🤔 Why Gen Z Is Choosing Depth Over Speed: Podcasts & Social Media

Send us Fan MailPlease take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.There’s a story unfolding in the data that should give us hope, even as we navigate what feels like an increasingly fractured information landscape. It’s a story about choice, discernment, and a generation that refuses to be defined by the tools they’re forced to use.The numbers tell us something we might have missed while doom-scrolling through our feeds: young people aren’t giving up on quality information. They’re actually hungrier for it than ever before. They’re just learning to find it in unexpected places.People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?Governance Institute of Australia: Ethics Report 2025Digital News Report: Australia 2024This is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets EmpathyIndependent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas. Support the showDisclosure: This podcast uses AI-generated synthetic voices for a material portion of the audio content, in line with Apple Podcasts guidelines. We make rigorous science accessible, accurate, and unforgettable.Produced by Michelle Bruecker and Scott Bleackley, it features reviews of emerging research and ideas from leading thinkers, curated under our creative direction with AI assistance for voice, imagery, and composition. Systemic voices and illustrative images of people are representative tools, not depictions of specific individuals.We dive deep into peer-reviewed research, pre-prints, and major scientific works—then bring them to life through the stories of the researchers themselves. Complex ideas become clear. Obscure discoveries become conversation starters. And you walk away understanding not just what scientists discovered, but why it matters and how they got there.Independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.Spoken word, short and sweet, with rhythm and a catchy beat.http://tinyurl.com/stonefolksongs