Podcast appearances and mentions of Zeynep Tufekci

Az előfizetők (de csak a Belső kör és Közösség csomagok tulajdonosai!) már szombat hajnalban hozzájutnak legfrissebb epizódunk teljes verziójához. A hétfőn publikált, ingyen meghallgatható verzió tíz perccel rövidebb. Itt írtunk arról, hogy tudod meghallgatni a teljes adást. Itt a mörcsünk, kedves emberek! Csípős szószos és rámenes hangulatú dizájnokkal – pólók, sapka, tótbeg. Van róla bemutató cikk, személyesen Bede Mártontól, az Oktogon-környéki ázsiai éttermek kínálatának gyors áttekintésével. Meg lehet minden faxni nélkül, rögtön venni is. 00:39 Elintéztük, eltakarodott. Hogy lesz ez jó Orbánnak? Mikor tér vissza Gyurcsány? Az utolsó pillanatig kormányképesen. 05:56 Az előjelek. Az eltakarodás jelentősége. Lesz-e Lajosnak új háza? A Momentumnak is annyi. 10:44 Kálmán új autója. Hová tűntek a Hummerek? 13:50 A társadalmi szolidaritás él! Ferrari bebikázása Corvette által. 18:03 Hogy kell Ferrarit emergency neutralba rakni? A Ferrari is csak egy autó. Társadalmi szolidaritás a tömegközlekedésen. 21:07 Borízű merch: pólók, sapkák, vászontáskák. Atléta trió. 22:47 Ukrajnában nem történt semmi. Összeomlás: nem emelték a propaganda költségvetését. 25:16 Nevek és kutyanevek a Washington Postnál. Doktor Szöszi 1. 29:48 Hol divat még a Hanna? A Zejnep a 75 legnépszerűbb magyar női név. Zeynep Tufekci. Miért nem adja ki a KSH a legnépszerűbb nevek területi eloszlását? Domonkos vs. Dominik. Sebestyén Balázs fiát valójában Benettnek hívják. 34:23 Bánki Erik Purity Ringen. Bécsi, pozsonyi és budapesti koncertélet. 37:31 A Kneecap-jelenség. Az ír nyelvű rappelés értelme. A baszk Coldplay. 41:55 Még mindig lehet zenével botrányt csinálni. A sötétség hercegének felesége kiborul. Jello Biafra vs. Ice-T. Zenészek a Kneecap mellett. 45:26 Miért tudja Bede Márton mire gondol Uj Péter? Title race decider. Denveri hírek és Inter-Barcelona. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:49 Elintéztük, eltakarodott. Hogy lesz ez jó Orbánnak? Mikor tér vissza Gyurcsány? Az utolsó pillanatig kormányképesen. 06:06 Az előjelek. Az eltakarodás jelentősége. Lesz-e Lajosnak új háza? A Momentumnak is annyi. 10:54 Kálmán új autója. Hová tűntek a Hummerek? 14:00 A társadalmi szolidaritás él! Ferrari bebikázása Corvette által. 18:13 Hogy kell Ferrarit emergency neutralba rakni? A Ferrari is csak egy autó. Társadalmi szolidaritás a tömegközlekedésen. 21:17 Borízű merch: pólók, sapkák, vászontáskák. Atléta trió: Záróra. 22:57 Ukrajnában nem történt semmi. Vance Putyin ellen. 26:00 Románia mégsem előz. Transzkárpáti szélsőjobboldali összeborulás. Nem Miklós, Tamás! 30:07 Magyar Péter kicsit pukkan. Mit akar ez? Még futballhuligánjai sincsenek! Összeomlás: nem emelték a propaganda költségvetését. 34:49 Nevek és kutyanevek a Washington Postnál. Doktor Szöszi 1. 39:11 Hol divat még a Hanna? A Zejnep a 75 legnépszerűbb magyar női név. Zeynep Tufekci. Miért nem adja ki a KSH a legnépszerűbb nevek területi eloszlását? Domonkos vs. Dominik. Sebestyén Balázs fiát valójában Benettnek hívják. 43:56 Bánki Erik Purity Ringen. Bécsi, pozsonyi és budapesti koncertélet. 47:04 A Kneecap-jelenség. Az ír nyelvű rappelés értelme. A baszk Coldplay. 51:28 Még mindig lehet zenével botrányt csinálni. A sötétség hercegének felesége kiborul. Jello Biafra vs. Ice-T. Zenészek a Kneecap mellett. 54:59 Miért tudja Bede Márton mire gondol Uj Péter? Title race decider. Denveri hírek és Inter-Barcelona. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dans le New York Times, plusieurs chroniqueurs s'interrogent sur la position des démocrates face à Donald Trump, une position « faible » selon le quotidien. ⇒ Le New York Times. Les chroniqueurs mettent en lumière les faiblesses du leadership démocrate face à la menace représentée par Donald Trump. La sociologue Zeynep Tufekci critique le manque de cohérence entre le discours alarmiste des démocrates et leurs actions, notamment leur gestion maladroite de la candidature de Joe Biden en 2024. Selon elle, l'incapacité des responsables démocrates à reconnaître la gravité de la situation et à structurer une opposition efficace a empêché une véritable résistance face à Donald Trump. Ce vide de leadership compromet aujourd'hui la capacité du parti à s'organiser et d'élaborer une stratégie contre le président.S'occuper des préoccupations concrètes des Américains ? Le chroniqueur Nicholas Kristof de son côté souligne un autre problème : les démocrates insistent sur la défense de la démocratie, mais ce n'est pas un argument qui touche suffisamment les électeurs indécis. Pour convaincre, il faut s'adresser aux préoccupations concrètes des citoyens, comme le coût de la vie ou l'accès aux services publics. Le journaliste illustre son propos avec un exemple dans l'État d'Oregon, où une famille est devenue critique envers de Donald Trump après avoir rencontré des difficultés avec la Sécurité sociale. Selon lui, c'est ce type de problèmes du quotidien qui mobilise réellement les électeurs.La journaliste Masha Gessen nuance cette analyse et explique que l'intérêt personnel ne se limite pas aux aspects économiques. Elle évoque le concept de « deep story », une vision identitaire qui structure le vote des électeurs. Il ne suffit pas d'alerter sur une dérive autoritaire ; il faut proposer un récit fédérateur qui lie les préoccupations économiques aux atteintes aux droits fondamentaux. Elle prend l'exemple du président Zelensky en Ukraine, et estime qu'un bon dirigeant devrait présenter une vision collective et mobiliser les électeurs autour d'une cause qui dépasse leurs intérêts immédiats, explique-t-elle au New York Times.La situation sécuritaire continue de se dégrader en Haïti C'est le thème de l'éditorial de Frantz Duval dans le Nouvelliste. La situation à Port-au-Prince continue de se détériorer alors que les habitants de plusieurs quartiers fuient face à l'avancée des gangs, écrit-il. Deprez, Pacot, Debussy et d'autres zones sont en proie à un exode massif, tandis que des quartiers comme Turgeau et Pétion-Ville s'inquiètent de la propagation de la violence. Pillages et incendies rythment désormais le quotidien, et chaque jour sans affrontement est perçu comme le prélude à une nouvelle vague de chaos. L'État, en recul, semble incapable de rétablir l'ordre, renforçant un sentiment de délaissement total, selon le Nouvelliste. Le journal rappelle que le président du Conseil Présidentiel de Transition (CPT) s'est rendu hier en Jamaïque pour une rencontre avec le secrétaire d'État américain Marco Rubio, mais aucune annonce concrète n'en est ressortie.La mort d'un policier kenyan de la MMAS Pour la deuxième fois en quelques semaines, un policier kenyan de la Mission multinationale d'appui à la sécurité en Haïti (MMAS) a trouvé la mort. Il est tombé dans une embuscade tendue par les gangs dans le département de l'Artibonite. Les groupes criminels ont aussi mis en scène leur opération macabre. Un récit de Vincent SouriauMarco Rubio lance un avertissement au Venezuela au sujet du Guyana   L'avertissement le plus sévère à ce jour contre le Venezuela sur ce sujet, estime le journal guyanais Stabroek News. « Si Caracas attaquait le Guyana ou les infrastructures d'ExxonMobil dans l'océan Atlantique, les conséquences seraient désastreuses », a déclaré Marco Rubio, à une question du journal. Des propos qui ont provoqué une réaction immédiate du président vénézuélien. C'est à lire sur le site de Telesur. Nicolás Maduro a rejeté les déclarations du secrétaire d'État américain, les qualifiant de tentative d'intimidation impériale, tout en accusant Marco Rubio de collusion avec l'opposition vénézuélienne. Un sujet qui se partage la Une avec le rapatriement des Vénézuéliens par les autorités américaines. Ce vendredi matin, un avion transportant 178 migrants expulsés des États-Unis, a atterri à Caracas. Ils étaient accueillis par le ministre de l'Intérieur, Diosdado Cabello qui a dénoncé la stigmatisation et de mauvais traitements dont ces migrants auraient été victimes aux États-Unis, peut-on lire dans le journal El Nacional.Journal de la 1re On revient sur le dernier jour de la visite de la ministre déléguée au Tourisme Nathalie Delattre en Martinique.

Zeynep Tufekci's opinion piece at The New York Times, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives." Elon Musks' SpaceX has successfully rescued two stranded astronauts from the International Space Station who have been stranded there for nine months. We're joined by John Dombroski, founder and president of Grand Canyon Planning Associates. Discussion on re-naming geographic features and Making America Great Again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. 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

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. 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

As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey speaks with Zeynep Tufekci—New York Times columnist, Princeton professor, and author of Twitter and Tear Gas—about the evolving relationship between social media platforms, political movements, and democracy. From the shifting role of the internet in global protests to Elon Musk's interventions in European politics, Tufekci unpacks the historical patterns shaping today's political landscape. The conversation also explores the erosion of public trust in institutions, the implications of a weakened federal government, and the risks of unchecked technological influence. Tune in for a deep dive into the forces reshaping democracy at home and abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist and New York Times opinion columnist, joins Offline to discuss why long covid has unleashed so much online vitriol, united the Senate, and exposed just how little Americans trust institutions. Jon also sits down with his producer, Emma, to talk about her firsthand experience with the disease, and how she navigates an information environment rife with suffering and confusion—but also solidarity and hope. But first! Jon and Max weigh in on Google's new “woke” AI, which has been cooking up images of Asian founding fathers, Black Vikings, and, unfortunately, racially diverse Nazis. Then, they break down Taylor Lorenz's interview with the infamous founder of Libs of TikTok, and how the long-form, short-form, and print coverage of the conversation each land differently online. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

In this edition of the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer speaks with sociologist and all-around-brilliant person, Zeynep Tufekci. Tufekci has been prescient on a number of issues, from Covid causes to misinformation online. Ian caught up with her on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum outside, so pardon the traffic. They discuss what people are missing when they talk about artificial intelligence today. Listen to find out why her answer surprised Ian because it seems so obvious in retrospect.

In this edition of the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer speaks with sociologist and all-around-brilliant person, Zeynep Tufekci. Tufekci has been prescient on a number of issues, from Covid causes to misinformation online. Ian caught up with her on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum outside, so pardon the traffic. They discuss what people are missing when they talk about artificial intelligence today. Listen to find out why her answer surprised Ian because it seems so obvious in retrospect. Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published.

An interview with Lorin Hochstein, resilience engineer and author. Our discussion was about how to handle a complex system that falls down hard and – especially – how to then prepare for the next incident. The discussion is anchored by David D. Woods' 2018 paper, “The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic Rules that Govern Adaptive Systems”, which (in keeping with the theme of the podcast) focuses on a general topic, drawing more from emergency medicine than from software.Lorin HochsteinResilience engineering: Where do I start?WebsitePublicationsBlogTalksMentionedBrendan Green, "The Utilization, Saturation, and Errors (USE) method", 2012?How Knight Capital lost $500 million very quickly. Link and link.Lucy Tu for Scientific American, "Why Maternal Mortality Rates Are Getting Worse across the U.S.", 2023David Turner, A Passion for Tango: A thoughtful, Provocative and Useful Guide to that Universal Body Language, Argentine Tango, 2004 Fixation over fomites as the transmission mechanism for COVID: Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?, Zeynep Tufekci (may be paywalled)The safety podcast about a shipping company flying a spare empty airplane: PAPod 227 – What-A-Burger, Fedex, and Capacity, Todd Conklin, podcastCorrectionOn pushing, pulling, and balance, A Passion for Tango says on pp. 34-5: "The leader begins the couple's movement by transmitting to his follower his intention to move with his upper body; he begins to shift his axis. The follower, sensing the intention, first moves her free leg and keeps the presence of her upper body still with the leader. [...] The good leader gives a clear, unambiguous and thoughtfully-timed indication of what he wants the follower to do. The good follower listens to the music and chooses the time to move. The leader, having given the suggestion, waits for the follower to initiate her movement and then follows her." He further says (p. 34), "As a leader acting as a follower, you really learn quickly how nasty it feels if your leader pulls you about, pushes you in the back or fails to indicate clearly enough what he wants."Apologies. I was long ago entranced by the idea that walking is a sequence of "controlled falls". Which is true, but doesn't capture how walking is a sequence of artfully and smoothly controlled falls. Tango is that, raised to a higher power.CreditsThe episode image is from the cover of A Passion for Tango. The text describes the cover image as an example of a follower's "rapt concentration" that, in the episode, I called "the tango look". 

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In this episode, we examine a series of Sam's conversations centered around social media's impact on the information landscape. We begin with Sam's second conversation with Tristan Harris, which was conducted shortly after the release of Tristan's documentary, The Social Dilemma. The documentary lays out Tristan's thesis on how social media is causing the deterioration of both individual and societal welfare. Author and technologist Jaron Lanier follows, echoing Tristan's concerns and shifting the conversation to social media's unique business model, addressing how perverse incentives reliably produce such detrimental outcomes. We then hear from Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter. Sam and Dorsey's conversation took place when Dorsey was still working at Twitter, and Sam still had an account. However, the questions they pose—relating to issues of content moderation and corporate transparency—are even more relevant today. Next, psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents the alarming findings from his research on the psychological effects of social media, detailing how teenage girls are bearing the brunt of a mental health crisis.  Shifting to a more political lens, Sam and Cass Sunstein discuss Sunstein's book, #Republic, and Sunstein addresses one of Sam's most pressing fears of the last seven years: how social media is warping our opinions on politics. We then narrow down on this issue, with Zeynep Tufekci explaining the real-life consequences of social media's influence on protest movements. Finally, Sam and technology analyst Nina Schick dive into one of the most urgent concerns of the AI boom: deepfakes and how they might be weaponized to further pollute and degrade our information landscape.   About the Series Filmmaker Jay Shapiro has produced The Essential Sam Harris, a new series of audio documentaries exploring the major topics that Sam has focused on over the course of his career. Each episode weaves together original analysis, critical perspective, and novel thought experiments with some of the most compelling exchanges from the Making Sense archive. Whether you are new to a particular topic, or think you have your mind made up about it, we think you'll find this series fascinating.  

In this episode, we examine a series of Sam’s conversations centered around social media’s impact on the information landscape. We begin with Sam’s second conversation with Tristan Harris, which was conducted shortly after the release of Tristan’s documentary, The Social Dilemma. The documentary lays out Tristan’s thesis on how social media is causing the deterioration of both individual and societal welfare. Author and technologist Jaron Lanier follows, echoing Tristan’s concerns and shifting the conversation to social media’s unique business model, addressing how perverse incentives reliably produce such detrimental outcomes. We then hear from Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter. Sam and Dorsey’s conversation took place when Dorsey was still working at Twitter, and Sam still had an account. However, the questions they pose—relating to issues of content moderation and corporate transparency—are even more relevant today. Next, psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents the alarming findings from his research on the psychological effects of social media, detailing how teenage girls are bearing the brunt of a mental health crisis. Shifting to a more political lens, Sam and Cass Sunstein discuss Sunstein’s book, #Republic, and Sunstein addresses one of Sam’s most pressing fears of the last seven years: how social media is warping our opinions on politics. We then narrow down on this issue, with Zeynep Tufekci explaining the real-life consequences of social media’s influence on protest movements. Finally, Sam and technology analyst Nina Schick dive into one of the most urgent concerns of the AI boom: deepfakes and how they might be weaponized to further pollute and degrade our information landscape. About the Series Filmmaker Jay Shapiro has produced The Essential Sam Harris, a new series of audio documentaries exploring the major topics that Sam has focused on over the course of his career. Each episode weaves together original analysis, critical perspective, and novel thought experiments with some of the most compelling exchanges from the Making Sense archive. Whether you are new to a particular topic, or think you have your mind made up about it, we think you’ll find this series fascinating.

A recent publication by the world-renowned scientific group, The Cochrane Collaboration, has shown that masks did little to nothing positive during the pandemic response. Following the release of this study, New York Times opinion writer, Zeynep Tufekci, along with the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Collaboration, Karla Soares-Weiser, threw the authors of the mask study under the bus. Jefferey Jaxen does a deep dive to uncover the important details of this story.

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In "A Tough Two Weeks," Dr. Osterholm shares why the past two weeks have been among the most challenging of the pandemic for him. He also provides an update on global and national COVID trends, examines the latest data on the possible source of the pandemic, and answers a COVID query on booster shots following COVID infection.Here's why the science Is clear that masks work (Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times)

It's 2023 and we're coming in hot with a conversation about COVID vaccines! We're joined by Dr. Gregory A. Poland (director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group), Dr. Saad Omer (director of the Yale Institute for Global Health), and Zeynep Tufekci (professor at Columbia University), who bring something that's often lacking from these conversations: nuance. We talk through why many non-crazy people are hesitant to get vaccinated, how our public health institutions have failed to communicate effectively with the masses, and why it should be perfectly okay to ask questions about the risks and benefits of any vaccine. Plus, writers Tocarra Mallard and Kasaun Wilson bring us up to speed on the latest Harry and Meghan drama. Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+.CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart Featuring, in order of appearance: Kasaun Wilson, Tocarra Mallard, Gregory A. Poland, Saad Omer, Zeynep Tufekci Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.Lead Producer: Sophie EricksonProducers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity GrayAssoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos Sound Engineer: Miguel CarrascalSenior Digital Producer: Freddie MorganDigital Producer: Cassie MurdochDigital Coordinator: Norma HernandezSupervising Producer: Lorrie BaranekHead Writer: Kris AcimovicElements Producer: Kenneth HullClearances Producer: Daniella PhilipsonSenior Talent Producer: Brittany MehmedovicTalent Manager: Marjorie McCurryTalent Coordinator: Lukas ThimmSenior Research Producer: Susan Helvenston Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions. https://apple.co/-JonStewart

Women are not the only victims of patriarchy -- men are also diminished by it. Nikhil Taneja joins Amit Varma in episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss what he has learnt about mental health, young people in India, the epidemic of loneliness in our country -- and the enormous power of storytelling. (For full linked show notes, go to SeenUnseen.in.) Also check out: 1. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya).  2. Nikhil Taneja on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, IMDb and HT Brunch. 3. Yuvaa. 4. The internet—a toxic love story -- Nikhil Taneja. 5. The pandemic pretence of being ‘okay' -- Nikhil Taneja. 6. Keeping up with the algorithms -- Nikhil Taneja. 7. It is okay for men to cry -- Nikhil Taneja. 8. Reject the mission statement of your gender -- Nikhil Taneja. 9. Kindness: Don't be an A**hole! -- Nikhil Taneja. 10. Why young Indians are lonelier than ever before -- Nikhil Taneja. 11. How stories can heal our divided world -- Nikhil Taneja. 12. Nikhil Taneja on Advertising is Dead with Varun Duggirala. 13. Nikhil Taneja on the Filter Koffee Podcast with Karthik Nagarajan. 14. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted — Episode 200 of The Seen and the Unseen. 15. Episodes on The Seen and the Unseen that touched on feminism & gender with Paromita Vohra, Kavita Krishnan, Mrinal Pande, Kavitha Rao, Namita Bhandare, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Mukulika Banerjee, Manjima Bhattacharjya, Nilanjana Roy, Urvashi Butalia, Mahima Vashisht, Alice Evans, Ashwini Deshpande and Natasha Badhwar. 16. Hitesh Kewalya on Twitter, Instagram and IMDb. 17. Shubh Mangal Saavdhan and Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. 18. Dev Anand and Roger Corman. 19. The Reflections of Samarth Bansal -- Episode 299 of The Seen and the Unseen. 20. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin. 21. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. Gendered Leadership Course by Angellica Aribam. 23. Young India — Episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Snigdha Poonam). 24. Dreamers — Snigdha Poonam. 25. Men Must Step Up Now -- Amit Varma. 26. Beedi Jali Le -- Song from Omkara. 27. NH 10 (Navdeep Singh), Hichki (Siddharth Malhotra), Chhapaak (Meghna Gulzar), Rashmi Rocket (Akarsh Khurana) and Queen (Vikas Bahl). 28. Ghostbusters (2016, Paul Feig) and The Lost City (Nee Brothers). 29. 3 Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani), Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari), Badhaai Ho (Amit Ravindernath Sharma), Kantara (Rishab Shetty) and Thugs of Hindostan (Vijay Krishna Acharya). 30. Aamir Khan on Koffee With Karan (2018). 31. Parasite -- Bong Joon-ho. 32. Asghar Farhadi on Wikipedia and IMDb. 33. Delhi Crime. 34. TikTok and Indian Society -- The online course conducted by Amit Varma, now no longer on offer. 35. Vicky Donor (Shoojit Sircar) and RRR (SS Rajamouli). 36. Salim-Javed. 37. Range Rover — The archives of Amit Varma's poker column for the Economic Times. 38. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra) and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (Rakesh Roshan). 39. Dev D (Anurag Kashyap), Udaan (Vikramaditya Motwane) and Oye Lucky Oye Lucky (Dibakar Banerjee). 40. Bhuvam Bam, Prajakta Koli and Amit Bhadana. 41. Man's World (Y-Films) and Ki & Ka (R Balki). 42. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 43. Mumbai Diaries 26/11 -- NIkhil Advani. 44. 1000 True Fans — Kevin Kelly. 45. 1000 True Fans? Try 100 — Li Jin. 46. If You Are a Creator, This Is Your Time -- Amit Varma. 47. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy and Abhijit Bhaduri. 48. One Cut of the Dead — Shin'ichirō Ueda. 49. Dance Dance For the Halva Waala -- Episode 294 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jai Arjun Singh and Subrat Mohanty). 50. Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith (Clerks), Sofia Coppola and Richard Linklater. 51. The Life and Work of Ashwini Deshpande -- Episode 298 of The Seen and the Unseen. 52. Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Mani Kaul. 53. Andaz Apna Apna (Rajkumar Santoshi), Gunda (Kanti Shah) and Disco Dancer (Babbar Subhash). 54. Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht -- Episode 293 of The Seen and the Unseen. 55. Womaning in India — Mahima Vashisht's newsletter. 56. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence — Shrayana Bhattacharya. 57. Memories and Things — Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 58. Remnants of a Separation — Aanchal Malhotra. 59. Shravana Kumara, the pious son. 60. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors — Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kavitha Rao). 61. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao. 62. Penelope Fitzgerald on Amazon and Wikipedia. 63. Roshan Abbas and the Creator Economy -- Episode 239 of The Seen and the Unseen. 64. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai -- Karan Johar. 65. The Chaos Machine -- Max Fisher. 66. The Social Dilemma -- Jeff Orlowski. 67. The Flying Spaghetti Monster. 68. Coming Out as Bisexual -- Mohit's talk at Main Hoon Yuvaa. 69. Nikhil Taneja's Twitter thread on his anxiety. 70. Nikhil Taneja's Facebook post on his anxiety. 71. Chandrahas Choudhury's Country of Literature — Episode 288 of The Seen and the Unseen. 72. Turtles All the Way Down -- John Green. 73. Don't think too much of yourself. You're an accident — Amit Varma's column on Chris Cornell's death. 74. The Road to Freedom — Arthur C Brooks. 75. Amit Varma's favourite shower gel. 76. The Prem Panicker Files — Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen. 77.  Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 78. Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience and Parks and Recreation. 79. Greatest Events of WWII in Colour -- The Netflix docuseries mentioned by Nikhil. 80. Zeynep Tufekci's newsletter, Twitter and column archive. 81. Ed Yong on Twitter, Amazon, The Atlantic and his own website. 82. My Friend Dropped His Pants -- Amit Varma. 83. Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill by Richard Curtis. 84. Project Everyone. 85. Ladies Room, 6 Pack Band and Bang Baaja Baaraat. 86. Maja Ma -- Anand Tiwari. 87. Phone Bhoot, Badhaai Ho and Crash Course. 88. Let's Talk Consent. 89. Queeristan -- Episode 190 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Parmesh Shahani).. 90. Gray (Sakshi Gurnani) and Tasalli Se (Tarun Dudeja). 91. Dear Teenage Me.-- A podcast by Yuvaa on Spotify. 92. Humankind: A Hopeful History -- Rutger Bregman. 93. The Stanford Prison Experiment. 94. Invisible Women — Caroline Criado Perez. 95. Will -- Will Smith's autobiography. 96. Homeland Elegies -- Ayad Akhtar. 97. Yearbook -- Seth Rogan. 98. Shamoon Ismail on YouTube and Spotify. 99. Vampire Weekend on YouTube and Spotify. 100. Dev D by Amit Trivedi. 101. Hum Hai Rahi Pyar Ke -- Song from Nau Do Gyarah, starring Dev Anand. 102. The Before Trilogy by Richard Linklater. 103. Rambling Man -- An interview of Richard Linklater by Nikhil Taneja. 104. Superchor -- Song from Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. 104. Succession, Ted Lasso and Bojack Horseman. 105. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory -- Raphael Bob-Waksberg. 106. The Lord of the Rings -- JRR Tolkein. 107. The Lord of the Rings -- The films. 108. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. 109. 8 Book Recommendations by Nikhil Taneja on Chalchitra Talks. 110. Weekly Movie Recommendations by Nikhil Taneja on Chalchitra Talks. 111. 80 Marvelous Recommendations by Nikhil Taneja on Chalchitra Talks. 112. Nikhil Taneja's 2020 and 2021 recommendations on Instagram. 113. Nikhil Taneja's 2022 favourites, specially compiled for The Seen and the Unseen. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘I'm not lonely' by Simahina.

After months of political impasse, Iraq is facing protests again. This time it comes after the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he is leaving politics for good. And many people who describe long COVID symptoms to their health care providers are met with suspicion, but their symptoms are real, says New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci. Also, the Dutch Refugee Council, a nongovernmental organization, is suing the Dutch government over hazardous conditions at migrant reception centers across the country. Plus, we hear about Norway's role in the future of energy with the podcast “Things That Go Boom.”

Two years ago, the murder of George Floyd sparked protests across America, gathering an estimated 15 million people into the streets during the summer of 2020. Since then, Americans of all political persuasions have taken to the streets to make their views known, on everything from mask mandates to abortion rights. But did protesting result in any real change? And looking back, where does that moment of collective outrage fit in the broader history of dissent in America?This week, host Jane Coaston wants to know whether there is a “right” way to protest, and what makes a protest successful. To talk it through, she's joined by the conservative writer David French of The Dispatch and the Times Opinion columnist Charles Blow. “I think a lot of times what the protest does is that it crystallizes and defines the parameters of morality on an issue,” Blow says. “It is a narrative-setting or -changing event.” But French argues that sometimes, in pursuit of raising awareness, protests can go too far. “If a group of people can menace a public official with enough ferocity that they can undermine the will of the people, you're really beginning to undermine the notion of democracy itself,” he says.Mentioned in this episode:“Leave the Justices Alone at Home” by the Washington Post editorial board“Protests Might Not Change the Court's Decision. We Should Take to the Streets Anyway” by Jay Caspian Kang in The New York Times“Do Protests Even Work?” by Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

I've been asked how we can navigate our way through this current “age of outrage”. It's really important to recognize that in a heightened state of emotions people generally do not think very clearly and certainly do not make the best choices and take the best actions which produce the best possible outcomes. Social Media (YouTube included) have employed AI-driven algorithms to feed you “outrageous” content, content that elicits an emotional reaction from you. The more emotional, the more “sticky” the post is. The masters of social media are vying for your time. The more time you spend with them the more information you are delivering to them which can in turn be monetized. You are the product! This of course is having a horrible effect on everyone's psyche and propelling the current “Age of Outrage” we live in. Becoming aware of these external influences upon us and engaging in positive spiritual cultivation will help blunt and even negate the influence of these forces. But we really need a paradigm shift and to make very healthy choices to be able to remain unscathed by their influences. In the talk, I reference a well known techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci who has been quite outspoken about this influence. She has a number of TED talks that are of interest and feels we should be deeply questioning the ethics of algorithms. This is one of her talks - https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufe...

I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more treatments, more immunity. Instead, we got Omicron and a confusing new phase of the pandemic. What do you do with a variant that is both monstrously more infectious and somewhat milder? What do you say about another year when we didn't have enough tests, enough ventilation or the best guidance on masks? And how do you handle the fracturing politics of a changing pandemic in an exhausted country?Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist and New York Times Opinion columnist who does a better job than almost anyone at assessing the pandemic at a systems level. To solve a public-health crisis, it's not enough to get the science right. There are also challenges with supply chains, infrastructure, research production, mass communication, political trust and institutional inertia. I've found Tufekci's ability to balance the epidemiological data and the sociological realities uniquely helpful across the pandemic, and you can hear why in this conversation.We discuss how the Covid crisis has changed, as well as Tufekci's sobering conclusion: that the virus, at this point, is feeding on our dysfunction. We look at what Omicron is and isn't, where the Biden administration has succeeded and failed, the debate over closing schools, why so many Asian countries have so powerfully outperformed the West, how the role of vaccines has changed, what a pandemic-prepared society would actually look like, and what should be true of our pandemic policy in a year that isn't now.Book recommendations:The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn LeszczChaos by James GleickThe Dead Hand by David HoffmanThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.

COVID-19 cases are high, public health restrictions are back, and for many Canadians, morale is low. But according to sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, there are reasons for optimism about Omicron. She's a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina and a New York Times columnist.

In the final episode of our series, America's Public Health Experiment, Dylan, Dara, and Jerusalem discuss how the CDC and the FDA failed the American public in the early months of the pandemic. Plus, a white paper about excess deaths in the first year of Covid-19. References:  How the experts botched masking advice Zeynep Tufekci on the case for masks (in March 2020) Inside the Fall of the CDC Can the CDC be fixed? How the CDC failed to detect Covid early Scott Gottlieb on CDC versus FDA turf wars The Government Asked Us Not To Release Records From The CDC's First Failed COVID Test. Here They Are. Zeynep Tufekci in the Atlantic: ​​The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes Dylan Scott on FDA approval of controversial Alzheimer's drug White paper: Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Year of COVID-19 What happened to drug deaths in 2020 Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter  Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Transportation show the largest six-month increase in car crash deaths ever recorded by the department. Jane Terry of the nonprofit National Safety Council joins us. And, the omicron variant shows us, again, that this pandemic is not over yet. Or, as sociologist and writer Zeynep Tufekci says, that it's time we got our act together. She explains how the U.S. can do better.

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This week, Amanda and Holly explore questions swirling around vaccine mandates and religious exemptions related to COVID-19. Is there a newfound religious awakening that is leading to new requests? Are people gaming the system? Dive into the issue that is on the mind of employers, government officials and individuals across the country. Amanda and Holly discuss the religious liberty rationale for religious exemptions, the compelling government interest in mandating vaccines and how those values have been balanced in the past and in dealing with the present pandemic. They also talk about some of the difficult decisions employers are facing as they try to keep their workforce safe, healthy and productive. In the third segment, they look at the broader impact of COVID-19, including new reports on the trustworthiness of clergy when it comes to this topic.  Show notes: Segment one: Why do we have religious exemptions for any laws, and why do we see so many requests right now? (starting at 00:50) Amanda and Holly discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and its intersections with religion and religious liberty at length in season one. See the following episodes:  Lawsuits challenging COVID-19 directives (S1, Ep. 10, released April 23, 2020) Christian nationalism during the coronavirus pandemic (S1, Ep. 11, released April 30, 2020) Finding the right response to reopening (S1, Ep. 14, released May 21, 2020) Holly wrote an article about religious exemptions to vaccines mandates for BJC's fall 2021 magazine, which you can read at this link.  Segment two: Employers dealing with the novel issue of employees claiming exemptions (starting at 15:17) Amanda mentioned watching a hearing talking about vaccine mandates — you can read a recap and see clips in this piece on our website:  House subcommittees hold joint hearing on vaccine mandates and employee accommodations Here's a link to the guidance issued by the EEOC about what is required by Title VII: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-issues-updated-covid-19-technical-assistance-0  For the latest news on these issues, visit the latest news section of our website.   Segment three: Where are we now with COVID-19, and how are clergy part of the conversation? (starting at 28:43) Holly mentioned this article by Zeynep Tufekci in the New York Times: The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think Amanda mentioned this article by Michelle Boorstein in the Washington Post: New survey: Most U.S. churchgoers trust their clergy for covid vaccine guidance, but clergy aren't really offering it   Respecting Religion is made possible by BJC's generous donors. You can support these conversations with a gift to BJC. 

When Zeynep Tufekci penned a New York Times op-ed at the onset of the pandemic challenging the prevailing public health guidance that ordinary people should not wear masks, she thought it was the end of her public writing career. Instead, it helped provoke the CDC to reverse its guidance a few weeks later, and medical professionals privately thanked her for writing it. While relieved by the reception, she also saw it as a sign of a deeper dysfunction in the scientific establishment: why should she, a programmer and sociologist by training, have been the one to speak out rather than a credentialed expert? And yet realizing her outsider status and academic tenure allowed her to speak more freely than others, she continued writing and has become one of the leading public intellectuals covering the response to COVID-19. Zeynep joined Tyler to discuss problems with the media and the scientific establishment, what made the lab-leak hypothesis unacceptable to talk about, how her background in sociology was key to getting so many things right about the pandemic, the pitfalls of academic contrarianism, what Max Weber understood about public health crises, the underrated aspects of Kemel Mustapha's regime, how Game of Thrones interested her as a sociologist (until the final season), what Americans get wrong about Turkey, why internet-fueled movements like the Gezi protests fizzle out, whether Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise in Turkey, how she'd try to persuade a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, whether public health authorities should ever lie for the greater good, why she thinks America is actually less racist than Europe, how her background as a programmer affects her work as a sociologist, the subject of her next book, and more. Note: This conversation was recorded on July 14, 2021, before the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Visit our website: https://conversationswithtyler.com Email: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cowenconvos Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/cowenconvos/ Follow Tyler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tylercowen Follow Zeynep on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeynep Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/cowenconvos Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://go.mercatus.org/l/278272/2017-09-19/g4ms Thumbnail photo credit: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

As the Covid-19 infections continue to rise among non-vaccinated people, it's worth taking a look at the history of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and unqualified media medical advice. In this episode, Theory of Change host Matthew Sheffield is joined by Richard Carpiano, a Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. Carpiano is a medical sociologist and public and population health scientist who studies how social factors, such as education, income, race-ethnicity, and social connections impact the physical and mental health of adults, children, and the communities in which they live. In the discussion, Carpiano talks about how conspiracies about medical vaccines have circulated in multiple sub-cultures through quack medical doctors, television programs of people like Oprah Winfrey, and also via Christian nationalist groups that oppose science generally. They also discuss how political-interest media commentators like Nate Silver and Zeynep Tufekci have unadvisedly expanded their output to include inexpert pronouncements about the pandemic, and in the process undermined public confidence in legitimate medical experts. Read Carpiano's essay about Covid punditry for Flux here: https://flux.community/richard-m-carpiano/2021/06/covid-influencers-pundits-misinformation-wrong Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RMCarpiano SUPPORT THE SHOW PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theorychange Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discoverflux If you're not able to support financially, please help us by subscribing and/or leaving a nice review on your favorite podcast app. Doing this helps other people find Theory of Change and our great guests. Thanks for your help!

In July 2020, scientists citing the precautionary principle said “It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)”. They were rebuffed a month later by experts who cited a lack of evidence and argued: “the concerns raised by the authors are not borne out in clinical experience”. Nearly a year later, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) updated their language to include aerosol transmission and in the case of the CDC, they listed it as the first method of transmission before droplets and fomites. Paradoxically, neither organization updated its guidance to address the implications of the new language. What's going on here? Today's guest is part of a growing body of experts calling on the Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) community to accept that SARS-CoV-2 is not only transmitted by aerosols but that the airborne route may be the dominant mode of transmission. Dr. David Fisman, an epidemiologist and professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, along with several colleagues, published Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Fisman tells us that the evidence is clear, but the IPAC community has been slow to accept it because of two main reasons. First, IPAC practitioners are going to lose face – to change course now is to admit they were wrong. Second, this will cause a massive change to IPAC practices in hospitals – some at significant expense. Dr. Fisman believes the Semmelweis reflex – the human behavioral tendency to stick to preexisting beliefs and to reject fresh ideas that contradict them despite adequate evidence – may be at play. Zeynep Tufekci said something similar in a recent NY Times article when she said IPAC experts were “setting a higher standard of proof for theories that challenge conventional wisdom than for those that support it.” And TIPS previously described this type of thinking as Highly Qualified Toxic Culture Syndrome. This resistance to new thinking could be supported by the massive implications (and costs) that would be driven by necessary changes to IPAC protocols. Plus, we cannot discount the effects of the highly charged political environment on every aspect of the pandemic response. Regardless, Dr. Fisman makes a compelling case that it's time for the IPAC community to take a step back and reevaluate the growing body of evidence that points to aerosols as the dominant means of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. In addition to the droplet vs aerosol debate, we cover:   The history of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the newly founded University of Toronto Institute for Pandemics David Fisman's background and career path What it's like being an epidemiologist during a pandemic and working under the microscope in a highly charged political environment. Dealing with misinformation. COVID-19 origins Treating vaccine manufacturing capabilities as a strategic asset for national security. The Ontario government's reopening plan and how it seems to acknowledge aerosol transmission without explicitly saying it. Vaccine mixing And much more   You can also catch Dr. David Fisman and others discussing aerosol transmission on CBC's recent story: How delays in acknowledging airborne COVID-19 transmission risked lives.

Plus... One-on-one with New York Times Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury; Daniel Dale's data about Biden's first 100 days; the shifting tone of Covid coverage; and more. Eli J. Finkel, Daniel Dale, Nicole Hemmer, Oliver Darcy, Zeynep Tufekci, David Leonhardt, Kathleen Kingsbury and Bill Carter join Brian Stelter. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Top writers are leaving publishers like the New York Times to become newsletter writers on Substack. How will the rise of the solopreneur author impact the future of journalism? Substack co-founders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie join PressClub host Josh Constine to break down why individuals have more power than organizations in the modern media landscape. Listen to learn:Can newsrooms survive the brain drain?Will creators earn a better living on their own? How did the move from desktop to mobile favor email over websites? Can Substack provide star writers enough growth to earn its 10% cut?Why newsletters are unlocking a weirder, more self-expressive way to build community?Plus, get thoughts on how these trends play out from top Substack writers including NYT columnist Zeynep Tufekci, Sinocism's Bill Bishop, and Ask Polly's Heather Havrilesky. Recorded live on Josh Constine's PressClub, on Clubhouse Thursdays at 6pm PT. Subscribe: http://constine.club/PressClub is one of Clubhouse's first and most popular shows, where top business leaders discuss the big issues. It's hosted by Josh Constine, an investor at early-stage venture fund SignalFire and the former Editor-At-Large of TechCrunch. PressClub is a relaxed venue where luminaries can share their stories, passions, thoughts on trends, and visions of the future. Past guests include the CEOs of Facebook, Instagram, Slack, Shopify, Spotify, Substack, WordPress, Craigslist, Dollar Shave Club, and more. Topics have included the creator economy, back to offices vs remote work, the rise of newsletters, the future of celebrity, the ethics of doxxing, and founders becoming philanthropists. Josh and PressClub's content have recently been covered by the New York Times, TechCrunch, Vogue, Bloomberg, Forbes, AdWeek, USA Today, and more.

Plus... Dominion spokesman Michael Steel explains the voting tech company's legal strategy; David Folkenflik discusses the latest turmoil at The New York Times; and Dannagal Young explains the twisted psychology of conspiracy theories. Lynn Oberlander, Brittany Shepherd, Michael Steel, David Folkenflik, Dannagal Young, and Zeynep Tufekci join Brian Stelter. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about the problem of misinformation and group-think. They discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, the early failures of journalists and public health professionals to make sense of it, the sociology of mask wearing, the problem of correcting institutional errors, Covid as a dress rehearsal for something far worse, asymmetric information warfare, failures of messaging about vaccines, the paradox of scientific authority, the power of incentives, how to reform social media, and other topics. Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, an opinion writer at the New York Times, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She studies the interaction between digital technology, artificial intelligence, and society. Twitter: @zeynep Website: https://zeynep.substack.com/

For the first episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Kyra Jasper and Alina Utrata discuss the politics of anti-monopoly in tackling technology companies, focusing on the United States. October turned out to be a very significant month for Big Tech in the US. First, the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee released a report on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google that found those companies had monopoly power. And, about two weeks later, the Department of Justice launched an anti-monopoly suit against Google. Kyra and Alina discuss some of the political arguments around monopoly approaches.Tweet at usContact us Mentioned in the episode:https://powerswitchorg.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/the-political-arguments-against-digital-monopolies-in-the-house-judiciary-report/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/06/technology/house-antitrust-report-big-tech.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/20/us/doj-google-suit.htmlhttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol126/iss3/3https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/digitaliberties/from-territorial-to-functional-sovereignty-case-of-amazon/https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjreg/vol33/iss2/5/https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-forcehttp://web.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/wordpress/just-giving/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/business/reactivate-facebook-account.htmlhttps://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-free-basics-developing-marketshttps://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-india-banhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13676.pdf https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-internal-metric-violence-incitement-rising-votehttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/facebook-philippines-dutertes-drug-warhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41801071Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Zeynep Tufekci on dystopia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well-wishers around the world are sending messages to President Trump and the First Lady, since they contracted coronavirus. Former Deputy U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the president’s diagnosis. Chief POLITICO Correspondent Ryan Lizza and Deborah Pearlstein, Professor at Cardozo Law School, discuss the political implications. Then, New York Times London bureau chief Mark Landler breaks down how Prime Minister Boris Johnson's experience could map out President Trump’s future. CNN’s Senior International Correspondent, Matthew Chance, shares the details of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s own “protective bubble.” Academic and writer for The Atlantic Zeynep Tufekci tells Amanpour what she thinks we’re missing when we talk about the spread of the pandemic.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

After Part One, you should have a sense of Zeynep. If you haven't listened, it is worth going back and hearing her impressive background and history. In part two, we changed our focus and started talking about the pandemic. We discussed her early work advocating for common sense policies, how we got our response so wrong, and what we can do now to begin the recovery. Given her history of being right, we should all pay attention to what she has to say.

Zeynep Tufekci may be the most important account on Twitter. The reason being she has a habit of being early on the defining trends shaping our world. The pandemic was no different. Zeynep was sounding the alarm early in 2020, calling for common sense policies advocated by public health officials. It's safe to say, we would have been better off if we had listened to her.Zeynep's life is unique, and I didn't want to cut the fascinating stories she told me. So, I split this conversation into two parts. In this first part, Zeynep discusses growing up in Turkey, learning to code, and tricking IBM into hiring her.

The Jewish Sabbath begins each Friday at sunset because the fifth verse of Genesis reads, “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Every beginning starts with an ending. Thirteen colonies became 13 “united states” when our fight for freedom ended and our government under a Constitution began in 1789. This was the beginning of the first America, a land of freedom and opportunity. Those “united states” became somewhat less united during our Civil War of 1861 to 1865. More about that later. In 1880 and 1881, Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington headed west to capture memories of a time they saw to be ending. Their paintings and sculptures of the Wild West now sell for millions of dollars. Teddy Roosevelt took the last traces of the Wild West to Cuba in 1898 when he led his “rough riders” to the top of a now-famous hill during the Spanish-American War. His arrival on that hill signaled the ending of the Wild West, the ending of the Spanish Empire, and the ending of the first America. The second America began when Teddy Roosevelt became President in 1901. America was now a land of achievement, a World Power, a nation of cars and department stores and Coca-Cola, electric lights, running water and tract houses. We fought two World Wars, Korea, Viet Nam, and Desert Storm before the end of that century and we taught our children that anyone could work as a tradesman, but if you wanted a “good-paying job” you needed to go to college. It took 112 years to move from the end of our fight for freedom to Teddy Roosevelt's land of achievement and the beginning of the second America in 1901. In 2013 – one hundred and twelve years after Teddy took the White House – we saw the unwinding of achievement and the beginning of the third America, a land of virtual reality, virtual currency, and virtual ownership. Massive multiplayer online games, Bitcoin and Uber, Facebook and Twitter, Google and Airbnb.* 2013 also marked the halfway point in the upswing of society's pendulum toward the zenith of our current “We.” The halfway point in the upswing of a “We” is where we begin to take a good thing too far. We shift from “fighting together for the common good” to simply “fighting together.” Western Civilization has done this every 8th decade for the past 3,000 years. I wrote at length about this in https://smile.amazon.com/Pendulum-Generations-Present-Predict-Future/dp/1593157061/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=Pendulum&qid=1558997401&s=books&sr=1-9 (Pendulum) a number of years ago. Do you remember that book? 1783 marked the ending of our Revolutionary War. 1783 was the zenith of a “We.” 1863 marked the middle of our Civil War. 1863 was the zenith of a “We.” 1943 marked the middle of WWII. 1943 was the zenith of a “We.” 2023 will mark the zenith of our current “We.” I wonder what we'll be in the middle of, then? It is important to remember that the swinging of society's pendulum between the zeniths of the “Me” (1983) and the “We” (2023) is a sociological swing, not a psychological one.Sociology is the study of the values and beliefs and motives of people groups. Psychology is the study of the values, beliefs, and motives of the individual. Let's talk some more about endings. And sociology. Scientific American recently published https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/?redirect=1 (the definitive explanation of why the final season of Game of Thrones fell short) of the mark set by George R.R. Martin. According to Zeynep Tufekci, we loved the first 7 seasons of the show because, “it was sociological and institutional storytelling in a medium dominated by the psychological and the individual… This is an important shift to dissect because whether we tell our stories primarily from a sociological or psychological point of view has great consequences for how we deal with our world and the problems we...

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, writers Edmund White and Emily Temple talk to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about writers feuding with each other. Readings for the episode: ·      “25 Legendary Literary Feuds, Ranked,” by Emily Temple, Literary Hub.·      “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer,” by Zeynep Tufekci, The New York Times.·      The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White·      Caracole by Edmund White·      The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles by Stephen Koch·      “Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Feud With Cornel West,” by Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times.·      “Perchance to dream: In the age of images, a reason to write novels,” by Jonathan Franzen, Harper's Magazine. (paywall)·      “Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction,” by Ben Marcus (paywall)  Guests:·               Edmund White ·               Emily Temple  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Bernard and Peter welcome Marianne Wright to the Talkfest. Marianne lives at the Spring Valley Bruderhof in southwestern Pennsylvania. In this week's episode, Peter, Marianne, and Bernard respond to a common criticism of the Bruderhof, namely our working relationships with groups (both religious and non-religious) whose beliefs are different than our own. They also discuss some recent writing about the unintended effects social media is having on our world. Here are some of the links and references from this episode: Twitter and Teargas by Zeynep Tufekci - http://amzn.to/2rMLr9m ‘The Internet Is Broken': @ev Is Trying to Salvage It - http://nyti.ms/2rt6UUo Rate us and leave us a comment on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the Bruderhof's website at www.bruderhof.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebruderhof Facebook: facebook.com/TheBruderhof Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruderhofcommunities Contact: contact@bruderhof.com

What role does social media play in networked protests? Zeynep Tufekci discusses this, online privacy, and how to combat fake news online.

Zeynep Tufekci is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Twitter: @zeynep