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Digital Village episodes

  • Episode 17: AVFTO Ritual - Fact Check the Internet - CCPA & Contact Tracing

    In the first part of the show, A View from the Outside's Joanna Miller interviews Casper ter Kuile on his book, The Power of Ritual.


    The Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian reminds us what social media is really for and some tips for fact checking the Internet.

    In the last part of the show, Leilani Albano interviews Hayley Tsukayama a legislative activist for the EFF about The California Consumer Privacy Act and efforts to implement mass testing and contact tracing for the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

    28 min
  • Episode 16: Live Events In The Age of COVID-19

    It takes an army to throw a live event, A View from the Outside’s Joanna Miller interviews Alyssa Solomon a tour manager for artists like FKA Twigs about how COVID-19 has changed things.


    In the second part of the show, Brittney interviews Stage Presence (Ellis Briery, Corinne Oplinger, and Mischa Steiner), they’re friends who started a company in response to live events drying up due to COVID-19. Stage Presence helps musicians, aerialists, magicians, and more get gigs... over Zoom.

    28 min
  • Episode 15: Digital Denied - Carbon Capture - Rapid Response For A Better Digital Future

    In the first part of the show, Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano interviews Free Press Senior Director of Strategy and Communications, Tim Karr about structural barriers to getting online for students and low-income workers, especially in the time of COVID-19.


    Then Dr. Addison Killean Stark is back to talk about carbon capture and sequestration technology and how that can help us reach our climate goals.

    In the last part of the show, we talk art. Eyebeam's creative director, Roderick Schrock, is here to tell us about their new initiative, Rapid Response For A Better Digital Future, which asks artists to generate ideas around rebuilding digital systems.

    28 min
  • Episode 14: NewMo: Cross-Cultural Design - Animal Crossing - Ada and the Lost Horizon

    The New Modality’s Lydia Laurenson is back. The New Modality, is a new publication on experiments in culture, Lydia is in conversation with Senongo Akpem talking about the culture and his book, Cross-Cultural Design.


    Then we have two stories about entertainment in quarantine. Mandie Roman is here to talk to us about the craze that is Animal Crossing, from art from the Met and Getty to conferences, it has taken the world by storm.

    In the last part of the show, Leila Sales is here to talk about her interactive scavenger hunt story, #AdaAndTheLostHorizon, the perfect game for quarantine.

    28 min
  • Episode 13: Rideshare Drivers United - Phishing in the Time of COVID-19 - Space

    Ric Allen interviews Tyler Sandness of Rideshare Drivers United about their work and how COVID-19 has affected Rideshare drivers.


    Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian is here to talk about phishing scams in age of COVID-19, how to recognize them and how to avoid them.

    Dr. Casey Handmer is here to talk about how isolation may help prepare us for longterm space travel.

    28 min
  • Episode 12: Zoom Security - The CoronaCorps - Quarantine@Home

    Leilani Albano is back and interviews journalist for The Intercept Micah Lee about Zoom security flaws.


    Dr. Peretz Partensky is here talking about his piece for Wired, "To Beat the Coronavirus, Raise an Army of the Recovered" where he coins the CoronaCorps, "civilian army that may be able to fill in gaps in public services, insulate the vulnerable from infection, help map the spread of the virus, and give our medical system room to breathe."

    In the last part of the show, Dr. Cosmo Mielke is here to talk about his efforts with Quarantine@Home a project that lets you donate your spare compute power to find drugs that target SARS-CoV-2.

    28 min
  • Episode 11: Contact Tracing - Mirakind - Invest in Innovation

    Dr. Peter Eckersley is back. He’s an AI, ethics, and privacy researcher, who is the convener of the stop-covid.tech group to talk to us about contact tracing and how important it is in slowing down the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

    Loretta Whitesides, about her citizen volunteer work with Mirakind who are working to test essential workers in Los Angeles for COVID-19.


    In the last part of the show, Brittney is joined by Dr. Addison Killean Stark to talk about his op-ed for Scientific American where he makes the case for investing in innovation to help with pandemic recovery.

    28 min
  • Episode 10: Cleaning Your Devices - Zoonosis - Energy Innovation Life Cycle

    Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian is here for advice on how to keep your phone and phone case clean.


    Leilani Albano is back with Spillover author David Quammen to talk about zoonosis and the origin of the novel corona virus and how he hopes this will help us prepare for the next one.

    In the last part of the show Brittney is joined by Dr. Addison Killean Stark to talk about the American Energy Innovation Councils latest report on supporting the energy innovation life cycle.

    28 min
  • Episode 09 - COVID-19 + Election 2020 + Gaming In Isolation

    As the coronavirus and its effects continue to spread, we're finding community in isolation.

    Dr. Jun Axup, the scientific director and partner at IndieBio, answers our questions about what is being done to tackle the novel coronavirus.

    Ric Allen talks with KPFK’s own Brad Friedman, about the fallout from Super Tuesday, LA's new voting machines and what the coronavirus means for Election 2020.

    Then gamer Mandie Roman shares what she's playing during isolation, and shares her thoughts on if e-sports will take off.

    28 min
  • Episode 08 - NewMo: COVID-19 + Culture - Ethics of Wireless Location Data - Tech for Campaigns

    COVID-19 is uprooting our routine way of life. Lydia Laurenson of The New Modality talks with economist Tyler Cowen, writer of MARGINAL Revolution, about potential cultural shifts due to COVID-19.

    Then Leilani Albano speaks with Aaron Mackey, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the unethical practice of wireless companies selling our location data and what we can do about it.

    Finally, we dive into election season with Jessica Alter, the co-founder and board chair of Tech for Campaigns. Jessica talks about the technology they're providing political campaigns, volunteer opportunities and more.

    28 min

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