (20:12) Accessibility approaches for dyslexia* (22:15) Awareness of AI and perceptions of autonomy* (24:43) The software model of personhood* (28:07) Notions of intelligence, normative visions and disability studies* (32:41) Disability categories and learning systems* (37:24) Bringing more perspectives into CS research and re-defining what counts as CS research* (39:36) Training interdisciplinary researchers, blurring boundaries in academia and industry* (43:25) Generative Agents and public imagination* (45:13) The state of ML conferences, the need for more cross-pollination* (46:42) Prestige in conferences, the move towards more cross-disciplinary work* (48:52) Joon Park Appreciation* (49:51) Training interdisciplinary researchers* (53:20) Generative Ghosts and technological determinism* (57:06) Examples of generative ghosts and clones, relationships to agentic systems* (1:00:39) Reasons for wanting generative ghosts* (1:02:25) Questions of consent for generative clones and ghosts* (1:05:01) Labor involved in maintaining generative ghosts, psychological tolls* (1:06:25) Potential religious and spiritual significance of generative systems* (1:10:19) Anthropomorphization* (1:12:14) User experience and cognitive biases* (1:15:24) Levels of AGI* (1:16:13) Defining AGI* (1:23:20) World models and AGI* (1:26:16) Metacognitive abilities in AGI* (1:30:06) Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment* (1:30:55) Pluralistic value alignment* (1:32:43) Meredith's perspective on deploying AI systems* (1:36:09) Meredith's advice for younger interdisciplinary researchersLinks:* Meredith's homepage, Twitter, and Google Scholar* Papers* Mediating Group Dynamics through Tabletop Interface Design* SearchTogether: An Interface for Collaborative Web Search* AI and Accessibility: A Discussion of Ethical Considerations* Disability, Bias, and AI* LaMPost: Design and Evaluation of an AI-assisted Email Writing Prototype for Adults with Dyslexia* Generative Ghosts* Levels of AGI Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Ashley Farley is the Program Officer of Knowledge & Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity she leads the foundation's Open Access Policy's implementation and associated initiatives. This includes leading the work of Gates Open Research, a transparent and revolutionary publishing platform. Much of her work advocates for knowledge to be a global good. She completed her Masters in Library and Information Sciences through the University of Washington's Information School. She has a deep passion for open access, believing that freely accessible knowledge has the power to improve and save lives. Find more podcast episodes here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr Jo Havemann⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ORCID iD ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠0000-0002-6157-1494 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ebuka Ezeike⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Alex Lustig⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kitty Kat ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ License:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ At Access 2 Perspectives, we guide you in your complete research workflow toward state-of-the-art research practices and in full compliance with funding and publishing requirements. Leverage your research projects to higher efficiency and increased collaboration opportunities while fostering your explorative spirit and joy. Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an assistant professor and the inaugural Jill and Joe McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellow of Native North American Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Washington's Information School. She is an independent curator who engages public scholarship by working with tribal, state, federal and international institutions and organizations to promote Native artists and their work. Belarde-Lewis holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona, an M.A. in Museology and Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington.

 Fatima Espinoza Vasquez. Ph.D.  Associate Professor University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information School of Information Science will share with us her dedication to leveraging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for positive social change, which originated from a panel conversation from the Latina Futures Symposium created by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute earlier this year, to bridge a conversation across our social media usage, AI for businesses and also for political misinformation.  Fatima's roots in Honduras and her role at the American embassy during the tumultuous events of 9-11 gave her a profound insight into the significance of information management. She shares with us her pivotal moments that helped reshaped her perception of technology—from an initial optimism about its universal benefits to a more critical awareness of the power dynamics and societal influences that mold its use and to holds and harnesses the access. In the heart of our conversation, Fatima shed light on digital inequity, making a vital distinction from the oft-cited digital divide. She argued that digital inequity goes beyond mere access to technology—it is deeply intertwined with broader social structures such as race, gender, immigration status, and economic conditions. Illustrating this point, she brought up inspiring cases like rural Argentine communities creating digital infrastructures through cooperatives, challenging the normative corporate grip on technological advancement. Join us in learning how communities learn how they have power to leverage digital knowledge and infrastructure within their own communities.  Connect with Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom at:  Website: www.latinasb2b.com  YouTube @Latinasb2b Instagram: @Latinasb2b  LinkedIn: @latinasb2bmarketing Facebook: @Latinasb2b.marketing  X.com: @LatinasB2B  Join newsletter: www.latinasb2b.com Podcast production by Theresa E. Gonzales and Audio Engineered by Robert Lopez.  To learn more about Latinasb2b.com and how you can work with us in a sponsorship opportunity, please contact us at info@latinasb2b.com.  Gracias. 

To its disciples, science can seem like an infallible tool to determine fundamental truths about the world that we live in. But the truth is, science can fall victim to misinformation, disinformation and fraud, like many other institutions. Some scientists have turned the proverbial microscope on science itself. Jevin West, an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, and co-founder and inaugural director of the Center for an Informed Public at UW, visited the University of Nevada, Reno for a Discover Science lecture and was hosted on the Discover Science podcast by associate professor of statistics Paul Hurtado, and Madeleine Lohman, master's and doctoral student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology program. The three discuss issues related to trust in science, education about how to identify trustworthy information for people as young as kindergarteners to the elderly and how taking an interdisciplinary approach is critical to making progress in the information sciences.

Soundside host Libby Denkmann talks to a panel of experts about Open A.I.'s Sora. What are the potential impacts of highly realistic text-to-video apps on our politics and the creative economy?Guests:Cade Metz, a technology reporter at the New York Times who covers artificial intelligence.Erin Heidenreich, a filmmaker and director of the documentary films “The War To Be Her” & “Rising Sons.”Jevin West, an associate professor at the University of Washington's Information School and a co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public.We can only make Soundside because listeners support us. Make the show happen by making a gift to KUOW:https://www.kuow.org/donate/soundside

Talya Cooper (moderator), New York University LibrariesSam Biddle, The InterceptAnnalee Hickman Pierson, Brigham Young University Law SchoolMelanie Walsh, Information School at the University of Washington

At the end of this year in which the hype around artificial intelligence seemed to increase in volume with each passing week, it's worth stepping back and asking whether we need to slow down and put just as much effort into questions about what it is we are building and why. In today's episode, we're going to hear from two researchers at two different points in their careers who spend their days grappling with questions about how we can develop systems and modes of thinking about systems that lead to more just and equitable outcomes, and that preserve our humanity and the planet:Dr. Batya Friedman is a Professor in the Information School and holds adjunct appointments in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the School of Law, and the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Value Sensitive Design Lab and the UW Tech Policy Lab.Dr. Aylin Caliskan is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, is an affiliate of the UW Tech Policy Lab, part of the Responsible AI Systems and Experiences Center, the NLP Group, and the Value Sensitive Design Lab. She is also co-director elect for the Tech Policy Lab, a role she will assume when Dr. Friedman retires from the university.

Karen chats about what salary negotiations look like from the hiring side.Karen Naumann, APR, PMP, is a multifaceted, seasoned practitioner with more than 25 years of communication experience. She is an educator, executive, and author with a focus on national security. In 2023, she was selected as project manager for a U.S. Army strategic communications and outreach contract focused on prevention, resiliency, and readiness. After successfully shepherding the Army through a directorate consolidation and standing up PM practices, she focused on her role as an adjunct instructor and course developer in Crisis Communications at West Virginia University, where she instructs active military, earning a graduate degree. Additionally, in 2023, she consulted for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, Labor (DRL), Office of Policy Planning, and Public Diplomacy (PPD). Her work focused on international human rights and democracy country reports.In 2022, she worked in South Korea as a Senior Strategic Communication Planner and Team Lead in support of the four-star-led UN Combined Forces Command at U.S. Forces Korea, where she developed communication strategy recommendations for command-wide and Republic of Korea allies.She was a Sr. Instructor at the U.S. Department of Defense's Information School for several years, where she had the privilege of training hundreds of public affairs officers for the United States fleet and field in topics ranging from Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking to Strategic Foresight and Issues Management and Disinformation. She was also an in-house subject matter expert, contributing to evolving Information as a DOD joint function. Before this, she was an executive at an established D.C. public relations firm. She has also worked in communication and digital diplomacy for the Government of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest United States. On behalf of the Government of Israel, she led strategic communication efforts in a six-state region. Naumann is Accredited in Public Relations (APR). By earning her APR, she has demonstrated her commitment to excellence and the highest ethical standards. She also holds a PMP from the Project Management Institute. Additionally, she graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) with a bachelor's degree in communication. Later, she received a master's degree in communication at the University of Houston. Her graduate studies focused on crisis communications.Naumann is an active member of the National Press Club and sits on the Board for Washington Women of PR. | As a communications professional with a background in defense and diplomacy, I believe that working and educating in the interest of the United States of America's national security and for democracy worldwide is essential. | The award-winning communicator is frequently tapped as a speaker and facilitator for conferences and, events on topics ranging from Cognitive Biases and Crisis Communications to Strategic Communications and Persuasion. She is also a frequent contributor to national publications and a published author in public relations. Her innovative approach to military public affairs analysis can be found in Intercultural Public Relations. karen.naumann@live.com | 281-750-1001 Sign up for one of our negotiation courses at ShikinaNegotiationAcademy.comThanks for listening to Negotiation with Alice! Please subscribe and connect with us on LinkedIn and Instagram!

In this episode, we delve into the world of risk management with an exceptional guest, Annie Searle, Principal of Annie Searle & Associates (ASA). As a renowned expert in operational risk management, Annie brings a wealth of experience from diverse sectors, including financial, IT, and emergency services. In this conversation, Annie shares insights on building world-class risk programs and addresses the crucial aspects every leader should know about risk management. Learn from her extensive background, her roles at the University of Washington's Information School, her board memberships, and her remarkable career journey from being the co-founder and CEO of Delphi Computers & Peripherals to her executive role at Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu). Annie is also an accomplished author, with books like "Advice From A Risk Detective" and "Risk Reconsidered," offering valuable perspectives on personal and professional risk. Join us as we explore the intricate world of risk management with Annie Searle, a true leader and expert in her field. Don't miss this insightful discussion that could reshape your understanding of risk in the business landscape. Stay connected for more thought-provoking discussions on leadership, innovation, and industry insights. Like, share, and subscribe for regular updates!

In this episode, we unpack: is ChatGPT Ethical? In what ways?    We interview Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Casey Fiesler about the limitations of ChatGPT – we cover ethical considerations, bias and discrimination, and the importance of algorithmic literacy in the face of chatbots.   Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. Her research interests include multilingual grammar engineering, computational semantics, and the societal impacts of language technology. Emily was also recently nominated as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).     Casey Fiesler is an associate professor in Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. She researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities. Also a public scholar, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on topics of technology ethics and policy, and her research has been covered everywhere from The New York Times to Teen Vogue.   Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.

2022 witnessed a rebirth for Native art. More galleries, museums, and art spaces reopened following pandemic restrictions - and organizers brought back public shows featuring Native fashion designers. The Santa Fe Indian Market and the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, both a nexus for regional and national Native artists, marked their 100th year. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce recaps the year in Indigenous art and fashion with Joe Williams (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), director of Native American programs at the Plains Art Museum, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni and Tlingit), independent curator and assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

2022 witnessed a rebirth for Native art. More galleries, museums, and art spaces reopened following pandemic restrictions - and organizers brought back public shows featuring Native fashion designers. The Santa Fe Indian Market and the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, both a nexus for regional and national Native artists, marked their 100th year. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce recaps the year in Indigenous art and fashion with Joe Williams (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), director of Native American programs at the Plains Art Museum, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni and Tlingit), independent curator and assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

Remember the playground chants, the jump rope songs, the weird little games you played as a kid that were part of your secret kid world? Scholars have a name for it: childlore. You might imagine, given all the differences between kids—country, culture, class, race, media consumption—that this childlore might be vastly different from place to place. But the strange thing is, many of the little things kids say and do, or draw in their notebooks, are remarkably similar across time and place. We'll talk about the things kids do across cultures and how they spread and evolve. Guests: Julie Beck, senior editor, The Atlantic; author of the article, “Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood?” Rebekah Willett, professor at the Information School, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Today's episode is a collaboration with Sophie Bailey, from the Edtech podcast. Nina and Sophie explore the theme of collaborative learning using education technology. How are researchers collaborating with children to co-design new technology? What's the role of teachers in working with technology? How can technology be utilised in more challenging teaching environments?To find out more, Nina and Sophie talk to Jason Yip, assistant professor of digital youth at The Information School at the University of Washington and Koen Timmers, a lecturer, author and founder of several global educational projects. Find out more about the guests, their projects, and their recommendations:Sophie Bailey - The Edtech PodcastWebsiteTwitterWorktrippProfessor Diana LaurillardThe British Esports AssociationMy secret Edtech diaryJason YipWebsiteTwitterKids teamKoen TimmersWebsiteTwitterThe Kakuma projectRACHEL (Remote Area Community Hotspot for Education and Learning)Join us on social media: https://twitter.com/BOLD_insights and https://twitter.com/VoicesTeachersListen to all episodes of Teachers' Voices here: https://bold.expert/teachers-voices/Subscribe to BOLD's newsletter: https://bold.expert/newsletterStay up to date with all the latest research on child development and learning: https://bold.expertGet in touch with us: podcastteachersvoices@gmail.com  

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Dr. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Dr. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Marika Cifor is Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Dr. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Dr. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Marika Cifor is Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Dr. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Dr. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Marika Cifor is Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Dr. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Dr. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Marika Cifor is Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Dr. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS. Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Dr. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. While many books, popular films, and major exhibitions have contributed to a necessary awareness of HIV and AIDS activism, Viral Cultures provides a crucial missing link by highlighting the powerful role of archives in making those cultural moments possible. Marika Cifor is Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diane Andolsek leads outreach & communication for the interdisciplinary graduate program in Human-Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D) at the University of Washington. The Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design is offered by four departments: Computer Science & Engineering, Human Centered Design & Engineering, the Information School and Division of Design in the School of Art + Art History + Design, along with faculty from other UW departments. These four units comprise the award-winning research group known as DUB (Design: Use: Build). This unique, cross-disciplinary approach seeks to educate a new generation of designers, engineers and researchers who can successfully combine the creative aspects of design and the study of human behavior with the analytical techniques of engineering. Graduates of the MHCI+D program use their knowledge to create innovative, accessible products and technologies.University of Washington MHCI+D - https://mhcid.washington.edu/program/Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human Computer Interaction - https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/academics/mhciMichigan State University Human-Centered Technology Design - https://comartsci.msu.edu/research-creative-work/current-research/thematic-research-areas/human-centered-technologyApple Human Interface Guidelines - https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/How to Get a UX Design Job at Nike - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWTIdjfN0eUUC Irvine MHCI+D - https://mhcid.ics.uci.edu/University of WA Coding Bootcamp - https://bootcamp.uw.edu/coding/User Experience Bootcamp - https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/best-ux-bootcamps-and-how-to-choose-one/Host: Kira DorrianProduced by the Northshore Schools Foundation, a Top-Rated “Great Nonprofits” award-recipient, “Guidestar” Gold Participant, and Best of a “Best of Northshore” nonprofit.Thank you, supporters! DonateInterested in sponsoring the Skills 4 Life Podcast? Contact us: podcast@nsdfoundation.orgFollow us on:InstagramFacebookSkills 4 Life FacebookTwitterLinked In

What are we leaving behind, forgetting, and obscuring as we remember AIDS activist pasts? VIRAL CULTURES is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, artists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the US and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, with attention on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, and those developed by community-based organizations such as ACT UP and VISUAL AIDS. This book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age. Cifor is joined here in conversation by Cait McKinney, K.J. Rawson, and Theodore (Ted) Kerr.Participant bios:Marika Cifor is a feminist scholar of archival and digital studies. Cifor is assistant professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty member in gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. She is author of Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS.Cait McKinney is assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. McKinney's work includes media histories of LGBTQ+ activists and how they took up Internet technologies in the 1980s and 90s.K.J. Rawson is associate professor of English and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive and co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary.Ted Kerr is a writer and artist who teaches at The New School. Kerr is a founding member of the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and is coauthor, with Alexandra Juhasz, of We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production.Works and people referenced in this episode:-Vincent Chevalier and Ian Bradley-Perrin (Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me!)-Avram Finkelstein-Hil Malatino-Debra Levine-David Hirsh and Frank Moore, Visual AIDS Archive Project (visualaids.org)-Maxine Wolfe-Stephen Shapiro-Nelson Santos -Kia LaBeija (Goodnight, Kia)-Demian DinéYazhi ́ (NDN AIDS Flag)-AfterLab (University of Washington, Information School)-Anna Lauren Hoffmann-Megan Finn-Tonia Sutherland-Marika Cifor: "Presence, Absence, and Victoria's Hair: Examining Affect and Embodiment in -Trans Archives." Transgender Studies Quarterly 2, no. 4 (2015): 645-649.-Lesbian Herstory Archives-Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani, eds. AIDS and the Distribution of Crises. Durham, NC:: Duke University Press, 2020.-Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ Linked Data Vocabulary (homosaurus.org)-Digital Transgender Archive-What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective-PosterVirus (AIDS ACTION NOW!)-Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (Ted) Kerr, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production. Durham, NC:: Duke University Press, 2022-Cait McKinney, Information Activism: a queer history of lesbian media technologies. Durham, NC:: Duke University Press, 2020-ACT UP-The Archive Project (Visual AIDS)-The Artist+ Registry (Visual AIDS)-New York University Fales Library and Special Collections-ACT UP/NY Records (New York Public Library)-New York Public Library-Alex Fialho (Visual AIDS)-Eric Rhein (Visual AIDS Archive Project)-Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor. "From human rights to feminist ethics: radical empathy in the archives." Archivaria 81, no. 1 (2016): 23-43.-Cait McKinney and Dylan Mulvin. "Bugs: rethinking the history of computing." Communication, Culture & Critique 12, no. 4 (2019): 476-498.-Marika Cifor and Cait McKinney. "Reclaiming HIV/AIDS in digital media studies." First Monday (2020).-What Does a COVID-19 Doula Do? Zine (ONE Archives at University of Southern California) https://www.onearchives.org/what-does-a-covid19-doula-do-zine/)-Latino/a Caucus (ACT UP/New York)-Julián de Mayo

How do we see ourselves in data? What is self-tracking and how can we design for visualizing the data of our bodies and mental health? How do we make visualized data more accessible?    In this episode, we interview Jaime Snyder about the data visualization of COVID, mental health, and more.    Jaime Snyder is an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle. She leads the Visualization Studies Research Studio and is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the UW Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering. Snyder's research draws on her background as an artist and information science scholar to explore the creation and use of visual representations of information, data, and knowledge in collaborative and coordinated contexts.   Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.  

The COVID-19 pandemic — one of the most disruptive events in human history — has made it more challenging than ever to feel prepared, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it feels impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? Humans aren't particularly fond of uncertainty, but what if we had the tools to help us feel more secure and shape our futures? Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal believes it's possible to recover confidence and face uncertain futures with optimism. As a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games, she has an extensive background in designing tools to improve real lives and solve real problems through planetary-scale collaboration. In her new book, Imaginable, McGonigal drew on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Through provocative thought experiments and future simulations, McGonigal offered strategies for envisioning our future lives, developing the courage to solve problems with creativity, and accessing the “urgent optimism” within each of us to take agency over our decisions. Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., is a future forecaster and designer of games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and her TED talks on how gaming can make a better world have more than 15 million views. She was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum; one of Fast Company's “Top 100 Creative People in Business”; and one of the “Top 35 innovators changing the world through technology” by MIT Technology Review. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit research group in Palo Alto, California. Margaret Morris, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington and a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Buy the Book: Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Our story with Sarah continues this week as she discusses her road to science writing. Initially, Sarah followed her love of animals and began working at a local veterinary office. There she became interested in understanding how pet medications work to treat animals and was advised to study biochemistry. Completely sold on this idea and fueled by her curiosity, she completed an undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and then completed her doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. After completing her Ph.D., all the signs were pointing Sarah towards science writing, even though she was unsure of this decision herself. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, to complete a certificate in science communication. Through this program, Sarah gained experience working at several different media outlets focused on local news, audio storytelling and podcasting, and research news for a global outlet. Toward the end of the certificate program, Sarah attended a unique postdoc opportunity at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; this unforgettable experience allowed her to work close to the science without actually having to do the science, which she enjoys. Eventually all of her experiences, from working at the veterinary office to discovering her interest in writing about science, culminated in her current position at U Washington in the College of Engineering and the Information School as a PIO. Sample news articles from Sarah's portfolio can be found in part 1 of this 2-part series. If you are interested in becoming a science writer, Sarah recommends putting together your own portfolio, or sample of writing. You can get started with your local university paper, or university news office.  Please subscribe through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, your favorite podcast app or copy the RSS Feed, and be sure to turn on new episode notifications!Reach out to Sarah:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcquate-b2aab880/ Reach out to Fatu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatubmTwitter: @fatu_bm and LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.comReach out to Shekerah: www.linkedin.com/in/shekerah-primus and LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.comMusic by TimMoor from Pixabay: Future Artificial Intelligence Technology 130Music by ScottHolmesMusic https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes: Hotshot

Are we all, quite literally, out of touch? According to behavioral scientist Michelle Drouin, millions of people worldwide are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Pandemic isolation has undoubtedly played a role, but the wonders of modern technology are connecting us with more people more often than ever before. But are these connections what we long for? Drouin's new book, Out of Touch, explores what she calls an intimacy famine and considers why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we take tiny hits of dopamine rather than the big shots of oxytocin that an intimate, in-person relationship would typically provide. Covering everything from pandemic puppies and professional cuddlers to the roles of sexual relationships, Drouin discusses the many pathways to intimacy and how technology can be both a help and a hindrance. In the 128th episode of Town Hall's In the Moment podcast, Dr. Margaret Morris and Michelle Drouin discuss technology, intimacy, and what it means to find belonging and fulfillment. Michelle Drouin is a behavioral scientist and expert on technology, relationships, couples, and sexuality whose work has been featured or cited in the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. She is Professor of Psychology at Purdue University–Fort Wayne and Senior Research Scientist at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. Dr. Margaret Morris is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Buy the Book — Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Are we all, quite literally, out of touch? According to behavioral scientist Michelle Drouin, millions of people worldwide are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Pandemic isolation has undoubtedly played a role, but the wonders of modern technology are connecting us with more people more often than ever before. But are these connections what we long for? Drouin's new book, Out of Touch, explores what she calls an intimacy famine and considers why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we take tiny hits of dopamine rather than the big shots of oxytocin that an intimate, in-person relationship would typically provide. Covering everything from pandemic puppies and professional cuddlers to the roles of sexual relationships, Drouin discusses the many pathways to intimacy and how technology can be both a help and a hindrance. In the 128th episode of Town Hall's In the Moment podcast, Dr. Margaret Morris and Michelle Drouin discuss technology, intimacy, and what it means to find belonging and fulfillment. Michelle Drouin is a behavioral scientist and expert on technology, relationships, couples, and sexuality whose work has been featured or cited in the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets. She is Professor of Psychology at Purdue University–Fort Wayne and Senior Research Scientist at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. Dr. Margaret Morris is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Buy the Book — Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Are you curious about becoming a public information officer (PIO)? What exactly are they and what do they do? Well, meet Sarah McQuate, a public information officer at University of Washington. Sarah spoke with Fatu and Shekerah about how her love of science (gently) pushed into her career path that aligned with her three goals: making science accessible to the general public, helping scientists explain their science better, and increasing diversity in science. Sarah writes about the amazing research that is produced from the College of Engineering and the Information School at U of Washington with topics ranging from traditional technology (robots, search engines, etc) to climate and air quality to the intersection of technology and medicine. Her day to day as a PIO varies everyday, which Sarah enjoys. She is often juggling her time between interviewing scientists for a story, writing a story and reading research papers, and connecting reports to researchers for a story. And, when Sarah is not writing articles in her office she is actively involved in university diversity and equity committees that support leadership in hiring, retention, and developing equitable practices for the future of the institution. Sarah also takes some time to answer listener questions about how she got started and what her least and most favorite parts are about her job. Click the link to hear more   Please subscribe through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, your favorite podcast app or copy the RSS Feed, and be sure to turn on new episode notifications!Reach out to Sarah:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcquate-b2aab880/ Read some articles from Sarah:A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects | UW NewsDo Alexa and Siri make kids bossier? New research suggests you might not need to worry | UW NewsPatterns of compulsive smartphone use suggest how to kick the habit | UW NewsVideo: Arsenic makes these south Puget Sound fish unsafe to eat | UW NewsHow lizards get their spots | NatureReach out to Fatu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatubmTwitter: @fatu_bm and LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.comReach out to Shekerah: www.linkedin.com/in/shekerah-primus and LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.comMusic by TimMoor from Pixabay: Future Artificial Intelligence Technology 130Music by ScottHolmesMusic https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes: Hotshot

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rubel, Phan, and Castro outline the stories of teachers and citizens subject to the criminal justice system who face serious consequences at the hands of algorithms. With a focus on locating the a philosophical touchstone to these harms, the authors look at how ideas of autonomy and freedom are affected by algorithms. When algorithms afford those subject to their decisions no transparency to endorse its use or worse hide responsibility for their decision in a network of actors laundering their own agency, citizens are harmed and democracy is harmed. This book mount a forceful lens of what exactly algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond can do to autonomy, freedom, and democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Dr. Alan Rubel is Professor and Director of the Information School at University of Wisconsin Madison.  Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy.

When you think of therapy in a traditional sense, what comes to mind? Television shows, movies, and comics love to paint a stereotypical scene: a bespectacled therapist asks poignant questions and jots down notes on a legal pad; meanwhile, the patient reclines on a sofa and spills their thoughts and emotions into the void of the room. It might be easy to assume that therapy has always involved a person-to-person conversation, but in her new book The Distance Cure, scholar and author Hannah Zeavin invited us to consider definitions of psychotherapy that extend far beyond people talking in a room. In The Distance Cure, Zeavin described less conventional operations of therapy that include Freud's treatments by mail, advice columns, radio shows, crisis hotlines, video, computers, and mobile phones. Across all formats, “therapists” vary widely in background and credentials; some may be professionally trained, while others are strangers or even chatbots. Is any method better than the other? Zeavin urged us to think beyond the traditional dyad of therapist and patient and consider the triad of therapist, patient, and communication technology. By tracing the history of teletherapy right up to its now-routine application in pandemic therapy sessions, Zeavin reminded us that as our world changes and advances in communication technology continue to expand, so will our definitions of what it means to connect. In a virtual presentation, Psychologist Margaret Morris interviewed Hannah Zeavin about her new book and the intimacy that is possible in remote communication. They are joined by Dr. Orna Guralnik, a clinical psychologist featured on Showtime's Couples Therapy, who shared insights about therapy and connection during the pandemic. Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at the University of California, Berkeley, and is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. She is a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Social Difference and Editorial Associate at The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Imago, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Life Magazine, Slate, and elsewhere. Dr. Margaret Morris is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Dr. Orna Guralnik is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing and teaching in New York City. Currently Dr. Guralnik lectures and publishes on the topics of couples treatment and culture, dissociation and depersonalization, and culture and psychoanalysis. She has completed the filming of several seasons of the Showtime documentary series, Couples Therapy. Buy the Book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (Hardcover) from Elliott Bay Books Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

How old were you when you got your first cell phone? Did “going online” ever involve listening to a series of pained squeaks and static, willing the family PC to connect to…whatever it is it connected to? Today, children are presented with a sparkling array of digital tools that many of us could barely fathom as kids. How are parents and caregivers supposed to guide small humans into the digital realm without feeling completely overwhelmed? Instead of telling children what NOT to do online, EdTech expert Richard Culatta argued we should spend more time teaching kids HOW to navigate the online world. Cyberbullies happen. Social media isn't going away, and neither are online games. In his new book, Digital for Good, Culatta helped caregivers prepare kids for navigating the tricky situations they will undoubtedly encounter as they move through the digital world, and offers straightforward advice for raising good digital citizens. Richard Culatta is the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), a nonprofit serving education leaders in 127 countries. Prior to joining ISTE, Richard was the chief innovation officer for the state of Rhode Island, and was appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the US Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology from 2013-2015. Dr. Margaret Morris is a clinical psychologist focused on how technology can support wellbeing. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Information School at the University of Washington and a research consultant. Morris is the author of Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health and Focus. Buy the Book: Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World (Hardcover) from Third Place Books  Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Seattle's Child. 

In our tenth episode, I finally get to meet up with Jacob Wobbrock, a Professor of human-computer interaction (HCI) in The Information School and, by courtesy, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He was one of the people that inspired me to teach the first version of this course. The interview is full of fantastic tips for writing CHI papers, Jake's personal writing process, what it takes to get cited, lots of great anecdotes, mentoring advice for junior students and faculty, and thoughts on why reviewers should be chasing value in every CHI paper.

In Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, author Donna Miscolta traced the social education that a Mexican American girl receives as she experiences and responds to microaggressions and systemic racism in and out of school. Unfortunately, though Living Color is fiction, many of the incidents depicted in Angie Rubio's life are inspired or derived from Miscolta's own girlhood. To further explore the topics of racism, family, and identity, Miscolta participated in a class with Anne Liu Kellor called “Shapeshifting: Reading and Writing the Mixed-Race Experience.” They joined us, along with two other writers from the class, Rebecca Delacruz-Gunderson and Sarah McQuate, to discuss the course and the importance of writing to see ourselves. The panel of four—all of whom identify as mixed-race—shared why they took the class, and what resonated most for them in terms of the readings, prompts, and discussions. What themes occupy mixed-race writers and what does writing about them resolve? What awareness of themselves as mixed-race writers did they bring to the class, and what did they take away? What do they think is their biggest obstacle as a mixed-race writer? Who are they writing for? They examined all of these questions and more. Join them for readings from their work, and an essential conversation about identity and the significance of art that provides mirrors, windows, and doors. Donna Miscolta's third book of fiction Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories was published in September 2020. Her story collection Hola and Goodbye was published in 2016. She's also the author of the novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced. She has work forthcoming in Indomitable/Indomables: A multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women's Anthology. Find her at donnamiscolta.com Sarah E. McQuate is a half-Black, half-white scientist turned science writer. McQuate has science stories published in a variety of outlets, including Nature and Science. McQuate lives in Seattle and writes about research news from the University of Washington's College of Engineering and Information School. She is also working on telling her own story. You can learn more about Sarah at sarahmcquate.com. Anne Liu Kellor is a mixed-race Chinese American writer, editor, coach, and teacher based in Seattle. She is the recipient of fellowships from Hedgebrook, Seventh Wave, Jack Straw Writers Program, 4Culture, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Longreads, Fourth Genre, Witness, New England Review, and more. Kellor's memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging, traces her migrations between China, Tibet, and America, and is forthcoming in September 2021. You can pre-order or learn more at www.anneliukellor.com Rebecca Delacruz-Gunderson is a half Filipina, half White Washingtonian who loves reading, running, writing, and hiking. She has worked in college counseling at The Bush School, served as Field Director for State Senator T'wina Nobles' campaign, lived in Singapore for five months as the employee of a startup, tutored local students, and taught essay writing classes. She aspires to be a high school English teacher and is very excited to begin her Masters in English at the University of British Columbia this fall. This project was supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture. Presented by Town Hall Seattle.

Have you ever wondered what it means to be data literate in a world of big data and AI? Now that so many decisions rely on information that is only readable by machine and our statistical intuitions, which were bad before, are now practically useless, what is data literacy in the age of AI and how important is it? We talked with Jevin West, assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-founder of the DataLab, director of the Center for an Informed Public and co-author of the acclaimed book Calling B******t to ask these questions and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit artificiality.substack.com

What is robot regulation and why does it matter? To answer this question we welcome to the show Ryan Calo. Ryan is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a faculty co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary research unit that spans the School of Law, Information School, and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Ryan's research broadly ecompasses law and emerging technology. Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.  If you enjoy this episode please make sure to subscribe, submit a rating and review, and connect with us on twitter at twitter.com/radicalaipod  

In this episode we chat to Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West authors of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in Data-Driven World. Carl Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. Jevin West is an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, he also co-founded the DataLab and directs the Center for an Informed Public. Show notes: @CT_Bergstrom @jevinwest / jevinwest.org Calling Bullshit (Allen Lane - 2020) Calling Bullshit Course @lawrenceyolland / @gemmamilne / @radicalscipod

In this digital age, we need a computerized information management system to better obtain situational awareness about a disaster. A system that collects and displays information helps with the allocation of resources. Through an interview with Hans Jochen Scholl, PhD, a Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, this podcast examines what is needed, and also the current failures of WebEOC, one such system that is widely used in the United States.Dynamis, a leading provider of information management software and security solutions is a sponsor of this podcast.

David Kamien is the CEO of Mind Alliance and is someone who understands that in order to truly collaborate with your clients, you have to understand their needs on a granular level. That means capturing the data in a way that proactively predicts legal and regulatory risks that companies like them are likely to face, but also list the probable impact that those risks are likely to impact them specifically. While this may sound like a pipe dream to some, and a delusion to others, Kamien thinks that improving the state of data in law firms through knowledge graphs and taking concrete, and logical steps toward improving and leveraging data, will help get law firms to where they can leverage the data in ways that will truly turn them into counselors to their clients. It means creating a data strategy for the firm that creates higher levels of sophistication so that the data turns into answers, and those answers turn into the types of action that clients are willing to pay for. Law firms should not sit back and wait for this to magically happen. If you want to generate value, you are going to have to collaborate very closely with clients. And in this day and age, that involves data. Information Inspirations Most of us in the information profession have touted our skills as fact finders. In this time of misinformation on the Internet, that skillset is needed more than ever and seems to be showing up more and more in the media as they look for Misinformation Experts like the University of Washington's Information School, Jevin West. West appeared this week on one of our favorite non-legal podcasts, Make Me Smart, where he uncovered some of the reasoning behind the cult that is QAnon, and why its ability to manipulate information makes it so popular, and so hard to convince those believers in the conspiracy that it really is misinformation. Staying in touch with clients and others isn't simply about setting up the next Zoom meeting. Julie Saravino produced a great list of ways to have that personal interaction with others in a way that "ups your game" and makes you stand out from those who still rely upon Zoom, email, and phone calls. Listen, Subscribe, Comment Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcast. Contact us anytime by tweeting us at @gebauerm or @glambert. Or, you can call The Geek in Review hotline at 713-487-7270 and leave us a message. You can email us at geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com. As always, the great music you hear on the podcast is from Jerry David DeCicca.

This episode of The Exam Room is a conversation with Dr. Jevin West, an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. We talk about his new book, Calling Bullshit - The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. This is a fun and engaging discussion about one of the greatest healthcare challenges facing this generation of health consumers - Misinformation. From the granular definitions of bullshit to prescriptive strategies for helping people avoid it, this episode is sure to spark a bigger conversation about media literacy and how we consume and propagate information.  The Calling Bullshit website with lots of good links. https://callingbullshit.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Flattening the Infodemic Curve,” features a conversation with Jevin West, associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and director of the Center for an Informed Public, regarding misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nam-ho Park Nam-ho Park is a digital strategist who always puts people first and technology last. Nam-ho first designed experiences for people as an architecture student at Columbia University. The appreciation he developed then for the importance of genuinely human-centered design practice serves him well today. In fact, he hopes that we'll someday drop the word "digital" and return to genuinely human-centered strategy and design practices. Nam-ho and I talked about: the giant spider that crawled across his desk as we began the interview his role as a teacher at the University of Washington's iSchool his work with Carina, a startup that connects Medicaid patients with home health care aides his consulting work, helping clients navigate the technology landscape the importance of resolving people issues before settling on a technical solution to a business problem his comparison of content strategy and digital strategy practices his original background as an architect - and insights he learned then about the importance of experience design how his architecture background helps him visualize design complexity, appreciate standards, and properly contextualize tech platforms how quickly the digital landscape is changing and the ensuing tension that that creates between established principles and new ways of doing things David Weinberger's book Everything Is Miscellaneous and its insights about the benefits of being able to categorize bodies of knowledge in different user-focused ways the "leakiness" of the logic around some kinds of knowledge the challenges of truly understanding user intent, especially in the era of AI and machine learning the implications for technology designers of the rapid change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic his hope that we'll drop the word "digital" at some point, and return to genuinely human-centered practices dark design patterns that serve businesses more than their customers and users Nam-ho's Bio Nam-ho Park has been active in crafting compelling digital experiences for over 20 years. He is faculty at the University of Washington's Information School and Senior Product Designer at Carina, a nonprofit platform that connects qualified caregivers with those seeking in-home care. He is also the principal of PLAIN Strategies, providing outcome-focused digital strategies for nonprofits and impact-driven organizations. Having lived and worked in London, Seoul, Hanoi, New York, Washington D.C. and presently in Seattle for the past 9 years, he draws his experience from a lifetime of learning and exploring how we relate to technology and harness it for good. He has worked with the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been a speaker at conferences including the Nonprofit Technology Conference, WebVisions and Drupalcon. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/GAzBxrnWEAU Podcast Intro Transcript When you think about digital strategy, you might picture someone orchestrating the bits of information that zip across the networks that connect computers and other technological gadgets. In fact, technology is just a small part of the story. Nam-ho Park and his fellow digital strategists actually spend most of their time focused on the human beings who plan, design, and use websites, apps, and other products. I really enjoyed talking with Nam-ho about his people-first, technology-last approach to digital experience design. Interview Transcript Larry: Hi, everyone. Welcome to episode number 68 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Nam-ho Park. Nam-ho is a digital strategist and a consultant in that field in Seattle, Washington. He also does a lot of other stuff, including he teaches in the I School, the Information School at the University of Wa...

Nam-ho Park Nam-ho Park is a digital strategist who always puts people first and technology last. Nam-ho first designed experiences for people as an architecture student at Columbia University. The appreciation he developed then for the importance of genuinely human-centered design practice serves him well today. In fact, he hopes that we'll someday drop the word "digital" and return to genuinely human-centered strategy and design practices. Nam-ho and I talked about: the giant spider that crawled across his desk as we began the interview his role as a teacher at the University of Washington's iSchool his work with Carina, a startup that connects Medicaid patients with home health care aides his consulting work, helping clients navigate the technology landscape the importance of resolving people issues before settling on a technical solution to a business problem his comparison of content strategy and digital strategy practices his original background as an architect - and insights he learned then about the importance of experience design how his architecture background helps him visualize design complexity, appreciate standards, and properly contextualize tech platforms how quickly the digital landscape is changing and the ensuing tension that that creates between established principles and new ways of doing things David Weinberger's book Everything Is Miscellaneous and its insights about the benefits of being able to categorize bodies of knowledge in different user-focused ways the "leakiness" of the logic around some kinds of knowledge the challenges of truly understanding user intent, especially in the era of AI and machine learning the implications for technology designers of the rapid change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic his hope that we'll drop the word "digital" at some point, and return to genuinely human-centered practices dark design patterns that serve businesses more than their customers and users Nam-ho's Bio Nam-ho Park has been active in crafting compelling digital experiences for over 20 years. He is faculty at the University of Washington’s Information School and Senior Product Designer at Carina, a nonprofit platform that connects qualified caregivers with those seeking in-home care. He is also the principal of PLAIN Strategies, providing outcome-focused digital strategies for nonprofits and impact-driven organizations. Having lived and worked in London, Seoul, Hanoi, New York, Washington D.C. and presently in Seattle for the past 9 years, he draws his experience from a lifetime of learning and exploring how we relate to technology and harness it for good. He has worked with the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been a speaker at conferences including the Nonprofit Technology Conference, WebVisions and Drupalcon. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. Video Here’s the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/GAzBxrnWEAU Podcast Intro Transcript When you think about digital strategy, you might picture someone orchestrating the bits of information that zip across the networks that connect computers and other technological gadgets. In fact, technology is just a small part of the story. Nam-ho Park and his fellow digital strategists actually spend most of their time focused on the human beings who plan, design, and use websites, apps, and other products. I really enjoyed talking with Nam-ho about his people-first, technology-last approach to digital experience design. Interview Transcript Larry: Hi, everyone. Welcome to episode number 68 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Nam-ho Park. Nam-ho is a digital strategist and a consultant in that field in Seattle, Washington. He also does a lot of other stuff, including he teaches in the I School, the Information School at the University of Wa...

This week I am joined by Megan O'Sullivan, a graduate student in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about folklore and her interest in the intersection of ethnobotany, food, & folklore, specifically, as it relates to the Gullah Culture. We then make our way into discussing our experiences at bookstores and our take on marginalia. You can find her on Twitter @PoseySessions, and you can follow Evoking History @EvokingH

Technology has made communication easier than ever. As social networks, digital platforms, and emerging technologies keep us constantly connected, many have found that the volume of information has eroded our ability to trust. The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public explored questions and solutions for building our trust in modern media. The audience participated in an active dialogue that covered ideas and solutions from the community, and heard from researchers on the cutting edge of information and communication. Listen to a conversation about ways to maintain a healthy democracy in the face of misinformation and “fake news” disrupting our systems and even our shared perception of reality. Panelists Ryan Calo, Associate Professor, School of Law Chris Coward, Senior Principal Research Scientist, and Director, at the Information School Emma Spiro, Assistant Professor, Information School Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering Jevin West, Associate Professor, Information School, Calling BS Moderator Hanson Hosein, Co-Director, Communication Leadership Presented by Town Hall Seattle, UW Center for an Informed Public, UW Communication Leadership Program, and KUOW.

Michelle Martin, Beverly Cleary Endowed Professor for Children and Youth Services at UW’s Information School, discusses the world’s many "Cinderella" stories with Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean. They talk about Cinderellas onstage, on screen, and in the oral tradition; about sweet Disney princesses and plucky heroines (and heroes), wicked and/or ugly step-sisters, mothers who turn into carp, incestuous fathers, mutilated feet, delicious cactus recipes, a prince who’s a snake and another who’s invisible, and a donkey that poops gold coins. Explore the diverse and amazing world of folk-lore—and modern rewrites—as you prepare for Rossini’s wonderful La Cenerentola.

Jonathon Colman Jonathon Colman knows how to build content teams and integrate them into big digital programs. He deftly navigates the challenges that come with creating complex products in fast-growing organizations, always championing the best content practices. Jonathon's career arc mirrors the growth of content strategy and content design. He started out as a technical writer and webmaster. He was a content marketing pioneer. He worked in both SEO and UX at REI. Recently, he has practiced and managed strategy and design work at Facebook and Intercom. Wherever he's been, Jonathon has always been at the forefront of the content profession. Jonathon and I talked about: his background as a technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, webmaster, content marketer, SEO, inbound marketer, information architect, UX designer, content strategist, and content designer with IBM, the Nature Conservancy and other nonprofits, REI, Facebook, and Intercom the relationship between brand and customer service at REI and how that helps build trust and respect and makes activities like SEO easier the growth of the field of content strategy, especially Kristina Halvorson's work at Brain Traffic and her Confab content strategy conference how the team at Intercom practices content design - the liberating benefits of having co-founders there with a design background the long history of content design at Intercom their focus at Intercom on concept design - and how it drives content design and interaction design there the diverse backgrounds of content strategists and designers at Intercom, coming from marketing, tech writing, design, information architecture, etc. how systems thinking, in particular Donella Meadows' book Thinking in Systems, inspires him and his team how focusing on ability and organizational obstacles over job titles can help break down the barriers to the practice of content strategy and content design how content professionals need to "get a lot better at introducing ourselves and talking about what we do" how his work at Facebook shaped his approach to managing content work how focusing content teams' efforts on one or two products, as opposed to ten or more, yields better results the troublesome dynamics behind widely spread content teams and the benefits of focusing content strategy and design teams on one or two products the importance of gaining the trust of other leaders to get content teams embedded in projects the difference between "dusting the content" and being an impactful contributor to better products how a "product ecosystem" approach can help other leaders understand the profound contributions that content people can make how the successes that he and Ella Mei Yon Harris had on their teams at Facebook drove 5x staff growth in just one year a good way to think about the lessons he has learned: "do less, better" (for more on this, check out this Intercom podcast) Jonathon's Bio Jonathon Colman (@jcolman) leads the global content design team at Intercom. He's a Webby Award-winning content designer and a keynote speaker who's appeared at over 80 events in 8 countries on 5 continents. Previously, Jonathon led UX content strategy for Facebook's Platform and Marketplace teams. Prior to that, he was REI's principal user experience architect, managed global digital marketing for The Nature Conservancy, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 2 years in Burkina Faso, West Africa. He completed a master's degree in Information Management at the University of Washington's Information School in 2013. Jonathon's worked on the web since 1994 and is grumpy that it's not done yet. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/p5y6lh8FVzk Podcast Intro Transcript If you follow the content strategy profession, you've probably encountered Jonathon Colman at some point. He's a frequent keynote speaker and regularly shares his insigh...

Jonathon Colman Jonathon Colman knows how to build content teams and integrate them into big digital programs. He deftly navigates the challenges that come with creating complex products in fast-growing organizations, always championing the best content practices. Jonathon's career arc mirrors the growth of content strategy and content design. He started out as a technical writer and webmaster. He was a content marketing pioneer. He worked in both SEO and UX at REI. Recently, he has practiced and managed strategy and design work at Facebook and Intercom. Wherever he's been, Jonathon has always been at the forefront of the content profession. Jonathon and I talked about: his background as a technical writer, Peace Corps volunteer, webmaster, content marketer, SEO, inbound marketer, information architect, UX designer, content strategist, and content designer with IBM, the Nature Conservancy and other nonprofits, REI, Facebook, and Intercom the relationship between brand and customer service at REI and how that helps build trust and respect and makes activities like SEO easier the growth of the field of content strategy, especially Kristina Halvorson's work at Brain Traffic and her Confab content strategy conference how the team at Intercom practices content design - the liberating benefits of having co-founders there with a design background the long history of content design at Intercom their focus at Intercom on concept design - and how it drives content design and interaction design there the diverse backgrounds of content strategists and designers at Intercom, coming from marketing, tech writing, design, information architecture, etc. how systems thinking, in particular Donella Meadows' book Thinking in Systems, inspires him and his team how focusing on ability and organizational obstacles over job titles can help break down the barriers to the practice of content strategy and content design how content professionals need to "get a lot better at introducing ourselves and talking about what we do" how his work at Facebook shaped his approach to managing content work how focusing content teams' efforts on one or two products, as opposed to ten or more, yields better results the troublesome dynamics behind widely spread content teams and the benefits of focusing content strategy and design teams on one or two products the importance of gaining the trust of other leaders to get content teams embedded in projects the difference between "dusting the content" and being an impactful contributor to better products how a "product ecosystem" approach can help other leaders understand the profound contributions that content people can make how the successes that he and Ella Mei Yon Harris had on their teams at Facebook drove 5x staff growth in just one year a good way to think about the lessons he has learned: "do less, better" (for more on this, check out this Intercom podcast) Jonathon's Bio Jonathon Colman (@jcolman) leads the global content design team at Intercom. He's a Webby Award-winning content designer and a keynote speaker who’s appeared at over 80 events in 8 countries on 5 continents. Previously, Jonathon led UX content strategy for Facebook’s Platform and Marketplace teams. Prior to that, he was REI’s principal user experience architect, managed global digital marketing for The Nature Conservancy, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 2 years in Burkina Faso, West Africa. He completed a master’s degree in Information Management at the University of Washington’s Information School in 2013. Jonathon’s worked on the web since 1994 and is grumpy that it’s not done yet. Video Here’s the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/p5y6lh8FVzk Podcast Intro Transcript If you follow the content strategy profession, you've probably encountered Jonathon Colman at some point. He's a frequent keynote speaker and regularly shares his insigh...

My guest today is Beck Tench. Beck is a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. This role requires that she deal with a lot of information, and in this show,​ we talk about how she makes sense of it all. We also discuss the subject of her Ph.D.​ itself, which is both fascinating and highly relevant. Listen to the full conversation https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/episode-6-beck-tench.mp3   Show notes Beck Tench University of Washington Information School Zettelkasten The Archive Notational Velocity Tinderbox Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by B.J. Fogg (Amazon) Beck's Tinderbox videos Steven Zeoli's Tinderbox posts Read the full transcript Beck: Thanks for having me on the show, Jorge. So I'm a PhD student at the Information School at the University of Washington. I'm in my third year, so I'm about halfway through. I'm studying… Basically, most PhD students have a Venn diagram that kind of charts with their studying. My Venn diagram is public space, contemplative practice, and technology. So I'm interested in where those three overlap, mostly. Maybe say it in a sentence: I'm interested in how we can design spaces and technologies that facilitate contemplative practices or just contemplative experiences. And by contemplative, I mean essentially being present to life in that moment. Spaces that will help us be present, slow down and notice the world. But there's also this flavor of being lovingly present as part of it. It's not just hyper-focus and attention-driven. It is also considering compassion, basically. Jorge: That is fascinating. I am super intrigued by this Venn diagram because in some ways our current technologies are doing the opposite of leading us to contemplation. Beck: Yes. Jorge: Can you tell us a bit more about how through your work you are addressing that? Beck: Yeah. One way that I'm addressing it is I'm holding open the possibility that what I'm studying will help me be optimistic and useful with technology and I will use technology in a space to facilitate an experience. But I'm also holding open the idea that we may need to minimize or replace technology in order for us to be present. So I really have no idea and maybe it's both in different different situations and maybe one after the other, something like that. I'm trying my very best not to be a hater of the the sort of really unfair ways that some people are using technology and I'm very concerned in some ways about that and I read a lot about it. I have lots of thoughts that we can dive into about that. But for the shorter answer, I would just say I don't know which direction I'll go with regards to that technology circle, will it be plus technology or will be minus technology. Jorge: I think that this is an issue that a lot of us are dealing with; trying to establish a good balance where we get the best from technology, but also don't let it take us over. Right? Beck: Yeah, I mean something that is really unfair about the way that a lot of this technology that we use is incentivized to let's say is that it's not incentivized to do good by us. And I could see a world where that's actually not the case, where we look at the experience of using a technology as not solely to make us productive, or solely to make us fast, but to rather honor the fact that we're human beings alive and we have families and friends and all these relationships and that technology is actually built to honor and acknowledge and help us experience that. It's not necessarily a positive, wonderful feeling all the time. Life is sometimes really hard. Technology can be really hard to use, really frustrating and all these sorts of things. But to realize that a human is using it and that that human has a very precious life and the time that we're spending using it is imbued with that… If we could build with that in mind, I think that we wouldn't necessarily build things that just solely make us fast and productive, which is basically how most of it is these days or we just get mesmerized but we're not necessarily engaged and we're maximizing our attention there. Jorge: When you say productive and fast that resonates with me. This idea that somehow technologies are pitched to us as ways of making us more effective, and what I'm hearing you say is that they could also… perhaps I'm reading into it, but that search for effectiveness can drive us away from other people and perhaps there is a way for these things to also bring us closer together. Beck: That's absolutely something that I think is possible and I also just think that… I hope we'll actually get to talk about this with information management. That information management when it's — let's just call it really fast and productive — loses something in terms of our own personal relationship to the information in our own personal relationship to our learning. When everything has to be super fast and easy to find and all of those sorts of things, our actual experience of using it can be potentially poorer if we value things besides being productive and fast. Jorge: Yeah, they're going to be such a thing as over optimizing right? Beck: Over-optimize our lives until we die. It's like we know there's an end to this. Where we are we going so quickly? Jorge: Can you tell me about the “public space” circle in the Venn diagram? Because I can totally see the overlap between contemplative practice and technology, but I'm very curious about this. Beck: So we can think about what comes up to mind when we think of the word “contemplative.” Maybe that is quiet and peaceful, maybe it's sacred. Maybe it's actually rhythmic and there's dancing or singing. There's all sorts of ways to contemplate. And I think that so far we relegate spaces for contemplation to be kind of religious spaces or very special places that we don't necessarily go very often. And what I'm interested in is how do we make our everyday space — you know, the grocery store line, the bus, our office, living room — eligible to be present and not necessarily just sanctify these spaces. But look at all the ways that we experience space. Now, there's a lot of research in something called restorative space, which is essentially nature. There are people who study restorative space in urban spaces, but most of the people who have theories about what makes space restorative point to nature as kind of this magic area for us to just sort of be restored. And there's lots of theories as to why that is. And I'm interested in how do we make a choice to stop working, stop being productive and take care of ourselves and experience space contemplatively, which means just being aware and being lovingly aware, and what are the features of that that helped us come back to that, and even share it with others. And when we go to those places or when we go to those moments, if those places are just regular everyday places, what do we do while we're in them? And so I'm specifically calling that “public space” because I want it to be very everyday. I don't want it to be super special. And I also think that the public — we — need to be given spaces like that. We need to have spaces like that available to us in easy access. Jorge: When you say “public space” what I'm hearing is everyday spaces, the spaces of our lives, as opposed to this idea of going somewhere special, be it nature or be it a “sacred space,” right? This is more about opening the everyday up for contemplation. Beck: That's right. Jorge: I remember reading at one point about a practitioner of Zen Buddhism who was in a hotel room during World War II as the city was being heavily bombarded. And this person was using the sound of the explosions to meditate somehow. You know, this notion that you don't have to be in a monastery, the world provides you enough fodder for reflection.​ Beck: That's a beautiful, beautiful application of what I just said. Jorge: So I'm super excited about your research and this area. I mean, I drew the Venn diagram as you were explaining it, and it seems super enticing. I didn't know that this was your focus, which is great that it's coming out. It's such a fascinating and relevant field for us to talk about. The reason actually that you're on the show today is because you published a series of videos on YouTube that caught my attention. D o you want to tell us about those, what they're about? Beck: So right now as I said, I'm right in the middle of my Ph.D program. And right in the middle of the program is this thing called the general exam, which is, basically, a massive literature review. Literature review being a term that means, “you go and learn everything there is to already know.” It's not like a dissertation, where you ask a new question and try to find out a new answer, but rather you see for what you're interested in what have people already figured out. And so for me, that Venn diagram comes into play because what I'm studying is, what do we know about restorative spaces? And what do we know about the ways that we've so far tried to make technology mindful or restorative or calming or slow. And so I'm reading all about those things and then a committee of professors will send me, when I'm done reading that, a series of questions. I'll answer those questions over a couple of weeks, and then I will be kind of through one of the gates of PhD life. So, before I came to back to school, I was a designer and I designed exhibits and digital experiences for science museums among some other things. But that was basically my big career. And I have a design process. I know how to do something big and scary like the general exam if it was a design problem. I have a process I can go through and not have to have any answers, but I can go through the process and get to an answer. And I feel really, really confident in that process and I've honed it over years. But I don't have an academic process and so, when somebody throws a question like, “Okay, in a few months, we're going to give you some really hard questions. You need to read thousands of pages of literature and answer them.” I have no idea what to do about that. Like, how do I remember what I've read? How do I find out when I need to answer some questions? All of those things just feelso​o mysterious to me. It would be like someone saying, “hey go to invent a really cool game on this platform and then like amazing…” Well, I have no idea where I would even start. But I do have an idea because I have a design process, don't have an academic process. So, I set out to really develop a process for reading, annotating, referencing, and synthesizing all those things. And I tried a ton of different approaches. Every single note taking software; most reading platforms; all the different ways that we type words in and write things. I've just tried every app I feel like there is. And I settled on a philosophy of note-taking called Zettelkasten. And at first, I was using The Archive, which is sort of a branch of Notational Velocity. If you've heard of that one, it's like a very streamlined but elegant note-taking, completely text-based tool. It's a great, great piece of software, The Archive. But then, I discovered Tinderbox and realized that I could have a visual layer to my to my note-taking and to my Zettelkasten. We'll explain what all this stuff is. Jorge: Yeah. I'm very curious, because you've brought up a few terms here that I'd like to unpack. Beck: Yeah. Jorge: Why don't we start with Zettelkasten? Beck: Sure. So Zettelkasten is a German word that… I think the most direct translation is “slip box,” where “slip” is a slip of paper. So it's basically, a concept where you write ideas — single ideas — on index cards, and you sort them in boxes based on a very elaborate, unique identifying naming scheme. T here's a whole world of Zettelkasten, but I think that the essential parts that I have kept are that, instead of reading an article and writing a summary of it — a reading note — where I would summarize and ask myself some questions and list out some quotes, let's say. Instead of doing that, I now distill every kind of insight and observation I make while reading into individual notes, into individual slips, and I put those together in infinite ways. So if I'm reading an article and I have one idea from the article, which is let's say that… I'm reading about neurofeedback right now because a lot of the mindfulness devices are using neurofeedback as a way to train people's brains to calm down. So I'm reading about neurofeedback and I'm having to learn like, how exactly does the brain work that we can measure it via electricity on these sensors that these devices have, for example. So I learn a little detail about that. I put that one detail in a note and then I learn another detail. Let's say that neurofeedback is also really good for PTSD, and maybe I'll make that a separate note. And so I have all these different notes that stem from one reading. And then I can connect those notes to each other and to future readings. The thing about is it'll cost in is that the note is alive for the rest of its life as long as you're using it. So let's say in a year, I read another article about neurofeedback or maybe there's an advancement another feedback. I go and I edit that note that I just made and I make it more robust. So the notes just live. When I make a note about some reading, I'm making a note for my future self — let's say 10 years from now — who wants to remember what I read about that single point. So t hat's sort of at least one view of what a Zettelkasten is. Jorge: The way you're describing it, it sounds to me like it's not necessarily tied to any one technology. It's something that you could potentially do with index cards. Beck: Absolutely. And what's so lovely about the folks that created The Archive, who were kind of a real hub of information about Zettelkasten, is that they put all the information out there and they said, “Here's one solution, the one that we made. But really you could do this with anything.” And that's to their credit and to its flexibility. Jorge: So you said that you're implementing this way of note-taking/ processing of information using a tool called Tinderbox, right? Beck: That's right. Jorge: T hat is the thing that first drew my attention to your videos. Tinderbox is a tool that I'm familiar with, but for the benefit of our listeners, could you explain what it does and how you're using it to implement this approach? Beck: Sure. So Tinderbox, if you haven't heard of it, is not surprising. It's sort of an esoteric tool. And it looks weird, kind of. It's hard to describe. I think it's actually a wonderful example of the kind of way we would want to build technology if we were to build it contemplatively. Because the thing about Tinderbox that the creator of it, Mark Bernstein, he won't tell you how to use it. So I have to kind of respect that and say, this is how I'm using it. But to describe what Tinderbox is and what it can be used for is kind of an impossible task, because its own creator won't do that. As I understand the real essence of Tinderbox is a note. So it's a note-taking tool. Everything that you do in Tinderbox revolves around notes that you take. But that note that you take can be plotted and visualized and referenced and all these things and lots of different views. So you can have a map view of the note, where you make a concept map or some sort of visual plane. You can have a timeline view of the note, where the note appears on the timeline in relation to other notes that you have. You could have an outline view of the note. You can have just your regular text box in a text editor view of the note. And so there are all these different ways to basically see and manipulate and relate — connect between — the notes that you're taking. Which is exactly what was missing from the software picture. I tried all the mind mapping software. I tried all of the really nice editing software, all that stuff. But nothing brought together outlining and mapping and connecting. And in Tinderbox you can also “alias” notes. So basically, one note has the same content, but it can be across all sorts of different areas, and if you update it in one place at updates everywhere else, so I'm able to create multiple visual maps of my notes. So I have a been a longtime concept mapper. I think it's a great way to like challenge and force yourself to synthesize information. You have to conceptually map it out. So what I started doing is I would come across a theory or an idea, and I would create a concept map about it. And Tinderbox allowed me to create those concept maps as just part of the core set of features. And then what I think was just the the stroke of insight that I had about Tinderbox and Zettelkasten was that each node in the concept map that I made could then be a Zettel; could be something that is a part of this larger reference thing. So I started making these very elaborate concept maps so that I could remember. So let's take a concept map like persuasive technology, BJ Fog's contribution to the problem that we're all faced with today, which is that were addicted to our devices. So how does that work? Well, basically his theory has three parts where you have motivation, you have ability, and there's a trigger. And if you're above a certain threshold, you have the right motivation and the right ability, that trigger will trigger a behavior. If you don't have enough motivation, or if you don't have enough skill set, then that trigger won't work. Or if you have the motivation in the skill set, and the trigger doesn't happen, then you'll never trip into the behavior. And so, he uses these leverages that are just like really unfair. And he calls it out, you know, we can alter motivation and a human by scaring them, like threatening them. Or we can give them hope, or we can make something painful or pleasurable .Or we can promise social isolation and rejection, or we could we could promise social acceptance. And when we do these things, that will motivate people to do what we want them to do. So I'm map all of this out in a concept map so that I understand the relationship of that. And me just telling you about that, my brain was remembering visually what I have mapped out in Tinderbox. And for each one of those nodes, let's say motivation or trigger, I have a Zettel that tells me exactly what that means. And then it also hyperlinks. It has use a Wiki link to BJ Fogg and to the article I read and any other articles that might mention it, so that I can jump to those things across my Tinderbox. It seems interesting to say it out loud. I'm imagining your podcast listeners probably feeling like, “what is she talking about?” And so it probably would help to see a video or at least look at what one of these concept maps mean to anchor in like what this experience is like. But it works beautifully, because I'm able to synthesize by taking the note itself. And then, when I go to write about it, or I'm trying to remember it, I have this this real nice visual that I can work with and it also has function I can jump to other places and I can search and those sorts of things. It's really working well for me. The nut to crack with this General exam problem and certainly with the dissertation and with the scholarship I do once I have the PHD is: that's a ton of information that I'm going through. I've done the reading note thing and it doesn't work. I don't remember it, you know. And so I feel like I actually am taking up more of the stuff because of this. Jorge: Yeah, it's a tool that encourages nonlinear thinking and exploration about subjects. Right? Beck: Yes. Jorge: I also love the way that you described Mr. Bernstein's positioning of Tinderbox in the market, because it is something of a cipher in that it's a tool that can be turned into many different tools. The way that I've taken to describing it to people is that it is to information management as Photoshop is to image manipulation. You can use Photoshop for all sorts of different things: for tweaking photographs, for painting, for creating graphic artifacts for a website or what have you. And Photoshop doesn't really dictate how you're supposed to use it, not as much as other tools for sure. Beck: That's a beautiful analogy for Tinderbox. Because I've I feel like if I didn't have Photoshop I would be missing an arm or something. I really know that tool well, and it is very similar. Once you have a grasp of how to use something you feel truly empowered to do things that you may see and be like, “how could I get from this completely blank slate to that with just this tool?” And yet, you can. And similarly, as a novice you arrive at the startup screen for Photoshop or the startup screen for Tinderbox and you're just like, “What am I even supposed to do here? This is so confusing!” But they're both very, very powerful. I think that's a great connection. Jorge: This is one of the reasons why I appreciate your video so much. Because I remember when I first got into Tinderbox, and this was over a decade ago; this is a this is an old tool. This is a tool that comes from pre-Mac OS — and it's a Mac-based, I should mention — and it's a tool that comes from before even Mac OS X. It's a kind of an old-school Mac tool. And I remember first coming to it and feeling just as you're describing, somewhat overwhelmed. It's like, “Well, I don't even know where to start!” And many of the introductory tutorials out there tend to assume that you already know a lot about the tool. And your videos are very comprehensive and kind of take it from the beginning, almost, which is I think a real service to folks. Because it's a tool that does need someone to sit with you and show you what it can do before you can have a revelation about how it could apply to you, somehow. Beck: That's exactly right. And I had just scoured the internet for tutorials and agree that that space between, “Okay, I can actually create a note,” and that “Aha!” moment of, “What does that mean for me?” That space in the tutorial of Tinderbox realm is missing. Jorge: Yeah. Beck: There were some videos by Steven Zeoli. He has a blog, “Welcome to Sherwood.” And he had a few really basic use case examples of how he was using Tinderbox. And it helped me understand some of the features like agents and adornments. There's all this language of Tinderbox. And I had that moment of, “Well, that's how I could use it.” Once you have that, then you can start playing. And also to be fair, I think one of the reasons why my videos are interesting is because my use is not particularly sophisticated. And so it's intellectually really useful — and maybe there's some sophistication around my relationship to what is in the notes — but how I'm actually employing the features of Tinderbox is like first or second grade, you know. And yet there's so much you can do at just that level. And I think that's what people are being… It was resonating with people is that they're like, “Oh, I can use this too! I don't have to program and do all of these things that people who are producing tutorials about Tinderbox are doing.” Maybe in the future I will go to a point where I want to go through all of my Zettels and in some sophisticated way grab some and play with them and I'll need to program this or that. And when I get there, I'll make a video about that. But like right now I'm really in that place of making maps, making them beautiful. Using drawing and images and connecting things and creative ways. And there's a lot of benefit just to that level of use. Jorge: O ne of the other things that your videos do is highlight one of the more powerful aspects of Tinderbox, which is the fact that it allows you to capture complex information without prescribed structure. And it allows you to discover what the structure is that is kind of inherent in that, and let the structure emerge. Beck: That's right. Jorge: Which is it's really peculiar and particular. I don't know of any other tools quite like it. Now, when I reached out to you and you agreed to be on the show, you mentioned that you did not want to give the impression that you've kind of got it all figured out somehow, right? So if the use of a tool like Tinderbox is something that, frankly, takes a lifetime to develop mastery over. Acknowledging that even as cool and as masterful as your videos are, you are still discovering what the tool can do and where you can take it. Do you have a sense of what next steps are for you or where there are gaps in your process that you would like to address? Beck: Yeah. Well, that's… I'm so glad you mentioned that just in case anyone got any sense of confidence or… I don't know what the word would be. There's no “shoulds” in my explanation of Tinderbox. Let's just say that. I feel like every time I use it, I learn something more. And I think that an a gap or an issue, let's say that I anticipate, is that the way I used it for map 1 is different than 2, 3, 4, 12… And so, I may have a problem with that in the future. Hopefully I won't. But I could, in the sense that, for example, when I connect different notes, I do so very extemporaneously. So I I use the tool for what I need it to be used for in that moment. And if I were a little more methodical or systematic about it, I might connect notes in a way that in the future would be helpful to me. So let's say that, for example, I map out all the people I read. And when I'm writing their little bio and I have knowledge that these two people collaborate, I will connect them and I'll say “collaborator.” And so, in the future maybe I will be able to use that metadata that connects people to say, “Let me see all the people that collaborate,” or something like that. Maybe that would be useful to me. Well, my notes… They're just completely random. Sometimes I say something like, “agrees.” Sometimes I'll say something like, “example.” Sometimes I'll say something like “E.g.” Sometimes everything is different. And so I don't have any standards for how I connect things, which I anticipate may limit me in the future. And so then going back and fixing that stuff seems like it would be just so burdensome. And also… So right now, I have set things up basically like that Venn diagram. I have one big area called “restorative environments,” which is public space. I have one big area called “technology,” one big area called “contemplation.” And I just… If I have to rearrange that in the future, it might feel massive, you know? And within those areas I have things like methodologies and theories and results or findings. And those sorts of organizational concepts may just be completely… But that's the thing, if I were to try to figure that out before using it, I would've never gotten started. And so I really am building it as I go, and in that way, there's a lot of charm. But I think there's gonna be a lot of infrastructural issues in a short period of time. And I don't want to rebuild it. I think that would just be… You know how New York City is just like, “How does this work?” I think that that will probably be my Zettelkasten at one point, you know. It's just like, “Wow, this is so complex and bubblegum and shoestring. How is she making this useful?” And it's because I was just very present to it every time I used it. And that's the other thing I wanted to say, is that when I finish reading an article, I'm excited to go to Tinderbox and play with what I've just learned. And that is just rare. Normally that sort of work is is tedium and it doesn't feel that way. But anyway, suffice to say: lots of shortcomings, but they're anticipated. Jorge: When you were talking about the variance in how you refer to examples whether you use e.g or EG or X or whatever over time… The thought that came to mind is that in some way your usage of Tinderbox reflects the research that you're doing in that it is a tool that offers the best of what technology can do for you but it also honors that you're human. Beck: That's right. Jorge: And it allows you to build these structures in an emergent way over time. And it's going to be imperfect, right? Because it's a reflection of who we are. We are not machines. We are not computers. Beck: That's right. That's so beautiful. You're very good at this listening thing. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And also to the point that I just made, using it as fun. You know, that's honoring the experience of being human too, that the use of it feels valuable to me. It doesn't feel tedious. Jorge: I am so glad that we had the opportunity to talk about it. It is a wonderful tool. I am so into this idea of the Zettelkasten as well, and it's something that I am looking into as a result of discovering your videos. So before we go, where can folks follow up with you? I'm going to put links to the videos on YouTube, but where can folks follow up with you? Beck: Sure, you can contact me by going to my website, which is my name, becktench.com, and from there you can get everything else: Twitter and email and all that stuff. And I'm very hopeful that in your ​experiences of Zettelkastening and that sort of thing, that you share what you're doing and learn too. Because I think there's a very hungry community out there just to see multiple perspectives. And just like that lesson of “just get started” with Tinderbox, the Zettelkasten can suffer a similar fate. You just need to get started. You will figure out the shape of a note and how you'll use it by creating them. And one of the things I did was I made Zettelkastens when I was learning about Zettelkasten, just so I could immediately apply it. So I would just recommend that kind of approach if you're if you're interested in getting started with that, Jorge: That's great, Beck. Thank you so much for for your time, your wisdom, and for the work you're doing. I think it's very needed in the world. Beck: Thank you Jorge. I really appreciate it.​

Host: Merida Johns PhD, Founder and Director, The Monarch Center for Women's Leadership Development   Co-Host: Catherine K. Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, Senior Clinical Research Informaticist, Clinical Informatics Group, IT Department, Mount Sinai Health System, and Institute for Health Care Delivery Science, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY Guest Interviews: Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, is a Professor at the Information School and Discovery Fellow attached to the Virtual Environments Group at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an NLM Medical Informatics Trainee at the Center (now Department) of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, from which she received her MSIS and PhD.   Wanda Pratt, PhD, is a Professor in the Information School with an adjunct appointment in the Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics in the Medical School at the University of Washington. Topics: Mentoring

Welcome to our February episode. This month, we are delighted to have Dr. David Levy to share his insights on how to bring a balance to our digital lives. Dr. Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington in Seattle. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London. For over 15 years Dr. Levy was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and print to digital media. At the University of Washington since 2000, he has focused on bringing mindfulness training and other contemplative practices to address problems of information overload and acceleration. His latest book, "Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives," was published in January 2016 by Yale University Press.  

Bob and guest, Professor Jevin West, Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, discuss the scientific method, real world practice of scientific research, and the importance of increasing our basic literacy of concepts in science and technology. Dr. West is co-director of the Data Lab at U of W and also co-teaches a new and novel course called “Calling BS in the Age of Big Data.” This show aired live on KMUD radio on April 6, 2017.

Did you know that if you do an image search for 'person' the results contain twice as many men as women? In this episode we investigate why this is the case by looking at bias and how it has permeated our online world, and in particular, search engines. Search engines now have the power to influence how we see the world,  guiding us towards some content over others, catering to our interests based on our internet history. Guests this week include: - Riham Satti and Vivek Doraiswamy, who are the CEO and CTO of MeVitae, a company that attempts to detect and overcome cognitive biases using new technologies - Jahna Otterbacher, an Assistant Professor at the Open University in Cyprus - Paul Clough, Professor of Information Retrieval in the Information School at the University of Sheffield Music in this episode is 'Quitting Time' by Patrick Lee. For further reading see: http://www.machinemindspodcast.com/2017/07/02/episode-1-search-engines-and-bias/

Ask your users to make the case for continuous improvement and investment in search, and you're likely to get a set of solid — potentially quite emotional — responses that stem from their experience struggling to find documents important them, their work, and their projects. And yet, even in the wake of user frustration, search is historically under-resourced. Today on the show, our guest Martin White joins BA Insight CTO Jeff Fried to unwind the challenges facing the business in supporting increased investment in search and together they offer a set of actions to help you understand where you are in search, and helpful tools to guide your efforts to build the business case to improve it. Martin White has been involved in the use of search technology since 1975. He is the author of four books on enterprise search, has conducted many search strategy and implementation projects since setting up his consulting business in 1999 and is a Visiting Professor at the Information School, University of Sheffield where he specializes in search evaluation methodologies. From 2011 to 2015 he was the Chairman of the Enterprise Search Europe conference. In 2013 he was asked by the European Commission to undertake a study of the factors affecting the adoption of enterprise search technology in the EU. Links & Notes 2016 Findwise Enterprise Search and Findability Report Enterprise Search: Enhancing Business Performance by Martin White Connect with Martin on Twitter Connect with Martin on LinkedIn

What do libraries have to do with innovation for aid and development? Total honest answer from my side: when I was doing my research for the 134th Terms of Reference Podcast, I knew there would be high value in a conversation with Chris Coward - who is the co-founder, Principal Research Scientist, and Director of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington - but I had no idea that our conversation would be such a fun, far ranging and wild ride. From TASHA's convening of the first tech conference in 1999 about how society will be affected by the "new" interweb, to how MOOCS are used in the developing world, to how adoption of smart phones in Myanmar fundamentally changes that populations view of what computing is all about... to libraries, and how these institutions are becoming - not less - but more and more relevant in the age of information. I know you're going to love this show.

    It was only a couple of decades ago that the most complex handheld computing system fathomable was a TI-83 graphing calculator. Technology has usually served to make our lives easier, but in the post-digital boom, in which full-blown pocket size computers are the norm, our attention spans are shrinking along with our free time (and graphing is the least of our data worries). Technology can seem to have made certain aspects of life simultaneously easier and more difficult.   Our guest this week is David Levy, a computer scientist and professor at the Information School of the University of Washington. He was a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Silicon Valley during the information revolution in which we began converting information from paper to digital. He has since focused the body of his work and research on information overload. His new book, Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, offers simple strategies and exercises to help develop digital control and mindfulness. Levy doesn’t claim to see the digital advancements of the world as being strictly an asset or detriment, but rather asserts that we need to begin to train our brains to process information differently to maintain control and balance over our increasingly fast-paced digital lives.

David M. Levy is a professor of technology in the Information School (or iSchool) at the University of Washington. Since 2006 he has offered a course called “Information and Contemplation”, a course on mindfulness in the Digital Age. In this interview with host Vincent Horn, David talks about his early rejection of zen meditation practice and how he came back to it later through a study of calligraphy. They talk about a National Science Foundation funded study David created to observe the effects of meditation on multitasking, and the university course he subsequently developed at the iSchool, “Information and Contemplation.” He talks about insights his students have through the course and the surprising way email can be used as a focus for mindfulness. Finally, Vincent and David discuss the idea of taking a “digital Sabbath” and the usefulness of periodically unplugging from the online world. Episode Links: What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason ( http://amzn.to/15yQx4K ) “You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help.” ( http://chronicle.com/article/Youre-Distracted-This/138079/ ) Xerox PARC ( http://www.parc.com ) Darlene Cohen ( http://www.darlenecohen.net ) “Information and Contemplation” ( http://dmlevy.ischool.uw.edu/information-and-contemplation/ )

Room 003, Rockefeller Center November 7, 2013 4:30 PM Co-sponsored with the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, and the William Jewitt Tucker Foundation In support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum Theme, Body Politic(s): Health, Wellness, and Social Responsibility PP_F13_David_Levy David Levy '71 Professor, The Information School, University of Washington David Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington in Seattle. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London. For more than 15 years, he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and print to digital media. At the University of Washington since 2000, he focuses on bringing mindfulness training and other contemplative practices to address problems of information overload and acceleration.

Interview with Lisa Frasier of The Bay Citizen, a new paradigm for Journalism in the Bay AreaTRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Okay. Okay. Okay. In 2009, the San Francisco Chronicle admitted that they were losing the battle against the Internet and that the only way forward would be massive cuts in staffing. Google and Twitter had replaced it for news, craigslist for classifieds and local blogs for local civics and politics. A 144 year old institution in the land of innovation had found itself kind of date and out of touch with the future today on method to the madness, we interviewed the CEO [00:00:30] of base citizen.org. Hey, bay area news organization that's attempting to redefine how the bay area gets its news. Stay with us. Speaker 2:[inaudible] Speaker 3:um, my name is Lisa Frazier. I'm president and CEO of the base citizen. The Base citizen is a [00:01:00] new nonprofit news organization. It's an independent organization. Uh, and our mission is to foster and foster civic engagement. We've got by providing fact-based news, uh, really in the core civic issues. Speaker 1:Oh, one of our interview is about what the Internet did to newspapers. Speaker 3:I think the, the Internet has been around now for quite, quite some time, even though it's really a short period and it's impacted a lot of industries in particular the news industry and phenomenally that's been led [00:01:30] by, uh, is driven by consumer behavior. So in reality, what's happening is consumers today, uh, uh, actually read more news or listen to more news or watch more news than, uh, they did before. And that is really a, um, an outcome of the Internet being available, right? Because people are reading news during the day at lunchtime, uh, on smartphones now on tablet devices such as the iPad and what that has, uh, shifted those, those eyeballs, [00:02:00] if you will, to those digital formats for news, which has left people from, uh, subscribing to newspapers. And so what's happening in the industry as eyeballs and people have shifted to the digital, uh, consumption of news. Speaker 3:Uh, the core, uh, economic model of the newspaper has been in decline and predominantly because that is the loss of subscription, uh, which is I e the circulation of the newspaper in towns across the country. And then on top of that, therefore the advertising [00:02:30] revenues also fall, right? Because if as an advertiser, they wanna have the most return on their investment for their advertising dollars. And those audiences in the paper have shifted now over the last few years. That has led to actually a real shift in a real decline in journalism jobs. And in fact, uh, according to, uh, organizations such as Pew, we're at a point now where, um, less than half the states have a newspaper covering Washington DC and therefore [00:03:00] covering their representatives here in the bay area. The work that we did in preparation to starting the base an an, and this was back in 2009, we show that there had been a 50% reduction in journalist jobs. Speaker 3:Um, and what we found is when we looked at the content production of those newspapers in our local area, over time, there was a disproportionate amount of reduction in the civic beats. And those civic beats are governance and policy or you know, City Hall Education, [00:03:30] health, uh, transportation, the environment, justice, social justice and arts and culture. And so that's what the Internet has done in intimate as enable consumers to, uh, to consume news in different places. And that has put a pressure on the previous economic model of the newspaper, [00:04:00] a number of citizens here in the bay area, including, uh, Warren Hellman, uh, chairman of the board of the base citizen, also myself and, and a handful of others, uh, you know, started the conversation about what would this mean in the bay area. And originally, uh, this, the kind of the catalyst for it was an announcement, uh, by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009. Speaker 3:So, and they will likely to close. [00:04:30] Now obviously they didn't do that, but that's the catalyst for the analysis that then took place, uh, through 2000 and I to really understand what had been lost here in the bay area. And those are some of the statistics I just referred to. And what happened from there is a real in depth view, right, of not only in the field of journalism here, but what would, what innovations are happening across the country. And from that, uh, through 2009, we bet began to put together, um, the blueprint, [00:05:00] if you will, for the Bay citizen. And what we're trying to do on a day to day basis here is to continue to be leading edge. And by that I mean staying up with the trends, uh, of what's happening in innovation in news. Also pushing those frontiers ourselves. Um, and so that we're not only supporting, uh, the citizens of the bay area by providing them the civic news. But we're also doing innovation in the field of journalism [00:05:30] at the same time. And that's what we felt was really important part of the work that we did in 2009 to so not only are there, not only is that the job loss is important because of that important watchdog role that journalists play has, has declined, but also the fact that there is not enough innovation in this field for, you know, for news in a digital era. Speaker 1:The watchdog role of the press was indeed a core concept of the founding fathers of this. Speaker 4:Thomas Jefferson once said, if once [00:06:00] the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature in spite of individual exceptions. But to continue shedding light on public affairs, today's news organizations must innovate. I asked Ms. Frazier how they tackle this problem. Speaker 3:So we're a small organization, so it's, it's not that we can have a, for one r and d if you will, whether you're a pharmaceutical company. Um, but what we have done [00:06:30] is, is, uh, structured a couple of key relationships to foster the innovation. One is actually, uh, an important, uh, group within the chain I'm sure you're very familiar with, which is, uh, the Graduate School of journalism that journalism at UC Berkeley. Um, and this was an arrangement and agreement. We may early in 2009, because of his innovation. So working with faculty and students to stay abreast of what's, uh, you know, what's happening in their fields and what things they're trying to do, but also extending [00:07:00] out into the computer science school and the Information School. Uh, because what's happening today is news needs to be more interactive, right? And there are folks over at UC Berkeley in the, those various faculties who are working on, whether it's graduate student projects or some of the professors who are actually working on ways to either look at information and data differently and so and so such that a consumer can actually interact with it. Speaker 3:So adding comments or enabling a dialogue on a database [00:07:30] or, you know, some of the things that they've been doing is, uh, investigating the use of lobbyists, language in legislation, you know, things like that. And we're talking really help transparency in government. It also helps around the innovation of just what our news experience is. Because today it has traditionally been, you know, one way you read a newspaper, you listened to the radio with the, where you can actually change that and so that it becomes interactive. And so one of the investments, you know for what we're doing [00:08:00] is actually really around what we call our data library. And the data library is really a building around data applications so that a story becomes alive to that person. And so there are a couple of examples that um, know I pointed to and perhaps your listeners. Speaker 3:One is bike accidents, right? Safety. We created the bike accident tracker. We just launched it a us our second version last week and I max out bike accidents as reported in the police department over the last five years, the last five [00:08:30] years of available data. And what that tells you is just what are the hazardous roads and safety issues in, you know, for biking in the bay area. And so people are emailing us saying, I'm riding my bike differently in a different way to work. And then other cities are now asking us, you know, for the backend so they can replicate this, um, across, you know, for their cities. And so the way this innovation happens is somewhat testing and trial different things here. For example, that data library becoming very interactive [00:09:00] in the, in the bike accident area and then other, and then as it becomes viral on social media and people read about it through either Facebook or Twitter, then others like us are picking that up and we'll want the support or the ability to do that. Speaker 3:Um, another example is really the whooping cough or pertussis epidemic last year, uh, where um, there was an occurrence of the disease or high parents is, and yet this was not broadly recorded in public media, uh, or commercial media I should say. And then, [00:09:30] and then what happened is we put a database together, we meshed together the data from the um, the current of the disease and the non immunization rates of kids in schools. And so parents actually could look up their school to understand what was the non immunization rate and therefore exposure to the school for this disease. And you know what, I actually, the analysis showed us something like almost 8% of children in the kindergarten year of 2009 [00:10:00] 2010 were not immunized in Marin county. And yet they had a 10 x occurrence of the disease. And this led to conversations not only in parents groups but inside having conversations in city hall about well what do we do in times of epidemic now the growing population of non immunization children. And so that's the innovation of the news in a digital kind of era, which is what we're doing here. Speaker 4:You are listening to k a l x Berkeley in 90.7 FM university and community sponsored radio. [00:10:30] This is method to the madness of 30 minutes show about the innovative spirit of the bay area. And I'm your host. Tallinn is our, we're speaking with the CEO of the base citizen. A local nonprofit news organization launched in 2009 as a response to the decimation of the newsrooms of the bay. I asked Ms. Frazier how the base citizen has used technology to gain competitive advantage and innovate. Speaker 3:We have a, another relationship with the assistant on profit news organization [00:11:00] of ours. Um, the call the Texas Tribune and the Texas Tribune covers our politics for the state of Texas. And in our analysis through 2009, what we found is they were really the only other nonprofit news organization who was, um, fostering, uh, innovation in technology. And so we've merged our tech teams together. And as part of the innovation, what we're, um, we announced in March, we've created at an open source, are we creating an open source technology platform for content [00:11:30] management of a newsroom, um, and then integrating into that all the various business elements. So what this means is while we started with open source technology, uh, to create what is our functioning newsroom, we didn't want to, you know, recreate the wheel here. So we worked with our friends in Texas. We've created this common platform, that common flood platform is now being open source. Speaker 3:We've had over 300 inquiries about people wanting to come onto the platform. The first few fields will come on in [00:12:00] at the end of someone. And what this really means is a real step change in the ability for organizations like us in co, in cities and towns across the country. So the people that come to see me or talk to me, the two people in Raleigh, North Carolina, the person up in the middle of Massachusetts technology is often a barrier. And so this, uh, our ability open sources platform with the support of the Knight Foundation is enabling these organizations to be able to serve [00:12:30] their communities by providing this nonprofit independent, fact-based news. And so in some cases these organizations will be for-profit cause it'd be truly open source technology. And that's exciting. Right. There are now 50 or so nonprofit news organizations yes. Across the country. Is that a relatively recent trend? Yes. Yeah. So I would have said, you know, five years. Yeah, yeah. They'd be lucky to be a handful. And there was some core, you know, folks like the Center for Public Integrity has been around for 20 years. Uh, one of the earliest versions of the base [00:13:00] citizen is actually the voice of San Diego down in San Diego and they're probably in their fifth or sixth year of operation. Speaker 4:Perhaps just as important as the innovation on the technical side of the news organization. The industry now needs innovation. On the economic side as well. The base citizen is run as a nonprofit organization. And I asked Ms Frasier about their model. Speaker 3:So we are, um, you're right, it's absolutely the hardest challenge of sustaining original journalism, uh, in this, in this, you know, this time where we [00:13:30] are today is, um, is the economic model. And interestingly, uh, and importantly, it's not unique to us, right? Meaning not unique to the bay area. It's not only, um, across the country that this is a problem, but it's actually now, you know, it's also a concern globally. And in fact, we've had, uh, over 30 different countries, uh, visit us, uh, organizations, whether they be from the general side or the business executive side on media coming to understand about this model. And so [00:14:00] what we are is really, we're trying to forge forward on a, on a number of things, a number of models taking elements and ingredients of, uh, traditional public broadcasting as well as traditional commercial media. Uh, and so what it is, it's around major donors and foundations. Speaker 3:So, um, so the support we're getting from individuals here in the bay area is, um, a seed funding, if you will. We don't have an endowment. We have a seed fund to get to sustainability by 2014. [00:14:30] It's about the foundation support for the key projects that are donor enabled journalism. Original call it original content journalism to go forward. And like the Knight Foundation, it's around corporate underwriting. So we haven't done much of this today, but enabling corporate, uh, corporations that are here locally be part of the base citizen, be enabling this civic dialogue to underwrite, if you will. Uh, our efforts here. Um, then it's around membership by is the individual contributors, which I just mentioned. [00:15:00] Yeah. And membership is defined as, you know, someone who becomes, makes a donation at the membership level, which is typically wrapped $50 a year, uh, to support our, our organization. Speaker 3:And we're thrilled that, you know, we've actually had quite, quite the momentum around individuals supporting us from the community. And then the last part is around content royalties. And so the New York Times pays us for the content to be a, which is more the traditional content licensing, uh, part of the revenue model, um, to pays us to [00:15:30] produce, uh, the bay area section. And so the reality is we have to address a number of potential revenue streams. We need all of those right to get to sustainability in 2014. Right now we are far more dependent on the individual giving, um, because it takes time to grow a business as you understand. And so for us growing, our organization is really about the community and membership support and the corporate underwriting support. And as that grows right, we've come very less dependent on [00:16:00] a major donors and therefore, uh, the organization's able to sustain itself, meaning it brings in and earns its money through those, the membership and corporate underwriting contributions, uh, to sustain its expense level. Speaker 4:You are listening to k a l x Berkeley 90.7 FM. This is method to the madness, a 30 minute show about the innovative spirit of the bay area. I'm your host Ali Nasar and we're speaking with Liza Frazier, CEO of the base citizen. Speaker 1:There's this [00:16:30] kind of idea of, of the filter of WHO's, who's the one who I trust to tell me the news. Does anybody can put anything out there? Um, do you think that there is somewhat of a land grab happening or some kind of race to determine who's going to be the new trusted voices in this kind of new millennium of information being everywhere? Or do you think there's room in the landscape of, like you said, people consume news constantly these days? Is [00:17:00] there room for everybody to get involved? Speaker 3:Um, it's probably in between. I don't know that there's room for everybody to get involved. Um, I think that, I don't think I would agree that there's a land gram. I actually think that we have what one would call, um, essentially a media literacy challenge. Um, just like we have a civic literacy challenge with, uh, folks. Yeah. Civics being not as predominant in his school. [00:17:30] Um, uh, curriculum these days, media literacy is becoming, uh, more and more of a topic of discussion. And the reason being is because it is very difficult to desegregate, you know, what was original reporting versus what is an opinion on opinion, on opinion. And uh, you know, and in fact, Pew Research did a study that said, uh, that 80% of blogs start with a piece of original content news coming [00:18:00] out of a professional newsroom. So when you think of that shrinking newsroom, right, that, that, that kind of, that initial source of content, which is where all the bloggers are feeding off originally, not all, but some that are a large proportion of them, um, that Kinda kind of shows you it's very, very difficult and can have a feel of what the land grab. Speaker 3:Um, but in reality, what we also have is in combination of that is the impact of Facebook [00:18:30] and Twitter, particularly Twitter, where, you know, news is now disseminated right through those, through those channels. And yet it's not necessarily the in depth read, right? It's this, the snippets. And so there is this whole fragmentation of the, there are the, um, the reading behavior. And so what happens is when people really want to know something, they're going to dig down. I believe back into brands [00:19:00] that they know. I mean there's a reason people go to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times or s you know, if it's CNN, whatever their preference is, right? They're very well established news brands and here and that's what we're trying to generate here for local in the bay area, we don't do international news, we don't do national news, we only do local news. Speaker 3:And that, that even though there's a plethora of channels and there is a fragmentation of the consumer and where sometimes we'd predominantly competing with [00:19:30] people to spend time on civic news versus going on Facebook or TMZ or whatever their favorite thing is. And that's what, that's what I think will always, you know, truly come out. Right? Cause when you, we see no, when there are big issues, whether it's pension reform, whether it's the elections, you know, the mayor's election coming up, people actually want the deep, the depth. And that's why the, I believe that organizations like the Bay citizen in cities across the country can be successful if they're producing that quality of depth [00:20:00] and the original fact-based reporting. Speaker 1:And it was the disappearance of the capabilities of the bay area newsrooms to do original fact-based reporting across a wide variety of civic Peet's that spawned the base citizen. And it came from the mind of Warren Hellman, who is the chairman and cofounder of San Francisco based Hellman and Friedman, a private equity investment firm that he founded in 1984. The firm has raised over $5 billion in capital in invested [00:20:30] in over 45 companies. Um, helmet has deep ties to Wall Street. He's a director of the Nasdaq. Uh, he worked for Lehman Brothers. Um, he also graduated from cal. Uh, he went to the Harvard business school. He's on the advisory board of the Haas business school, a real power broker who also may be better known to Calex listeners as the funder of hardly strictly bluegrass in San Francisco. The festival that turn 10 last year, [00:21:00] uh, he invests hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to run that festival every year as a gift to the city of San Francisco in the world. And now Mr Hellman is trying to give a different gift to the city of San Francisco in the bay area in general, the gift of news. And I asked Ms. Frazier, the CEO of base citizen what the other news organizations, specifically the chronicle thinks about their endeavor. Speaker 3:Um, I haven't spoken to them, so it's pretty hard for me to really answer that. I mean, some people have commented that, [00:21:30] you know, the competition has been good because of the quality of reporting is, has been [inaudible] has raised. And if that's the case, then I think that's great. Right? Cause I mean, that's the reality of what we want. We want quality news, right. For the local area. And if that's the impact the bases and had on our competitors, then I applaud that. I think that's great. And, and, and competition is very healthy, right? I mean, I think that's an important part of who we are, uh, in any industry and that what inspires us to do more [00:22:00] and keep on going and, and essentially try to do the best that we can. And so, um, I'm not sure what their, their reaction would be to your question, but yeah, that's what the tidbits that I've heard. Speaker 3:What about advantages of nonprofit in the kind of new world of, of journalism? I think we have an advantage because we don't have any legacy, right? I think that, uh, whether a nonprofit or for-profit, I mean someone, some that argue that the news organizations today are truly nonprofit, [00:22:30] even though they're a for profit entities because that's the reality of the economics. But I think our biggest advantages that we started from scratch in January, 2010, um, we don't have legacies or, you know, having to print a paper. We don't have those costs. We don't have to do truck rolls, you know, all those sorts of things. And to us, being able to start with a clean piece of paper, right, is truly, uh, is truly an advantage. Um, and, and I think the other benefit that [00:23:00] you know, we've had is that we're not trying to create a product that people don't understand, right? People have asked us to do this. People have thanked us for doing, for providing this new sores. And, and that is also an advantage, right? So people have missed something. They're thrilled that the BCIT is in, is here and doing it in the, in the ways that we are and, uh, in encouraging us to continue. And so that's to me the two, the two biggest advantages of what we're doing here at the base of Islam. Speaker 1:You're listening [00:23:30] to KALX Berkeley and 90.7 FM. This is method to the madness, a 30 minute show about the innovative spirit of the bay area. And we're speaking with CEO Lisa Frazier of base citizen.org. The base it isn't as a nonprofit news organization founded in 2009 started in 2010 as covering the bay area news scene in a new and innovative. Yeah. Speaker 3:Well we're trying to do here is be very mission driven. I mean, this is about the civic news, the fabric of the community. [00:24:00] Um, it's how we make decisions, whether it's about health issues too, who gets voted into city hall to various propositions. And what we're trying to do is become in a world where there is a plethora of information available on the web that is becoming more and more difficult for consumers to really understand what's an opinion piece versus what is a fact based reported piece. And what we're trying to create here is that the base citizen is a trusted [00:24:30] brand and a name for individuals in the bay area about that civic news. Right? And so that's what this is about. It's, it's very mission-driven. We can't feel the void, right. That has been lost because of the newspaper economic model and, and we're not trying to do that. Speaker 3:And which is why collaboration is an important element of the base citizens model. Because there are, there is great work happening in various, uh, parts of the bay area. And so we have, [00:25:00] as a, to your point, we have 27 different content partners, um, who are working with us. We provide us content, we'll publish as part of the base citizen. They're part of our partner program. And what happens is that they're doing, you know what some people really call very local or hyper local news. And so in Berkeley, you know, Berkeley side is one of those institutions who's one of our partners. And what we're doing is enabling a discussion and a dialogue or at least awareness of issues in the various pockets across [00:25:30] the bay area. Um, does the news rooms themselves, you know, I was just reading last night, the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000 were over a thousand people, just the newsrooms themselves then now to get a lesson 300 and so, you know, a nonprofit news organization like the base citizen with 32 people, 20 of those, you know, in the editorial function is not gonna replace that. Speaker 3:But in the world today, because our, you know, the folks, [00:26:00] there are people doing various pieces in their neighborhoods, we can come together and collaborate, which is why the relationship, you know, with what the students are doing. I'm at UC Berkeley in know in their various um, you know, mission local and things like those, uh, those news sites to, you know, KGO radio, uh, to what we do. Would you print news in the New York Times every Friday and Sunday, the bay area section, which is what we only produce that there is a way right, to work together to enable that civic news. And [00:26:30] that's what we are doing. We will only be successful if we do that, if, if our news is available to the community. Right? Cause what we're about is not so much as building an institution, but it's about serving the community. And if we serve the community both for our definition, that means provide a news and fact based analysis on issues that are important to the community. If we do that well, the community will sustain us by becoming members of the base citizen, uh, by making a donation [00:27:00] and similar to what people do, whether they're a member of an arts institution or a member of public broadcasting. That's, that's what we're trying to do. So we're really serving the communities what the base it isn't as about, Speaker 1:and of course serving the public good has always been one of the core tenants of a free and open press that does fact-based reporting. And we've had one in this country since its inception. I asked Ms. Frazier was she thought about journalism and what it will look like 10 years from now. Speaker 3:It could be very [00:27:30] different. Um, I think, uh, you know, a lot of people have been saying, uh, you know, I'm to asking years, right, that newspapers will be gone in 10 years. Some people said 20 years and I don't have that crystal wall. But, uh, I really am questioning the longevity of newspapers, especially with the fast adoption, uh, and the depth of adoption of the iPad and tablet devices. I mean, even though that tablet market is not shaken out yet, right, there's still a lot as you know, [00:28:00] like kind of people rolling out various devices at different pricing levels and people are trying to trial and different things. But the people like, uh, the people that s you know, studying the usage of these devices show that, you know, people will read a newspaper the night before, right? Or they've already read it in the morning before it's been delivered on their doorstep. Speaker 3:And so it's just a very interesting, you know, kind of accelerator. I think I probably have the decline for demand in newspapers. [00:28:30] Um, and then what's going to play in is how consumers pay for that, right? Because I mean, obviously there's a, you know, there is now, um, pay walls, um, there's needed pay at the New York Times there. Um, there are, there are some city newspapers and you know, have got put paywalls up. Um, and you're one of our reporters reportedly the chronicles are going to do that. And the chronicles rolled out their iPad app, uh, just this week, I think, or last week. And so there's [00:29:00] going to be just a shift in, in behavior again, right? There was like, your first question was about, well, what is the impact of the Internet? And now I think you're going to be, what is the impact of devices, right? Especially as you know, children today are, are operating, you know, our phones and iPads, you know, with a flicker thing fingers at three, three years of age. So what do you in 10 years, I mean, why would they ever pick up a newspaper Speaker 1:if that's truly the case that in 10 years nobody will ever pick up a newspaper. It's really important for us as a society [00:29:30] to see projects like the bay citizens succeed so that we can have an open and transparent government. I like to think CEO, Lisa Frazier of the bay state is in for talking to us today. I've method to the madness. You can learn more about the base. It is. Am I going to base it as in.org we'll link to it from our site and method to the [inaudible] dot org you can go there also to contact us and see older show archives. Hi Mylene is our thanks for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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