• Podcast | Tribes & Tribe-LESS-ness

    This is the podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of July 31, 2018. The first of a new series of podcasts which will focus on more specific issues underlying the Indelible project. This discussion centers around the current trend towards divisiveness: the way unwell authorities achieve this through social media and… Continue Reading

  • Seen Through the Goggles of Google

    Social media—our public text—came more clearly into view today. First there was the statement by Julian Assange, about the Barrett Brown case, where he described how statements or retweets made in social media were being used out of context, by the U.S. Government prosecutors as evidence to support charges of a death threat by Brown… Continue Reading

  • Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Privilege

    This common mechanism in our culture has particulalr significance in the evolving world of social media, where group dynamics rapidly develop opinion through 140 characters of information, (on Twitter). But as Chomsky describes, very few people have the stomach to acknowledge the impact or workings of this industry,even though it is very transparent.