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- skeptechs 5.6: Using data for public health, with Jess Morley
Josh and Nayana are joined by fellow OII PhD student Jess Morley to discuss Jess’s wide-ranging research in the field of digital health—including Covid-19 contact tracing apps, the use and misuse of health data, and why we shouldn’t expect AI-powered chatbots to replace doctors anytime soon.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com27 min - skeptechs 5.5: Blue ticked off
Josh and Nayana are back to cover the biggest stories in tech. This week: the decline of Twitter’s blue-tick system, new details about the EU’s Digital Services Act, and the demise of BuzzFeed News.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com29 min - skeptechs 5.4: Applying data science for health, with Ben Goldacre and Nick De Vito
This week, Josh and Nayana are joined by Ben Goldacre and Nick De Vito from the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford. In a wide-ranging conversation, they explore how the Bennett Institute develops tools and platforms to enable safe, secure health analyses and promote open science.
The Bennett Institute can be found online at https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk and @BennettOxford on Twitter.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com42 min - skeptechs 5.3: Digital democracy, with Prathm Juneja
This week, Josh and Nayana are joined by fellow OII PhD student Prathm Juneja to discuss the impact of digital technology on democracy. Prathm’s academic work spans voter registration and online voting, and the use of tech in campaigns and government, and builds on Prathm’s experience working on a presidential campaign.
You can find Prathm on Twitter @PrathmJ.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com31 min - skeptechs 5.2: Chatting GPT
In this week’s episode, Josh and Nayana cover the lay-offs across big tech, Microsoft’s latest investment in ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and the removal of a critical documentary from the internet in India.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com24 min - skeptechs 5.1: The platform economy and podcasting
To kick off Season 5 of skeptechs, we’re joined by Oguz Alyanak and Robbie Warin, who are participatory researchers from the Fairwork project, based at the Oxford Internet Institute. They tell Josh and Nayana about how ethnographic methods, podcasting, and visual materials can help to understand and amplify the interests and experiences of people working in the platform economy around the world.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com34 min - skeptechs Season 5 Preview: Is this thing on?
Josh and Nayana are back with a brief update on what to expect from the new season of skeptechs!
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com12 min - skeptechs 4.5: Twitter, Ticketmaster, and three years of skeptechs!
It's three years since skeptechs launched, during which time the world of tech—and the world at large—has changed beyond measure. Josh and Nayana mark the occasion by covering two of the biggest stories of the past week in tech, before tackling the topics and trends that have loomed largest over the past three years.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com29 min - skeptechs 4.4: mis&disinformation with special guests Felix Simon and Kirsten Eddy!
Josh and Nayana are back for another conversation with special guests. This time, they sit down with returning guest Felix Simon, doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Kirsten Eddy, postdoctoral researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Together they cover questions about the study of mis- and disinformation and what the future holds for this rapidly changing subject.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit skeptechs.substack.com32 min - skeptechs 4.3: Misinformation and Musk with Maggie McGrath
This week, Josh and Nayana are joined by fellow PhD student Maggie McGrath (@maggieselfie), to discuss Maggie's research, which looks at how algorithms perpetuate misinformation. There's also time to discuss the news that Elon Musk has finally bought Twitter, and what it might mean for the platform.
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