Today, we talk about Twitter and its effects on our informational diet with Stephen Barnard of St Lawrence University. Stephen is the author of author of Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism (2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and co-author of All Media are Social: Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media (2020, Routledge).
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins) about his work studying working class, white male Trump supporters. Robert wrote “Him, […]
We discuss “generations theories”, which postulate that massive cohorts of 10 – 20 years have relevant, predictive shared traits.
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Jooyoung Lee (University of Toronto) discuss a proposed sex doll brothel in Toronto, humanity’s continuing struggle against machines, and both sex […]
We discuss whether social scientists do enough to communicate the limits of their knowledge in public debate.
