Podcast #36: Jerry Mander

Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.

By Mo Lotman | January 5, 2021 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Economics, Environment, Media, Podcasts, Society | Capitalism, Coronavirus, Environment, Exploitation, Globalism, Grand Canyon, Image, Indigenous Rights, Internet, Media, Native Americans, Nature, Power, Propaganda, Television, The Sierra Club

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Podcast #19: Tim Kasser Talks Materialism

Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being. As it turns out, they don’t always go together.

By Mo Lotman | August 15, 2018 | Advertising, Cognition, Community, Environment, Media, Podcasts, Psychology, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Advertising, Behavior, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Education, Extrinsic Values, Hedonism, Intrinsic Values, Mastery, Materialism, Media, Spirituality, The Values Circumplex, Values, Well-Being

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New Digital Fakery May Make Truth Even More Elusive

Software now in development makes it easy to fabricate audio and video of real people, literally putting words in their mouths.

By Samantha Maxwell | November 1, 2017 | Ethics, Journalism, Media, Politics | Adobe, Comet Ping Pong, Donald Trump, Face2Face, Facebook, Fake News, Fakery, Filter Bubble, Forgery, Hillary Clinton, Journalism, Lyrebird, Media, Mimicry, Misinformation, Opinion, PhotoShop, Pizzagate, Politicians, Social Media, The Emily Project, Truth, Twitter, VoCo

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Node to Self

If the Internet is a global neural network, then who are we?

By Mo Lotman | January 18, 2017 | Cognition, Culture, Identity, Media, Philosophy, Relationships, Society | Clay Shirky, Community, Digital Collectivism, Global Village, Hive Mind, Jaron Lanier, Marshall McLuhan, Media, Node, Noosphere, relationships, Social Media, Tim Wu

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Your Media Diet, Now With Gas

Pumping gas is not something that I particularly relish, but on the list of modern-day inconveniences it ranks pretty low. [...]

By Mo Lotman | March 25, 2015 | Advertising, Media | Cars, DOOH, Gas, Marketing, Media, Subscriber, Television

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