Recode Decode: 'Swiped' director Nancy Jo Sales

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Nancy Jo Sales talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new HBO documentary, "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age." In this episode:03:41 - How Sales started writing about teenage culture08:20 - The psychological impact of the internet10:38 - "What's Tinder?"12:31 - Cheerleading tech and platforms' responsibility19:25 - Why Sales made "Swiped"25:07 - The gamification of dating29:13 - Harassment and sexual assault37:13 - Can dating apps offer more than casual sex?40:11 - Technology addiction and the paradigm of convenience45:54 - VR sex and sex robots52:26 - Is there a positive side? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	Support for this episode comes from Remotely Curious, a podcast from Dropbox all about our new world of work,
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1:14.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Reco.
1:17.0	You may know me as someone who tried Tinder once and is never going back,
1:20.0	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:25.0	Today in the red chair is Nancy Jo Sails, a journalist and best-selling author
1:29.0	who has written for Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and New York Magazine, among other places.
1:33.0	She's also the director of a new HBO documentary called Swipe,
1:37.0	hooking up in the digital age.
1:39.0	Nancy Jo, welcome to Reco Decode.
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