Overthinking It Podcast

Episode 403: I Will Block And Unfriend

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink the social implications of the verdict against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, the role of aggregation vs. curation in news publishing, the omnipresence of surveillance technology in our lives, how the culture metabolizes its own circumstances to narrativize social change, the B+ student’s version of Rawls’s veil of ignorance, and the increasingly permeable barrier between public and private.

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  • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
  • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
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    • Further Reading

    • “Hulk Hogan Awarded $115 Million in Privacy Suit Against Gawker”
    • 4channic Discourse on the Overthinking It Podcast
    • “The Digital Dirt” from The New Yorker
    • The Ring of Gyges on Wikipedia
    • Veil of Ignorance

      • Episode 403: I Will Block And Unfriend originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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