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The Perils of Hype and Fixing Tech Journalism
Manage episode 328854484 series 3312949
Given how important tech is to so much economics, politics, and social change, should we even have a separate tech section in newspapers? The danger is that tech sections just get filled with hype: with self-narratives originating from the companies developing those technologies. And that hype can lead to negative consequences we don't often think about: it distracts us from bigger problems facing humanity, and from debate about whether that technology is itself desirable or important.
In this episode, I chat to freelance tech journalist and author Gemma Milne.
Music, as ever, by Joystock
Image credit: Francis Augusto
36 episodes
Manage episode 328854484 series 3312949
Given how important tech is to so much economics, politics, and social change, should we even have a separate tech section in newspapers? The danger is that tech sections just get filled with hype: with self-narratives originating from the companies developing those technologies. And that hype can lead to negative consequences we don't often think about: it distracts us from bigger problems facing humanity, and from debate about whether that technology is itself desirable or important.
In this episode, I chat to freelance tech journalist and author Gemma Milne.
Music, as ever, by Joystock
Image credit: Francis Augusto
36 episodes
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