Digital Village Radio
Digital Village is the oldest running technology radio show in Los Angeles. We cover topics like advancements in AI, biotech, and combating climate change, as well as special segments on technology and how it influences culture, with A View from the Outside and The New Modality. The future isn’t being televised, but it is being digitized on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
Episode 30: COVID Vaccine Update - Sharing Isn't Broadcasting - Election 2020 Final Update
In the first part of the show, Leilani Albano interviews Krist Azizian, the Chief Pharmacy Officer at USC about the COVID vaccine.
(18:25) In the middle, Brittney is joined by Sophia Brueckner, she’s…
Episode 29: CA Prop 24 & 25 - Herd Immunity
On this week's episode of Digital Village, Leilani Albano interviews USC Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Dr. Paula Cannon to talk about concerns with herd immunity as a primary str…
Episode 28: Election 2020 - Make a Plan!
In the first part of the show Ric is joined by KPFK's own Brad Friedman to talk Election 2020. Then we talk to Jenny Gottstein an experience and play designer about making voting an experience we can…
Episode 27: LADOT & CityGrows - Science Literacy in Congress - FEMA & EDD
On this week's episode of Digital Village, Dr. Addison Killean Stark is back to talk about science literacy in Congress and what happened to the Office of Technology Assessment. In the last part of t…
Episode 26: AVFTO: Experience Design - Immunity Passports - Broadband in CA
On this week's episode of Digital Village, Joanna Miller gives us A View From the Outside on Experience Design with Jenny Sauer-Klein.
Then, Leilani Albano is joined by the EFF's Alexis Hancock, to ta…
Episode 25: Failure & Innovation - Hype & How It Can Be Smoke & Mirrors
In the first part of the show Dr. Addison Killean Stark of the Bipartisan Policy Center is back to talk about the Crescent Dunes Solar Plant filing for bankruptcy and how we need space for failure to…
Episode 24: Trump vs. TikTok - Attacks on Voting by Mail
On this weeks episode Ric interviews the LA Times' Ryan Faughnder about Trump vs. Tik Tok.
In the second part of the show, Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano interviews Carol Moon Goldberg the Pr…
Episode 23: The Conspiracy vs. The Conspiracy Theory - The NSA vs. The EU
In the first part of the show, Brittney interviews Dr. Tim Tangherlini, a professor in the Scandanavian Department at UC Berkeley. He was formerly at UCLA where he collaborated with colleagues in the…
Episode 22: Cloaking Your Photos with Fawkes - Language Models
In the first part of the show, we talk to Shawn Shan, a PhD student at University of Chicago, who works in privacy and security specifically in emerging technology. Shawn is one of the researchers be…
Episode 21: Perseverance - AVFTO: Notifications - FBI & Black Activists
(00:40) We’ve already seen the launch of The Emirates Mars Mission and China’s Tianwen, but of course the veterans of Mars, NASA are set to launch their Perseverance Rover on July 30th. I am joined b…
Episode 20: Social Media - Facebook: Stop Hate for Profit - Twitter Bots
(1:26) Ric interviews Jessica González co-CEO of freepress.net about Stop Hate For Profit's meeting with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg last week.
(15:18) From Facebook to Twitter, in …
Episode 19: COVID-19 Update - Jaleesa Trapp - Flaws in Facial Recognition
(01:19) In the first part of the show, Dr. Jun Axup is back to give us a COVID-19 best practices update - hint - wear. a. mask.
(5:26) On Digital Village, we love to highlight people who are doing ama…
Episode 18: Direct Air Capture Technology - Live Sports in the Time of COVID-19
2020 has been an eventful year - COVID-19, worldwide protests against police brutality, and of course, climate change has not gone away. I'm joined by The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Dr. Addison Kille…
Episode 17: AVFTO Ritual - Fact Check the Internet - CCPA & Contact Tracing
In the first part of the show, A View from the Outside's Joanna Miller interviews Casper ter Kuile on his book, The Power of Ritual.
The Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian reminds us what social media is …
Episode 16: Live Events In The Age of COVID-19
It takes an army to throw a live event, A View from the Outside’s Joanna Miller interviews Alyssa Solomon a tour manager for artists like FKA Twigs about how COVID-19 has changed things.
In the secon…
Episode 15: Digital Denied - Carbon Capture - Rapid Response For A Better Digital Future
In the first part of the show, Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano interviews Free Press Senior Director of Strategy and Communications, Tim Karr about structural barriers to getting online for s…
Episode 14: NewMo: Cross-Cultural Design - Animal Crossing - Ada and the Lost Horizon
The New Modality’s Lydia Laurenson is back. The New Modality, is a new publication on experiments in culture, Lydia is in conversation with Senongo Akpem talking about the culture and his book, Cross…
Episode 13: Rideshare Drivers United - Phishing in the Time of COVID-19 - Space
Ric Allen interviews Tyler Sandness of Rideshare Drivers United about their work and how COVID-19 has affected Rideshare drivers.
Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian is here to talk about phishing scams in…
Episode 12: Zoom Security - The CoronaCorps - Quarantine@Home
Leilani Albano is back and interviews journalist for The Intercept Micah Lee about Zoom security flaws.
Dr. Peretz Partensky is here talking about his piece for Wired, "To Beat the Coronavirus, Raise …
Episode 11: Contact Tracing - Mirakind - Invest in Innovation
Dr. Peter Eckersley is back. He’s an AI, ethics, and privacy researcher, who is the convener of the stop-covid.tech group to talk to us about contact tracing and how important it is in slowing down t…