by Dave Levine | Jul 25, 2025
Dave Levine’s latest Hearsay Culture episode dives deep into the dark side of fan culture with Professor Mel Stanfill, author of 2024’s Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment and Participatory Culture. Stanfill reveals how online fan communities, often dismissed...
by Dave Levine | Jul 24, 2025
What if the internet actually worked for us—not just watched us? On this episode of Hearsay Culture, author and former Google exec Richard Whitt joins to explore how we got from a utopian, people-powered web to a system driven by surveillance, manipulation, and...
by Dave Levine | Jul 18, 2025
When infrastructure fails — planes crash, systems freeze, rights vanish — suddenly everyone cares. Villanova’s Brett Frischmann rejoins Hearsay Culture to explain how tech design, digital contracts, and AI are wired for speed, not sense — and why...
by Dave Levine | Jul 15, 2025
NYU’s Meredith Broussard pulls back the curtain on the hidden biases baked into today’s “smart” tech—from flawed facial recognition to the AI that underdelivered during her own cancer diagnosis. She tackles what’s broken in journalism, education, and healthcare—and...
by Cole Meixsell | Jan 16, 2025
In today’s world, generative AI is shaking up the job market, and many fear that their skills are on the chopping block. But Matt Beane’s book The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines offers a powerful blueprint to safeguard what...
