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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Digital surveillance and propaganda are explored by Dr Ethan Plaut
Description: The interrelationship between the history of propaganda and our world of digital surveillance is discussed by Dr Ethan Plaut from the University of Auckland during the 2019 Raising the Bar night. Listen to Dr Ethan Plaut discussing the intertwined history of propaganda and digital surveillance.Whether you're handling your digital business or just scrolling for the lulz, every moment you're online could be commodified twice over: while advertisers and propagandists purchase shards of your attention, the surveillance industry simultaneously extracts a constellation of data points about who you are and exactly what you're doing....