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The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

 Mél Hogan

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening. 

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Education Technology Ai Society & Culture
Update frequency
every 12 days
Average duration
55 minutes
Episodes
68
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Handled, with Hank Gerba

Handled, with Hank Gerba

Hank Gerba was once one of Sophia The Robot’s handlers, and in this episode he reveals the magic (deception) behind social robots that promise to be one day autonomous. Recorded Jan 24, 2023. Release…

00:51:04  |   Fri 10 Mar 2023
Promised, with Jake Pitre

Promised, with Jake Pitre

Jake Pitre and I discuss the concept of the Metaverse and the future it wants. Recorded Jan 18, 2023. Released March 1, 2023.


Who Wants the Metaverse?

https://daily.jstor.org/who-wants-the-metaverse/


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00:47:38  |   Wed 01 Mar 2023
Fake, with Gabriele de Seta

Fake, with Gabriele de Seta

Gabriele de Seta and I have a great conversation about deepfakes in a Chinese context. One of the big insights of this episode is that we may have to one day soon consider the agency of replicas in d…

00:45:55  |   Mon 20 Feb 2023
Soulless, with Eryk Salvaggio

Soulless, with Eryk Salvaggio

Eryk Salvaggio and I discuss what GANs, stable diffusion and neural networks are, and we take listeners through the process of “reading” an AI image. Recorded Dec 13, 2022.


How to Read an AI Image: Th…

01:05:56  |   Fri 10 Feb 2023
Death, with Tamara Kneese

Death, with Tamara Kneese

Tamara Kneese and I have a truly delightful conversation about death and the personal data that complicates estate planning and digital doubles. The main takeaway for me from this episode — and there…

00:45:50  |   Mon 30 Jan 2023
Terror, with Olivia Snow

Terror, with Olivia Snow

Olivia Snow and I chat about the social implications of Lensa, technically a picture editor for selfies and photo retouching, or “an all-in-one image editing app that takes your photos to the next le…
00:47:42  |   Fri 20 Jan 2023
Allure, with Luke Munn

Allure, with Luke Munn

Luke Munn and I discuss the allure of ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a c…

00:48:34  |   Tue 10 Jan 2023
Grievance, with Sarah T. Roberts

Grievance, with Sarah T. Roberts

In this first episode of The Data Fix, I speak with Dr. Sarah T. Roberts, an expert in commercial content moderation and THE cultural critic we need right now, on all things tech & society related. W…

00:59:42  |   Sun 01 Jan 2023
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