How To Park Cars And Alienate People ft. Roisin Kiberd

This week, we're joined by Roisin Kiberd, journalist and author of 'The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet', a collection of essays that examines the dominance of big tech, how platforms have taken over the internet, and how that influences our collective feelings of powerlessness and alienation. Also, a long, deserved consideration of which flavour of Monster energy is the best. 
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We talk about some of the themes of the book - from the managerialism of "content creation", how the fetishisation of youth in tech has led us to an internet that primarily serves middle-aged, cringey fathers, and how financialisation means that even 'owning' parts of yourself is near impossible online.  We also talk about the viral 'parallel parking' post, in which thousands of people got mad at someone because they parked their car in a busy, congested city. Why is it that the most mundane tweets invite the most anger? The answer might be that we've gone past 'main characters' and onto 'main villains'.
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You can purchase Roisin's book from Serpent's Tail publishers here: https://serpentstail.com/work/the-disconnect/

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