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Nowadays, we have access to a huge amount of information, credible and otherwise. And for better or worse, traditional media gatekeepers and filters are disappearing. So how do we become our own filters? How do we learn to spot the difference between quality info and crackpot conspiracy theories? According to Jenna McWilliams, part of the answer is something called new media literacy.
Jenna is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University, and the former curriculum specialist for Project New Media Literacies.
This morning, Nora interviewed Jenna via Skype. A shorter version of this interview will air on Spark 92, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 13:32]
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Yesterday, Nora interviewed Lawrence Lessig about his recent article in The New Republic, “Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government” including a question from Russell McOrmond.
A shorter version of this interview will air on an upcoming episode of Spark, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3 [runs 22:53].
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Special thanks to Daniel Dennis Jones of Radio Berkman for technical help with this interview.
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When we were putting together this week’s interview with tech visionary, Linda Stone, we started thinking a lot about breath.
If you’ve listened to the interview already, you know that Linda’s work these days focuses on what she calls email apnea. When we’re interacting with all the screens in our lives: computer screen, mobile device, etc, we tend to stop breathing, or have really shallow breaths. As I’ve mentioned on the show, I’ve been doing yoga for a long time, about 20 years, and we thought, hey, why not include some yoga breathing techniques with the podcast, so when you’re finished with all that email apnea, you can relax and breathe. Are you game?
You can listen to the breathing exercises below, or download the MP3. [runs 3:13]
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Ever wonder why organizations that start out as innovators can become rigid and stuck in their ways? Heck, maybe you work in an organization that’s lost its creative, innovative edge.
If so, you’ll want to listen to Nora’s interview with Roger Martin. Roger is the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage. A shorter version of this interview will air on Spark 89, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 27:56]
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Here’s a special, blog-only audio treat for you this Friday afternoon. Sheila Heti reads her story Cape Cod Shoe, written for the Significant Objects Project.
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An excerpt of Sheila’s story is heard in Spark 88, along with an interview with Rob Walker, co-curator of the Significant Objects Project.
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Want to get the best possible price for that junk you’re selling on eBay? Maybe you should write a short story to go along with it.
That’s the idea behind the Significant Objects project. It’s an online experiment designed measure how stories can change the value of ordinary, everyday objects. Curators Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn buy inexpensive things from yard sales and thrift shops, then pair the items with writers, who write short stories inspired by the object.
Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!
For example, this porcelain shoe originally cost $4. After being paired with an original story by Sheila Heti, the final price was $77.51.
This morning, Nora interviewed Rob Walker about the project. A shorter version of this interview will air on the October 18 episode of Spark, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 14:52]
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This week, Nora had an opportunity to speak with writer Alain de Botton about his newest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
Nora and Alain talked about how work has changed in recent years, and why we should try to see work as beautiful, and not boring.
A shorter version of this interview will air on an upcoming episode of Spark, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 27:06]
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