Podcast appearances and mentions of John Naughton

It's a Celtic instrumental dance party on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #667. Subscribe now! The Drowsy Lads, Fig for a Kiss, Runa, Dublin Gulch, Lúnasa, Louise Bichan, Telenn Tri, The BorderCollies, Charlene Adzima, Fialla, Bealtaine, Dancing With Hobbits, The Crowfoot Rakes, High Octane, Conor Mallon GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items for Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2024 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2024 episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! You can follow our playlist on Spotify to listen to those top voted tracks as they are added every 2 - 3 weeks. 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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:10 - The Drowsy Lads "The Green Mountain (Reels)" from Wide Awake 5:20 - WELCOME 10:04 - Fig for a Kiss "The Trip to Pakistan" from Wherever You Go 15:25 - Runa “Jutland Set" from When The Light Gets In 20:38 - Dublin Gulch "Kerry Rose Hornpipe" from Tap 'Er Light 23:27 - Lúnasa "The Blue Fiddle" from Live in Kyoto 28:38 - FEEDBACK 31:15 - Louise Bichan "Pinnacle" from The Lost Summer 36:00 - Telenn Tri "Hope Rising set" from The Cat's Meow 39:57 - The BorderCollies "The Sweetness of Mary  -  Clumsy Lover" from To the Hills and Back 43:28 - Charlene Adzima "Jimmie McGetrick's/John Naughton's/Tom Ward's Downfall" from The Initiation 46:39 - THANKS 50:02 - Fialla "Bull Set" from Home & Away 54:47 - Bealtaine "Frieze Britches" from The Founders' Room 57:33 - Dancing With Hobbits "Folk on Foot" from Dancing With Hobbits 1:00:31 - The Crowfoot Rakes "Maid Behind the Bar (Live)" from Off She Goes 1:02:22 - High Octane "Lazy Sloth" from High Octane 1:07:28 - CLOSING 1:09:32 - Conor Mallon "Tullycrine" from Unearthed 1:12:46 - CREDITS The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. 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But also the Celtic bands in your neck of the woods, at your festivals. It is here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Musicians depend on your generosity to keep making music. So please find a way to support them. Buy a CD, Album Pin, Shirt, Digital Download, or join their communities on Patreon. You can find a link to all of the artists in the shownotes, along with show times, when you visit our website at celticmusicpodcast.com. Back from the Isle of Man Plastic Free July.  Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single - use plastics? Today's show is an all - instrumental podcast episode. I have a lot of great music to share as well as a fascinating observation. In the past, it is the Celtic songs that were voted on the most for the Celtic Top 20. But I was looking at the last few weeks. And it's the Celtic tunes, the instrumentals, that are dominating your voting. That is fantastic. So keep those votes coming. But I guess that also means I should do a Celtic song episode in the coming weeks. I'd love to know what your favorite contemporary Celtic songs are. By that I mean, what original songs by Celtic musicians do you love the best? I have found several songs on this podcast that were covered by other Celtic artists. I might do a show like that in the future too. We shall see. But let me know your thoughts. 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We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ The Celtic Invasion of Scotland's Whisky Distilleries is now booked. The next Celtic Invasion will go to Galicia in Spain IF I can get enough people to explore that region with me. I need a minimum of 6 to make it happen. It's not yet open, but if you'd like to join, sign up to our mailing list. #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Please email me. I'd love to see a  picture of what you're doing while listening or of a band that you saw recently. How are you listening to this podcast? I'd love to know that as well. The show is available on a bunch of podcast apps like Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Player.FM, Pocket Casts, Cast Box, Pandora, Podbean, and my favorite Overcast Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Thomas Michl emailed from the south of Germany: “Hello Marc, in your last newsletter you ask about personal favourites and I do indeed have a band that I haven't heard in your podcast yet, but that I really like: The Rattling Kind with Eddie Sherlock (Dublin) I would love to hear them on your podcast. Otherwise, I'm already looking forward to St Patrick's Day with good music from the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast ; - ) Greetings” Kathy Glasgow replied to my St Patrick's Day request: “I celebrated by getting my next semester of classes ready while listening to your podcast. I have them on my phone, so I was also listening to them today between classes. “ Ryan McKinney of O'McPub Band: “Marc, Thank you for all you've done for Irish and Celtic music. We've listened for a number of years and I play in an Irish folk duo with my friend Joe.  We've been playing at pubs and wherever else they will take us for a few years now. We are finally going to try and get some of our versions of Irish tunes recorded but not exactly sure where to start.  Then I remembered you offer the ebook on digital music.  We would greatly appreciate your guidance and suggestions to make sure we think of everything. Thanks again and hope when we get everything done we can someday hear ourselves on your podcast! Slainte,” Hey BTW, the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is now a proud sponsor of IrishFest Atlanta in November. I'll have more details in the future.

London 2014. Det är julaftonskväll och en mäktig chefredaktör får för sig att skriva mejl till sina anställda på The Guardian. Alan Rusbridger har ett halvår kvar som chef och vill mobilisera, alla ska göra journalistik om klimatförändringarna. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Åren har gått medan utsläppen från fossila bränslen ökat och med dem - uppvärmningen. Efter 28 år av klimatmöten i FN:s regi nämndes i år för första gången omställning från fossila bränslen i ett avtal. Mötet som avslutades i veckan i Dubai blev det största klimatmötet hittills med flest personer närvarande och som alltid på klimatmötena också många journalister. Tidernas största nyhetsstory har den kallats, berättelsen om klimatförändringen men hur kom det sig att den inte var på alla förstasidor även de 50 veckor om året när det inte var klimatmöte? Varför var det så svårt att göra nyheter av klimatet? Klotet möter journalister och forskare med frågan om journalistiken kunnat nyhetsvärdera klimatfrågan högre? "Climate denial has morfed into delay" Klimatförnekarna är färre och klimatförsenarna istället en växande skara.Klimatförnekarna har ersatts av fördröjare, "vuxna i rummet" som vill prioritera annat först, berättar Cambridgeprofessorn John Naughton och journalisten Terry Macalister som var en av dem som fick det där julmejlet från Alan Rusbridger 2014. Medverkande: Alan Rusbridger, The Guardians chefredaktör 1995-2015 och numera chefredaktör för månadsmagasinet Prospect. Terry Macalister, frilansjournalist med fokus på energifrågor, författare och sedan några månader tillbaka "aktivist". John Naughton, professor i Cambridge, Leo Hickman, chefredaktör för Carbon Brief, Phillip Inman, ekonomiredaktör på The Observer och kolumnist i The Guardian.Reportaget från England sändes första gången i september 2022. Du hittar det programmet här nedan med kommentarer från Bengt Johansson, professor i journalistik, JMG och Marie-Louise Kristola, klimatkorrespondent, Sveriges Radio.Skriv till oss! vet@sverigesradio.seReporter: Anna-Karin IvarssonProgramledare: Niklas ZachrissonProducent: Anders Wennersten

This episode presents a setting of Bill Malley's from a session at Fergie's Pub in Philadelphia and give you tips for taking- or giving- a fiddle lesson.The artists mentioned are Bill Malley, Martin Hayes, Joe Bane, and John Naughton.Meg's new fiddle album Broke the Floor is available on Bandcamp!Find the sheet music for this fiddle tune on the Fiddle Studio blog. Get more information about Meg's books, courses, and membership for learning to play the fiddle at fiddlestudio.com.Keep in touch with Meg at meganbeller@fiddlestudio.com.

Columnist Bernard Hammelburg sprak deze week zijn duizendste column uit. Om die reden duiken we in zijn rijke archief en hoor je van 5 tot en met 9 juni zijn mooiste columns. Live op BNR en uiteraard hier als podcast. We gaan terug naar 31 juli 2013 Cloud Vrienden en collega's kijken mij doorgaans meewarig aan als ik zeg dat ik weiger gebruik te maken van de cloud en sociale netwerken als Facebook. Die vrienden en collega's dachten, heel naïef, dat hun bestanden daar veilig zijn, maar sinds de onthullingen van Edward Snowden moeten ze toch echt beter weten. Je kunt alle bestanden op je computer net zo goed meteen naar de Amerikaanse geheime diensten mailen, en ook meteen naar de Chinese, Duitse, Franse en Britse spionagediensten. In een prachtige analyse in de Guardian schrijft John Naughton dat dit geen paranoïde veronderstelling is van een cynische waarnemer, maar een aanval op de cloud providers van onze eigen Eurocommissaris Neelie Kroes. 'Waarom zou je iemand betalen om je zakelijke of andere geheimen te bewaren, als je weet dat ze met anderen worden gedeeld?,' zegt ze. Veel van wat Snowden heeft onthuld was allang bekend, in elk geval bij de regeringen van de landen die nu het hardst brullen dat de Amerikanen hun spionageboekje ver te buiten zijn gegaan. In elk land wordt digitaal gegluurd, geluisterd, getapt en gegapt. Het gesol met Snowden is bij het beschamende af. Hij is een klokkenluider, en een luis in de pels aan de donkere kant van de Maan die de spionagewereld nu eenmaal is. Maar geen verkrachter, moordenaar of pedofiel. Vladimir Poetin dacht dat hij de zaak onder controle had door Snowden een tijdelijkeRussische verblijfsvergunning te geven in ruil voor de belofte dat die zou stoppen met het luiden van klokken. Maar bij de Amerikanen staat het schuim van de verontwaardiging op de bek. Ze stuurden een FBI-delegatie naar Moskou om over Snowdens uitlevering te onderhandelen, waarbij ze de belofte deden dat hij niet de doodstraf zou krijgen. Niet de doodstraf! Wie bij een klokkenluider in dergelijke termen denkt is echt niet goed snik. Hoe dan ook: als uw gegevens nog in de cloud staan, wat ik me nauwelijks kan indenken, dan loopt u echt met uw hoofd in de wolken. Ik zou zeggen: digitaal inpakken en wegwezen! Kijk voor alle columns van Bernard Hammelburg op www.bnr.nl/bernardhammelburgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Columnist Bernard Hammelburg sprak deze week zijn duizendste column uit. Om die reden duiken we in zijn rijke archief en hoor je van 5 tot en met 9 juni zijn mooiste columns. Live op BNR en uiteraard hier als podcast. We gaan terug naar 31 juli 2013 Cloud Vrienden en collega's kijken mij doorgaans meewarig aan als ik zeg dat ik weiger gebruik te maken van de cloud en sociale netwerken als Facebook. Die vrienden en collega's dachten, heel naïef, dat hun bestanden daar veilig zijn, maar sinds de onthullingen van Edward Snowden moeten ze toch echt beter weten. Je kunt alle bestanden op je computer net zo goed meteen naar de Amerikaanse geheime diensten mailen, en ook meteen naar de Chinese, Duitse, Franse en Britse spionagediensten. In een prachtige analyse in de Guardian schrijft John Naughton dat dit geen paranoïde veronderstelling is van een cynische waarnemer, maar een aanval op de cloud providers van onze eigen Eurocommissaris Neelie Kroes. 'Waarom zou je iemand betalen om je zakelijke of andere geheimen te bewaren, als je weet dat ze met anderen worden gedeeld?,' zegt ze. Veel van wat Snowden heeft onthuld was allang bekend, in elk geval bij de regeringen van de landen die nu het hardst brullen dat de Amerikanen hun spionageboekje ver te buiten zijn gegaan. In elk land wordt digitaal gegluurd, geluisterd, getapt en gegapt. Het gesol met Snowden is bij het beschamende af. Hij is een klokkenluider, en een luis in de pels aan de donkere kant van de Maan die de spionagewereld nu eenmaal is. Maar geen verkrachter, moordenaar of pedofiel. Vladimir Poetin dacht dat hij de zaak onder controle had door Snowden een tijdelijkeRussische verblijfsvergunning te geven in ruil voor de belofte dat die zou stoppen met het luiden van klokken. Maar bij de Amerikanen staat het schuim van de verontwaardiging op de bek. Ze stuurden een FBI-delegatie naar Moskou om over Snowdens uitlevering te onderhandelen, waarbij ze de belofte deden dat hij niet de doodstraf zou krijgen. Niet de doodstraf! Wie bij een klokkenluider in dergelijke termen denkt is echt niet goed snik. Hoe dan ook: als uw gegevens nog in de cloud staan, wat ik me nauwelijks kan indenken, dan loopt u echt met uw hoofd in de wolken. Ik zou zeggen: digitaal inpakken en wegwezen! Kijk voor alle columns van Bernard Hammelburg op www.bnr.nl/bernardhammelburgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On March 22nd, the Future of Life Institute,  a nonprofit organization focussed on reducing existential risks facing humanity, and in particular existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence (AI), published an open letter entitled Pause Giant AI Experiments. Its signatories included tech luminaries such as Elon Musk, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Its opening sentences read:“AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs… Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources.”But given the kind of AI available today, are these kinds of concern justified? Is Chat GPT, for example, really a kind of intelligence? And if so, are governments capable of taming it and channelling its capabilities for the benefit of humanity, rather than its destruction? John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University. He is also the technology columnist of the Observer newspaper. Pease leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts.This podcast is created in partnership with The Philosopher, the UK's longest running public philosophy journal. Check out the spring issue of the philosopher, and its spring online lecture series: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org Artwork by Nick HallidayMusic by Rowan Mcilvride

We made it! The end of the first season of 80/20 with ParetoHealth has us bringing it all back home, so join us for a trip down memory lane as we look at the history of ParetoHealth and some of the things that formed the company along the way. From our beginnings 10 years ago as three people in a tiny office to where we are now, the story has been a great one. Listen to the episode to hear about the formulation of ParetoHealth's core values, the impact of COVID-19, and some of our favorite moments from the past few years. The growth of our community, whether this is the core team, our Consultant partners, or the employers who simply wanted more out of healthcare, has been truly incredible. Thank you all for the memories. More importantly, let's look to the future. Together, there are almost no limits on what we can do.

London 2014. Det är julaftonskväll och en mäktig chefredaktör får för sig att skriva mejl till sina anställda på The Guardian. Alan Rusbridger har ett halvår kvar som ledare för dagstidningen och vill att alla på tidningen ska mobilisera, alla ska göra journalistik om klimatförändringarna. Klotet åker till England och kollar vad som hände och vad det blev sen när halvåret gått. Varför var det så svårt att göra nyheter av klimatet? Åren har gått medan utsläppen ökat och uppvärmningen ökat. Tidernas största nyhetsstory, den om klimatförändringen, hur kunde den inte vara på alla förstasidor?Klimathotet - den största nyheten som ändå inte nådde fram till alla förstasidor eller toppade nyhetssändningarnaKlotet möter journalister och forskare med frågan om journalistiken kunnat nyhetsvärdera klimatfrågan högre?Medverkande: Alan Rusbridger, The Guardians chefredaktör 1995-2015 och numera chefredaktör för månadsmagasinet Prospect. Terry Macalister, frilansjournalist med fokus på energifrågor, författare och sedan några månader tillbaka "aktivist". John Naughton, professor i Cambridge, Leo Hickman, chefredaktör för Carbon Brief, Phillip Inman, ekonomiredaktör på The Observer och kolumnist i The Guardian. Bengt Johansson, professor i journalistik, JMG. Marie-Louise Kristola, klimatkorrespondent, Sveriges Radio.Skriv till oss! vet@sverigesradio.seReporter: Anna-Karin IvarssonProgramledare: Niklas ZachrissonProducent: Anders Wennersten

Our guest on this episode of the Tunes From Doolin Podcast is Mary MacNamara, the great concertina player from East Clare.  Mary just released her wonderful book “Sunday's at Lena's” and welcomes us to her music room in Tulla where we talk about her book, growing up as a young musician in East Clare and the musicians who influenced her (Mikey Donoghue, Bill Malley & Joe Bane, Martin Rochford, John Naughton), foot tapping, moving to Dublin from Tulla, and much, much more.The tunes played by Mary MacNamara on this episode are :Jigs from Mikey DonoghueThe Old Bush / The Swallow's Tail (Reels from Martin Rochford)Gan Ainm / The Cuckoo's Nest (Hornpipes from Bill Malley)The Killavil / The Pipe On the Hob (Jigs)**Duet with Charles MonodTo keep up with Mary's work and order her book and albums, visit her website http://www.marymacnamara.net/You can also order “Sundays at Lena's” and find Mary's recordings at Custy's Music Shop in Ennis (https://custysmusic.com/)--------If you would like to help and support this podcast and the Tunes From Doolin project in general, you can become one of our Angels on Patreon for as little as a coffee (or a pint) per month. As patron you can have access to a whole bunch of extras, but most importantly you have my eternal gratitude for helping me create more podcast episodes, videos and content.

Here we are in 2022 navigating cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics, war in Europe. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle, who played the wildcard Begbie in the '90s hit Trainspotting, is here to show us that we did. That the world we live in was shaped by the forgotten decade: the 1990s. From Hong Kong to Moscow, Cool Britannia to No Frills flights, we travel back in time to key moments in the '90s that reverberate today in unexpected ways. Episode 4: Internet As a new bill goes through parliament that hopes to ensure online safety, Robert Carlyle takes us back to a time when the internet seemed like a force for good, an online utopia where friends could re-unite. But, as he reminds us, the 90s was also the decade that witnessed the first prosecution for cyberstalking and when the term trolling was coined. Professors Helen McCarthy and John Naughton take us back to the days of AltaVista, Ask Jeeves and the cyber-cafe. We hear from Keith Teare, one of the people behind the world's first cyber-cafe called Cyberia, who explains why they never made a profit, despite having coffee shops across the world and online dating site. Producer: Stephen Hughes Sound Designer/Composer: Phil Channell Consultant: Professor Helen McCarthy

Alina Utrata sits down with John Naughton, a technology columnist at the Observer, senior research fellow in CRASSH and co-founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge, and Josh Simmons, a postdoc in technology and democracy at Harvard University. They discuss Elon Musk's recent bid for Twitter, what it shows about the power of digital platforms and wealthy men, and how to think about the challenges of reigning in Big Tech.You can follow, John Naughton on Twitter @jjn1, Josh Simons @joshsimonlabour, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4 For more articles, sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David talks to John Naughton about what's coming next in the tech revolution and where it's taking us. From quantum computing to cryptocurrency, from AI to the Internet of Things: what's hype, what's for real and how will it shape our politics. Plus we discuss what China understands about technology that the rest of the world might have missed.Talking Points: The metaverse is the next big thing in Silicon Valley. It feels like the logical conclusion of prevailing trends.This is not actually a radical break.The gaming industry is developing the metaverse. And big tech is investing heavily in gaming. The metaverse bypasses many elements of the real world that people like Zuckerberg are keen on, such as government regulation.What will be the next big technological shift? Are we in a kind of lull?The internet of things has not gone away.Blockchain, which enables crypto, is still a significant technology.Proponents of Web3 want to disrupt centralized control of the Internet.Does the Chinese system show us that there is another choice on technology? The general view of autocracy is that it can't be done. The problem is imperfect information.Has technology made it possible to escape the autocrat's trap?Technology has undeniably changed our lives, but the liberatory promise does not seem to have been realized.When will technology give us control over our own time? The kind of capitalism that drives the tech industry is unstable unless it grows.The relentlessness of consumer society is antithetical to a particular kind of creativity and a particular kind of politics.Mentioned in this Episode:John's column for the ObserverNeal Stephennson, Snow CrashJohn on TP talking about LibraKeynes' essay, ‘Economic possibilities for our grandchildren'History of Ideas, Hannah Arendt on ActionThe Minderoo Centre for Technology and DemocracyFurther Learning: What is the metaverse, exactly? What is Web3? More on Microsoft's takeover of Activision BlizzardAnd as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: lrb.co.uk/talking See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/talkingpolitics.

Nick Hughes is joined by John Naughton who is the CEO of GoContractor from Brisbane, Australia. GoContractor is built to help construction general contractors move their worker onboarding and subcontractor safety management online. Nick and John jump into a fun conversation that covers a variety of different topics including how he ended up downunder and what he loves about Australia, how he discovered his entrepreneurial path, and why he choose entrepreneurship. They also cover the origins of GoContractor, the foundations of a great company and what was the biggest hurdle early on for him and his  team to get over. John Naughton speaks the truth of how to grow a great company and lead a team to success, and we hope it helps you today!https://gocontractor.com/

In this episode, I interview John Naughton, who is based in Brisbane. John is the CEO at GoContractor, which was built to help construction general contractors move their worker onboarding and subcontractor safety management online. In the interview we discuss John's background in construction technology and how he strived to provide a solution to help make workers safer, the challenges he faced in New York and Ireland when the pandemic started and construction was shut down, and how he saved the economy and the CIF (Construction Industry Federation) billions of dollars by helping the construction industry safely get back to work before other industries during the pandemic, which caused massive scaling headaches... plus lots more. www.SaasStartupStories.com www.EmuDomains.com

Every jobsite has new subcontractors, short term laborers and other team members onboarding constantly. How can general contractors ensure that new workers have the safety training they need, and are in compliance? John Noughton and I discuss the issues and solutions.

This episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology Headlines GoContractor, a leader in the digitization of construction worker onboarding and compliance tracking, today announced a $5 million Series A round of funding led by Building Ventures and Ironspring in the U.S. with continued participation from existing investors.  The new funding will allow GoContractor to further scale across the US and European markets, grow its sales, support and marketing teams, and increase investment in its research and development organization located in Ireland. GoContractor is the only worker and subcontractor onboarding and data management solution that exclusively focuses on training, managing, and connecting general contractors with their workers and subcontractors in the construction industry.  “We are very excited to work with Building Ventures and Ironspring, they both have an excellent track record and a very solid standing in the construction industry,” said John Naughton, CEO, GoContractor. “BV and Ironspring share our passion and enthusiasm for transforming construction, and understand the importance of connecting and qualifying workers through an online platform to safely access construction sites across the globe.” https://hrtechfeed.com/onboarding-tool-gocontractor-announces-5-million-series-a/    Parabol, a leading Agile meeting platform, secured a Series A investment of $8 million led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with continued participation from CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others. The announcement comes on the heels of Parabol’s latest milestone of registering 100,000 users across more than 3,000 companies worldwide to help them make their meetings more efficient and effective. This includes members of the United States Airforce, which awarded Parabol a $1.47 million contract via the Defense Department’s small business innovation research program, to bring Parabol’s Agile meeting platform to  the U.S. military. “We’re excited about Parabol’s dual use as an enterprise solution with extensibility into the government and defense sectors,” said Priyanka Mitra, Principal at M12. “The macro trend of distributed teams and remote work are here to stay, beyond the COVID pandemic era. Parabol puts in-person and remote participants on an equal footing, whether teams are brainstorming plans for a product launch or helping to keep the country operating.” Parabol was founded in August 2015 to help remote and hybrid teams conduct structured meetings essential to Agile teamwork, such as retrospectives and daily stand-ups. By effectively collecting input from all meeting participants regardless of their physical location, Parabol provides an experience that is superior to physical meeting rooms and collaboration with whiteboards. Parabol seamlessly integrates with widely-used applications such as Slack, Jira, and GitHub, and automatically captures and summarizes the meeting output for all participants. Parabol will use its Series A funding to meet customer demand for additional Agile meeting types and add new enterprise features, expanding Parabol’s ability to serve even more kinds of teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-collaboration-platform-parabol-raises-8m-in-series-a-funding/   Payroll Merger in the news…   PayScale, the industry leader in compensation data and technology, and Payfactors, a leading compensation data management company with deep industry expertise, announced that they have merged. Together, the combined company will become one of the largest providers of its kind in North America to help job seekers, employees and businesses get pay right. “Compensation and pay equity strategies are shifting even further on to the C-Suite agenda given the accelerated shift to remote and hybrid work and the overwhelming importance of the social justice movement,” said Scott Torrey, CEO, PayScale. “Together, the PayScale leadership team’s experience running SaaS businesses at scale combined with Payfactors’ deep compensation expertise creates the optimal set of capabilities to offer faster paced innovation to get pay right today and in the future for even the largest of organizations.” Both companies have built deep relationships with organizations and individuals by helping people navigate the increasingly complex compensation landscape. The addition of Payfactors will make it possible to offer customers the most comprehensive set of integrated data, software, services and support available to get compensation right under any market condition. PayScale CEO Scott Torrey will become CEO of the combined company with Payfactors CEO Jeff Laliberte taking on the role of Chief Strategy Officer and joining the PayScale board. https://hrtechfeed.com/payscale-and-payfactors-merge/   Stoke Talent, a leading freelance management system, announces today the release of its Worker Classification Engine. This artificial intelligence algorithmic screening solution is able to offer early detection of high-risk independent contractor (IC) and/or freelancer relationships, which may lead to costly misclassification penalties and possible lawsuits if left undetected.  This is the first product of its kind built to provide companies with a continuous, automated solution that monitors and tracks each individual relationship for full compliance with all workforce classification laws. The booming freelance economy has commanded the attention of the legal system. The federal government, state governments, and government agencies have begun to develop legislation that would ensure companies are unable to falsely classify their employees as contractors and, by doing so, prevent them from associated social benefits and tax contributions. Threats of penalties from the U.S. The Department of Labor (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other agencies – not to mention class-action lawsuits and failed audits – have also added a sense of urgency to the issue.  Moreover, each involved government agency applies its own logic to the determination of workforce classification, creating a lack of uniformity and costly room for error. Classification tests depend on very specific and individualized details that hiring managers may not be aware play a role and legal teams have no visibility into. Before Stoke Talent, a business looking to be able to guarantee proper workforce classification was required to take on these extensive legal intricacies and consistent manual monitoring undertakings on its own. https://hrtechfeed.com/stoke-talent-launches-worker-classification-engine-for-identifying-compliance-risks/    

John Naughton, tech columnist at The Observer Newspaper, talks about that great Wild West of our time - Cyberspace. From its roots in “permissionless innovation” to the staggering dominance of a very small number of companies over most aspects of our lives, he surveys the absence of governance, and how two effective sovereigns - Apple and Google - have appropriated powers normally associated with sovereign powers of territorial control.In our discussion Ed and I pick up on the de-globalisation of the internet, the digital divide and on surveillance capitalism - and while it turns out these problems are not new, the perennial importance of Truth to our Age of Enlightenment once again comes to the fore.Talking points:Weaknesses in our systems of governing are at the root of the souring of social media. Constitutions can and must have provisions to ensure governments, politicians and citizens deal in reality. The basics would be - independent feedback, deliberative democracy and measures to minimise the culture of lies and inflamation. Most of our main challenges are bewilderingly complex, and they will never be solved through adversarial two-line posts. But they might well be mitigated by inclusive, deliberative conversations.John Naughton:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_NaughtonJohn Naughton in the Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/networkerArticle we were discussing:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/13/silicon-valley-has-admitted-facial-recognition-technology-is-toxic-about-timeGoogle's dominance in search, as a graph that is well worth a view:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/this-chart-reveals-googles-true-dominance-over-the-web/Tech and truth - mainstream media turns out to be the biggest amplifier of White House disinformation:https://www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009642/mainstream-media-is-the-biggest-amplifier-of-white-house-disinformation/amp/These problems are not new (1984 interview):https://billmoyers.com/content/30-second-president/BILL MOYERS: What I see and hear deals more with the emotions than what I read.TONY SCHWARTZ: That's right. We are in the business of using PR in a new manner, not in the old print terms of press relations. We are using PR as people's reactions, personal retrieval of your feelings and associations. PR — people's recall, of their experiences. PR — planning reactions. That's our whole new business. It's a PR business, planning reactions.BILL MOYERS: But isn't it manipulating people to in effect tell them what they're feeling instead of telling them what they need to know to vote?TONY SCHWARTZ: I use the word not manipulation, I say partipulation.BILL MOYERS: Partipulation?TONY SCHWARTZ: You have to participate in your own manipulation. In that, you're bringing things to your manipulation. If you don't want to participate in it, you could turn off the commercial. You could tune it out. But there are things that get into you. And that's the participation.The global network of local internets is a step closer:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53686390Podcast - Facial recognition and racial profiling - cautionary tale: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000486946788A spelling out of the substance and scope of surveillance capitalism (Alexander Nix/Cambridge Analytica):https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCcGoogle in China article (MIT):https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-google-took-on-china-and-lost/China's AI Surveillance State goes global:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/Podcast - More on Cyberspace and Governance - Preet Bharara (NY state prosecutor dismissed by Donald Trump after refusing to resign) talks to John Carlin, the US Justice Department's former head of the National Security Division:https://omny.fm/shows/stay-tuned-with-preet/introducing-cyber-space-with-john-carlinThe world is awash with bullshit:https://www.callingbullshit.org/?utm_content=bufferfcd66&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=bufferFilm - The Social Dilemma:https://www.thesocialdilemma.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalist John Naughton on a fateful night in LA with the foppish soon-to-disgraced film star - plus the music the Voyager Mission sent into space, the best swearing in Porridge and the Wire, the dubious vogue for 'duetting' with footage of deceased legends, Van Morrison lyrics reimagined, stunts pulled by the paparazzi, and Mark's Valentines' Night dinner with Lucinda Williams. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon hosts selling summits for businesses selling on the Amazon Marketplace. This year there are six of these two-day events. The final one is coming up in October in Seattle, it’s sold out, but is this something you should be planning to attend next year? John Naughton with 180Commerce breaks down what these events are and who they can benefit.  Sponsor: Payability. 

Ring True explores the role of politics, psychology, and tech giants in the spread of misinformation in science. The six-part miniseries also examines how research, policymaking, and journalism help or hurt the spread of misinformation. What does good anti-misinformation legislation look like? In the last episode of Ring True, we take a look at the Anti Fake News Bill in Malaysia and around the world – and find out why it has missed the mark, so far. -- And that’s the end of the series. Still can’t get enough? Listen again from the start. Also, read, watch or listen to some of the resources that inspired the series. Read True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo. Watch PBS Frontline's The Facebook Dilemma Part 1 and Part 2. Read From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet by John Naughton. Watch The Great Hack on Netflix. And check out the Spotify playlist of the thematically curated songs featured in the series, plus many more than did not make the cut.

Ring True explores the role of politics, psychology, and tech giants in the spread of misinformation in science. The six-part miniseries also examines how research, policymaking, and journalism help or hurt the spread of misinformation. What does good anti-misinformation legislation look like? In the last episode of Ring True, we take a look at the Anti Fake News Bill in Malaysia and around the world – and find out why it has missed the mark, so far. -- And that’s the end of the series. Still can’t get enough? Listen again from the start. Also, read, watch or listen to some of the resources that inspired the series. Read True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo. Watch PBS Frontline's The Facebook Dilemma Part 1 and Part 2. Read From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet by John Naughton. Watch The Great Hack on Netflix. And check out the Spotify playlist of the thematically curated songs featured in the series, plus many more than did not make the cut.

The 2018 Holiday season is long gone, but sellers can’t forget about the last Q4. There are lots of data that sellers need to go through to start getting ready for Q4 2019. Former Amazonian John Naughton, with 180Commerce, breaks down what you should review from last year. Sponsors: Payability.

How did Facebook get to be so powerful and what, if anything, can we do to take some of that power back? David talks to John Naughton about the rise and possible fall of Mark Zuckerberg’s social media monolith. Talking Points:Facebook is a data extraction company claiming to be a social network.If the service is free, your data is the product.Advertisers, not users, are Facebook’s real customers.How do we reconcile this reality with the fact that people value it as a public service?In some parts of the world, Facebook has become the internet.People who wouldn’t be able to afford data charges can access the internet for free via the Facebook app.If you are a monopoly platform for information, what kind of responsibility do you have?2018 has been a tough year for Facebook, but is it really vulnerable?Investigative reporting has revealed the darker side of the social network.So far, they’ve been pretty inept at handling these scandals.This is creating a morale problem, which could affect their ability to recruit.But the company’s services have inserted themselves into people’s daily lives.We don’t have the right analytical framework for analyzing how Facebook does harm.Facebook has become the corporate extension of Mark Zuckerberg’s personality.He has absolute control, and this means that his vision dominates.Zuckerberg appears to believe that the world would be better if everyone were on Facebook.For Facebook, it’s all about growth. What if they embraced a more self-limiting strategy?A massive revolt by a significant portion of people might shift the narrative and cause investor panic.But it’s unlikely that Facebook will be out-competed. The barrier to entry has become too high.Mentioned in this Episode:Carole Cadwalladr’s groundbreaking reporting on Cambridge AnalyticaThe New York Times’ investigation into how Facebook handled revelations about Russian interference in the 2016 electionHow Facebook enabled a genocide in MyanmarFurther Learning:From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, John’s book about the internet.The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos profiles Mark Zuckerberg.From our archive... David unpacks the Cambridge Analytica story with John and Jennifer Cobbe.Shoshana Zuboff’s new book on the age of surveillance capitalism.The U.S. Senate’s report on disinformation and Russian interference.And as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: lrb.co.uk/talkingSet your alarms… for Sunday, when David talks to Ella McPherson about... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are here. Both are just days away. Holiday shopping typically starts each year in mid-October but it’s about to really pick up until the end of the year.  John Naughton with 180Commerce talks with us about expectations, ways to manage Sponsored Products plus mistakes to avoid.

Day 2 of the 2018 Symposium looks at communication and the human consequences of networking technology. It features John Naughton, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Press Fellowship Programme at Cambridge University, and the author of the book 'From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet'. He is joined by Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor at The New Republic and former visiting scholar at Stanford University. Morozov is the author of the book 'The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom'.

The Supreme Court has issued their ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair overturning a 1992 ruling that said states can only require sales tax in states that the store has a physical presence. This new ruling says states can require online marketplaces like Amazon to collect and pay sales tax.  This new ruling means that states can now more aggressively go after sellers and require they collect and pay sales tax for orders sent to their states. Former Amazonian John Naughton breaks down to tell us what this ruling means for sellers. 

CRASSH is delighted to invite you to the book launch for Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy by James Williams, winner of the inaugural Nine Dots Prize. This event is free and open to the public, and a drinks reception will follow the event. Author: James Williams (University of Oxford) Discussants: Maria Farrell (Writer and Technology Consultant) John Naughton (The Observer's Technology Correspondent) WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL $100,000 NINE DOTS PRIZE Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy Published by Cambridge University Press on 31 May 2018 Paperback or Open Access Former Google advertising executive, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control. Drawing on insights ranging from Diogenes to contemporary tech leaders, Williams's thoughtful and impassioned analysis is sure to provoke discussion and debate. Williams is the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, a new Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues.

With the help of John Naughton and Jennifer Cobbe we unpick the Cambridge Analytica story and get to the heart of the matter: what is Facebook doing to us and can anything make it stop? We talk about the business of surveillance capitalism and the difference between a scandal and a crisis. Plus how working in tech is like working on the Manhattan Project and how Cambridge Analytica is like the Australian cricket team. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jonathan Hackenbroich covers for Mark Leonard and speaks with Professor John Naughton about Facebook’s data leak and its monetisation of data. Bookshelf: East West Street by Philippe Sands https://www.amazon.co.uk/East-West-Street-Non-fiction-Book/dp/1474601901 95 Thesis about Technology by John Naughton http://95theses.co.uk/ China’s Big Data Big Brother by Mark Leonard https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/xi-jinping-surveillance-state-by-mark-leonard-2018-02 Picture credits: Cambridge Analytica by Thought Catalogue via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/lookcatalog/26029490417/in/photolist-FE8WDx-bWN3ja-21kifhB-21htHYs-FHycfF-21kgHZp-Dcy5Jw-Dczwm1-DczwPW-21kgHBF-24iDy1d-HfhRq7-Pi78SZ, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Not so long ago the web was on the quirky edges of life, but today it is at its heart. John Naughton started out as an enthusiast, but today he joins Tom Clark to explain why it has fallen prey to corporate capture and bred a new surveillance capitalism. James Ball explains how social media has been used to brainwash voters. Meanwhile, Samira Shackle comes back from a trip to Mosul, the Iraqi city until recently under IS control, and explains how blameless citizens there are today paying the price for having been unwilling appendages to the jihaddi killing machine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Before we get stuck into 2018, we go back to the sixteenth century to explore another technology revolution that overthrew the established order. John Naughton recently published his 95 theses for the digital age and we talk to John about the theology of technopoly and the Church of Facebook. Plus we're joined by Helen to discuss the parallels between the current revolt against the elites and what happened five hundred years ago. From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: where does this story end? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

JOHN NAUGHTON is a senior research fellow at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He is an Internet columnist for the London Observer, and author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_naughton-the-state-of-informed-bewilderment

Panel 2: Security Chair: Professor John Naughton (CRASSH, Cambridge) Dr Chris Doran (Director of Research Collaborations, ARM) Professor Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab, Cambridge) In 2016 Philip Howard, now Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford and a leading scholar on the impact of the Internet on politics, published Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up in which he tried to assess what the long-term implications of this hyper-connected network might be. Among these possible implications, he noted, are: * The IoT is likely to bring a special kind of stability to global politics (analogous to the uneasy stand-off of the Cold War) * The new world order would be characterised by a pact between big tech firms and governments * Governments may have a decreasing capacity to govern the IoT while corporate (and also bad) actors will become more powerful in the hyper-connected world that the technology will create * The IoT will generate remarkable opportunities for society but the security and privacy risks that it could create will also pose formidable problems for society * The IoT looks like an unstoppable juggernaut, so we should learn from our experience with earlier incarnations of the Internet to try and ensure that history does not repeat itself Pax Technica is an ambitious and far-reaching book, and like all such volumes, it raises almost as many questions — about international and national politics, governance, security and privacy — as it answers. The Technology and Democracy project at CRASSH seeks to use the book as a jumping-off point for exploring some of these questions. We will do this in a major one-day public event in Cambridge on 24 November 2017, featuring Professor Howard and invited experts from a number of relevant disciplines. The event will open with a keynote address, after which three panels of invited experts will discuss specific implications of a hyper-connected world. This talk is part of the Technology and Democracy Events series.

Panel 1: Geo(politics) Chair: Professor David Runciman (POLIS, Cambridge) Professor Ross Anderson (Computer Lab, Cambridge) Dr Bill Janeway (Pembroke College and Warburg Pincus) Professor John Naughton (CRASSH, Cambridge) In 2016 Philip Howard, now Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford and a leading scholar on the impact of the Internet on politics, published Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up in which he tried to assess what the long-term implications of this hyper-connected network might be. Among these possible implications, he noted, are: * The IoT is likely to bring a special kind of stability to global politics (analogous to the uneasy stand-off of the Cold War) * The new world order would be characterised by a pact between big tech firms and governments * Governments may have a decreasing capacity to govern the IoT while corporate (and also bad) actors will become more powerful in the hyper-connected world that the technology will create * The IoT will generate remarkable opportunities for society but the security and privacy risks that it could create will also pose formidable problems for society * The IoT looks like an unstoppable juggernaut, so we should learn from our experience with earlier incarnations of the Internet to try and ensure that history does not repeat itself Pax Technica is an ambitious and far-reaching book, and like all such volumes, it raises almost as many questions — about international and national politics, governance, security and privacy — as it answers. The Technology and Democracy project at CRASSH seeks to use the book as a jumping-off point for exploring some of these questions. We will do this in a major one-day public event in Cambridge on 24 November 2017, featuring Professor Howard and invited experts from a number of relevant disciplines. The event will open with a keynote address, after which three panels of invited experts will discuss specific implications of a hyper-connected world. This talk is part of the Technology and Democracy Events series.

Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which Silicon Valley is churning out its "solutions" (often to nobody's problems) is fast reaching its slobness.Am I overreacting? Facebook wants our nude pics in advance, to better protect us against revenge porn; the industry (industry!) of workplace surveillance is out of control; and Google preemptively censors us if an algorithm decides one of *our* Google Docs may be violating the law.How do you call all this? John Naughton on the Guardian very Britishly wrote of a half-educated digital elite.I call it the attack of the algojerks.

Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which Silicon Valley is churning out its "solutions" (often to nobody's problems) is fast reaching its slobness.Am I overreacting? Facebook wants our nude pics in advance, to better protect us against revenge porn; the industry (industry!) of workplace surveillance is out of control; and Google preemptively censors us if an algorithm decides one of *our* Google Docs may be violating the law.How do you call all this? John Naughton on the Guardian very Britishly wrote of a half-educated digital elite.I call it the attack of the algojerks.

John Naughton talks to Philip Howard of the Oxford Internet Institute about whether the digital revolution has been good or bad for democracy. Will the Internet of Things usher in an era of universal peace or universal surveillance? What happened to the hopes of tech liberation that came with the Arab Spring? Is there anything we can do about fake news? A fascinating conversation between two recovering utopians about the past, present and future of the internet age. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Regular panellists John Naughton and Aaron Rapport share their summer reading recommendations this week, joined by the podcast's intern Colby Smith. The list includes blogs and baseball. Listen out for an appearance from Maha Rafi Atal at the end, who helps Aaron brush up on his English history. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The PM lurches from crisis to crisis, but her government looks more secure than it did a week ago.  What gives?  We try to make sense of where British politics now stands, after the terrible Grenfell tower fire, further terrorist attacks, and the start of the Brexit negotiations.  We also ask why there is such a disconnect between political turmoil and serenity in the financial markets: why aren't they more spooked?  Plus we talk with John Naughton about the role of social media in Corbyn's unexpected success.  With Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Panel Two: Media Power Discussants: John Naughton (Cambridge) & Martin Moore (King's College London) John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at CRASSH, co-director of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project and the Observer’s technology columnist. His most recent book is From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet. Martin Moore is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. He is the author of Tech Giants and Civic Power (2016). Chair: David Runciman

Discussants: John Naughton, David Vincent, Julian Huppert, Nora Ni Loideain Chair: Daniel Wilson On 16 November 2016, both Houses of Parliament completed their examination and review of the Investigatory Powers Bill and it will become law before the end of 2016. When it was first published in draft form a year ago, the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, promised that the Bill would establish a “world-leading oversight regime” with “powers fit for the digital age” that would be “clear and understandable”. Nevertheless, the Bill has since been the subject of considerable controversy. Advocates, including, Professor Sir David Omand (a former Director of GCHQ ), stress that the importance of the new statute cannot be overestimated as it puts the secret surveillance activities of the State “under the rule of law” for the first time in 500 years and makes such powers “comprehensible to the citizen”. Critics, however, argue that the new law provides the State with unprecedented powers that are “more suited to a dictatorship than a democracy” (Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group). Civil society organisations have described the law as a “Snooper’s Charter”. Of particular concern is the scope of powers provided under the law which will enable public authorities “to indiscriminately hack, intercept, record, and monitor the communications and internet use of the entire population” (Bella Sankey, Policy Director, Liberty). In its final event of the Technology and Democracy Project’s 2016 seminar series, an interdisciplinary panel of speakers will address the political, historical, technological and human rights implications posed by this divisive new legislative framework. Please join us for a discussion of what kind of precedent this significant new law represents for technology and democracy both within and beyond the UK.

Technology guru and Observer columnist John Naughton joins David and Aaron to talk about the knotty relationship between tech and politics. Does the online world have a right-wing bias? Why are Silicon Valley billionaires frightened of Trump? And just what have the Russians been playing at? Plus Aaron takes us through the latest twists and turns as the outgoing Obama administration and the incoming Trump administration squabble over America's place in the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Keynote address: "Why Privacy?" Chair: John Naughton (University of Cambridge) Keynote speaker: Christena Nippert-Eng (Indiana University)

Keynote address: "Why Privacy?" Chair: John Naughton (University of Cambridge) Keynote speaker: Christena Nippert-Eng (Indiana University)

Keynote address: "Why Privacy?" Chair: John Naughton (University of Cambridge) Keynote speaker: Christena Nippert-Eng (Indiana University)

Chair: John Naughton Speakers: Richard Clayton, Lorna Woods and Ray Corrigan

In recent years, the debate about automation and employment has taken a new turn. What has re-ignited the debate is the realisation that the process of ‘combinatorial innovation’ in digital technology—the combination of massive increases in processing power, big data analytics, sensor technology, digital mapping and machine learning—has opened up the possibility that large numbers of non-repetitive jobs which require some cognitive skills may become amenable to automation in the foreseeable future. This kind of work—classically defined as ‘white collar’ jobs in the UK (‘middle-class’ in the US)—represents a significant proportion of current industrial and commercial employment, and significant displacement of it by technology would be a major development for societies. Estimates of the potential disruption vary, but the best-known study (by Frey and Osborne) estimates that fully 47 per cent of the 702 job categories identified by the US Bureau of Labor could now be vulnerable. At this stage, there is no way of determining whether the sceptics or the predictions are correct. This uncertainty, however, should not be the end of the discussion, but the beginning. The possibility that a significant proportion of middle-class work could be mechanised at the pace we have seen in other areas affected by digital technology is an eventuality that needs to be taken seriously, even if the probability of it happening is lower than evangelists believe. The existence of a stable middle class is a prerequisite for a viable democracy, and the prospect of it being destabilised is therefore of great interest to our Technology and Democracy project. To discuss it we have brought together four speakers, each of whom brings a different perspective to the issue. Robert Madelin is Senior Adviser for Innovation in the European Commission Daniel Susskind is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and co-author of The Future of the Professions (OUP) Willy Brown is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Cambridge and former Master of Darwin College Gerard de Vries is Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and a former member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, the think tank of the Dutch government for long-term policy issues This talk is part of the Technology and Democracy Events series.

A lunchtime workshop of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project In a landmark judgment on October 7 the European Court of Justice has ruled that the Safe Harbour framework governing the transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to the US does not comply with the requirements of EU Data Protection law in light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and is therefore invalid under EU law. The Safe Harbour framework stemmed from a decision of the European Commission in 2000 (2000/520/EC) that the US afforded an adequate level of protection of personal data transferred to the US from the EU. This decision was made long before the EU Charter became part of EU law and more than a decade prior to the Edward Snowden revelations. The ECJ’s judgment thus invalidates arrangements that for 15 years have allowed Internet companies to transfer the personal data of European users to server farms in the US and elsewhere. It has very wide-ranging implications — not just for data-protection law, but also for the economics of Internet companies and for international relations. This workshop will discuss some of those implications. Panel: David Runciman (chair), John Naughton, Ross Anderson, Nora Ni Loideain

A lunchtime workshop of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project In a landmark judgment on October 7 the European Court of Justice has ruled that the Safe Harbour framework governing the transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to the US does not comply with the requirements of EU Data Protection law in light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and is therefore invalid under EU law. The Safe Harbour framework stemmed from a decision of the European Commission in 2000 (2000/520/EC) that the US afforded an adequate level of protection of personal data transferred to the US from the EU. This decision was made long before the EU Charter became part of EU law and more than a decade prior to the Edward Snowden revelations. The ECJ’s judgment thus invalidates arrangements that for 15 years have allowed Internet companies to transfer the personal data of European users to server farms in the US and elsewhere. It has very wide-ranging implications — not just for data-protection law, but also for the economics of Internet companies and for international relations. This workshop will discuss some of those implications. Panel: David Runciman (chair), John Naughton, Ross Anderson, Nora Ni Loideain

A lunchtime workshop of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project In a landmark judgment on October 7 the European Court of Justice has ruled that the Safe Harbour framework governing the transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to the US does not comply with the requirements of EU Data Protection law in light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and is therefore invalid under EU law. The Safe Harbour framework stemmed from a decision of the European Commission in 2000 (2000/520/EC) that the US afforded an adequate level of protection of personal data transferred to the US from the EU. This decision was made long before the EU Charter became part of EU law and more than a decade prior to the Edward Snowden revelations. The ECJ’s judgment thus invalidates arrangements that for 15 years have allowed Internet companies to transfer the personal data of European users to server farms in the US and elsewhere. It has very wide-ranging implications — not just for data-protection law, but also for the economics of Internet companies and for international relations. This workshop will discuss some of those implications. Panel: David Runciman (chair), John Naughton, Ross Anderson, Nora Ni Loideain

Dan Schiller in conversation with John Naughton and David Runciman Part of the Technology and Democracy Research Project http://www.techdem.crassh.cam.ac.uk

Abstract Two aspects of ‘power’ are important in a networked world. One is the coercive, surveillance and other power exercised by states. The other is that wielded by the handful of large digital corporations that have come to dominate the Internet over the last two decades. Corporate power is the main focus of this talk, which explores a number of interrelated questions: What exactly is the nature of the power wielded by digital corporations? How does it differ from the kinds of power wielded by other, non-digital corporations? In what ways is it—or might it be—problematic? And are the legislative tools possessed by states for the regulation of corporate power fit for purpose in a digital era? Speaker John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow in CRASSH , Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and the technology columnist of The Observer. He is (with Sir Richard Evans and David Runciman) co-director of the Leverhulme ‘Conspiracy and Democracy’ research project, and (with David Runciman) co-director of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project in the Centre for Digital Knowledge in CRASSH . His most recent book, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet is published by Quercus.

Could Facebook really decide the outcome of this election? Is the Internet a positive force for democracy? Why is global surveillance, as unveiled by Edward Snowden, not an electoral issue? We put these questions to Prof John Naughton – author of A Brief History of the Future and early advocate of the Internet’s power to change the world – and ask if politicians are tuned-in to the transformative potential of social media. Putting cynicism to one side, the team then give their good-points about the General Election so far. Posted 4/3/15. For more information about this episode and others go to http://www.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/election See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Naughton is a long time friend on the psychic show circuit. Over the past couple of years, John has asked me to channel his spirit guides with regard to an amazing book he was writing that revisits the Biblical chapter of Revalations. It is nothing like you have heard before, and I am delighted that John has agreed to talk with us about his new work. This story an interpretation of the age old prophecy "The Revelation of Christ". This is not a book about the Bible. This is a book that explains the prophecy that is the last book of the Bible. Through the spiritual gift to Interpret Prophecy, he received this interpretation and with the help of The Council of Elders, Angels and Guides wrote this book for you.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme, Professor John Naughton, who is Vice-President of Wolfson College Cambridge, explains the difference between the internet and the world wide web and why the difference matters for educators. You can read his blog here. I interviewed Professor Naughton just after he gave the keynote address at the CESI annual conference earlier this year.

Jane Gregory, Martin Robins and John Naughton come together for an hour session answering questions on the future of science communication.

The Word helicopter takes off from just the battlements of Graeme Thomson's castle in Edinburgh, hugs the coastline on its way south, dropping off at the massive Victorian folly occupied by Mark Hodkinson on the borders or Yorkshire and Lancashire and then makes a detour into Berkshire where it lands on the vast rolling lawns of John Naughton's massive country seat. Finally it hovers over Cast Iron Studios in Caledonian Road to record two tunes and some chat with The Miserable Rich. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Word helicopter takes off from just the battlements of Graeme Thomson's castle in Edinburgh, hugs the coastline on its way south, dropping off at the massive Victorian folly occupied by Mark Hodkinson on the borders or Yorkshire and Lancashire and then makes a detour into Berkshire where it lands on the vast rolling lawns of John Naughton's massive country seat. Finally it hovers over Cast Iron Studios in Caledonian Road to record two tunes and some chat with The Miserable Rich. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Word helicopter takes off from just the battlements of Graeme Thomson’s castle in Edinburgh, hugs the coastline on its way south, dropping off at the massive Victorian folly occupied by Mark Hodkinson on the borders or Yorkshire and Lancashire and then makes a detour into Berkshire where it lands on the vast rolling lawns of John Naughton’s massive country seat. Finally it hovers over Cast Iron Studios in Caledonian Road to record two tunes and some chat with The Miserable Rich.

Recently, John Naughton discussed Jonathan Zittrain’s book ‘The future of the Internet – and how to stop it’ in an OU discussion group.  John posted an MP3 of the discussion on his blog, and you can directly link to the blog entry here: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2009/03/23/7045 And play the mp3 here: mp3

James Curran, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College and director of their media research programme, will argue that the role of the Democracy is being weakened by the global movement towards the American market-based, entertainment-centred model of television, encouraging American-style levels of political ignorance. Professor Curran, co-author of "Power Without Responsibility", one of the main texts for journalism students in the UK, will say that the Internet could bring about greater democracy, but not in the near future. "The Internet offers a wonderful democratic tool," he says. "But a business model has not yet developed to sustain independent net-based journalism as an adequate corrective to media concentration and weakened editorial standards." Other speakers taking part are: - Agnes Callamard, executive director of press freedom lobby organisation Article 19, who will outline what she sees to be the major challenges for press freedom in the world today - Gerry Gable, former editor of Searchlight magazine, who will talk about hate speech in the UK today - Rhidian Wynn-Davies, consulting editor of The Telegraph, who will talk about the impact of the Internet on press freedom. The debate will be chaired by John Naughton, Director of the Wolfson College, Cambridge Press Fellowship Programme.

James Curran, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College and director of their media research programme, will argue that the role of the Democracy is being weakened by the global movement towards the American market-based, entertainment-centred model of television, encouraging American-style levels of political ignorance. Professor Curran, co-author of "Power Without Responsibility", one of the main texts for journalism students in the UK, will say that the Internet could bring about greater democracy, but not in the near future. "The Internet offers a wonderful democratic tool," he says. "But a business model has not yet developed to sustain independent net-based journalism as an adequate corrective to media concentration and weakened editorial standards." Other speakers taking part are: - Agnes Callamard, executive director of press freedom lobby organisation Article 19, who will outline what she sees to be the major challenges for press freedom in the world today - Gerry Gable, former editor of Searchlight magazine, who will talk about hate speech in the UK today - Rhidian Wynn-Davies, consulting editor of The Telegraph, who will talk about the impact of the Internet on press freedom. The debate will be chaired by John Naughton, Director of the Wolfson College, Cambridge Press Fellowship Programme.

In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall invite their country cousin John Naughton to speculate about why people insist on shooting pop records into space, which was the swearingest show in TV history and what it's like to take a rock star out for dinner on Valentine's Day.www.wordmagazine.co.uk Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall invite their country cousin John Naughton to speculate about why people insist on shooting pop records into space, which was the swearingest show in TV history and what it's like to take a rock star out for dinner on Valentine's Day. www.wordmagazine.co.uk

In which Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Matt Hall invite their country cousin John Naughton to speculate about why people insist on shooting pop records into space, which was the swearingest show in TV history and what it's like to take a rock star out for dinner on Valentine's Day.www.wordmagazine.co.uk Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.