Latest Political communication Podcast Episodes
Season 6 Episode 10: AI and Democracy with Seher Shafiq
Wonks and War Rooms - April 10, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth talks with Seher Shafiq, a program manager at the Mozilla Foundation and expert in civic engagement, particularly in the context of elections and engaging marginalized people in the vote. They discuss how AI is impacting Canadian elections, civic engagement, and democracy. Th...
Counter-speech as Content Moderation with Kesa White
Wonks and War Rooms - April 03, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth discusses the idea of counter-speech as content moderation with far right extremist researcher, Kesa White. Kesa describes her work on “dog-whistling,” talks about how counter speech can be helpful but doesn’t solve the problem of hate speech online, and explains some o...
Collective vs Connective Action with Michael Redhead Champagne
Wonks and War Rooms - March 27, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth talks with Michael Redhead Champagne, a community organizer in Winnipeg working to dismantle harmful systems and build better ones through Indigenous practices and knowledge. They discuss collective and connective action logics, and the importance of creating networks of peop...
Parasocial Relationships with T.X. Watson
Wonks and War Rooms - March 20, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth chats with TikTok creator and researcher T.X. Watson about parasocial relationships and how this term created in the 1950s applies, or not, to digital content creators. T.X. talks about relationships between influencers and their followers and how both research and popu...
One-Step Flow with Hamish Marshall
Wonks and War Rooms - March 06, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth delves into the fascinating world of data and personalization with Hamish Marshall, former National Campaign Manager for the Conservative Party of Canada and seasoned expert at the crossroads of data and politics. They explore the evolution from the Two-Step Flow to the...
Political Influencers with Nate Lubin
Wonks and War Rooms - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Elizabeth chats with digital communication strategist and experienced political campaigner, Nate Lubin about social media content creators in politics. Nate draws on his experience with the Better Internet Initiative which helps influencers make educational content related to pr...
News influencers with Rachel Gilmore
Wonks and War Rooms - February 21, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Elizabeth chats with journalist Rachel Gilmore about what counts as journalistic content and how to navigate the intersection of journalism and the social media influencer industry. Rachel is a freelance journalist who posts regularly on TikTok (@rachel_gilmore), Instagram (@r.gi...
Social Media in Politics with Dave Sommer
Wonks and War Rooms - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats with Dave Sommer, Vice President of Strategic Communication at Enterprise Canada, former Head of Politics and Government at Instagram in Washington, D.C., and former Deputy Director of Communications, Digital, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. They chat about...
Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
Wonks and War Rooms - January 31, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats with tech culture reporter and Washington Post columnist, Taylor Lorenz about influencers and the influencer industry. Taylor takes us from Ce-web-reties to influencers to content creators, telling us a bit about the history of folks who monetize their online presence. ...
Personal Influence in Politics
Wonks and War Rooms - January 24, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPrepare for an intriguing journey in Season 6 of Wonks & War Rooms! Join Elizabeth Dubois as she unravels the dynamics of personal influence in politics, especially as it evolves with new technologies. In this episode Elizabeth talks about her experience working in politics and how it has pushed...
Season Six! Personal Influence in Politics
Wonks and War Rooms - January 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGet ready for Season 6 of Wonks & War Rooms! This season, we're looking at personal influence in politics and how it evolves as new technologies are integrated into campaign strategies. Host Elizabeth Dubois will talk to journalists, campaigners, content creators, activists and more to discuss ...
Season 5 Wrap Up
Wonks and War Rooms - May 24, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this final episode, our host Elizabeth reflects on the six episodes of Season 5, which dug into tech, politics, and policy with guests from the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard and Center for Information Technology and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She recaps highlights of each episo...
Antitrust and Big Tech with Matt Perault
Wonks and War Rooms - May 03, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMatt Perault is the director of the Center on Technology Policy at UNC Chapel Hill, and previously worked at Facebook, as the head of the global policy development team. This episode he and Elizabeth get into the weeds on antitrust competition laws, monopolies and big tech. They talk about how m...
The Use of AI in Canadian Politics
Wonks and War Rooms - April 12, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this special episode Elizabeth is joined by our panel of experts — Samantha Bradshaw, Wendy Chun, Suzie Dunn, Fenwick McKelvey and Wendy H. Wong — for a roundtable discussion on how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. The topics range from mis- and disin...
The Uses of AI in Canadian Politics
Wonks and War Rooms - April 12, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this special episode Elizabeth is joined by our panel of experts — Samantha Bradshaw, Wendy Chun, Suzie Dunn, Fenwick McKelvey and Wendy H. Wong — for a roundtable discussion on how artificial intelligence is being deployed in Canadian political contexts. The topics range from mis- and disin...
Trailer: April 3 Live event on the use of AI in Canadian politics
Wonks and War Rooms - March 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGet ready for a special live edition of Wonks and War Rooms! From deep fakes to detecting disinformation or harassment to voting predictions and sentiment analysis, AI-enabled technologies are playing an increasing role in democratic election processes. Join us on April 3 at 12 p.m. ET for a rou...
Big Tech and Political Campaigns with Becca Rinkevich
Wonks and War Rooms - March 22, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBecca Rinkevic is the Director of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and formerly the Deputy Director of Digital Strategy at the White House under President Joe Biden. This week she and Elizabeth are tackling the role of big tech in election campaigns and political advertising. They talk a...
Meta Oversight Board with Julie Owono
Wonks and War Rooms - March 08, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJulie Owono is the executive director of Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders) and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She is also an inaugural member of the Meta Oversight Board, an independent group of experts who review appeals of content moderation decis...
Image Manipulation with Juliana Castro-Varón
Wonks and War Rooms - February 22, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJuliana Castro-Varón is the founder of the digital open access publisher Cita Press, and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. This episode she and Elizabeth discuss the historical examples of image manipulation, how photographic manipulations can mislead the public and the...
Knowledge Mobilization for Policy Impact with Petra Molnar
Wonks and War Rooms - February 08, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist, and co-director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab. This episode she and Elizabeth talk about how researchers get their expertise into the hands of people who shape the world we live in, like policymakers, politicians and journalists. They talk abou...
Knowledge Mobilization for Policy Impact
Wonks and War Rooms - February 08, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPetra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist, and co-director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab. This episode she and Elizabeth talk about how researchers get their expertise into the hands of people who shape the world we live in, like policymakers, politicians and journalists. They talk abou...
Season 5: Technology, Politics & Policy
Wonks and War Rooms - January 18, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGet ready for Season 5 of Wonks & War Rooms! This season we’ll be diving into tech, politics, and policy. Host Elizabeth Dubois will talk to public policy managers, technologists & campaigners to discuss how technology policy is shaped, how technology is used in political campaigns, and what th...
Post-Truth Politics with Vinita Srivastava
Wonks and War Rooms - April 27, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVinita Srivastava is the senior editor of culture and society for The Conversation Canada, and host of the podcast Don’t Call Me Resilient, as well as a research associate with the Global Journalism Innovation Lab. This episode, Vinita and Elizabeth chat about post-truth politics and the idea th...
Regulating Big Tech with Taylor Owen
Wonks and War Rooms - April 20, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTaylor Owen is a professor of public policy at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill university, and his research focuses mainly on tech regulation. This episode, he and Elizabeth define and categorize types of regulation. They discuss what tech regulation looks like, how lobbying impac...
Journalism and online harassment with Rosemary Barton, Fatima Syed and Mark Blackburn
Wonks and War Rooms - April 13, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode is an audio version of a special live taping of Wonks and War Rooms, in partnership with uOttawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society, where Elizabeth is joined by a panel of journalists to tackle a tough topic: online harassment of journalists and what it means for our democrac...
Backfire Effect with Riyadh Nazerally
Wonks and War Rooms - April 06, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRiyadh Nazerally is the Director of Communications for the Hon. Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, and is the former Director of Communications for Capital Pride in Ottawa. This week he and Elizabeth discuss the backfire effect and its three types: familiarity, overkill...
Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles with Adi Rao (re-release)
Wonks and War Rooms - March 30, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdi, a lawyer and campaigner, explains how campaigns are often thinking about how they can crack into people's filter bubbles in order to raise awareness and find new supporters. During the conversation Elizabeth and Adi tease apart the difference between algorithmically driven filter bubbles a...
Live Recording Alert! March 22 at noon with Rosemary Barton, Fatima Syed and Mark Blackburn
Wonks and War Rooms - March 18, 2022 00:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJournalists Facing Mean Tweets: What It Means for Our Democracy - Join us Tuesday, March 22 at noon ET for a live virtual event! Register here. In this special live recording of the podcast, Elizabeth will chat with Rosemary Barton, chief political correspondent for CBC, Fatima Syed, host of Th...
Political Polarization with Sean Speer
Wonks and War Rooms - March 16, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSean Speer is the Editor-At-Large at The Hub, a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and previously served as Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He and Elizabeth chat about political polarization and dig into the different theories of polarization inc...
Propaganda, Government Comms, and Disinformation with Shuvaloy Majumdar
Wonks and War Rooms - March 09, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShuvaloy Majumdar is the Foreign Policy Director and Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and this week he and Elizabeth tackle propaganda, government communication and mis/disinformation. They discuss the blurry line between government messaging and propaganda, and what they ca...
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