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In the Country of Facebook. Hey, Wait a Minute. Facebook Is Not a Country!
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "There should be a way so that everybody could know everybody.", Credit: Susan Cook
On the Fresh Air episode, "For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material is a Job Hazard", a Silicon Valley journalist plumbed Facebook's ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 08:21
Privacy Rape, the Right to Be Free from Exploitation and Facebook
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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A recent Fresh Air interview with Heidi Schreck about the Supreme Court recognition of privacy as the premise for a woman's right to control her ow...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 07:28
My GPS and White House Spokespeople: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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I have for months tried to figure out the loose association that comes to mind when my voice-activated GPS begins. After Paul Manafort's sentencin...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:56
Looking After Each Other: Putting Our Senses Back Together to Provide Healthcare
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 07:48
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Shouldn't Facebook Be Accountable for their Exploitation of Anonymity - the Faceless- by FacebookTrolling?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Enough is Enough. , Credit: Susan Cook
Shouldn't Facebook also be held accountable for their moral indifference to the human consequence of Facebook trolling that the platform's anonymi...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:35
The Nonprofit Push for Girls in Engineering
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Hear from two nonprofit organizations trying to provide girls with more education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 47:25
Teaching A Computer to Find You- A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The Early primitive hacker, a Scottish lady in Accounts, deleted your data for late payment. , Credit: Susan Cook
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
Going Through the Checkout Line Alone, Anonymously Listening to Public Radio- A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Shared human experience..makes us human., Credit: Susan Cook
Amazon has announced they will soon launch an attempt to eliminate that pesky feature of day-to-day life- ‘the grocery store check-out employee’. ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
"My Funny I.T. Guy" To the Tune of "My Funny Valentine'' (The song and dance genre)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Is Apple's Refusal to Open the I-phone An Egocentric Worldview
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
The Ethics of Facebook
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:49