In today’s episode, I talk to one of my College professors and recent Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant recipient Dr. Nora Madison. Dr. Madison, or Nora as I’m allowed to call her has a PhD in Communication, Culture & Media from Drexel University and has presented her research around the world, including an invited talk at Sweden’s International Science Festival in 2013. In 2015 she was invited to the White House to participate in a policy briefing focused on the cultural and material needs of the American bisexual community as a part of the White House's LGBT initiative under the Obama administration.
Nora is currently working on a new book called Everyday Activism: Technologies of Resistance together with co-author and husband Mathias Klang, and is scheduled for publication in June 2020. She is obviously very smart, and I was lucky to get some time to discuss some things I’ve been pondering on lately.
We talk about our dependency on technology, social media, and entertainment. We discuss Neil Postman’s famous and somewhat controversial book, “Amusing Ourselves to Death. But don’t worry, having read the book is definitely not a requirement for listening to this conversation. The book is a couple of years old and is about television’s negative effects on public discourse, but a lot of the same arguments can be extended to social media, technology, and its effect on society today. We also discuss social media companies’ presence in our lives and their role in shaping public discourse, fake news, how we can be more media literate and much more. This was a very interesting conversation and I know you’ll think so too.
If you want to reach out to Nora or read any of her research check out her website, noramadison.net.
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