Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)

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English - August 03, 2020 14:12 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB
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In this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at both the affordances and dangers of large platforms like Facebook, Google, and Reddit. In this episode, Siva Vaidhyanathan breaks down the global power of Facebook: what it provides in a positive [...]