ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Technology and magic have a long, rich history together. Each Wednesday, filmmaker Heather Freeman guides us through this apparent paradox with technologists and historians from around the world. If you're into history, witchcraft, magic, social media, artificial intelligence, infotech, or ethics, this podcast brings them together with friendly familiars and malicious bots.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
29 minutes
English
United States
22 episodes
since April 20, 2020
serial
OLDEST EPISODE 🔗
What do you do when Covid-19 kills the context of your feature documentary film? You turn it into a podcast, apparently. Filmmaker Heather Freeman interviews Owen Davies (University of Hertfordshire), Marion Gibson (University of Exeter), Douglas Guilbeault (Annenberg School of Communication), Paol…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Tay is a bot-gone-wrong and John Walsh was a cunning-man accused of witchcraft. Their stories are chased with a crash course in the history of information technologies. Filmmaker Heather Freeman interviews Owen Davies (University of Hertfordshire), Susan Etlinger (Altimeter Group and The Centre fo…
What did early modern people really think about magic? And how do on-line spaces differ from real-world spaces?
In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews:
Dr. Vikki Carr, an independent scholar researching witchcraft beliefs of Early Modern England and Scotland
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, the Sterl…
Who were the early modern cunning folk, and what exactly were they doing with all those books? And how do we act ethically in a community and avoid the 'Tragedy of the Commons'?
In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews:Dr. John Callow, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Suffolk
Dr.…
We’ll look at how social bots interact with people in on-line social networks, and how sometimes people behave like, well, bots. In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews:Susan Etlinger, industry analyst for the Altimeter Group;Alex Hogan Managing Partner in Etic Labs;Srijan Kumar Assistant Profe…
We’ll see what early modern grimoires tell us about the magical beliefs and practices of that era. And then we’ll take a gander at summoning Luridan the Familiar. (You know. For kicks.)
In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews: Dr. John Callow, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Suffolk
Dr.…
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What exactly was the early modern witch’s familiar? Was it a cuddly pet or a malevolent demon?
In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews:Dr. John Callow, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Suffolk
Dr. Vikki Carr, an independent scholar researching witchcraft beliefs of Early Modern England a…
In this episode, we look at some of the more sophisticated bots, from those that employ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, to those that employ -- well, human beings.
In this episode, Heather Freeman interviews:
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Scienc…
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