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Future Forward

Where do we go from here? How art, music & dance can help heal the brain.

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Society

What is all of this doing to our society?
“Social & Emotional Incompetency”

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Humanity

what is all of this doing to our brains (and bodies)? We examine the neurobiological & socio-cultural effects of media, explaining how media messages hijack our parasympathetic nervous system, which puts our fight or flight hormones in overdrive. Connect this with how rates of anxiety and depression are through the roof, and how we’re seeing mental illness at younger ages. This episode is like a guided tour of the subway map that connects individual media messages to the brain, to the body, to each human’s interactions in the world and how that alters the social fabric.

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The Crisis

Misinformation/disinformation, synthetic media and our media literacy/ability to differentiate. This is where we talk about the rise up to the 2016 election, Facebook and Brexit, Election Filtering, QAnon conspiracy, Alternative Influence Network (AIN), PragerU.

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Tech

Talk about web, mobile, gaming, social media, flow of information, email, context setting (not just journalism, but all sorts of media & their effects) and how it exposes biases of American media, including exorbitant focus on whiteness (racism), stereotypes.

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Journalism

This episode will tell the story of American journalism and explore the century-old question: what is a fact?

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History

This episode will explore visual cultural and other forces at work that shape human perception.

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Psychology

How does the human mind work? Hear the story of the …

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Media Ecology

What is media ecology and why did Julie earn a degree in it?

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