Okay, Maybe Social Media Isn't That Bad For Us — With Brendan Nyhan

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brendan Nyhan is a presidential professor at Dartmouth College's department of government. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion that pushes back on the notion that social media is destroying our society and making us stupid. With this thoughtful analysis, Nyhan adds a bunch of nuance to the discussion. This episode is effectively pt. 2 of our conversation with Prof. Jonathan Haidt a few weeks back. While Haidt believes social media is breaking our society and threatening democracy, Nyhan says hold up just a second. By the way, here's a new thing I did: For a behind-the-scenes look into some of my research for this episode, you check out my Pocket Collection (which is filled with the links) at: getpocket.com/bigtechnology

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0:48.7	Music Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed,
1:07.1	nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond.
1:10.5	Two weeks ago, Jonathan Haidt joined us
1:12.0	for a great discussion about how social media was corroding our society and making us uniquely
1:16.7	stupid. And this week, we bring you the counterpoint. Brendan Nyhan is a presidential professor
1:21.8	at the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, and he's our guest this week. He says the jury's
1:26.8	out on social media and what it's actually doing to us, and he's our guest this week. He says the jury's out on social media
1:27.8	and what it's actually doing to us. And he has some great responses to the points that
1:31.8	Hyatt brought up when he was on the show. Now, before we begin the interview, I'd like to
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