Online Gods - Technopolitics and the Indian Atheists: Online Gods #16

Technopolitics and the Indian Atheists: Online Gods #16

06/17/19 • 52 min

Online Gods

This month we're talking with Iginio Gagliardone about Technopolitics and Swati about the Indian Atheists.

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News Images and Surveillance: Online Gods #15

This month we’re talking about digital news images with Zeynep Gürsel and online surveillance with Nayantara Ranganathan. What is it that allows certain things to circulate through digital networks and others not? What sort of labour goes into moving certain things along and holding certain things up? How aware are we of the digital architectures through which data – our data – flows? In this episode of Online Gods we explore these questions and related questions across two different topics – news images and online surveillance.

In the first half of the podcast, we discuss digital news images with anthropologist Zeynep Gürsel, who has undertaken ethnography with those she calls image brokers, the individuals who help turn photographs and other images into news by selecting and circulating them.

Then, in the second half of the podcast we’ll speak with Nayantara Ranganathan a Programme Manager at the Internet Democracy Project about their organisation’s work specifically in regards to research and workshops relating to online surveillance.

Next Episode

Break and Futures

I hope you’re all doing fine, Ian here from Online Gods. We’ve recently published episode 16 of Online Gods and decided it’s time to take a short break. I hereby declare the close of season one of online gods.

We’d like to thank you all for listening to the first season, especially those who’ve been in touch in various ways.

After a short break, we’re going to put our heads together in the autumn and think about Season 2, including how and if we can do something a bit different. As ever, any thoughts you might have on that are really appreciated.

In the meantime we’re really excited to announce a new partnership with EPW Engage. An online initiative of Economic and Political Weekly, EPW Engage is a really wonderful fit for the Online Gods. Not only do they explore the digital as a medium for publishing (as we do), but also as an enabler of new methodologies and conceptual explorations (again, as we do).

EPW Engage are going to be republishing the entire first season of Online Gods and, when we meet to plan the new season, we’ll do so with them in mind.

Thanks!