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Digital Society
by Travis Holland
A hybrid podcast-lecture exploration into our digital society. The podcast serves as lectures for the class Envisioning the Digital Society at Charles Sturt University but also aims to engage the listener out there beyond the classroom.The series is produced by Senior Lecturer in Communication, Travis Holland: https://travish.co/DigSoc
Episodes
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The Internet and Friends
For the last of our 2024 student produced episodes, we have Dusty Fitzpatrick looking at the history of the net, Charlie Willis chatting convergence, Angus Turner tackling AI, and Josh Faulkner and Keely Bullivant looking at internet regulation.
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What's all this about social media?
It's another student-produced episode of Digital Society. This one features segments all about social media, by Anna Tayler, Courtney Baker, Amy Bunyan, and Fiona Powell.
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Cyborgs and Cyberpunk
Welcome to a student-produced episode of Digital Society, featuring contributions by Matt Adams, Matt Buckley, Ben Cullen-Ward, Bayden Girvan and Emily Riches.
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AI, authorship and creativity
The conversation explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on writing, communication, and creativity. The guest, Daniel Whelan-Shamy, discusses his research on AI and authorship, focusing on the blurring boundaries between human and AI-generated content. Travis and Daniel also touch on...
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Social media for academic communication
In this conversation, Jordan Millward, a PhD student at Imperial College in London, discusses the role of digital and social media in education and science communication. He emphasises the importance of providing accurate information to students from non-traditional backgrounds who may rely on...
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Regulating Facebook Groups and Cross-Border Digital Goods
Host Travis is joined by A/Prof Ben Hayward from Monash Uni to discuss how cross-border trade regulations impact digital goods while Facebook group admin Karina explains how she moderates large and active Simpsons shitposting Facebook groups. Thrillhouse Podcast...
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Hey there Mr Jenkins
In this conversation, Travis and guest Martin Feld discuss the concept of convergence culture and its impact on media platforms and audience behaviour. They explore the challenges and opportunities presented by convergence, including the democratisation of communication and the rise of...
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What Bo Burnham's Inside says about technology and the internet
Host Travis and guest Tom discuss Bo Burnham's musical special 'Inside' (2021) and explore its themes related to technology, society, and the pandemic. They delve into the dominance of online content, the impact of technology on relationships, the generational divide, the pressure to conform to...
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Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories - Special Episode for the Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival
In this episode of Digital Society, we revisit the question of generative AI and it's application in the media and communication industries. Michelle O'Connor and Travis Holland discuss the role and potential uses of AI in radio, journalism, podcasting and other aspects of media production and...
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Social Media and Cyberpunk
From Instagram to Snapchat and Facebook, social media has come to dominate how we communicate. For many, social media is the internet. Using these platforms subjects us to the whims of the huge social corporations. And occasionally, we push back. What’s more cyberpunk than that?
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Internet communities
Four student-produced segments attack aspects of community building in participatory media.
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Everything you never wanted to know about selfies
Flynn, Ruby, Luna, Charlotte, Annabelle and Gemma studied selfies this week, and now they're here to tell you all about it.
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Regulation
Students discuss challenges with internet regulation via perspectives thrown up from two major case studies.
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Georgia ats Dril
This is the first episode in Digital Society in which the mic is fully turned over to students. They're asked to produce segments up to around five minutes in length examining internet topics from their own perspectives and ideas. This week, it’s the history of the internet, which Georgia Fisher...
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How to make a podcast
This episode focuses on tips to craft effective audio storytelling via podcasts. __ Referenced material and websites: Berry, R. (2006). Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio. Convergence, 12(2), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856506066522 Euritt, A. (2022)....
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Persona and the Selfie
Professor David Marshall convenes a discussion about the way we represent ourselves online. ___ Extra info Ellen DeGeneres' celebrity selfie: https://twitter.com/theellenshow/status/440322224407314432 Marshall, D., & Redmond, S. (2015). A Companion to Celebrity. Wiley Blackwell....
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WTF is social media? With bonus AI and Cyberpunk chat
Is social media really social? Is it good for society? How do we respond to the unprecedented power and influence of such global corporations? These are just some of the questions asked in this episode. Plus, a chat about cyberpunk with Dr David Cameron, and everything AI with Ph.D. candidate...
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Regulation of the Internet
Featuring a look at whether the internet can and should be regulated, and three case studies of regulation from around the world: the 'Great Firewall of China', the Christchurch Call, and Australian Mandatory Data Retention. The episode also engages with JP Barlow's thirty-year-old Declaration of...
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The Business of Participatory Media
As much as it might seem natural to participate in the creation of media and culture through uploading photos to Instagram, slapping text on an image to create a meme, setting video to a trending song on TikTok, or producing a podcast and sending it out onto the web, this mode of media production...
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A History of the Internet
The internet is the realisation of a centuries-old dream: instantaneous global communication. It has shaped and continues to shape global economic, political, and social structures in extraordinary ways. It is a relatively new technology and yet we can find numerous traces of the internet...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A hybrid podcast-lecture exploration into our digital society. The podcast serves as lectures for the class Envisioning the Digital Society at Charles Sturt University but also aims to engage the listener out there beyond the classroom.The series is produced by Senior Lecturer in Communication, Travis Holland: https://travish.co/DigSoc
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