government — Podcast Episodes

S5E1 - In TikTok We Trust?

TikTok? Have you installed the world’s newest social media app? Your church youth group sure has. China, dancing cats, and Adam’s new obsession. Can Christians trust TikTok?

Season 5, Podcast EpisodeChris RidgewayAugust 4, 2020TikTok, social media, Christianity, China, government, smartphone apps, censorship, data protection, election

S4E5 - Too Close for Comfort? Contact Tracing, Big Brother, and Loving Your Neighbor

Apple, Google, and governments around the world are cooking up a new way to trace where you’ve been and who you’ve talked to. Sound like Big Brother? It may actually help you to love your neighbor.

Season 4, Podcast EpisodeAdam GraberApril 22, 2020proximity apps, apps, smartphone apps, coronavirus, covid-19, big brother, contact tracing, love your neighbor, Christian privacy, government, apple, Google, public health, social distancing

S3E8 - Will Social Media Break Democracy?

How did we get from the Arab Spring to Cambridge Analytica in less than 5 years? Waves of pro-democracy protesters in the Middle East have given way to waves of nationalism around the globe. In less than a decade, the Internet went from harbinger of democracy to herald of demagogues. What happened? And ARE WE … DOOMED??