I Don't Know Much

About I Don't Know Much

I Don’t Know Much Podcast discusses and explains topics related to public health and all things science! Episode themes vary from vaping to antibiotic resistance to tap water! This podcast will help you navigate credible information on healthcare concepts and get you excited about doing your own research on topics you care about. In some episodes, I speak with subject-matter experts to provide different perspectives and discussions surrounding public health topics. This podcast also highlights mini-series that address cool social concepts! Producer: Calvin Hillis; Cover art by IG: @devvvisuals

Publisher

Miranda Zary

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2021

Latest episode

24 Aug 2022

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

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   24 Aug 2022

   6. Did you know you're being watched? Consent Theatre with Cory Doctorow

   Cory Doctorow is a digital rights activist, a podcaster, and a writer. Cory speaks with conviction against commercial data practices, which he views as opaque and untrustworthy. Cory recently wrote an article on consent theatre, [1] a concept that explains the strategies used by data-based companies to obfuscate the depth of their surveillance practices to acquire unwitting consent of their users. [1] Cory Doctorow, “Consent Theater,” Medium, 2021, https://onezero.medium.com/consent-theater-a32b98cd8d96.

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   17 Aug 2022

   But I Do Know About Mental Health Predictors of Risky Driving (with Dr. Nevicia Case)

   Risky driving includes speeding, tailgating, and failing to come to a full stop, all of which increase injury risk. Investigating what leads to risky driving, like mental health disorders such as depressed mood and alcohol abuse, is important for implementing interventions that help limit road traffic crashes. Dr. Nevicia Case (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nevicia/) discusses the findings from her most recent study that examined the mental health disorders and driving behaviours over time of individuals with previous driving under the influence offences.

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   5 Aug 2022

   5. In Google We Trust - Being Used By Technology vs. Using Technology with Dr. Darin Barney

   Dr Darin Barney is a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His work examines the future of digital technologies in democratic life, [1] the state of citizenship is a digitally integrated society, [2] and the infrastructure of network societies. [3] Our discussion revolved around concerns of digital governance over social and political life, [4] algorithmic fragmentation of social reality, [5] and the commercialization of data as treating users as standing-reserve. [6] [1] Darin David Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000). [2] Darin David Barney, One Nation under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic (Toronto: Hart House Lecture Committee, 2007). [3] Darin David Barney, The Network Society, Key Concepts (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2010). [4] Yu-Che Chen, Managing Digital Governance: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions.(Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis, 2017), https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=4921790; Just and Latzer, 245. [5] Dean DeChiaro, “Social Media Algorithms Threaten Democracy, Experts Tell Senators,” Roll Call, April 21, 2021, https://www.rollcall.com/2021/04/27/social-media-algorithms-threaten-democracy-experts-tell-senators/; Susan Morgan, “Fake News, Disinformation, Manipulation and Online Tactics to Undermine Democracy,” Journal of Cyber Policy 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 39–43, https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2018.1462395; Ünver, 127–46. [6] Martin Heidegger and William Lovitt, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1977).

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