Online Echo Chambers w/ Ramesh Srinivasan

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Cara is joined in studio by UCLA Professor of Information Studies and Design Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan. They talk about themes from his new book, "Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World," including online echo chambers, cultural empathy, and fake news.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's Monday February 27th and I'm
0:18.1	your host Kara Santa Maria. As always I want to start the show by thanking those of you who have supported it throughout the last week.
0:27.0	I have named the levels on my Patreon page, so I'm going to go through them in order. The coolest person in the solar
0:37.0	system this week goes to Mark Hepburn, Phil T-Bare, and Timothy Glover. Okay, the
0:42.1	coolest people, people in the solar system.
0:46.0	The coolest people on Earth go to Pedro M Rosario Barbosa,
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1:16.0	I also want to thank Horatio Tovar
1:20.0	who visited my website,
1:21.0	Kara Santa Maria,
1:22.0	dot com, and clicked through to show a generous
1:25.5	support of the show using the PayPal portal. There's a lot to do on the site
1:30.4	make sure you give it a visit.
1:33.2	Okay, I'm really excited about this week's guest.
1:35.7	He is a professor of information studies and design
1:40.1	at UCLA, and he just wrote a great book it's actually available very soon.
1:47.0	It's called Whose Global Village,
1:49.0	Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World.
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