Talk Media to Me
How are media keeping us busy these days? In this podcast series the RMeS (Research School for Media Studies) PhD council has monthly conversations amongst its members of how media affect their day-to-day lives as media scholars.
Talk Media to Me
S03E07: Strategic Unknowns in the US
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In the seventh episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD Council member Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) and his colleague Roselinde Bon (HU) talk about the prominent political role that big tech companies seem to be taking currently in the United States. They discuss how the second term of Trump is setting the stage for more political control through tech, and how occurrences such as censorship are used by big tech companies as strategic unknowns.