How to Know What's Real: How to Live in a Digital City

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newness isn’t wholly unprecedented. Humans reckoned with many similar challenges to life as they knew it while navigating a different kind of social web: the city. In this episode, Danah Boyd, a partner researcher at Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, explains how the sociological work conducted during a time of rapid urbanization in the United States reveals a lot about human behavior and what we need to feel safe, secure, and inspired. Music by Forever Sunset (“Spring Dance”), baegel (“Cyber Wham”), Etienne Roussel (“Twilight”), Dip Diet (“Sidelined”), Ben Elson (“Darkwave”), and Rob Smierciak (“Whistle Jazz”). Write to us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn. Hiring for your small business. If you're not looking for
0:05.8	professionals on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. LinkedIn helps you hire
0:10.0	professionals you can't find anywhere else. So next time you're looking for quality professionals,
0:15.4	join the 2.5 million SMBs who trust LinkedIn to find them the perfect fit. With LinkedIn, you can hire professionals
0:23.2	like a professional. Post your free job on LinkedIn.com slash agree today.
0:31.1	Adobe Express is the quick and easy create anything app. It's taken my content to the next level,
0:37.4	making it simple to create everything I need to promote my business.
0:41.1	From Instagram and TikTok posts to logos and flyers, all in just a few clicks.
0:46.8	Build your brand with Adobe Express. Search for Adobe Express to find out more and get the app for free.
0:53.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app.
1:01.0	I've lived in a few different cities, and each one seems to have its own rules, you know, its own way of functioning.
1:09.0	I grew up in a city dominated by cars, which is pretty different from a walkable city.
1:14.4	Oftentimes what you find is when you're in a walking city, you do have a different experience of what it means to actually walk among people.
1:21.9	And you're not just in your car, isolated, listening to the radio or whatever.
1:25.9	And you're actually kind of face to face with
1:28.7	people, but you're also trying to be polite and not stare and not make too much eye contact.
1:34.2	But, you know, if someone does make passing eye contact with you, you have a little smile.
1:40.4	There's all those little things that you're trying to figure out and navigate, which is different than city car culture.
1:46.7	Oh, it's so interesting thinking about the differences, too, between a walkable city, like you said, or a car city.
1:53.1	And the way those different infrastructures really do affect the cultural codes between people and the ways that we interact with each other.
2:07.1	I'm Andrea Valdez. I'm an editor at The Atlantic. And I'm Megan Garber, a writer at the Atlantic.
2:13.1	This is How to Know What's Real.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.