The Digital Leader Show: Misinformation & How the Web Has Changed the Past

This week, we're discussing Misinformation & How The Internet Has Changed the Past with our special guest, best-selling author and historian, Jason Steinhauer, and other headlines from last week's "DEI Weekly”, a curated selection of our favorite content for global digital leaders that goes out to Digital Enterprise Institute members each week (you can sign up deinetwork.com).

Jason Steinhauer, author of “History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past”, covers how social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History as a discipline.

About the Show:

Each week, we explore some of the key issues defining our ongoing transformation into digital enterprises and societies. Join us for a unique, unfiltered discussion of business and social leadership at the intersection of technology and the humanities, helping you to become a Digital Leader.

About the Speakers:

Jason Steinhauer is a best-selling author and public historian, operating at the intersection of history, tech, social media and politics. Technology has profoundly re-organized our ways of knowing things about the world, and the positive and negative effects of technology must be balanced with a humanistic perspective. Jason brings this approach to his work, where he writes and speaks about how social media, tech and the web are shaping our history, politics and future. Jason regularly advises policymakers & government officials, speaks at conferences, and meets with scholars & students.

Daniel Goodstein runs multiple technology associations with over 130,000 member executives worldwide and is a go-to resource for enterprises across the globe looking for assistance with digital transformation, AI, automation and outsourcing. He is also a seasoned go-to-market expert helping drive sales, marketing and media strategies for several Fortune 500 tech firms and startups alike.

Carlos Alvarenga is a researcher, author & coach, and is an educator with Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow & Adjunct Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Executive Director of World 50 Labs, the member-innovation team at World 50, Inc., a Principal in Ernst & Young’s Advisory Practice and a Managing Director at Accenture.