'The Social Dilemma' - with Jeff Orlowski
Selfie Reflective
In this episode, director of 'The Social Dilemma', Jeff Orlowski, speaks about his own personal relationship to social media and tech. He unpacks what tech is helping us to accomplish, what it is looking for and how it exists in competition with the rest of our lives. Jeff speaks to the critique that ‘The Social Dilemma’ is oversimplified. He also talks us through something that sounds as terrifying as it is - a resurrection algorithm. The Social Dilemma is now available to watch on Netflix.
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Status: Activism - with Guled Mire
Selfie Reflective
In this episode, policy advisor, writer, speaker and community advocate, Guled Mire gives us insight as to what it’s like to be an activist in the online space. Where does he think the online space is most powerful? Why is having access to other people and businesses meaningful - but also dangerous? How can people be effective allies to support marginalised people in the online space? What’s it like to show up as an individual and present views that challenge and outright go against the status-quo?
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Unintended Consequences - with Nadja Streiter
Selfie Reflective
Nadja Streiter is a psychotherapist and parent-coach based outside of New York. We discuss how Nadja originally became interested in humane technology, why the line between healthy use and disordered use of technology is so hard to define, why human needs and business needs aren’t matching up online and why the demands of tech, specifically in-home devices like Alexa, might produce unintended consequences for human behaviour in future.
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The Effects of Media Multitasking - with Susanne Baumgartner
Selfie Reflective
Today, we are speaking with Susanne Baumgartner, who is an Assistant Professor and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research focuses on the role of digital media in adolescent development. More specifically, Susanne investigates media multitasking, which we will learn about very shortly, and how this can affect the cognitive and emotional development of young people, and their sleep.
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Mental Health, Technology and Us - with Dr. Jody Adewale
Selfie Reflective
Today, we speak with Dr. Jody Adewale, a licensed psychologist based in LA. In terms of topics, Dr. Jody and I cover a tonne of ground, including how young people are coping with tech, why comparison is such a huge issue on social media, how identity is being impacted, why our capacity to empathise is being stretched too thin, addiction, why we have to be really careful about what we are reinforcing in relation to mental health online - and much, much more.
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Why Access Equals Belonging - with Humphrey Hanley
Selfie Reflective
Humphrey’s thoughts on and relationship to technology might be a little different than some of the perspectives and ideas that we’re used to hearing about. Humphrey is a passionate digital content creator, a Motivational Twitch Partner, Coffee Drinker, Husband, Videographer, Photographer, and Drone Pilot - with fragile skin and no hands. In this episode, Humphrey speaks to accessibility, accessibility advocacy, and why for him the internet and social media were not just life-changing - but life-saving.
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Pornography and Youth - with Jo Robertson
Selfie Reflective
Today, we’re unpacking a topic that I’ve wanted to cover on this podcast since it first launched. That topic is the sometimes prickly subject of how access to pornography is impacting the expectations and behaviour of our young people. We speak to Jo Robertson, Research and Training lead at The Light Project, about what the research says, how is pornography impacting and shaping attitudes and behaviour in regards to sex and sexuality and how can caregivers support the young people in their lives.
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Fighting the Amplification of Hate - with Dr David Hall
Selfie Reflective
We speak with Dr David Hall, a political theorist and AUT lecturer who helped write The Christchurch Principles: ten principles which act as a role and responsibility framework for tech companies, states and society as a whole to respect human rights and enable those rights to flourish online. David presented them at the Paris Peace Forum in 2019, and today talks us through some of the challenges to democracy online, where the idea of free speech can be misguided and what these principles aim to inspire.
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Going Viral - with Alice Brine
Selfie Reflective
Alice Brine is a Kiwi-born London-based comedian and creative. In 2016, Alice who wrote and published a post that highlighted how ludicrous it is that we are still debating sexual consent. This post went viral. Her analogy about sexual consent and victim blaming resonated all around the globe, and today, we speak to her about what going viral was like, how it changed her life - and whether there the ideas of victim-blaming and sexual consent have positively progressed at all, or just taken a different form.
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Decoding the Algorithm - with Nick Diakopoulos
Selfie Reflective
We speak with Nick Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor at North Western University. He runs a research lab called the Computational Journalism Lab, where he studies aspects of automation and algorithms in news production, algorithmic accountability and transparency, and social media in news contexts. What are some of the surprising ways that algorithms affect our lives? What was recently confirmed by data about the Instagram algorithm? How do we ensure that algorithms are being created with humanity in mind?
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I’d just like to take a moment to say - we’ve reached episode 30.
I can’t quite believe that since February 4th 2020, myself and my boyfriend, Tom, have managed to release a new episode of Selfie Reflective every week. Each week has brought a brand new research and content-development project - a new guest, a new theme, a new release - and, based on feedback, this podcast is doing exactly what I hoped it would - encouraging critical thinking around our social media and digital spaces.
I’d like to say thanks to Tom for selflessly editing and finessing every single one of the episodes. He’s also found many-a-great-guest along the way. I’d like to thank InternetNZ who were early supporters of the show. I’d like to thank the guests who have committed their time and shared their expertise and stories so generously to all of us listening. And of course, I’d like to thank you for choosing to listen to this independent, NZ-grown grassroots podcast. I wish we could have these conversations together over beers and fries - maybe one day in the future.
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We’ve got some more to uncover yet - so let’s get on with it.
We’ve spoken to many issues on this show that centre around social media. There’s no denying that trends like diet culture and disinformation are incredibly important things to dissect, critique and examine on our online spaces. But for episode 30, I wanted to bring someone who is able to speak to the positive aspects of tech and social media that we may not always think about.
This person’s name is Humphrey Hanley, and I met him just over a week ago in an elevator. We were both heading up to the InternetNZ offices. The team there were putting on a lunch for the content creators that they support - one of those creators is me, and another is Humphrey.
We ended up getting on really well immediately, and after the event even grabbed a beer so we could continue to talk about social media and technology - which, yes, I also do in my spare time... In a second I’ll hand over to Humphrey so he can tell you about his background and story in his own words - but Humphrey’s thoughts on and relationship to technology might be a little different than some of the perspectives and ideas that we’re used to hearing about. Why? Because Humphrey is a passionate digital content creator, a Motivational Twitch Partner, Coffee Drinker, Husband, Videographer, Photographer, and Drone Pilot - with fragile skin and no hands.
In this episode, Humphrey speaks to accessibility, accessibility advocacy, and why for him the internet and social media were not just life-changing - but life-saving.
Enjoy the show.
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