Allan Boyd Talks to Experts About Things

About Allan Boyd Talks to Experts About Things

West Australian Independent Journalist Allan Boyd talks to actual experts about interesting things for about 15 minutes. Also on RTRFM! I source a lot of content via the excellent academic-journalism website, The Conversation. The things I cover are wide... Including Cyber-security, Surveillance-capitalism, Media, Arts, Politics, Internet Stuff, AI, Big Tech, Science, Ecology, Social Justice, Human Rights, Activism... I have a solid background in web development, arts, comms, politics and media. In particular, independent community arts. Been broadcasting on and off since 1996 with RTRFM. Serial student at ECU in Media and Cybersecurity. Lapsed sessional academic of Experimental, Performance Poetry and Creative Writing at Curtin. Ex-tree-planting contractor. Was a Perth Indymedia OG at the birth of Open Publishing. I'm a rogue web developer by trade. Muso. Building the internet with my bare hands since 1998! Aka the antipoet. Perth Slam co-host.

Publisher

Allan Boyd - Journalist RTRFM Perth Western Australia

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jan 2026

Latest episode

9 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Sept 2026

   Shelley Marshall - Meta's Big Tobacco moment

   Shelley Marshall Deputy Dean of Research, RMIT University Meta’s $18b settlement echoes past tobacco lawsuits – and how they avoided harsh penalties Is Big Tech and social media having its Big Tobacco moment? Next up, RTR’s Allan Boyd looks at Meta’s multibillion-dollar US settlement and examines the echoes of how Big Tobacco responded to legal action in the 1990s. He speaks with RMIT University law professor Shelley Marshall... Send me a message

2. 

   7 Jul 2026

   Denis Muller – Pauline Hanson at National Press Club

   A right mess: how mining, media and political interests are combining to influence public debate in Australia Denis Muller - Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne With the recent rise in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, are our political journalists doing enough to call out her racism and grievance-based policies? On The Record’s Allan Boyd caught up with media expert Denis Muller to find out more. Send me a message

3. 

   17 Apr 2026

   Rob Nicholls – Landmark Social Media Addiction Case

   Dr Rob Nicholls - expert in Media and Communications at RMIT, talking with RTRFM’s Allan Boyd about the recent landmark social media case against Google and Meta in the United States. == INTRO: A recent US court case saw big tech giants, Meta and Google, pay out six million dollars to a single plaintiff for mental health damage - citing dangerous and addictive design features in the social media platforms. The case is seen as a precedent to many more to come. On The Record’s Allan Boyd ...

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