BONUS: Chat, Does Anyone Like Social Media?

About this episode

The episode explores the relationship between journalists and social media, inviting listeners to share their experiences and opinions.

As journalists, we are pretty online. Terminally online. Our screen time apps? Let’s not go there… Now our social media feeds are likely different from many of yours. So we wanted to ask all of you, who probably lead less online lives, what you love, hate, and how you balance your online from your IRL. And you all had so much interesting stuff to share. Host: Sam Konnert Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher) Photo: Tony Wang Additional music by Audio Network Further Reading: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — Penguin Random House Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Flatiron Books Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop — Wired LinkedIn Lunatics Subreddit — Reddit The #BLM Protests Are Not Your Aesthetic — Story Factory mastodon explained in only a few sentences - for a newbie — Reddit People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. (Actual title is “My first impressions of web3”) — Moxie Marlinspike (Founder of Signal) This show is available exclusively to Canadaland supporters. It’s our biggest sale of the year…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Konnert

Topics covered

• social media
• journalism
• online presence
• digital life
• audience engagement
• IRL balance

Keywords

• social media
• journalism
• online life
• audience feedback
• digital balance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CANADALAND, Wired, Reddit, Story Factory, Signal

Books & works: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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