Rethinking social media - a podcast by Lily Canter and Emma Wilkinson
from 2023-10-25T07:45
With Elon Musk seemingly destroying Twitter, we decided it was time to ask two experts whether we need to be rethinking social media as freelance journalists. Can we live without Twitter and what are the alternatives? Should we be more mindful about how our data is used? And how on earth does Mastodon work? We spoke to tech and internet journalists Chris Stokel-Walker and Steven Asarch to find the answers.
The guests
Chris Stokel-Walker stokel-walker.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/stokel
Steven Asarch https://muckrack.com/steven-asarch
Twitter https://twitter.com/IAmAsarch
Resources
Mastodon https://mastodon.social/
Blue Sky https://bsky.app/
Threads https://www.threads.net/
Reddit https://www.reddit.com/
Discord https://discord.com/
Signal https://signal.org/
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1398527491
TikTok Boom by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.amazon.co.uk/TikTok-Boom-China-Superpower-Social/dp/1912454793
The History of the Internet by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Internet-Byte-Sized-Chunks-Bite-Sized/dp/1789295599
Google accidentally leaking AI chats by Chris Stokel-Walker https://www.fastcompany.com/90958811/google-was-accidentally-leaking-its-bard-ai-chats-into-public-search-results
Recommendations
Miles Klee, internet culture journalist https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/
Jessica Lucas, There's a Deadly Drinking Problem on TikTok https://www.huffpost.com/entry/deadly-drinking-tik-tok_n_64760b90e4b02325c5dd1b33
Seth Simons, Who's afraid of Lorne Michaels? https://longreads.com/2023/08/17/lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live/
Taylor Lorenz, tech journalist on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz
Sophia Smith Galer, journalist https://twitter.com/sophiasgaler
Laura Garcia, BBC Mundo
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