Latest Political communication Podcast Episodes
Information Disorder with Claire Wardel
Wonks and War Rooms - February 23, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingClaire Wardel is a professor at Brown University and the co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinformation and the tools needed to fight it. She and Elizabeth chat about information disorder, a term Claire helped coin. The term helps us think about issues related to mis- and...
Information Disorder with Claire Wardle
Wonks and War Rooms - February 23, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingClaire Wardle is a professor at Brown University and the co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinformation and the tools needed to fight it. She and Elizabeth chat about information disorder, a term Claire helped coin. The term helps us think about issues related to mis- and...
Rebroadcast of Mis- and Dis- Information with Nasma Ahmed
Wonks and War Rooms - February 16, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTo kick-off our season on mis- and dis- info we are rebroadcasting this great conversation with Nasma Ahmed who is the Director of the Digital Justice Lab. In this episode, recorded in 2019, Nasma helps Elizabeth unpack what exactly mis- and dis- information are, why we need to question content ...
Welcome to Season 4: Mis- and Dis- Information
Wonks and War Rooms - February 09, 2022 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis season of Wonks and War Rooms is going to focus on mis- and dis- information. We'll talk about information disorder, political polarization, post-truth politics, and more! Tune in to hear from political strategists, journalists, public policy folks, and academics. Get caught up on past epi...
Mapping theories for media and digital literacy
Wonks and War Rooms - December 15, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth wraps up season 3! This season was focused on Media and Digital Literacy, and Elizabeth runs through all the concepts we covered to help you gain a greater understanding of how these concepts are interrelated. Elizabeth also takes a look back at some concepts and episodes fro...
Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar (re-release)
Wonks and War Rooms - December 08, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingElizabeth chats with public policy expert Vass Bednar about surveillance capitalism. Taking a few Canadian examples, they talk about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute t...
Technological Affordances with Rachel Aiello
Wonks and War Rooms - November 24, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats about technological affordances with Rachel Aiello, an online politics producer for CTVNews.ca and a member of the parliamentary press gallery. They chat about how technology is changing how journalists report and how audiences receive information, from politicians on s...
Content Moderation with Andrew Strait (re-release)
Wonks and War Rooms - November 17, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFormer content moderator and current director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Andrew Strait and Elizabeth chat about what content moderation is, why it is always flawed, and how the way in which platforms are constructed impact the flow of content. They talk about a bunch of related issues includ...
Political Satire with Tim Fontaine (of Walking Eagle News)
Wonks and War Rooms - November 03, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTim Fontaine is a former journalist who founded the satirical news website Walking Eagle News. He and Elizabeth chat about the role of political satire in peoples’ information diets. Political satire can provide an audience with a different perspective, help people understand the dominant narrat...
Safe Spaces with Erin Gee (of the Bad + Bitchy Podcast)
Wonks and War Rooms - October 27, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingErin Gee is a policymaker, specialist in gender-based analysis, and Co-Founder of the Bad + Bitchy Podcast, and this week she discusses safe spaces with Elizabeth. Safe Spaces are online or physical spaces where historically marginalized groups might connect, share information and ideas, and mob...
Selective Avoidance with Jen Gerson
Wonks and War Rooms - October 20, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Elizabeth chats with Jen Gerson, a freelance journalist and co-founder of The Line, about selective avoidance. Whether it be blocking someone on Twitter, unfriending someone on Facebook, or just carefully choosing from which sources we get our news, selective avoidance is an everyday o...
Political Information Repertoires with Murad Hemmadi
Wonks and War Rooms - October 13, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMurad Hemmadi is a reporter for The Logic and this week he talks to Elizabeth about political information repertoires. From party campaign material to policy discussions to political memes, political information repertoires can be a mix of a lot of different things. They chat about what makes up...
Critical Digital Literacy with Matthew Johnson of Media Smarts
Wonks and War Rooms - October 06, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMatthew Johnson is the Director of Education for MediaSmarts, and he chats with Elizabeth about critical digital literacy. From house hippos to authenticating information online, Elizabeth and Matthew discuss functional and critical aspects of media and digital literacy. They talk about the skil...
Season Three! Media and Digital Literacy
Wonks and War Rooms - September 29, 2021 07:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis season we are doing things a little bit differently. We are going to spend this season looking at media and digital literacy and a bunch of political communication theories that are related. Next week we kick things off with a run down of what exactly media and digital literacy are. Then ...
What's Next for Wonks and War Rooms?
Wonks and War Rooms - April 21, 2021 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMini-episode coming at you. Elizabeth closes out season 2 with an update on plans for next season and a request to you listeners! While we are away you can follow Elizabeth's work on Twitter @lizdubois Check out the Pol Comm Tech Lab website: www.polcommtech.ca Check out www.polcommtech.ca fo...
Networked Fourth Estate with Sherry Aske
Wonks and War Rooms - April 14, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSherry Aske, former CBC multimedia journalist, and Elizabeth chat about the fourth estate and the networked fourth estate. They dive into the origins of theories and the range of information producers that make up the networked fourth estate. Sherry and Elizabeth also reflect on the power dynami...
Digital Transformation with Shaaz Nasir
Wonks and War Rooms - April 07, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShaaz is a Digital Advisor and Director of Digital Transformation for Microsoft and he chats with Elizabeth about what exactly is digital transformation. They go from academic definition, to business buzz words, to practical applications. Shaaz explains why he puts humanity at the centre of digi...
Liquid Politics with Etienne Rainville from the Boys in Short Pants
Wonks and War Rooms - March 31, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEtienne Rainville of The Boys in Short Pants podcast, former Hill staffer, and government relations expert chats with Elizabeth about liquid modernity. They chat about how the fast-paced nature of politics, how political actors learn about the issues, and the role of Twitter in Canadian politics...
Citizenship and the Digital Context with Anowa Quarcoo
Wonks and War Rooms - March 17, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCo-founder of CivicTechTO and self-declared certified nerd, Anowa Quarcoo chats with Elizabeth about the idea of citizenship. They talk about legal and cultural definitions of citizenship before jumping into a discussion of what counts as a citizen in a digital era. From civic leaders, to public...
Open Data with Mor Rubinstein
Wonks and War Rooms - March 10, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMor is a self-described data geek, she chats with Elizabeth about what open data actually is, how it can be used, and why it isn't always the perfect fix (but still helpful) for increasing government transparency and accountability. Hear about examples from government and philanthropy in Canada,...
Digital Government with Megan Beretta
Wonks and War Rooms - March 03, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMegan Beretta is a public servant who is dedicated to digital government. She and Elizabeth chat about the evolution from e-government to digital government, where we find digital gov efforts in Canada (also, who can actually get stuff done), and opportunities for increased accessibility. Addit...
Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar
Wonks and War Rooms - February 24, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVass Bednar is a public policy expert who chats with Elizabeth about the idea of surveillance capitalism. Talking about a few Canadian examples, they talk about how tech companies collect and use data from their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring and how incentive structures in the...
Decolonizing Digital Spaces with Alexander Dirksen
Wonks and War Rooms - February 17, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlexander Dirksen, a proud member of Métis Nation BC, researcher and strategist chats with Elizabeth about what it means to decolonize digital spaces and why it is so crucial to re-centre conversations about tech development through the lens of decolonization. Additional Resources Decoloniz...
Introducing Season 2!
Wonks and War Rooms - February 10, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingElizabeth here with a quick update on what you can expect from Season Two of Wonks and War Rooms. The first full episode will drop Wednesday, February 17! Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
Season 1 complete!
Wonks and War Rooms - December 18, 2020 12:00 - 44 seconds ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThat's it for season 1 - thank you so much for joining us! Season 2 will kick off in January. Until then, you can head over to polcommtech.ca to join our mailing list or follow Elizabeth on Twitter @lizdubois. Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English an...
Season 1 complete!
Wonks and War Rooms - December 18, 2020 12:00 - 44 seconds ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThat's it for season 1 - thank you so much for joining us! Season 2 will kick off in January. Until then, you can head over to polcommtech.ca to join our mailing list or follow Elizabeth on Twitter @lizdubois.
Content Moderation with Andrew Straight
Wonks and War Rooms - December 02, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFormer content moderator, Andrew Straight, and Elizabeth chat about what content moderation is, why it is always flawed, and how the way platforms are constructed impact the flow of content. They talk about a bunch of related issues including how to (and how not to) regulate tech companies in or...
Content Moderation with Andrew Strait
Wonks and War Rooms - December 02, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFormer content moderator, Andrew Strait, and Elizabeth chat about what content moderation is, why it is always flawed, and how the way platforms are constructed impact the flow of content. They talk about a bunch of related issues including how to (and how not to) regulate tech companies in orde...
Issue Ownership with Tiffany Gooch
Wonks and War Rooms - November 18, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTiffany Gooch, Principal at Aurora Strategy and activist, chats with Elizabeth about issue ownership (which, it turns out, is NOT issue management). Issue ownership is this idea that certain political parties will be perceived to be particularly credible or effective on certain issues and they c...
Permanent Campaigns with Kate Harriosn
Wonks and War Rooms - November 11, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKate Harrison (VP at Summa Strategies) and Elizabeth chat about the permanent campaign, and how political parties and politicians change their communication strategies over time. With so much information out there, politicians have to be communicating with potential voters even outside official ...
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