S1E6: From Zero to Selfie

In 1969, an anthropologist introduced photographs and films to people in Papua New Guinea who’d never seen themselves represented in media before. It changed their conception of the world. In modern society, social media floods us with imagery at a pace we’ve never encountered before, and powerful video manipulation technology threatens to blur the line between real and fake. Are we the new Papuans, about to be overwhelmed by a wholesale media shift? Guests include: Nathan Jurgenson, Snapchat’s in-house sociologist; Hany Farid, Dartmouth computer science professor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S1E6: From Zero to Selfie is an episode from The Secret History of the Future by Slate.

This episode is 35:33 long.

This episode was published on Oct 10, 2018.

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