Talya Jesperson is an MA student in Sociology concentrating in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) at the University of Victoria. She holds a BA Honours in Sociology with a minor in Technology and Society from the University of Victoria. Her research interests are the democratization of digital media and digital technologies, knowledge commons, internet decentralization, digital platforms, surveillance capitalism, and techno-social relationships.
As AI becomes more prevalent in daily life, Talya's qualitative research project aims to examine human relationships with popular AI technologies in the context of AI capitalism. Using conversation agents as the focal point, this study will demonstrate how AI is reshaping techno-social life and explore the potential for AI as a tool for capitalist exploitation.

For more information about Talya and her work, visit https://talya.is/ or find her on twitter @tortalynii (https://twitter.com/tortalynii)

The music featured in this episode includes Tomorrow by Space Monkey Death Sequence, and Camelia byUV protection.
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