About this episode

The episode discusses ways to mitigate the harms of commercial social media while enhancing human connection online.

How can we reduce the inequalities and harms of commercial social media and the online world, while building spaces that better support our human need to connect and communicate?

Topics covered

• digital world
• social media
• inequality
• communication
• human connection

Keywords

• digital inequality
• social media harms
• online communication
• human connection
• supportive spaces

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: commercial social media

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