Social Media and Ourselves

An interview with Dr. Victor Braitberg about the machinations by social media platforms that help us form online relationships - and help them profit from it all. Is this good? Bad? Or The Truman Show? Produced by Jacquie Kuru and Gabe Stultz. Listen while viewing the transcript at https://share.descript.com/view/0jameQzbz00 or at https://ivoices.ischool.arizona.edu/social-media-and-ourselves.

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iVoices Media Lab student worker Jacquie Kuru explores her personal experience and understanding of Asian American hate through discussions with Professor Daly and fellow classmate, Alicia Nguyen. Theme music by Gabe Stultz. Music backtracks and audio story by Jacquie Kuru. Produced by Jacquie Kuru, Diana Daly, and iVoices Media Lab. Image from https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-people-woman-banner-6484513/

iVoices intern Randi Baltzer explores the differences in communication and connection between the tangible world and the digital world through student stories and her own experiences. Theme music and music backtracks by Gabe Stultz. Produced by Diana Daly, Jacquie Kuru and iVoices Media Lab.

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Three stories of young people putting themselves out there on social media, leading to a range of situations from the uncomfortable to the sublime. Storytelling and collection by iVoices Intern Taylor Robeson. Music by Gabe Stultz. Produced by Diana Daly and the iVoices Media Lab at the University of Arizona.

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iVoices intern Kris Kelley explores her experience being cyberbullied after appearing in a Disney commercial, to understand why trolls spread hate online. Music by Jonatha Chance and Airtone. Theme music by Gabe Stultz. Produced by Diana Daly and iVoices Media Lab.

View transcript audiogram: https://share.descript.com/view/F2Xntln7dmW

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Digital memory is perfect. Thanks to technology we remember so much more than we used to. And that's good...or is it? Featuring more stories by college students about the once-cool outfits, hairstyles, and moments that bring shame on social media later; then a story of surviving a mass shooting only to relive it in response to a photo on Facebook; and an interview with Diana's sister about Diana's MC Hammer pants and her hideous blazer that mysteriously disappeared in middle school.

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gimp2upjYxzLyN42e-RJQ3ISbKy8mMfO/view?usp=sharing

Analysis from the 2012 Keble London Lecture by Victor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrqvYOBm_sMC&lpg=PP1&ots=6pdpM-ALbT&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Music in this episode:

David Szestay, Suspicious Strings http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627115/Suspicious_Strings

Podington Bear, Lamb http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Rhythm_and_Strings/Lamb_1842

Chad Crouch, Peanut Shells http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Electric_Piano_Duets/Peanut_Shells

Kai Engel, Global Warming https://soundcloud.com/kaiengel/global-warming

AJ "DJ UnME" Reynolds featuring Big MC, Can't Touch This (cover) https://soundcloud.com/djunme/big-mc-you-cant-touch-this

Image by Enokson via Flickr

Sometimes we panic about the growing use of social media. For this episode we talk to Dr. Stephen Rains about how social media can help people if they have the courage to push past its "fundamental paradox." Featuring stories by students witnessing fat-shaming, confessing to cyberbullying, finding support online when they least expect it, and so much more. LISTEN WITH TRANSCRIPT: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b44a8a5f-5135-422e-8430-aa3301249152

Guest: Dr. Stephen Rains, author of Coping with Illness Digitally https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/coping-illness-digitally

MUSIC:

Kai Engel, Aspirato http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Caeli/Kai_Engel_-_caeli_-_01_aspirato_1225

Susijat, Vitamin D http://freemusicarchive.org/music/SUSIJAT/

Marrach, Lay Here in the Dusk http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Marrach/Swing_with_a_Black_Dog_1033/Lay_Here_in_the_Dusk

PR1SM, 27th Generation https://soundcloud.com/PR1SM-music/27th-generation

Alan Špiljak , Not the End http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alan_Spiljak/Colors/Alan_Spiljak_-_08_-_Not_the_end

Photo by Martin Vorel from https://libreshot.com/walking-with-mobile-phone/