Joel Bakan's Unfortunately Necessary Podcast

About Joel Bakan's Unfortunately Necessary Podcast

From the award-winning author and filmmaker behind The Corporation and The New Corporation, Joel Bakan and guests look at the big shifts in our society that are coming based on our relationship with big tech. At this critical moment in history, with disinformation and excess at its gilded era peak, how do we rein it in to make tech and society work better for all of us?

Publisher

Joel Bakan

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Aug 2021

Latest episode

17 Dec 2021

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Dec 2021

   003: Protest & Politics – Part 2

   Following on Part 1, we catch up with climate activist and NDP candidate Anjali Appadurai after the election and just before COP26.

2. 

   15 Dec 2021

   002: Protest & Politics – Part 1

   We interview two unlikely activists that got into politics: Joe Keithley (AKA Joey Shithead of D.O.A.) on Burnaby City Council, and climate justice activist Anjali Appadurai who ran as the NDP candidate in Vancouver Granville for the Canadian 2021 federal election.

3. 

   23 Aug 2021

   001: Twitter Gone Rogue

   Hear the lowdown on how the filmmaker of The New Corporation, Joel Bakan, is taking on Twitter for censoring the trailer for the film. He’s joined by co-counsel Sujit Choudhry and co-Plaintiffs from Cool.World, Kat Dodds and Jen Evans.

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Books guests

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