Episode 8: How Do We Get Out of Here?

Reactionary Digital Politics

These days, it’s impossible to talk publicly about how things are going wrong with politics (economics, culture, society, climate etc.) without someone piping up at the end to spoil a good whinge by asking ‘So, what would you do about it?”. Well, we can be spoilsports too. At the end of all our conversations we asked our interviewees the same question: we now know that digital politics is a mess, but what do we do about it? In this final episode, we listen to and think about their answers - from demands to regulate social media platforms to calls to think better about our communications ecology. Are we just sharp edged critical theorists or will we turn out to have a soft moral centre? Listen to the end to find out.

Presented by: Alan Finlayson, Rob Gallagher, Sophie Ludkin & Rob Topinka

With: Clare Birchall, Florian Cramer, Matthew Feldman, Bharath Ganesh, Debbie Ging, Annie Kelly, Hugo Leal, Becca Lewis, Whitney Phillips & Wu Ming 1

Produced by: Sophie Ludkin

Special thanks to: Cassian Osborne-Carey

Music composed by Harriet Riley and produced by Tom Jacob

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