The Digital Void Podcast

By Digital Void

The Digital Void Podcast features critical and empowering conversations about how technology, media, and creators shape our world. Hosted by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine.

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January 25, 2021 Lacking Agency and Lured into Unreality
How does QAnon evolve after President Biden's inauguration? What does the GOP's embrace of QAnon supporters mean for the future of the party? How did YouTube's algorithm change in 2014 create a community of pseudo-experts that altered objective reality? Jamie and Josh explore how a lack of agency is central to conspiracy theories, the commodification of extremism and nostalgia, and the fictions that bookend the last half-decade of electoral politics in the United States.

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33min
January 18, 2021 Reed Berkowitz "A Game That Plays People"
Director of Curiouoser Institute and writer of, "A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon," Reed Berkowitz explains how QAnon is similar to an experience fiction (XF) game — and how the designers of QAnon created a game that plays people. Further, Berkowitz explains his experience designing XF games, how people look for patterns where patterns don't exist, and how Q evolves from one platform to another.
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39min
January 11, 2021 David Neiwert "Red Pill, Blue Pill"
Journalist and author of "Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us," David Neiwert explains how the process of learning on digital platforms enables people to become radicalized and fall into conspiracy thinking, the limits of conspiracies, and how we can begin to address a national crisis.

In his opening monologue, Jamie explains how the insurrectionists that sieged the U.S. Capitol building did everything for the clout of the message boards their movement started on — and the danger that lies ahead.

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41min
January 04, 2021 Copium, God Emperors, and the Memescape
What is behind the Trump God Emperor meme, and how can we use it to interpret the grief that his supporters are feeling in the wake of an electoral defeat? How does Pepe the Frog represent Trump supporters in popular memes and artwork ahead of "Trump's Last Stand" on January 6? A look at how authentic and organic memes fuel movements and help win elections, and the implications of corporate memes on electoral politics.
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45min
December 21, 2020 Raphael Zaki "The Chaos Factory"
Media theorist Raphael Zaki and Dr. Jamie Cohen discuss whether each generation discusses the same memes in different cultural environments. From the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to Qanon today, Raphael and Jamie explore fascism, memes, and the occult.

Resources:
QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic

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24min
December 14, 2020 Michael D'Antonio "What Comes Next"
Award-winning author and CNN contributor Michael D'Antonio explores what comes next for the United States at the borderlands of media, internet, and politics. How do we coexist in a country so deeply divided by big tech?

This conversation was recorded live on December 9, 2020 in partnership with Civic Hall, as part of the Digital Void Salon Series. Click here to access the archived event video.

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58min
December 07, 2020 Grafton Tanner "The Circle of the Snake"
Author of "The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech," Grafton Tanner explains how big tech’s predictive algorithms are locking us in nostalgic feedback loops and envisions a more radical nostalgia that serves the needs of the many, not just the privileged.
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49min
November 30, 2020 Marc Weinstein "Satoshis and Super Spirals"
Investor, start-up advisor, yoga instructor, and host of the “Look Up!” Podcast, Marc Weinstein shares strategies for us to consider how to balance a digital environment with mindfulness and spirituality, looks at the empowering potential of cryptocurrency and digital art, and the importance of true gratitude for others. This conversation was recorded a day before the 2020 US Presidential Election.
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1h 3min
September 02, 2020 From Covington to Kenosha
How did Covington High School student Nick Sandmann’s vilification by mainstream media outlets help to create a narrative that allowed for the glorification of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse? How can we understand historical memes and their context in perpetuating an extremist ideology, and what role does Facebook play in it? What are ways for us to connect over shared human values when we’re so deeply siloed into our digital communities?
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47min
August 26, 2020 Nothing is Normal in the Groverhaus
Dr. Jamie Cohen explains how QANON tricks people into believing they are participating in civic behavior, why The Grover House explains the internet's structural issues, and how to have conversations with people who have been radicalized.
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48min

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