A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From Ferguson to Minneapolis, protests against racist policing have been catalyzed by videos of the brutality being spread on social media. On today’s A Word, Jason Johnson sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin to talk about her book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, and where social sciences and technology intersect. Guest: Ruha Benjamin You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:08.2	We all know what it means for something to go viral, from TikTok dances to moments of heartbreak
0:13.1	and violence.
0:14.1	But what are the same structures intact that make these images go worldwide could also spread
0:19.4	important ideas like, I don't know, justice.
0:22.6	How do we make justice contagious, for example?
0:25.6	And so the idea of viral justice is essentially a micro vision of change.
0:31.6	The author of Viral Justice, How to Create the World We Want, coming up up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.
0:38.3	Stay with us.
0:39.3	I made you think you dream.
0:42.3	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:44.3	Some people call us American royalty.
0:47.3	We were liars.
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1:17.1	Welcome to a Word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.
1:18.4	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
1:22.6	In many ways, America's racial reckoning has been driven by technology.
1:27.9	Before cell phone cameras, decades of false police narratives about killings of black people went unchallenged by anybody outside of the local community. Without social media, those deaths were
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