The Digital Void Podcast
The Digital Void Podcast is a weekly exploration of digital culture, media, technology, and memes, featuring critical and empowering conversations with experts at the forefront of our digital transformation. Hosted by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine.
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Ep. 20: Raphael Zaki “The Chaos Factory”
Media theorist Raphael Zaki and Dr. Jamie Cohen discuss whether each generation discusses the same memes in different cultural environments. From the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to Qanon today, Raphael and Jamie explore fascism, memes, and the occult.
Ep. 18: Grafton Tanner “The Circle of the Snake”
Author of "The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech," Grafton Tanner explains how big tech’s predictive algorithms are locking us in nostalgic feedback loops and envisions a more radical nostalgia that serves the needs of the many, not just the privileged.
Ep. 12 Gunn Enli “Mediated Authenticity”
Gunn Enli is the author of Mediated Authenticity: How the Media Constructs Reality and a professor of media studies at the University of Oslo.
Ep. 8: Dr. Charlton McIlwain “The Internet and Racial Justice”
Joining the Digital Void Podcast today, NYU Vice Provost, Professor of Media Studies, and author of "Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter," Dr. Charlton McIlwain.
Ep. 7 Joe Toscano “No Implementation Without Representation”
BEACON Founder and author of “Automating Humanity” explores how we can make technology work for human interest, rather than against it.
Ep. 5: Bill Loundy “Incentivizing Deep Reading”
ReadUp CEO & Co-Founder Bill Loundy discusses how ReadUp incentivizes deep reading in order to create a healthy digital community.
