PBS for the Internet Age

Erik Martin was a guest on Episode 10 of this show, and I'm
pretty excited that he's back. In February this year he wrote an
op-ed for the Washington Post titled, We need a PBS for the
Internet Age.


Erik is a graduate student at the Oxford Internet Institute, and
was a policy adviser at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy. He also worked as Sr Education Program Manager
at the game engine company Unity, and was listed on Forbes 30
under 30 in 2018 in the games category.


When I read his piece in The Post I immediately started bugging
him to join us on the show to say more. I have the feeling that
when I look back on the episodes of 2019, this one will land
among a handful at the top that really pushed my thinking.
Whether or not you agree with his proposal, I hope that you walk
away with your own ideas about the responsibility that
legislators in the US could one day take for improving the
inextricably connected role that the internet plays in our lives
and our democracy beyond the whack-a-mole of censorship and
regulation.





Episode Notes:


We Need a PBS for the Internet Age, Washington Post, Op Ed,
February 25, 2019:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-internet-has-gone-bad-public-media-can-save-it/2019/02/24/024befd0-36b2-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.05c7d6fd62e4


Oxford Computational Propaganda Project:
https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/


MIT research on false information retweets more than real news:
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/the-spread-of-false-and-true-info-online/overview/


Newton Minnows 1961 speech, Television and the Public Interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_Interest


Network Propaganda, Book,  Yochai Benkler, Robert
Faris, Hal Roberts:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/network-propaganda-yochai-benkler/1129078833?ean=9780190923631#/


Shoshana Zuboff, Surveillance Capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism


Berkman Klein - talk on Network Propaganda:
https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-10-04/network-propaganda





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