What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense because the average American spends 2 hours and 51 minutes watching movies and TV each day. That’s a whopping 19 percent of our waking hours. Walt Hickey is a data journalist and author of a new book called You Are What You Watch. In it, Walt makes a case for how much film and television shapes us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give it credit for.
You Are What You Watch
501- 99% Vernacular: Volume 2
500- 99% Vernacular: Volume 1
499- Say Aloe to My Little Frond
498- The Octagon House
497- Hometown Village
496- The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature
495- Meet Us by the Fountain
494- Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
493- Divining Provenance
492- Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
491- The Missing Middle
490- Train Set
Roman Mars on Blank Check with Griffin and David
489- Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
488- It’s a Small Aisle After All
487- Atlas Obscura
486- Rumble Strip
485- Murder Most Fowl
484- Dear Hank and John and Roman
483- Grid Locked
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