Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission awarded $100 million dollars in federal pandemic relief money to projects expanding fiber broadband access. This comes at an especially crucial time. Work-from-home and virtual schooling have become increasingly common, even as nearly 22 percent of Wisconsin’s rural residents don’t have reliable internet access. Governor Tony Evers […]
Enter the Metaverse
What is the metaverse and how is it changing the already-porous boundaries between the real and the virtual? For today’s show, Esty explores the metaverse and what it means for society with digital media scholar Janet Murray and tech journalist Adi Robertson from The Verge. Janet Murray is a professor in the School of Literature, […]
Building a Better Tech World
Information and communications technologies have offered so much to the world—including WORT community radio and this very show! But it’s important that we bring a critical lens to the way we think about, design, and use technological tools like AI, data, and the internet. That’s the message of Your Computer Is on Fire, a new […]
The Internet is Becoming Gentrified
“The internet is increasingly making us less democratic, more isolated, and more beholden to corporations,” writes communications professor Jessa Lingel in her new book, The Gentrification of the Internet. Today on the show, she joins WORT producer Richelle Wilson for a discussion of how the internet is becoming gentrified, why it matters, and what we […]
Big Tech and Democracy
The suspension of former Pres. Trump’s accounts on major sites like Twitter and Facebook last month has reignited a national conversation about what and how we communicate on the internet—and why we should reimagine it. Who stays? Who goes? Who decides? Today, we talk with social media expert Sarah T. Roberts about these issues, including […]
A Trip Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole
Today on the show, guest host Yuri Rashkin takes a close look at QAnon, a set of conspiracy theories circulating on the internet that has grown increasingly popular during the pandemic and leading up to the election. Together with conspiracy theory debunker Mike Rothschild and Russian media researcher Vasily Gatov, we spend the hour learning […]
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