Episodes

  • Discover Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity with Vv Steele!

    Discover Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity with Vv Steele!
    Dec 11 2025
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    1 min
  • Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Revolution Will Be Livestreamed: Social Media's Superpowers

    Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Revolution Will Be Livestreamed: Social Media's Superpowers
    Dec 11 2025
    Episode 3 of Social reveals social media's revolutionary power, opening with Tunisia's 2011 Arab Spring where one video helped topple a dictator. VV Steele explores how BlackLivesMatter organized global protests after George Floyd's murder, MeToo gave survivors collective voice against Harvey Weinstein, and politicians communicate directly with constituents. Discover LGBTQ+ youth finding lifelines in conservative areas, rare disease patients connecting globally, K-pop fans mobilizing millions for activism, and the creator economy enabling bedroom-to-millions success. Learn how crowdfunding saves lives, missing persons get found, and environmental activism spreads. VV examines social media as amplifier of humanity—revolutionary and destructive simultaneously—asking how we'll use this superpower responsibly.
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    27 mins
  • Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Algorithms of Doom: How Social Media Broke Our Brains

    Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Algorithms of Doom: How Social Media Broke Our Brains
    Dec 11 2025
    Episode 2 of Social exposes how platforms engineered addiction using casino psychology—pull-to-refresh borrowed from slot machines, infinite scroll eliminating stopping points, and likes triggering dopamine like digital cocaine. VV Steele examines the teen mental health crisis exploding after 2010, with Instagram's own research showing toxicity for teen girls. Discover how filters create body dysmorphia, cyberbullying follows victims home, and sleep deprivation becomes epidemic. Learn how echo chambers and filter bubbles killed shared reality, why false information spreads six times faster than truth, how Facebook's algorithm favored divisive content, and the privacy nightmare where you're not the customer—you're the product being sold.
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    20 mins
  • Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Dawn of Connection: How We Got Addicted to Sharing

    Social - Viral Culture and Digital Identity - The Dawn of Connection: How We Got Addicted to Sharing
    Dec 11 2025
    Episode 1 of Social traces social media's evolution from 1970s Bulletin Board Systems and AOL chat rooms to today's algorithmic feeds. VV Steele explores early internet flame wars, the MySpace Top 8 anxiety that ended friendships, and Tom being everyone's first friend. Discover how Facebook's 2004 college exclusivity created demand, why the 2006 News Feed revolutionized passive surveillance, and how Twitter's 140-character limit bred creativity. Learn about Instagram's filter culture making everything "Instagrammable," Snapchat's disappearing content innovation, Vine's six-second cultural impact, and TikTok's mind-reading For You algorithm. VV examines whether we shaped social media or it shaped us from the beginning.
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    19 mins