Burning Platforms

As part of the 2022 NetThing Internet Governance Conference, Burning Platforms will ask - "Do we need to build our resilience against a worsening tech world, or should we design a better one?"

As the tech harms pile up and change us and our society, we deep dive into a new book 'Disconnect - why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it' which showcases online conspiracy theorists, freedom fighters, trolls, screen addicts and more and we will unpack whether our current tech landscape is inevitable or if there's a better way forward.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows.

Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of 'Tech Won't Save Us'.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

This episode we look at the huge data breach at Optus, and ask whether this breach is a feature or a bug of a world where mass data collection has now been normalised.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Burning Platforms goes under Big Tech’s hood with new research into the increased opacity of online advertising - and the impact of that secrecy on public discourse.

With special guests:

• Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor at University of Queensland

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism.

This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health.

Our special guest is report co-author Dr. Piers Gooding from Melbourne University Law School.

With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism.

This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health.

Our special guest is report co-author Dr. Piers Gooding from Melbourne University Law School.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.