Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing

Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 &middot; TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less PolarizingPub date: 2022-02-23Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. But they function more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. This conversation challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalising algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.Get Podcast Transcript &#8594;powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationChris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs the&nbsp;Polarization Lab. A leader in the emerging field of computational social science, Bail’s research examines fundamental questions of social psychology, extremism, and political polarization using social media data, bots, and the latest advances in machine learning.Bail is the recipient of&nbsp;Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships. His research appears in top journals, such as Science, the&nbsp;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the&nbsp;American Sociological Review. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic "> Chris Bail A Correction Team ContributeA note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes)&nbsp;and&nbsp;individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com)&nbsp;as&nbsp;among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month. &nbsp;The podcast seeks&nbsp;to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media;&nbsp;to&nbsp;communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable&nbsp;and peaceful&nbsp;solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am looking to be able to raise money&nbsp;in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast&nbsp;and website&nbsp;and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.&nbsp;Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)Best, LevThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Correction Team, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.