The Digital Void Podcast

Artist, curator, and author of Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell explores the relationship between gender, technology, and identity, finding liberation through the glitch, the complex history of virality, and her forthcoming book, Black Meme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cultural theorist, CyberPsychologist, and marketing strategist Matt Klein discusses the most frequently reported cultural trends for 2021, explores how the momfluencer aesthetic is being used as a gateway to QAnon and other widely believed conspiracies, and calls for a Rosetta Stone for Generation Z to help different generations understand the emotionally affective features of memes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Creative, futurist, and mad scientist Lucas Rizzotto explains how he's building the future through augmented and virtual reality, looks at how people can get started creating their own AR, VR, and MR projects, and explores how AR helps us reclaim what we already possessed as children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Educator, musician, Classics PhD and first-year law student, Brett Wisniewski joins us to discuss how our language isn’t always able to meet the challenge of describing our social reality, the difficulties pre-digital institutions face in a digital media environment, and the forms of human expression that lay outside of commodified spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All Tech is Human founder, TikTok Content Advisory Council member, speaker, and writer David Ryan Polgar explores how he’s connecting the dots between individuals, industries, and universities to build the responsible tech pipeline. Polgar explains how we can create a diverse, inclusive, and healthy tech ecosystem to tackle the thorniest issues facing us today. From Section 230 to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, nothing is outside of digital tech — and it’s up to humans to create a responsible tech future.Follow David Ryan Polgar:Twitter: @TechEthicistLinkedIn: David Ryan PolgarFollow Digital VoidTwitter: https://twitter.com/digivoidmediaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKWoac3SIfsUg6Xl0X1GS8AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/digivoidmediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalvoid.media/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/34894594Use #DigitalVoid #DigitalVoidPodcast to join the conversation-----CreditsHosted by Josh Chapdelaine and Dr. Jamie CohenAudio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine-----Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void Media.Contact Digital Void:Email: digivoidmedia@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Principal of Bread and Roses Digital and Executive Council at Campaign Workers Guild Aidan King shares his journey as a digital strategist from founding r/SandersforPresident in 2013 to launching Bread and Roses Digital, a democratically-owned digital agency working to support leftist causes, organizations, candidates, and nonprofits.King explores productive ways to battle conspiracy theories that fuel so much of popular discourse, what people can do to push through the noise of trolls, and the biggest challenges facing electoral politics today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Intelligent Mischief Founder and Creative Director Terry Marshall and Artistic Director Aisha Shillingford explain how they've successfully integrated satire into their civic media projects. How can we begin to address institutional injustice and tragedy when reality is absurd? Further, Marshall and Shillingford explain Nation X, their massive multi-platform immersive story world, and show how fiction can create a new reality that benefits humans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does QAnon evolve after President Biden's inauguration? What does the GOP's embrace of QAnon supporters mean for the future of the party? How did YouTube's algorithm change in 2014 create a community of pseudo-experts that altered objective reality? Jamie and Josh explore how a lack of agency is central to conspiracy theories, the commodification of extremism and nostalgia, and the fictions that bookend the last half-decade of electoral politics in the United States. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Director of Curiouoser Institute and writer of, "A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon," Reed Berkowitz explains how QAnon is similar to an experience fiction (XF) game — and how the designers of QAnon created a game that plays people. Further, Berkowitz explains his experience designing XF games, how people look for patterns where patterns don't exist, and how Q evolves from one platform to another. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalist and author of "Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us," David Neiwert explains how the process of learning on digital platforms enables people to become radicalized and fall into conspiracy thinking, the limits of conspiracies, and how we can begin to address a national crisis.In his opening monologue, Jamie explains how the insurrectionists that sieged the U.S. Capitol building did everything for the clout of the message boards their movement started on — and the danger that lies ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.