Month: February 2026

Harry Dyer’s TEDx Talk on Social Media in Education mentions several historical perspectives on new forms of communication. These accounts have since been dismissed as fearmongering by most people: the implication is that certain modern-day perspectives on social media may suffer the same fate. This Macleans article sums up the long history of communication-tech-anxiety, from…

While I was listening to Sophie Lui discussing the changing nature of journalism and public engagement, the theme which struck me the most was the shift from a “producer -> consumer” model to a more cyclical interaction. For example, on the consumer side, the relatively-private practice of hate mail has been superseded by a more…