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Ep. 37 – Navigating the World of Dating Apps

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Read the article: How Tinder Changed Dating for a Generation

digital collage by S. King, using photos from Jacob Townsend and Andrew Leu

Further Reading

The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
Quote from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Tinder Algorithm, Explained
The OkCupid Blog
How Match.com Got Women to Sign Up for Online Dating

Susanna society, technology Leave a comment June 9, 2019June 9, 2019

Ep. 34 – Kids, Screens & Mental Health

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Read the article: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

smartphones — photo illustration by S. King using photos by Kal Visuals, averie woodard, Hans Eiskonen, & Whelsko

Further Reading

Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.
How Generation Z is Changing Technology
Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity
How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfection

Next week: How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

Susanna culture, psychology, technology Leave a comment March 9, 2019March 9, 2019

Ep. 31 -The Art of Selecting Background Music

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Read the article: Inside the booming business of background music

Further Reading

The Word “Curate” No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowds
All-too-easy listening
How video game music waltzed its way on to Classic FM

bkg-music — collage by S. King based on a photo by Kevin Curtis

Susanna business, culture, technology Leave a comment December 5, 2018

Ep. 28 – One Input to Rule Them All

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Read the article: Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard

Further Reading

Typing Errors
King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made
The Nintendo Power Glove
The 5 Best Virtual Keyboards: Have Flat Surface, Will Type

qwerty — photo illustration by S. King

Susanna history, technology Leave a comment November 3, 2018November 2, 2018

Ep. 16 – The Startup School Experiment

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Read the article: How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco

Further Reading

Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep (podcast)
Can Richard Carranza Integrate the Most Segregated School System in the Country?
Just the Facts: Poverty in California
Willie J. Brown Middle School
Jackson STEM Middle School

Susanna education Leave a comment July 28, 2018

Ep. 15 – What Is Cyberpunk, Really?

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Read the article: Where Are the Radical Politics of Cyberpunk?

Further Reading

Cyberpunk 2077: Everything we learned from E3 2018 and more
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Philip K. Dick Short Stories Online
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops Board Game

Susanna culture, literature, technology Leave a comment July 23, 2018July 24, 2018

Episode 6 – What Went Wrong (and Right) with OLPC’s $100 Laptop

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Read the article: “OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong”

Susanna history, technology Leave a comment April 19, 2018April 27, 2018

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